Ideas;

[ShepsCrook]

My friend is looking to buy my rig listed below with some changes, for $1500. I am looking to build a new machine with that money, maybe some extra.

Basically I was thinking:
E6600
an ASUS board that supports 2x 16xPCI-E.
7950GX2 or Maybe I could hold off long enough for an 8800GTX.
Keeping the HDs and X-Fi Platinum
610W PC Power and Cooling PSU
Aluminum case.
NEC drive...
2GB of OCZ Platinum rev.2 DDR2 800mhz

Anyone have any specifics of what would be good? I priced out a system on Newegg for a total of $1627.

 

[wee96]

You don't really need to spend that much on the psu, there are several models from Enermax, OCZ, Corsair, etc. that would be much cheaper but are really sweet. Good choice on all your parts though, it'd be a killer system.

 

[newls1]

ya, but that PSU is KILLER

 

[ShepsCrook]

$159 isn't bad. I do like the OCZ Powerstream/XtremeGamer models though.

 

[wee96]

$159 isn't bad. I do like the OCZ Powerstream/XtremeGamer models though.

Ahh I was thinking it was much more than that, thats not too bad your right.

 

[ShepsCrook]

Yeah. Someone said I should get the E6400 to save some cash. Since I went over my budget.

 

[DeFex]

Asus P5W DH Deluxe looks pretty cool for that and it will work with the quad core as well when it comes out soon.

thing is the intel chipset motherboards do not do SLI? only crossfire, which is kind of ironic these days.

you may be stuck with an nvidia chipset if u want SLI

 

[wee96]

Yeah. Someone said I should get the E6400 to save some cash. Since I went over my budget.

Its really a toss up, half the L2 and a few hundred mhz less, its still a very fast cpu. If overclocking, it might be a good idea.

 

[ShepsCrook]

Right now I have the rig below. And I chose not to overclock it even though it runs VERY cool. It's still more than enough power for what I need it for. But if my friend wants to buy my system, and I can put something that is more powerful together, then so be it.