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Gawd
- Joined
- May 8, 2008
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Nehalem doesn't really have anything to offer to me yet and because of how far pc tech is vs gaming there is no reason.
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currently building this for my brother's birthday on saturday:
Q6600
Xigmatek HDT-S1283 with mounting bracket
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R
OCZ SLI-Ready 2x1GB DDR2 800 (will add more ram whenever a really good 4gb deal comes out)eVGA dual-slot GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB DDR3 (will be the next thing to upgrade as I feel this may hold the system back)
OCZ SilentXStream 500W
Antec Three Hundred
Logitech EX110 Wireless Mouse and Keyboard (probably replacing with logitech mx5500 but I got this temporarily since all the decent priced mx5500's were in california)
I hope hope hope that the q6600 comes here friday if not saturday.. stupid ebay seller shipped it a day later than he told me.. well at least with live cashback it came out to $120 and he has a return replacement policy of 30 days.
I've been reading so much about the games to play, overclocking, etc. that I haven't been studying for the GREs that I take tomorrow.. :x
in the end, i am pretty sure i will be happy.. i have not played a game really since counterstrike 1.6 or so.
Same here! Maxed out too! All the worldy multitasking in nehalem wont fetch us high gains in gaming and who needs super multitasking PCs for home usage?
I dunno. I built an 8 core Opteron for VM/transcoding work..and general usage. Current S775 "build":
Q6600 @ 3.0GHz (pin mod)
2x2GB PC2-6400
3x160GB SATA in Matrix Raid-0 + Raid-5
Dual layer burner
8 channel audio w/optical mini-Toslink
8800M GTX 512MB
Wireless ABGN
Gigabit Ethernet
17" 1920x1200
...oh yeah...this is a Sager NP9262 laptop. The battery life is sub-45 minutes. It weighs 11.2lbs without the power brick, and almost 14lbs with it. It is currently the only recent (I say that because the other is a P4 Celeron based machine) Intel machine in the house. HTPC, Wife's machine, ESXi server, and new 8 core workstation are all AMD.
Close this club immediately and upgrade to Nehalems-ALL of you!!!
*Because I want to upgrade from my s939 rig and cheap used parts would be great!
Close this club immediately and upgrade to Nehalems-ALL of you!!!
*Because I want to upgrade from my s939 rig and cheap used parts would be great!
Close this club immediately and upgrade to Nehalems-ALL of you!!!
*Because I want to upgrade from my s939 rig and cheap used parts would be great!
E6300
2GB DDR2 800
680i
8800GTS/640
It works. I rarely game.
How much moe life does the E6300 you would figure has left. I only want to play Dawn of War 2, SC 2, and Diablo 3 at this point.
I will probably sell my yorkfield