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Just made the order for the below items on newegg, figured since I qualified for the 12 month deferral payments thing (so pay off in 12 months no interest) on new egg I would just do it. Funny part about the preferred account, tried to sign up for it yesterday in Canada, it would not accept me, get state side and try and here is your credit limit, lol. they actually figure out where you are in the world making the account, funny I think.

As for the CPU the one I want q9450 a 2.66 ghz quad core chip should hit the market this week sometime, but will buy that with real cash since I have enough for that. Figure since I am more then just a gamer, quad was the way to go for me. Plus I will overclock to 3 ghz so will be a fun toy.

Also said screw it not waiting for the striker II extreme form ases, its a SWEET setup but the thing is about 100$ over the EVGA offering with little diffrences and the EVGA board reviews are good. tho the Striker looks amazing, O well lol, looks for 100$ and have to wait for it, screw that as no idea when it would hit.

So hey take a look and tell me what you think of this toy

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Item #: N82E16811129021

Thermaltake A2018 120mm Blue LED Case Fan
Item #: N82E16811999122

OKGEAR SATA II Round Cable Model OK18ARUB11
Item #: N82E16812123199

EVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI DDR3 ATX Intel Motherboard
Item #: N82E16813188025


EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
Item #: N82E16814130312

EVGA 512-P3-N841-AR GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
Item #: N82E16814130325

The 2 cards are the same but one comes with a free copy of cryes (and was 404 more yestorday but thye droped it today) and the other had a combo deal wotht he power supply. so same card one has free game one don't thats it

Thermaltake Toughpower W0155RU ATX12V / EPS12V 1000W Power Supply
Item #: N82E16817153056

OCZ Reaper HPC 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ3RPR13332GK
Item #: N82E16820227292

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3750330AS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Item #: N82E16822148298

Logitech G15 2-Tone USB Wired Standard Gaming Keyboard
Item #: N82E16823126034

Yes buff I know I said no keyboards needed here, but a day later my keyboard started acting up a little, all of a sudden a key would not work , tap the board it worked again so o well time for a new one.


ASUS Black SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model DVD-E616A3T OEM
Item #: N82E16827135151

ASUS 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model DRW-2014L1T OEM
Item #: N82E16827135157

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
Item #: N82E16835100007

Scythe SCINF-1000 120mm CPU Cooler
Item #: N82E16835185027


Update
A site called tankguys.com just got the q9450 in stock today first US retailer to get them, they where going fast so just got one ordered should be here in 2 days. Little more them the OEM chip should have cosed but dam it the fourms light up like christmess trees once someone found a site with the thing, so got it fast. all I need is a system in the corner and no cpu for 2 weeks while I wait for another site to get it in stock because I decided to try and save 30$ lol.

Nice system Veg. Looks like a fantastic new toy for you. Although ther is one big problem with it!

I DON'T HAVE ONE! LOL

Totally jealous, oh well maybe next year.

Damn Veg, very nice.

Nice. Aside from the (2) 8800GTS Video cards you got there, I pretty much just ordered the same setup for work. Only (1) 750GB HD though? I ordered (4) 750GB Western Digital HDs for the work computer, going to setup a RAID 0+1 with it.

Another note, I hope the case you ordered can house (2) 8800s, they are rather long and barely fit in the case I have (Aurora 3D)

Have fun with your new stuff

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... %2bHundred

Thats the same case Buff has and its a decent sized case with the power supply on the bottom out of the way of the motherboard, should not be a issue. If it is, let me find my dremmal

Now if I can find the dam chip I want its all done.

I can't believe you went DDR3. A LOT more money for little improvement. It's like paying double for the GT model of a car.

I just spent $750 (before rebates which I HOPE I'll get but don't bet on) to go C2D 6850/P35/DDR2/same video card as you, but only one/SATA DVD burner upgrading my existing case, sound card, 2 HDDs.

well seamed like the right thing to do, less then 200$ for high end ram with great timing is not that bad at all. Basiclay this system is to last me a while and hey faster the ram the better in the end. It will come down then I will get more ram going to atleast 6 gigs (2 gigs now 4 later). Basiclay right now you are right but in a year that changes, got the most up to date I could as that means upgrading a few items in a year or 2 will be worth it.

Veg, I have that case and the vid-card was my only thing to warn you about. The power supply isn't what would be in the way. It's the hard drive brackets in front that make the vid card a tight fit. You should have no trouble unless the 8800GT is longer than the GTX I have.

You will need a 64bit OS to use more RAM. I have 4 in mine but Win only sees about 2.8GB .... system has to use a lot of the address space for my vid ram (768) of which you will have more of. You will not get much more than 2GB usable in a 32bit OS. IIRC.

Other than those two comments, you should be very happy with what you've chosen.

Oki gator your 32bit os can see up to 4 gigs BUT thats 4 gigs total including page file. So you should be able to turn off the page file and get all 4 gigs of ram, as page file in the os is considered part of ram so bloody slow. Look it up, I found out about it when looking up thats tuff. But anythig over 4 gigs yep 64bit os, but thats alter on I figure.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/23176 ... ecognizing

no, i show more than 4 gb with page file (5727M, specifically). It only sees 2.8 of RAM. It's due to the number of addresses available and it uses some of the address space for other devices, such as the ram on the vid card. So, the more ram on the vid card, the less of your system ram you'll see.

That post/thread doesn't say what you think it says. Tell me what you see when you build your system this weekend. The proof is in the pudding, so they say. Build your system with your old vid card, check, then put one new card, check, then add the second vid card and check. That will tell the story I bet.

-B

ok that thread was a quick lookup, I did more looking on that before.

And um hopfuly it says 2 gigs as thats what I got comming lol if it says 4 gigs I will be happy

page file is NOT included in physical ram available. windows has other issues in not seeing the entire 4GB. video memory is not part of the issue either, unless like on some laptops the video memory is shared with the system - not likely your case either Gator.

try adding PAE extension switch to your boot.ini file...and you might be able to see more of your ram. probably some bios settings that can be changed as well.

On the subject of PAE, here is some info for you all:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pl ... AEdrv.mspx

PAE is enabled - didn't have to do it myself, was automatic.

woo everything is shipped it all should arrive tomorrow, so needless to say I am betting you can guess what I will be doing tomorrow, and no tach its not doing a LOTR marathon night

HOLY CRAP
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131274
thats the board I was going to get but said not waiting and knew it would be more expensive so went with EVGA equivalent but wow 470$ for the thing, thats just nuts when its very similer to the EVGA equivalent. Few features I would like that I would spend another 20$ on but not that much. But dam it still looks dead sexy

VEGETA wrote:woo everything is shipped it all should arrive tomorrow, so needless to say I am betting you can guess what I will be doing tomorrow, and no tach its not doing a LOTR marathon night

I think Veg just came

sorry nope, the computer dose not come pre loaded with porn