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Jalidi

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I don't post here too often but I'm a habitual lurker. I've been clunking around on ancient system... it's actually in my signature down below... for the better part of three years now. It's been showing its age lately. Nvidia's 680i and the 8800 GTX are finally out, so I figured that the time had come for a rebuild. I set my budget at 3K. This is what I came up with.

Thermaltake VB5001SNA Tai-Chi Super Tower Case Series (with liquid cooling system)
$499
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=008716&cid=CS.220
REVIEW: http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/cases/Tt_Tai-Chi/index.html

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz (1066MHz) 4MB L2 Cache Socket 775 Processor
$369.99
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=010887&cid=CPU.84

Enermax Galaxy EGA850EWL ATX/BTX 850 W (950W PEAK) PFC Power Supply 100 - 240V
$289.99
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=011174&cid=PS.808
REVIEW: http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=960

eVGA 122-CK-NF68 Socket 775 nVidia nForce 680i SLi Chipset Dual-Channel DDR2 533/667/800 Support 1066/1333 FSB 8-Channel High Definition Audio 3x PCI-Express Graphic Slots Heatpipe Design
$299.99
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=011681&cid=MB.157
REVIEW: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2869&p=9

BFG GeForce 8800 GTX nVidia GeForce 8800GTX
$749.99
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=011708&cid=999.243
REVIEW: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTIxOCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

Corsair XMS 2 TWIN2X Matched Pairs 2048MB
$399.99
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=008713&cid=RAM.475

Pioneer DVR-111D Black DVD Writer
$39.99
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=009615&cid=CR.184

Western Digital Raptor Enterprise SATA (WD740ADFD) 74GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Buffer(OEM)
$192.00
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=010669&cid=HD.96

Second hard drive (maybe)

Subtotal: 2835.00 CANADIAN (2510.84 USD)
Add 15% Tax: 425.25 CANADIAN (376.63 USD)
Grand Total: 3260.25 CANADIAN (2886.47 USD)

All prices from www.canadacomputers.com

It's all from the same place, so I figure I'll ask them to build it for me. I think they have a building fee to have their techs put it together and test it for you, but I have to look into it. I've never fooled around with watercooling before and with components like these, I'd prefer someone in the know show me how it's put together properly first.

Any comments? Not too sure when I'm going to take the plunge, I'm still waiting for Vista to become available. Thanks for reading!

-Jalidi.
 
$750 video card and $370 processor. Haha. Going to be a great pc though. Expensive psu.
 
garrettgjb said:
$750 video card and $370 processor. Haha. Going to be a great pc though. Expensive psu.
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CA dollars. ;)

Looks good to me dude, make sure you get some good cooling for OCing fun. That 680i overclocks like a beast.
 
Thank you for the feedback!

I've changed my mind about the PSU, going to try for the Corsair 620HX which seems to have gotten some pretty positive feedback. It's a hundred bucks less and probably just as good as the Enermax Galaxy model I picked out earlier.

Corsair HX Series CMPSU-620HX 620W ATX Triple Power Supply 120MM Fan 12V 50A Continuous 24PIN ATX Modular
$189.50
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=010882&cid=PS.808
REVIEW: http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=945&pageID=2447

As for cooling, the case does come with its own watercooling system... and overclocking is precisely what I'm going to do, turn that $370 processor into a $1000 one. :)
 
$400 RAM? You'd better be overclocking that...

I would never spend $500 on a case, but thats a very subjective thing, so more power to you. I spent less than that on an entire new computer for my parents :p
 
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