Same old same old

okay, let me reword that. What is it? And are the newegg 5.1 speakers compatible? the UD5H does not have it stock, so what will I be missing?
 
If that board that is dolby is more, dont get it.You can get a refurbished nice sound card for $10.Plus, you wont even notice a big difference, if any.
 
okay, I am getting really confused here. What I am seeing there is that it is a codec? So a Asus card will use something different?

I think what I am going to do is get a better set of 2.1 or 2.0 speakers for now and wait a bit for the sound card and 5.1 set.

searching around and editing the list now.
 
okay, maybe this is good.

motherboard: Gigabyte for the win.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128545
may go for the UD3H instead, but for the price difference I think this is good.

RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220558
8 is not enough. I want more, and will get 32 soon when I get another case and PSU. A little at a time.

okay, the rest is nice to have, but unneeded really. got worries about them anyway.

SSD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226236
120 seems like a good amount. Enough to use windows, open office, maybe MW3 and BF2 to reduce load time to nothing flat. Is this a good one? if not, what is?

LCD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009306
1080p. Cheap. DVI and VGA. looks good. worried though, the DVI port there and the DVI ports on my card are not the same. I think I have DVI-i and it has DVI-d. Will it still work together?

Sound: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121019
Stand in for the 5.1 system as it needs a lot to get working. I like logitec, so staying with them. Might get a system at walmart if they have any though.

All together this is 465, so well withing budget.

does it all look good?
 
Okay, 32 GB?5 virtual boxes need 16 gigs MAX, running at one tine, with windows running to.Your choice, dont get mad at me plese, not in the mood.
 
well I plan on giveing each 4GB and not really wanting to close one to open another. That means 8 at a minimum on my VMs. and memory is dirt cheap, so not really worth it not to max it out.

and I am actually not mad at all right now. Im in a good mood.

Does everything else look good to you?
 
Thank cheese, you are in a good mood, because I am not, But i try to hide that, but I will be in a good mood in about 10 hours, gotta sleep and get ready.But, yeah, whatever you wanna do woth 32 gb.What will you be storing on the SSD, cause 128GB is pretty small.
 
byteninja2 said:
Thank cheese, you are in a good mood, because I am not, But i try to hide that, but I will be in a good mood in about 10 hours, gotta sleep and get ready.But, yeah, whatever you wanna do woth 32 gb.What will you be storing on the SSD, cause 128GB is pretty small.
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120 are the ones I am looking at I think. I am just putting Windows, MW3, BF2, open office, and probably my CAD software on it. It should be enough. I am running 152GB on my current install and it has BF3, BF2142, BF2, MOH, MOHAA, MOHPA, open office, and MW3 installed.
 
byteninja2 said:
What will you be storing on the SSD, cause 128GB is pretty small.
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128GB is enough for an install of Windows 7, several big programs and a game or two. I have W7, Office 2010, Adobe CS5.5, Visual Studio 2010 and Dirt 3 all installed on my SSD and I have around 30GB of free storage.

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okay, just one thing I need to check. Will vista play nice with the SSDs? I know 7 is optimized a bit more, but I really want to keep the one I have working. I would get a copy of 7 to fix mine, but pro is so freaking expensive!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116717
but I think I need ultimate to get one that will run outside of english, right?
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Yes Vista works OK on SSDs, I ran it on my M4 for a week or so. Be aware though that Vista does not have support for TRIM, which is a technology which keeps the drive running like new - only Windows 7 has that at the moment. Is it a massive disadvantage? Probably not. SSDs wear down/get slower as you write more and more to them, so you want to avoid reformatting and reinstalling every other weekend if you have an SSD ideally. ;) That's what I've found hardest about owning an SSD. However, it will take a long time (I'm talking years) before the SSD gets so worn down so much that it is slower than a regular platter hard drive.

Yes, you need Ultimate if you want to use language packs. Pro and Premium do not have these available to download.
 
okay, then no worries. I have a working retail version of Vista, so I should be great for now. Get windows 7 later.
TRIM is not Windows 7 exclusive. OSX 10.6 has it, as does Ubuntu 12 and Mint 12, I think it is in the linux kernal at this point.

Looking like everything is getting set now. Still need some batteries for my M90, but I can get them anytime, and looking to get something cheap to carry with me to type on and such, probably an old P3 or PM lappy from IBM would do nice. Still looking for them. They are dirt cheap though, so no worries.
 
Yep your Vista will work fine. Vista on an SSD is actually pretty quick, still takes a little while to boot though. I tested it on SATA 3GB/s with no AHCI though, should be way faster on SATA 6GB/s and with AHCI enabled.

Didn't realise that the other OSes had TRIM too, but what I was meant was that right now Windows 7 is the only consumer Windows OS which supports it. :)
 
true that. Windows 7 is the only windows I know of, except 8, but that is not really worth it. They have like a $30 upgrade program out there now. Don't see the use. Sister is using it right now on her lappy and I have herd nothing but good things about it, but I am oldschool.
 
Windows 7 is a good product, I think they're releasing operating systems too quickly now. I tried Windows 8, didn't really like it, but I'm sure once/if I get it I'll get used to it and like it.
 
The way I see it, if Apple can release an OS for $30, and update it every year, then M$ can too. They charge far too much, and really need some more competition, but apple will never release OSX onto mass market, so we pay the price.
 
30 pages of suggestions... :eek: no way I can read that all. Judging by your sig, you got a 2600K and some other stuff.

I'd say grab an SSD. I have a 60GB drive and I have 20GB free. I'll probably upgrade to a 90GB or 120GB one. The Force 3 is an awesome drive though.
 
Just so you know, all versions of windows have english, german, french, and spanish, so if one of those 3 are the ones you're looking at, you'd be fine with Pro.
 
Mainly looking for Italian, but I can make due with english or german.

And more or less, vista, jonny, and I have been trying to figure out what fits just right. I am horrible at making up my mind, but its been going forward for a couple of months.

I think I am going for a 120 GB SSD. Just to have a fair bit of extra space. Then I got the 1TB drive and 640GB drive, so it will have plenty of storage space.
 
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