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Gigabyte Color - Blindness? I have no idea what that means, but i have a 965p-ds3 gigabyte mobo on my rig and it works fine.
I say run 5 fans in the antec, 2 in the front, one between the psu and the hdd, one in the back and one on the top. That way, you have something cooling the...
I'd go with the Antec P180 + 5 Yate Loon 120mm fans voltmodded to 5v (Its pretty easy I believe) as your case instead.
I'd get out of that Abit board and use an ASUS P5B/K Deluxe Board or a Gigabyte 965P board (The 965P-DS3 rev 3.3 can handle the quad and is a bargain)
Everything else...
I actually like the raptor, unless your spending $250 on one.
I got mine on the cheap, and it makes my rig blazing fast.
If you got the budget, its nice. Just dont get the X version if you want quiet.
The most advanced game I play is CS:S / BF2 :)
I plan on sticking with my 7950GT until the DX10 cards are true and proven, and most importantly, needed.
Alright, I took my old, just-broken computer and transformed it. Details below
I took my 3 year old computer with these specifications before it broke down:
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2.4GHZ Socket 754
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6800 128MB AGP
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar...
Rev 3.3 on that Gigabyte mobo i reccomended offers support for 1333 fsb and quad core.
But saving money isnt something yall are interested in :) -- Just my take. (Im also not familiar with the high-end computing market)
The SATA already has a good install of windows on it, and I cant install windows on top of it because windows does not recognize the HDD.
Could it be possible that the Sata chip / all 6 connectors are fried on my motherboard yet it still works?