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Ok heres the deal. I have $1500 to spend, no more no less. So far I have, a Mountain Mods Case , my soundcard is a Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality , and I think I mostly have everything I need... except the major major new things.
I need a new Motherboard, Processor, Heatsink and Fan, Memory, Video Card, and Power Supply. I also need a black faceplated DVD drive, a black plated fan controller that can do a lot of fans, and SATA Hard Drives, but the most important parts are the first 6 items... the others can wait.
I dont really care about overclocking, its an option somewhere down the line but not necessary. I would like the vid card and the processor fan to be quiet. I have 9x 120 mm fans in my case... it took a lot of research to find out which ones had good airflow vs sound. If the case didnt have so many windows i would use sound dampening pads.
Not ready for watercooling yet, so that right now is not an option. I would like an SLI board just because its an option down the line. Hell maybe I could just do it now with 2x 6000 series nvidia cards. I do a lot of digital art, and I play games of course, so I need a system that can handle big Renders, and handle the new games too.
I had an Idea on what I wanted:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (I wanted the 1mb cache)
Rather the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe or A8N-SLI Premium because of the SLI and the Heatpipe.
Rather 1 BFG Geforce 7800 GT OC 256MB, or 2x of some other decent SLI card.
2 GB Corsair XMS-3500 2-3-2-6 or 2GB of their 3200C2
And I dont have much of an Idea on the processor fan or the powersupply.
I want the biggest bang for my buck, and honestly I dunno which way to go. I like the idea of the dual core processor, but its everything else im not sure about. For all purposes, just make pretend I wont overclock, what is the best route to go for $1500?
I need a new Motherboard, Processor, Heatsink and Fan, Memory, Video Card, and Power Supply. I also need a black faceplated DVD drive, a black plated fan controller that can do a lot of fans, and SATA Hard Drives, but the most important parts are the first 6 items... the others can wait.
I dont really care about overclocking, its an option somewhere down the line but not necessary. I would like the vid card and the processor fan to be quiet. I have 9x 120 mm fans in my case... it took a lot of research to find out which ones had good airflow vs sound. If the case didnt have so many windows i would use sound dampening pads.
Not ready for watercooling yet, so that right now is not an option. I would like an SLI board just because its an option down the line. Hell maybe I could just do it now with 2x 6000 series nvidia cards. I do a lot of digital art, and I play games of course, so I need a system that can handle big Renders, and handle the new games too.
I had an Idea on what I wanted:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (I wanted the 1mb cache)
Rather the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe or A8N-SLI Premium because of the SLI and the Heatpipe.
Rather 1 BFG Geforce 7800 GT OC 256MB, or 2x of some other decent SLI card.
2 GB Corsair XMS-3500 2-3-2-6 or 2GB of their 3200C2
And I dont have much of an Idea on the processor fan or the powersupply.
I want the biggest bang for my buck, and honestly I dunno which way to go. I like the idea of the dual core processor, but its everything else im not sure about. For all purposes, just make pretend I wont overclock, what is the best route to go for $1500?