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Due to a recent flood of my basement caused by 1 metre of melting snow, 3 days of 10c temp, and 3 days of rain. The good news is my insurance will cover replacment of my game machine.

 

So my question is what do the experts think I should invest in?

 

Video Card?

Motherboard?

Ram and # of gigs?

CPU?

Soundcard?

Hard Drive?

DVD R/W?

 

Thanks for the input.

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Majesco

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+ CPU: Core 2 Duo with 4MB of L2 cache (if possible you can overclock)

 

+ RAM: do not know brands in Canada but you should have at least 2GB (im running 2GB in dual channel mode)

 

+ Motherboard: Gigabyte or Asus with all solid capacitors, chipset P35 or X38 for better overclocking (im running P35 mainboard and OC my E2160 from 1.8Ghz to 3.2Ghz with stock fan)

 

+ Video card: ATI Radeon HD 2900XT/ HD 3870 or 8800 series... (ATI X1650XT is good, very cheap, good image quality with Avivo technology and high fps)

 

+ Hard drive: 250-320GB Seagate SATA2

 

+ Soundcard and CDRW: i dont know bands in Canada :D



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Thanks Majesco, whatever brands are available in the US are available here. I had 4 gig of Buffalo ram but I will now check out corsair etc. I have been looking at the new AMD Phenom CPU and the 3000 series ATI Video Card, (Brother in Law is an engineer for AMD/ATI so I feel family loyalty may be neccessary :smilewink:). However it appears Lock On and IL2, (the games I play most) use open gl and they tend to play better on Invidia video cards.

 

The search continues!

 

If anyone has any other suggestions it would be much appreciated.

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Oooooo Canuck Canuck Canuck..... You must see me on Ventrilo, at once.... :D

 

Lets start here.... Fill in what you already have on hand (if the water didn't kill everything)

 

Computer Build

 

CPU -

Ram –

Graphics card – 3870 (sure you couldn't just paint an 8800gt Red?) lol

Operating System -

Sound Card –

CPU Heatsink and Fan -

Monitor -

Motherboard -

Psu -

Case -

Hard Drive -

Optical Drive -

Keyboard -

Mouse -

Shipping - 30$

 

 

Are you buying right away?

Whats your comfort budget?

This place look good to you? They've been around forever, I hear them constantly quoted by Canadians http://www.ncix.com/index.php

 

Lists! its all about lists!!!

 

http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php?p=3424123&postcount=1

http://3sqn.com/forum/

Here's to 1.13 -- > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0488djMDBU

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Thanks Fudd, I will join you on Vent via me weak knee laptop! Can you send me a PM with the ip for 3sqd Vent. I would appreciate speaking with you about this.

 

Have Key Board, Mouse. Don't have any fun stuff yet. Taking my time and enjoying the moment!

Budget should fall around $2K CDN.

Waiting for go ahead from insurance.

 

So Fudd, fill out your suggested "open to buy".

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Thanks Fudd, I will join you on Vent via me weak knee laptop! Can you send me a PM with the ip for 3sqd Vent. I would appreciate speaking with you about this.

 

Have Key Board, Mouse. Don't have any fun stuff yet. Taking my time and enjoying the moment!

Budget should fall around $2K CDN.

Waiting for go ahead from insurance.

 

So Fudd, fill out your suggested "open to buy".

 

 

Grab 3.0 Client here.

 

IP: 66.228.121.146

Port: 9513

Join Password: barbie

 

Feel free to hop on comms w/us.

 

 

Are you buying right away?

And will you be overclocking?

http://3sqn.com/forum/

Here's to 1.13 -- > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0488djMDBU

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Computer Build ... No Vista, Wants to buy from PCVOnline http://www.pcvonline.com

 

CPU – If you can, Wait for an dual core E8400 (The Penryn quad cores are delayed) I THINK it will debut at 250$-300$... If not then it's a toss up between Quad Core Q6600 (2.4Ghz) at 289$ or something like an E6750 (2.66Ghz) at 200$. Hell, even a E4500 at 140$ will do really well. This one is really up to you (how long will you wait for Penryn's.) All being said, I would put the money towards a 24inch monitor. You'll see how it plays out below.

 

Ram –

2 x 1 GB Corsair 4-4-4-12

http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=5711

100$

 

Acedy's comment does stand though, I just don't know how 4 gigs reacts in XP during overclocking

 

Graphics card –

Asus 8800gt 512mb

http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=6490

260$

 

ATI 3870

PVCOnline doesnt have a 3870... may be OOS

 

Sound Card –

Creative SB X-FI Extreme... bleh, I hate looking for Sound cards lol

http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=5447

72$

 

CPU Heatsink and Fan -

You said about overclocking ... “If there's a an opportunity I'll do it”

http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=2657

Just used this in my brother build and it keeps his well cool, especially with the new Intel 45nm chips coming out. Might be a problem if you go quad core and get into Ocing, no worries, just get a newer heatsink

35$

 

Motherboard -

For non-SLI

GigaByte GA-P35-DS3R

http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=5801

Proven performer and is compatible with 45nm Penryn

145$

 

For SLI

Asus P5N-E SLI (650 SLI)

http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=4740

Compatible with 45nm Penryn and a solid board. Tough to know how either of these boards will do overclocking Penryns. Better results probably with the GA-P35, thats just a guess though.

137$

 

Psu -

Its so import to have a good one, I do not care if you're overclocking or not

http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=5718

99$

 

Case -

Thermaltake Armor... Sweet choice dude

http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=5143

200$

 

Hard Drive -

Seagate Perpendicular

http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=2939

120$

 

Optical Drive -

http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=5494

Does what ya need outside of HD Dvd, only Blu-ray and HdDvd do that. It's sata, no need for big Ide cables anymore

35$

 

125$ for PCV-Online building

 

1375$ (e6750, 8800gt, Gigabyte Motherboard) + 179 for Tax = 1659$

 

 

Leaving 446$ for a Monitor.....puts you in range for a 24in Monitor with a TN type panel screen.

http://www.pcvonline.com/products.aspx?cat=Monitors&sub=LCD%20Monitors%2024%22&sub2=

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?minorcatid=1003&subminorcatid=220

 

 

 

 

So thats version 1.... Everyone chime in

http://3sqn.com/forum/

Here's to 1.13 -- > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0488djMDBU

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Just to add about the E8400. There is a thread going on about it over at the anandtech.com forums about places in the US that are taking pre-orders. That might give you some ideas on where you can obtain it and for how much.

 

They are saying the chip will be released on the 21st, which is less than a week away.

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I'll chip in...

 

Yes do get Intel's E8400 (o/c very nicely even on air) and you could pair it with DDR2 RAM PC8500 1066MHz (it'll enable you to o/c quite nicely) but even PC6400 800MHz will do for say 3.6GHz overclock. If you want anything higher and you'd need PC8000/8500 RAM.

 

I'd personally go for motheboard with X35 or X38 chipset (X38 chipset gets quite hot but it's best chipset around, some botherboard even have built in water cooling block for NB/SB/Mosfet) because I think Intel botherboard chipset is the best (best compatibility with other hardware and drivers for most part).

 

Sound card, yes get X-Fi Gamer... it's about the best S/C for gaming and not to expensive.

 

Like Fudd said, do get really good quality PSU, as it is very important part of PC (if not most important) when it comes to components quality as everything in your systems runs off it. Any instability and it'll muck up your hardware.

 

case and all other pieces like mouse, drives etc it's up to you and it's not THAT important as they don't stress anything in your system :)

 

I have also found water cooling to do wonders.. it's quiet and enables very nice overclocking. Since 45nm run on average 10°C cooler compared to their 65nm counterparts, I think getting E8400 on water cooling to 4GHz piece of cake. The only factor to how much you could overclock this CPU would be the motherboard (depending how high it can push the FSB and this is where good motherboard chipset comes in place.)

 

But if yu don't want to overclock too much getting E8400 from default 3.0Ghz to 3.6GHz should be very easy even on air as the CPU runs very cool. PC6400 RAM would handle it also as it would match CPU at this frequency, and motherboard would need to run 400 FSB (which is no problem either).

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Thanks guys for the input. I am waiting for the guys who will be performing the restorations in the basement to provide their quote to the insurance company. My wife seems to think this is more important than my new pc......hard to believe huh!:joystick: Fudd I checked out the video card, I know its good but why not the ASUS EXTREME N8800GTS HTPD/512MB/PCI-E VIDEO CARD for $350. Is it a case of bang for the buck?

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ok so this is the HD3870X2... 2 GPU's on one card

 

Its pretty compelling... To get the most out of it you should really get a X38 or x48 (with DDR2 Ram) (Both kind pricey) Chipset because it has PCIe 2.0 express.

 

ATI will have better drivers for this card as well. Performance should really go up as drivers come out.

 

May have troubles with Dual monitors but even if, it won't affect you.

 

I really like this card, it'll be loud and hot (probably won't OC well) but it will do very well.

 

It will fit in your case

 

I would (just for leeway) up the PSU up a bit to the Corsair HX620 or the like.

 

If you are going to go this way, but it quick, before the price gouging starts

 

Here's a thread....

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=174212

http://3sqn.com/forum/

Here's to 1.13 -- > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0488djMDBU

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