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06-21-2008, 07:41 AM
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|  My New System! I have finally decided to do a major upgrade and here is what I have sitting at home, waiting to be assembled: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 ASUS P5E-VM HDMI mATX LGA775 G35 Motherboard Mushkin EM PC2-6400 4GB (2X2GB) DDR2-800 Gigabyte Radeon HD RX3850 Visiontek TV Wonder 650 Theater PCI-E TV Tuner Card Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 3.5IN 500GB SATA2 Hard Drive (x2) Samsung SH-S203B Black SATA DVD Burner Antec Sonata III 500 Case Windows Vista Home Premium (Want to Try it) Understand, I am not a huge gamer nor an overclocker but just wanted (after 3 years!) to have some current tech. Will change my sig after the build and when I get around to it!  What'cha think?  |
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06-21-2008, 08:37 AM
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| Eat Wild Pacific Salmon  Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alameda Ca
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| Re: My New System! Sounds like its going to be a very nice rig, what type of PS are you going with? Have fun you should see a nice improvement!  
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06-21-2008, 08:41 AM
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Going with the Antec Earthwatts 500W PSU that comes with the Sonata. Downloading the software/drivers right now! Gonna be a fun day! | |
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06-21-2008, 08:43 AM
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__________________ Asus P5E3 Deluxe Wi-Fi - Intel QX9650 - CORSAIR TWIN3X2048-1600C7DHXIN 6GB PC3-12800 - Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X 1 gig - 160GB Intel X25-M SSD W7 Pro 64 bit - 300 gig VelociRaptor Data and Games - Corsair HX 620 watt PS - Creative X-Fi Titanium PCI-Express - Altec Lansing ADA885 THX 4.1 Speakers - Silverstone Temjin TJ03B case with side window - 2 x Dell 2405FPW lcd monitors! | |
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06-21-2008, 08:49 AM
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| Re: My New System! Welcome to 2008 Brian, sounds like a nice rig - enjoy! |
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06-21-2008, 09:08 AM
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06-21-2008, 09:20 AM
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| Re: My New System! Brian, I've got two Mushkin HP2 6400 (2X2GB) kits in my system. Just don't go changing the memory to Crucial, I dumped them within the past few weeks.
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06-21-2008, 09:38 AM
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| Re: My New System! Good luck with the new system, Brian. Sounds nice. As you may have seen in my "My New Build" thread a couple of months ago, I recently built an E8400/Gigabyte X38 system (which I am overclocking to 3.8gHz), upgrading from a P4 2.8C/Asus P4C800 Deluxe (overclocked to 3.25gHz). For routine uses like web-surfing the new system feels somewhat snappier, but the real difference becomes apparent doing time-consuming cpu intensive things like video editing builds. What was a 3 hour build on the old system, for instance, now takes around 45 or 50 minutes. What was a 1 hour build takes 17 minutes. Amazing! Regards, -- Al
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06-21-2008, 10:01 AM
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| Re: My New System! Good luck Brain, looks good. Hope you find a good home for the D875PBZLK. |
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06-21-2008, 10:06 AM
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| Re: My New System! Hey Brian ole bud......niiicceee...rig, it should serve ya well. I have the E8400 and its been a gooden. I run it @ 4gigs day in, day out, an nary a hitch.... Needless to say enjoy..... |
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06-21-2008, 10:27 AM
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| Re: My New System! Enjoy the new system, may it serve you well for quite some time.
__________________ Intel D975XBX2 Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 8GB's of Mushkin HP2 6400 memory(DDR2 800) two Sapphire GDDR4 Radeon 3870 videocards HT Omega Claro(Cmedia 8788HD chip) 120GB&200GB&320GB Western Digital harddrives LG DVDROM & LG DVDBURNER HP Deskjet 920C Logitech X-540 speakers Viewsonic VG2030wm 20inch Widescreen LCD Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit with Service Pack 1 Who'se the fool that approved the design for this place. - The Dwarf, Sacred Underworld. |
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06-21-2008, 01:30 PM
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06-21-2008, 04:16 PM
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| Re: My New System! I have a bunch of parts coming in on Monday that are also built around an E8400. I'm fairly set on Vista Business x64 (I don't need Media Center) but I'm eyeing my free copy of Server 2008 x64 i got at a Microsoft trade event. Trying out a workstation config of 2008 sounds fun but it will come down to how I feel once I get it all together.
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06-21-2008, 04:46 PM
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06-21-2008, 06:49 PM
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| Re: My New System! Sounds pretty sweet! Good luck with the build and make sure to take so photos for us. 
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