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    XFX Black Edition PSU Drawing!

    Its modular, its XFX green, its 750 clean watts!! What's not to like?
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    XFX Radeon HD 6990 Drawing!

    Love the look, would love the performance!
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Also wondering if anything beyond the stock HSF is necessary, given I won't be doing any OCing (thus the 2500 and not a 2500k).
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Ok, so took some time off and just started looking again. I've adjusted my needs a bit as I've found that I have been a bit more interested in gaming (can't wait for BF3 to come out!), but still need to do light home video encoding, dvd rips, and run at least 1 vm most of the time. Here's...
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Ok, so I'll still plan on a new vid card. Looking for biggest bang for the buck.
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Excellent! That sandy bridge build is pretty slick. Do you suppose the onboard graphics are superior to my current discrete graphics (Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS 256MB)?
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Would something like this work for the vid card? MSI N460GTX Hawk Talon Attack GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127534
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Sure. I didn't think the monitor would push the vid card, but I'm not a huge gamer so I don't follow that hardware much. Is that dependent upon resolution that I want to push on the larger monitor (i.e. could I live with a lower res?) or something else? Point taken on the Antec Earthwatts...
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Tiraides, greatly appreciate the input. I've taken some of your suggestions and implemented them with some of my own modifications. It's amazing how your budget can grow when you realize what's available out there. My current build lasted 5 or so years (and is only going to be transitioned to...
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Hmm, I like it. Keep em coming!
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Light gaming - CounterStrike (cmon, i'm old!). I actually run it currently at 1024, and that's fine for me. I had read that the 890 chipsets provide additional performance for VMs, thus my interest. I'll probably have at least 2 VMs running most of the time on top of the OS.
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Also FYI - current vid card is an Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS 256MB. It's pretty low end, but acceptable. However, I may add a decent vid card to the list if you have ideas that would provide solid gaming performance (I don't need spectacular) for under $100.
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    FYI - Here's the one config I quickly put together... a little more expensive than I wanted it, but I'll survive. MSI 890FXA-GD70 AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard Model #:890FXA-GD70 $199.99 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core...
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    After reading the sticky I'll add some info. Probably need a new power supply (I think I'm running a relatively cheap 350 W. I have all OS's covered and currently run all x64.
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    Advice on New Build for VMs, Lite Gaming, and Lite Home Video Work

    Long time forum reader, first time caller... so take it easy gentlemen. General uses will be: Primary for VMs (SharePoint, SQL, DCs, etc) Light gaming Light audio and video editing / encoding I really only need the mobo, proc, and mem. I'm not interested in OCing. I'd like to go...
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