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Skorax

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ASUS M4A79 Deluxe AM2+/AM3 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition (3.0GHz 4x512 L1, 6MB L3 125W)
8GB HyperX T1 DDR2 1066 CL5 (4 x 2GB) - Kingston
Antec Twelve Hundred ATX Full Tower
(Crossfire) Two ATI 4890 1GB 256bit DDR5 PCIe 2.0
500GB Western Digital (Green) SATA 7200RPM 32MB
750W Thermaltake Toughpower XT 88% bronze efficient PSU
Stage II Cooling including Cooler Master V10 Hybrid Cooler
Windows Vista Premium 64bit
22X DVDRW SATA Interface

It costs me $2200 after tax.
 
I am not building this, i am having a company do it, just i like there warranty and it would be first computer i'm building and that would be a lot of money to put into something and if i screw somethin up, i'd be screwed out of a lot of money. the company's name is Lanlabs.
 
ouch, i just saw that rating, that does suck. sounds like they screw over at least 25% of there customers.
What kind of build would you guys go with? the i7-920 or the intel core 2 quad Q9450?
 
I see you have the i7-920 processor, the 12gb of that ram looks good. that asus P6T motherboard, does it still have much room for upgradeability? and that graphics card, it able to handle a game like Crysis with decent FPS? if not, what about world of warcraft? what kind of cooling you got? $700 is an amazing price. Ideally I want something less than $1500, but if i can build myself a good computer for $700 that would be awesome.
 
I think I'm going the same build as the other thread i see your helping a guy with Bomberboysk, just does it also need thermalpaste + i think i will change the hard drive to velociraptor.
oh yeah, was also changing the case into Antec 1200.

CPU (279.99):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115202
GFX (199.99)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150359
MOBO (349.99)(239.99)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813186163
RAM (114.99)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227381
ODD (30.99):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827118032
HDD (69.99)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136320
PSU (109.99)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139009
Case (89.99):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119196
Wifi (19.99)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833315041
Display (149.99)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824236051
Fans (7.99 + 59.95)
http://jab-tech.com/Scythe-KAZE-JYUN...m-pr-3945.html
+
http://jab-tech.com/Prolimatech-Mega...6-pr-4428.html


total: 1373.84 + Shipping
 
If you dont need a display or wifi, you could toss in another 4890 for two video cards in crossfire and still be around $1400ish.
 
will do, yeah i really dont need the wi-fi but the display i do need. so i will be looking at around $1550.
Quick question about crossfire, when i add the second card into the machine, does it automatically turn into crossfire and work together for the same monitor or will one card be idle? if so how do i make them into crossfire?
what thermal paste do you recommend?
adding fans to a case hard at all?
 
Skorax said:
will do, yeah i really dont need the wi-fi but the display i do need. so i will be looking at around $1550.
Quick question about crossfire, when i add the second card into the machine, does it automatically turn into crossfire and work together for the same monitor or will one card be idle? if so how do i make them into crossfire?
what thermal paste do you recommend?
adding fans to a case hard at all?
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You will connect the cards with a crossfire bridge, and then when you install drivers they should have crossfire automatically enabled.

Shin Etsu X23-7783D:
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/8...X23-7783D_Silicone_Thermal_Compound_-_1g.html

Or Shin Etsu G751:(not quite as good as X23-7783D but very good stuff nonetheless)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835150080&Tpk=shin etsu
 
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