you wrote it? LOL
The 4850 came out half way through your cycle. You could have used it. Also, the P7N is a solid board? Yea, that's obvious! lol If you don't like what I am saying, do not make the same mistakes again, which I am sure you will not.
Please, next time, do a little research before you build the systems. The 2k system I could also pick apart and destroy as it was not even close to what you could have done for 2k. It was a half baked attempt. And so is the 4k system. Every system is not even close to what you could have done for the money performance wise. You guys are supposed to be leaders in this industry, and everything you used was just vanilla standard.
And the article was called "Sub $2000 system" Not Sub $1400 average joe system. Q6600? For real? That thing sucks! I can assure you, people paying that kind of money for a system are almost entirely gamers. Why choose a piece of crap CPU that can't overclock well for gaming, and then leave $650 left over? At LEAST pick a Wolfdale CPU such as the 3.0 GHZ one, which is actually faster than any Q6600 in any game, and CHEAPER!
Your motherboard pick was abysmal, once again, the water cooled solution was good, and the HDD was good, but the ram was garbage, you should have at least used Crucial 1066 Balistix for a 2k budget system.
And your video card choice for an under 2k system was 2 GTS? LOL Thats funny.
Without a shadow of a doubt, for under 2k you could have either 3 9800 GTX's in a system and still have money left over. Let me clue you in, even 2 9800 GTX's would obliterate your 2 GTS video cards. Shoot, 1 9800 GX2 is a worthy competitor and its 1 card.
2k system was total fail. 1k system was ridiculous fail.
4k system. Main rule in spending top dollars. Its got to beat the last build marathon build, and beat it handily. It totally failed on that front. And why use the quad processors when your catering to gamers? Wolfdale dual core 9.5x multiplier and it would have done past 4.5 GHZ and be faster than that for games by a hair, for 1/4 the money.
Then there is the whole water system. 3/8 inch fittings? Thats low end. Try 1/2 inch at LEAST for $3900 bucks, at least. And there are better water systems out there than that, that system is a mid range water setup. This is $4000 people want the best. And thats not it.
So the deal is, you ask manufacturers for items, and they give it to you free to do these builds. I think I get that. So why not ask for some high end stuff? The HDD? Samsung? For real? How about some high end raptors at least for a 4k system.
The goal of the 4k system is not "how can I just waste money for no performance gain, for the sake of just getting a 4k system"
The goal, and I am shocked I have to tell you, is what is the most performance I can get out of a 4k system, without compromise.
For gaming you could have done better. For applications, what you did, besides the HDD's is pretty high end.
Crashman is an idiot. That is apparent from his comments. The dude can't take any criticism and won;t admit he is wrong anywhere. He thinks he is above everyone.
Let me tell you one thing. The customer is always right, and you got a lot of customers on your site who are just laughing at you for such a failed attempt.
I bought a sub 1k build from Mwave last week. It was like $996 dollars. I put it together. I linked my 6 year old son to overclockers club. Told him to read this, print it out and "attempt" to overclock his system all on his own, to start training him about computers.
After 4 hours, he got it to 3.6 GHZ using the most basic of methods. And crashman, in all his godlyness can;t get that crap past 3.1?
And he is depending it as a quality component?
Crashman, if your boss had any real skills, you would be freaking FIRED.
So be happy you still have a job, you are worthless. There is no excuse.
You failed. Get another motherboard you clown. How hard is it.
Want my 6 year old boy to come over and show you how to make it faster? Its a joke.
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