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The TDP of the 8800GTX is 185W, isn't it? 31A for the two of them, then you have 29A left for the rest of the system. :eek:

With an E6400, any old DDR2-800 memory will work, since at DDR2-800 speeds, the CPU would be running at 3.2GHz.

E6300 - $180 GA-965P-S3 - $116 2x1GB DDR2-667 1.8V - $200 WD360ADFD/WD740ADFD - $105/147 WD2500KS - $75 Shipping from newegg.com - ~$15 X1950 Pro - $200, free shipping SLK3000B - $30 AC Freezer 7 Pro - $16 Shipping from provantage.com - ~$22

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The power supply doesn't belong on the list, since what you're supposed to do is pick a good one and forget about it. What I think: Monitor RAM Hard drive CPU/Video Card Mobo What I think: Video card CPU Sound card Memory Mobo HD The video card is usually only stressed in games...

Asking for help is useless unless you post a budget.

The M12 series and Corsair's HX supplies stay almost silent up until ~300W of output.

http://www.resellerratings.com/seller13187.html My conscience would not allow me to recommend such a vendor...

FlexForce is an Ultra thing. They might even have trademarked it. Also, the CMPSU-620HX costs more than $150. hdwag06, for a system like that, you would do well enough with the Enhance ENP-5140GH if you get an 8800GTS. The PSU itself has enough power for an 8800GTX, but I don't know if it...

The open box model has free shipping. :P

Fuck... this is the second time I lost this post (so I'm not linking anything from newegg). Anyway, C2D E6300 - $180 Scythe Ninja Plus, open box - $40 GA-965P-S3 - $116 G.SKILL 2x1GB DDR2-800 1.8V - $210 eVGA 8800GTS - $470 X-Fi XtremeMusic - $93 WD Raptor 36GB WD360ADFD - $105...

What do you do with your PC? Gaming, audio editing/recording, what else? If that's it, you'd be set with an OCed E6300. Since SLI isn't in your future, go with a cheaper board like the Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 or Biostar TForce 965PT unless you need Firewire support. Is the $1800 available only...

The 6800 is a PCIe card? I had no idea you softmod anything but the AGP cards.

If you stay with one CPU and a reasonable number of HDs (say, less than 8), you'll be perfectly fine with the vast majority of 700-750W PSUs.

HELL NO http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/should-you-buy-fsx-now/ http://www.fsstation.com/articles/flight-simulator-x-performance-tweaks.html http://blogs.msdn.com/tdragger/archive/2006/08/21/711152.aspx Looks like you won't be needing quad-core for FSX any time soon...

Switch out the Galaxy for a Seasonic M12-700 and throw in a 36GB Raptor drive to put your OS/apps/games on.

E6300 OC > 3GHz requires FSB > 3000/7 ~= 429 ~= DDR2-857 http://anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2862&p=2

Build them yourself. Get some high-quality connectors and bulk power cable from Home Depot. Like this: http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=110-406 http://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm

Most (all?) of the Fortron AX series and Channel Well PSUs use Fuhjyyu capacitors which may have a shortened lifetime compared with other brands.

I had in mind a linear scaling of performance (i.e. before the point of diminishing returns). Any game will speed up if you OC the CPU, even at 3200x1600 resolution.

Honestly, latency is pretty much useless. The only real advantage is that sometimes you can raise timings and extract more speed out of the memory. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/07/18/core_2_duo_memory_timings/7.html I have the ATX-400PN. Popped it open and saw Teapo caps. Not bad...

How is something limited by more than one factor? BS. If we assume that most 750W supplies have a combined +12V output of 60A, that leaves at least 32A for the CPU, mobo, PCI cards, hard drives, and optical drives. Let's say you have a quad-core C2E with TDP of 130W, that's about 11A. No...

A lot of E6300 CPUs can make 2.8GHz, let alone the E6600.

Any reason why you need the P5B Deluxe?

AFAIK, flight sims tend to be CPU-bound, so you can drop the GTX to a GTS if you want DX10 compatibility. Will you overclock your CPU?

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2862&p=2 http://www.techreport.com/etc/2006q4/onboard-eax/index.x?pg=1

How far do you want to take it (OCing, I mean)? If you just want to play games on it, you won't need the highest OC you can get, but instead just a speed that'll ensure that the games remain GPU-limited, really. If that's the case, I'd go with an E6300 and DDR2-667 memory which should be good...

Is there something wrong with my figures?

Each 8800GTX sucks up 12-13A, and the 8800GTS should take less than that. According to techreport, it's just under the power consumption of the X1900XT 256MB, which should mean ~9A per 8800GTS. Say 10A, because the power figures are lower in the techreport chart (possibly because of the...

http://www.directron.com/s12550.html

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Vacuum cleaner.

Why the MSI board?

Looks like the cheapest one that supports EAX 5.0 is the XtremeGamer, now.

No RAID and conventional electrolytic capacitors, AFAIK.

Well then, I guess we have to wait for an electrical engineer to come along! :P (my own mech eng studies are useless here)

I'd rather not turn into a JEDIYoda/OCC_Yoda...

If you want ASUS, you can just go with a variant of the P5B, which is assuredly much cheaper.

For that question, you would be better served asking in the Multiprocessing Systems subforum, or on 2cpu.com.

As a matter of fact, I dislike anything with a low performance/price ratio, if it is not the best that money can buy (even sometimes then). That's all there is to it.