Case is a cheap Xeon green thing.
Psu is 800W X3 Ultra (modular)
Cpu Cooler, is stock unfortunately, might get the zalman,
Motherboard is the P5E3 Asus
Got DDR3 because I wanted to be future proof, and I could pay for it, so I did.
In any case, it was all really pricey, in terms of space I...
my new computer build! Wohoo!
My old computer is like:
*2GB DDR1 533mhz
*19" monitor
*E6300
*8800 GTS 640
New build:
*4GB DDR3 1300mhz
*Q9450
*26" (2693HM) + 19"
*9800GX2
*Blu Ray Burner LG 6x
the Q6600 was about 200$
The motherboard was around 300$
The ram was around 250$
The bluray drive is around 300$
The monitor is around 600$
The total hits
1600$
Just rebuilt my computer here are the new specs and the things i've bought:
Q6600 (cancelled my order for the Q9450)
Asus P5E3 Deluxe
2 GB DDR3
26" Syncmaster 2693HM
GGWH20L Blu Ray Burner (6x)
8800GTS 640
I'll upgrade the GPU whence the new 9800's drop into down later in March.
But...
Gaming, my highest res. to be honest has always been 1024x1280 with everything maxed out (including AA) my main games are RTS games, Sup Com to be honest which runs hard on any of the rigs I have. I'll also be using this comp for Illustrator, Photoshop, Vectorworks, Autocad, and the ilk.
I've been playing with computer hardware for a while, and i'm a bit new at this.
This is my current system:
Q6600
P4M890T-M2 motherboard
2 GB DDR1 533 Mhz
800W Ultra PSU
8800GTS 640MB
(This configuration doesn't work because the ECS motherboard doesn't support more than the dual core...