Finally Ready to Order (it's sitting in the cart)

[ZozZoz]

You deem your months lond research worthless by coming here, don't you.

Let's think again....mmm.. what should earn more trust - the information you possess (after months of research) or subjective opinions of people on this thread? (the majority of them being new to the thg forums)

 

[tjhva]

Let's think again....mmm.. what should earn more trust - the information you possess (after months of research) or subjective opinions of people on this thread? (the majority of them being new to the thg forums)

No way! I joined Tue Jan 01, 1970.

 

[HamRadio]

I'm thinking we may need new mobo's for the new 32 nm processors (Nehalem).

The Nehalem chips will be 45 nm chips for the first year or two. We won't see 32 nm Nehalems for 3 or 4 years.

Intel alternates between changing the microarchitecture, and decreasing the size of the transisters each development cycle.

 

[Silverion77]

No way! I joined Tue Jan 01, 1970.

In those 38 years, your still a newbie

How disappointing

 

[tjhva]

In those 38 years, your still a newbie

How disappointing

I wouldn't count on much out of me for the next 38 years either.

 

[DirtyDrummer]

Sigh, don't need RAID, Firewire or a 2nd PCIe slot. (What am I going to do; run a brand new card along side a 6 month old card???) PCI3 2.0 is only 5x faster and PCIe 3.0 will be out with Nehalem next year.

Went with the GA-P35-DSL. Thanks for all the input. I can't wait til all my stuff gets here.

 

[Silverion77]

Good call.

Also the benefit of PCIE2.0 is only seen if the graphics card needs all that bandwidth which at the moment doesnt even even use all of PCIE1.1. The DS3L is a great board (see sig)

 

[mlaporta]

Be careful putting it together stay off a carpeted floor touch case to ground yourself a lot.

 

[DirtyDrummer]

First, thanks again for all your help. Hopefully you won't see me again until I get bored of Crysis.

Final Build:

Mobo: GA-P35-DS3L $90
CPU: E8400 (still need) $220
GFX: 8800GTS (G92) $280
RAM: 4GB (4x1GB) Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800
HD1: 150GB 10,000RPM
HD2: 250GB 7,200RPM
ODD: Combo DVD/CD w/ lite-scribe retail version (thanks mlaporta)
PSU: Corsair TX 750W
OS: Vista Home Premium 64bit

Total $944

Still Need:
22" LCD monitor
Ergonomic Keyboard
Anit-Virus
Comfy Chair

Projected Grand Total: $1,635

Current Specs:
Pentium 4
Radeon 9200
need I go on?

 

[Silverion77]

1 thing

DO NOT get the Raptor 10000rpm drive
Its outdated and is not a good deal anymore....get a nicer large drive. They perform just as well with a larger size and lower cost

 

[DirtyDrummer]

.....too late 😱

 

[Silverion77]

o thats too bad....lol

Its fine...its not bad or anything
Just some feel its not worth it (others love it)

 

[tjhva]

Free Ant-Virus. Folds better than resource intensive Best Buy/big name options:

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/

 

[mlaporta]

You may have to start a "new" thread cause it aint sitting in the cart anymore :lol: :lol:

 

[DirtyDrummer]

I kinda got talked into it by somebody who swears by one.

I was thinking of going Kaspersky or AVG because Norton Anit-Virus IS a virus!!!