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I’ve been considering building a gaming rig with a budget of $700, not including the monitor.

Let me know what you think. I’ll take any suggestions.

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811156062
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037
Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128372
GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102824
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231166
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136074
Opti: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118030
Keyboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823107120

Subtotal: $607.92 not including shipping, mail-in rebates, etc.

All looks good to me for a reasonably cheap but powerful system.

Although I dont like the looks of the case but I guess it’s just a preference thing.

If I were building a mid ATX system I’d definately be considering these two…

Antec Nine Hundred:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021

Review:

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Cooler Master Storm Scout:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119196

Review:

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As I said though, it comes down to personal taste.

Whats your budget like though? can you stretch it enough to get a 4870?

EDIT: Just checked out some reviews for the Raidmax case and it’s apparently quite good…still dont like the looks of it though,lol

I just discovered taht 3D Rad, a 3D game engine, was just released as freeware after like 10 years of being a pay product. Hmm.

I just spoke to a friend and he said that I shouldn’t get that case since it looks like a cheap case and cheap PSU. I’m not picky about style. I also don’t want to pay more than $70 for the case.

I was also looking at:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119152
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042

So is a 550W PSU sufficient if I don’t go with the Raidmax case?

550W would be good enough. With my setup (GTX260, 4GB DDR2 800, e8400 @ 4.0), I’m running on an OCZ 600W and I’ve had no problems.

That’s a nice setup you got goin on there

Yeah, I can throw any game at it and it still keeps ticking.

My complete setup:

e8400 @ 4.0GHz (500x8)
4GB Ballistix Tracers/Geil Black Dragons @ DDR2-1000
Sparkle GTX260 216SP @ 700/1420/1150
Gigabyte EP45-UD3R (F9 BIOS)
WD 640GB SE16
LG 20x SATA DVD-RW
Creative SB Audigy Platinum (old faithful)
Antec P180B (Black)
Westinghouse 17’ WS (16:10, 1440x900 native)
Razer Deathadder
Rocketfish dual-sided Mousepad
Logitech standard keyboard

I made the major jump from 939 to 775 back in January and couldn’t be happier.

Evelgest: You’ll definitely want to invest in a HSF, also. I’d suggest the Prolimatech Megahalem or the Xiggy Dark Knight. With that being said, you’re going to need a good thermal paste, also. In that field, I’d suggest either Arctic Silver 5 or IC Diamond 7.

mine isn’t as beast overall, but i have a 500w antec running a phenom ii 940@3.5ghz, ddr2 1066, and radeon hd 4830 with room to spare.

Anyone know/have all the components for foobar 2000 to use a skin ?

I copped some skins from deviantART but after installing everything, I still can’t find Lyric Show and Album Art (i installed this, but it says I haven’t yet) :mad:

Thanks for this program otherwise though, I’m lovin how customizable and light this is. :tup:

So I changed my antivirus to Microsoft Security Essentials. I’m liking it so far. Very clean and lightweight. Best of all its free.

I’m really liking the look of the Antec Three Hundred.

Review: [media=youtube]UX_nXwX_EzU[/media]

Or this…
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0312354
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Yeah, as others have said it should be fine. I was running a 500w OCZ PSU in my test system which had a Radeon HD 4830, 2 HDD’s and a E5200 processor mildly overclocked.

Just a heads up in regards to your graphics card. The ATI 5800 series of cards are due to be released in a couple of weeks and it should drive the price of the 4800 series down.

So you might get that 4850 a fair bit cheaper in the coming weeks

Whens’s the official release date for this? ie when it’s out of Beta

That I don’t know. The beta version is still very good though. Don’t go to their main website because their registration is closed.

The only problem is that Quick scan isn’t that quick (about 5-10 minutes). But I schedule full scanning daily during the time I go to sleep anyways so its all good. I’m already loving it.

Yup, I wasn’t going to purchase my parts yet until after the 22nd. Hell, I might be able to get a better card at a great price.

Edit: How’s this PSU? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182030

Jailbroke my moms 3G today so now everyone in my fam has a JB phone. My mom was like “I don’t wanna know, just give me custom themes”. I replied JB is not illegal and she said Pffft…

If any of you have an MSDNAA account, they just added Windows 7 Professional x64 (the full retail version, not beta/RC/RTM). I installed it yesterday :tup:

Google Chrome must have bookmarklets:

Shareaholic for Chrome - Similar to Firefox addon, allows you quickly share sites on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace… etc
http://www.shareaholic.com/tools/chrome/

RSS support for Chrome - Detects an RSS feed and gives you the option to add to Google Reader, Netvibes and others
http://www.feeds.ramisp.org/


Twitter must have sites/resources:

Twitblock - Scans your followers for spam and allows you to bulk block them

Yeah. Now that I’ve tried Windows 7, I ain’t never going back.

Snagged me Windows 7 ultimate for $10 the job yes!!!

Finally learned how to get foobar up and runnin. Damn, its soo good when you actually get the components rar’d for you when you’re getting a new skin.

I wasted so many hours tryin to gather my own components… :wasted:

Exactly. I just downloaded 2-3 skins, and I’m good. I’m lucky because those skins came with the components needed.

Btw, Kim… there’s a Trillian update out, it fixes the Facebook chat. Of course, you can’t install it until the ‘altered’ version is out…