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sammy5gs

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Hey Fellas...

I got some grip (around $200) for Fathers Day and my B'day in the last few weeks in the form of newegg gift certificates. In my sig is my current system. I want to spend it, but am not quite sure on what. Need a little help from you guys.

Before you get started, I am not a big "sound" guy, so speaker upgrade is not the direction I would be interested in. Anywho, if I can use these certificates and maybe drop a little more coin into something that would better my performance and gaming experience, I would be all for it.

At first blush, memory or an SLI config jumps out, but I am not that sold on SLI as it relates to the resources it takes up.

Let me know what you think. Thanks!
 
Your setup is nice. The only things I think it could use would be more storage (since you can never have enough)..and/or another gig of memory. I don't think you'd see your money's worth to go SLI.
 
The only thing I really see wrong with your now is that you're not overclocking it :)

Its a pretty nice system as it is.
 
Yea, either watercooling or maybe another optical drive (two's always good) and a big HDD (160gb are $80 I think, and up to 300 @ ~$140).

If you went water cooling to get decent WC you'd probably need at least $250. That is, if you were gonna cool your GPU too. It would probably be about $210 w/o gpu watercooling. But you probably want to watercool your gpu.

In my sig I have a link to a thread where I am planning a new system. Watercooling is included in it. You might want to take a look at my layout, as I think it is really good for getting GOOD watercooling without spending an assload of money. You will need to add a pump and fans for your radiator though, as I am planning to pick up my pump in a real store, not online. And the fans are in the computer part of my build, not the water cooling part (because they come from Newegg like the rest of my comp, not DangerDen.com like my watercooling).

Good luck on your decision.

edit: o yeah, you said no sound, but on Newegg there is a real cheap 5.1 system or two by Logitech. Good for any gamer imho. $50 including shipping I think. So a optical for ~$40, speakers for ~$50, and a hard drive for $100 (would probably be 200gb) would mean no extra money spit out.
 
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