So I'm getting a new computer

Right, I have been on this board long enough to know that any comments on Page 2 of a thread that aren't completely off-topic might as well be ignored, but here we go.

Hard drives: I strongly recommend going with a dual drive setup. Get yourself a sexy little 40-60GB 10k rpm drive with enough cache to choke a donkey. The money you'll spend getting the lower access time is far outweighed by the size drop. Then you get yourself a nice big 7200 rpm drive for data storage, games, videos, whatevah. The performance bump is worth the effort, and it's handy to separate out your data/system partitions in the event of a catastrophic OS failure.

Mobo: I have been using almost exclusively Gigabyte boards (currently have the 8KNXP in my box) and I will buy a Gigabyte board for my next system as well. I know that Asus/Abit have decent boards as well but hell, I haven't had a problem on my last three boards.

Aside from that there's nothing but pure jealousy from this end of the world. I have been working my way up to a PCIe box for the last 12 months, you (and everyone else that upgrades before me) are a full on bastard for having what I want.
 
Get the Asus A8N32 sli deluxe if you are going to run SLI...i'm trying to sell my A8N Sli Deluxe now to get that board...and i have an athlon 3500+ (64bit, not dual core) to go with it if anyone wants both $250.
 
SpangeMonkee said:
I don't think Quad SLI is available from anywhere else at the moment.
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If you've seen pictures, tehy ahve custom video cards that offset the SLI connector so that card 1 and 3 , 2 and 4 are connected instead of 1 and 2, 3 and 4. ti's wierd...
 
reverendsaintjay said:
Hard drives: I strongly recommend going with a dual drive setup. Get yourself a sexy little 40-60GB 10k rpm drive with enough cache to choke a donkey. The money you'll spend getting the lower access time is far outweighed by the size drop. Then you get yourself a nice big 7200 rpm drive for data storage, games, videos, whatevah. The performance bump is worth the effort, and it's handy to separate out your data/system partitions in the event of a catastrophic OS failure.

Mobo: I have been using almost exclusively Gigabyte boards (currently have the 8KNXP in my box) and I will buy a Gigabyte board for my next system as well. I know that Asus/Abit have decent boards as well but hell, I haven't had a problem on my last three boards.
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Good advice, I am running a 10,000 RPM WD HDD 72 GB drive for windows and app installs, all my files (porn) are on a 350GB 2700 WD HDD.

I'm running the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium. So far an excellent board especially since SLI mode can be changed on the fly instead of having to power down and manually flip the chip on the mobo. I'm not running SLI mode yet but maybe by the year's end. I got a BFG 7800GTX and to buy another would be like 500 more bucks :eek:

and definitely dont cheap out on the Power Supply, I'm running an Antec TruePower II 550W (~$75) and it works beautifully (and silently).
 
So now that the computer has been ordered and is on it's way, IBWIP and I have come to a very important decision we need to make. We don't know what to name the machine when it gets here. We have Homer, Gilgamesh, and Herodotus already. We had Monty and Armando, but they have been decommissioned :(. Anyway, we are thinking ancient historical figure here. Any suggestions?
 
Ryokurin said:
I'll say it again. why are all the psychology geek girls are all around me and the tech geek girls are somewhere else in the world?
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eileenbunny said:
So now that the computer has been ordered and is on it's way, IBWIP and I have come to a very important decision we need to make. We don't know what to name the machine when it gets here. We have Homer, Gilgamesh, and Herodotus already. We had Monty and Armando, but they have been decommissioned :(. Anyway, we are thinking ancient historical figure here. Any suggestions?
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Aristotle :cool:
 
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