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one30eight

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I have to build the perfect, or what would be for me, pc on paper for a class at school. I have been out of the loop for a while and wanted to get some input. My perfect PC would be primarily for gaming and watching movies with the ability to OC, even if you do not need to. In the past I have bought AMD, I currently have an opteron, but for this PC I think I will go with a C2D from intel. So, best gaming PC from currently available parts with a no limit budget. This includes monitor, keyboard, mouse..etc. What would you build?
 
Youre lucky im bored, else i would not be doing your hw.

New Intel Penryn, the extreme edition thing, the 9850 or something.

680i Motherboard

Two 8800 Ultras in SLI

4 GB of 1066 DDR2

2x150 WD Raptors in RAID

Dell 3007 Monitor

Some kind of customer water cooling setup

Should be enough to get you started.
 
I already have something built, just wanted to see if it stacked up to what some others might build. Thanks for the reply!
 
nissanztt90 said:
Youre lucky im bored, else i would not be doing your hw.

New Intel Penryn, the extreme edition thing, the 9850 or something.

680i Motherboard

Two 8800 Ultras in SLI

4 GB of 1066 DDR2

2x150 WD Raptors in RAID

Dell 3007 Monitor

Some kind of customer water cooling setup

Should be enough to get you started.
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^^ Looks good to me.

PS. A big ass PSU too.
 
Intel Q6600 Quad Core
2 SLI 8800 Ultras
4GB Corsair DDR2
PhysX Card
2x) 500GB Western Digital 7200RPM HDDs
Thermal Take Big Water Cooling
2x) Samsung 24 Inch LCD Monitors
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit Edition
 
Frag0Lution said:
Intel Q6600 Quad Core
2 SLI 8800 Ultras
4GB Corsair DDR2
PhysX Card
2x) 500GB Western Digital 7200RPM HDDs
Thermal Take Big Water Cooling
2x) Samsung 24 Inch LCD Monitors
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit Edition
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qx9650 is faster
if you are going to go big get hitachi tb drives, if you are going fast get seagate cheetahs
thermaltake wc sucks big time
if you are gaming why do you need two monitors. Either do one 1920x1200 or one 2650x1600
 
No holds bar I would go for solid state drives for the OS and applications.
 
This is what I ended up with:
• Asus P5N32-E SLI $200.00
• Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 $1,345.00
• 2XBFG Tech 8800 Ultras $1,669.00
• 2x150GB Western Digital Raptors $250.00
• 4 Gigs Corsair Dominator $400.00
• PC Power and Cooling 750w Quad $180.00
• Thermaltake Bigwater 735 $140.00
• 1 Pioneer 8x Internal Blu-Ray Disc and 1 Samsung 20x DVD Burner $320.00
• Coolermaster Stacker 830 Evolution $270.00
• Logitech G15 $90.00
• Logitech G9 $90.00
• Dell Ultrasharp 3007WFP-HC $1399.99
• Logitech Z-5500 $290.00
• Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit $200.0 TOTAL: $6843.00
Thanks for the replys!
 
That thermaltake kit seems like it is a single rad setup which seems woefully insufficient if you really want an ultimate gaming machine, and I've heard bad things about leaks and such on ThermalTake water kits. The Stacker 830 also seems like a weird choice for watercooling, as it basically negates the main draw of the case, the four 120mm side fans for maximum air cooling. A custom built setup with two triple rads, one for the CPU and maybe northbridge and one for the two GPU's seems way better if price is not a big issue.

As uberbob mentioned also, the P35 chipset, or any non-nvidia chipset for that matter doesn't have driver support for SLI. So two 8800 Ultras won't be doing much for you there. Although with Nvidia's 680i chipsets they can have issues with using all 4 dimm slots for ram I heard. If you really want to go nuts, wait for 780i and triple SLI while you are at it.

Might as well go with a Thermaltake ToughPower 1000W Modular too. I mean, why not heh. Anyway good luck I guess with whatever you go with/already went with.
 
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the asus P5N32-E sli is 680i not P35... its just not that nice a 680i

if you particularly want a asus, get a striker, but otherwise get and evga or something...
 
one30eight said:
This is what I ended up with:
• Asus P5N32-E SLI $200.00
• Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 $1,345.00
• 2XBFG Tech 8800 Ultras $1,669.00
• 2x150GB Western Digital Raptors $250.00
• 4 Gigs Corsair Dominator $400.00
• PC Power and Cooling 750w Quad $180.00
• Thermaltake Bigwater 735 $140.00
• 1 Pioneer 8x Internal Blu-Ray Disc and 1 Samsung 20x DVD Burner $320.00
• Coolermaster Stacker 830 Evolution $270.00
• Logitech G15 $90.00
• Logitech G9 $90.00
• Dell Ultrasharp 3007WFP-HC $1399.99
• Logitech Z-5500 $290.00
• Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit $200.0 TOTAL: $6843.00
Thanks for the replys!
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• X38 SLI $$$$$
• Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 $1,345.00
• 2XBFG Tech 8800 Ultras $1,669.00
• 6x150GB Western Digital Raptors $250.00
• 8 Gigs DDR3 $$$$$
• TT Tough Power 1200W $$$$$
• Phase Cooling $$$$$
• 1 Pioneer 8x Internal Blu-Ray Disc and 1 Samsung 20x DVD Burner $320.00
• Coolermaster Stacker 830 Evolution $270.00
• Logitech G15 $90.00
• Logitech G9 $90.00
• 4XDell Ultrasharp 3007WFP-HC $1399.99
• Logitech Z-5500 $290.00
• Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit $200.0 TOTAL: $$$$$

Bit better :)
 
Hazaro said:
• X38 SLI $$$$$
• Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 $1,345.00
• 2XBFG Tech 8800 Ultras $1,669.00
• 6x150GB Western Digital Raptors $250.00
• 8 Gigs DDR3 $$$$$
• TT Tough Power 1200W $$$$$
• Phase Cooling $$$$$
• 1 Pioneer 8x Internal Blu-Ray Disc and 1 Samsung 20x DVD Burner $320.00
• Coolermaster Stacker 830 Evolution $270.00
• Logitech G15 $90.00
• Logitech G9 $90.00
• 4XDell Ultrasharp 3007WFP-HC $1399.99
• Logitech Z-5500 $290.00
• Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit $200.0 TOTAL: $$$$$

Bit better :)
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I'm pretty sure X38 doesn't support SLI either...now that I think about it though, if you want to go nuts though and want to use Intel, you could wait for Skulltrail heh. Two QX9650 and four 8800 Ultras or whatever is the top card at that time. Then you're burning some real cash =)
 
soundguy said:
the asus P5N32-E sli is 680i not P35... its just not that nice a 680i

if you particularly want a asus, get a striker, but otherwise get and evga or something...
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Yeah I guess he changed that as part of his edit on that post. He originally had the Blitz Formula listed.
 
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