new mobo & cpu

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bmdean

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Well, i ordered my new motherboard and cpu. The MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum along with the AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice Retail box. gonna just use the stock heatsink for a little while until i order the Artic Cooling Freezer 64. also going to order a maxtor diamonmax 10 200gb sata drive later, along with a sony dru-720a and a sony dvd drive. would've ordered all of them at the same time, but didn't end up getting enough money. i ordered a stick of crucial ballistix tracer pc4000 512mb ram and a xblade case off of ebay. but the xblade case came broken, i'm pretty sure it was broken during shipping, so we're calling ups monday since it was insured. there's a hole in the box, and part of the styrafoam is busted so we'll see.

Brandon
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811124072
Just junk the power supply and you have a great case.

Or, in Canada, you can get this one in black (and silver).
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=981472&CatId=0

I have that case (the black one) and it's great. It has small holes that run on the top on both sides of the case for ventilation, small holes in the back for ventilation near the bottom of the case. It has a knob to control the speed of the blue LED case fans, temperature readout and a fan on the side of the case that blows air almost directly on the motherboard. There's also no front "door panel" that you have to swing open to access the drives. You have direct access to the DVD and floppy. The power on button is also very large and it has a blue reset button that also acts as the HD activity light.
It's all so very cool man! Heehaw! :cool:
 
well, if i getthat 48 bucks back from ups from insurance, i may buy a new psu, or i will be gas money.

Brandon
 
Oh, and if you get an Enermax power supply, you also have a control knob for the fans on that as well. I used an extra IDE cable to put the DVD burner in the top drive. That way, the black DVD drive blends in with the rest of the case. Looks OK to me.

I have to admit, I looked a lot after I bought it and have a hard time finding a better one to my taste especially for the price.
 
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