SpangeMonkee said:So.. who can gimme $10k so I can buy the Dell Quad SLI machine?
why_ask_why said:10 fucking k??? you must be able to buy the board and a suitable case elsewhere, no?
KNYTE said:$10k for a computer? Imagine what the desk would cost that you'd have to house that thing on.
SpangeMonkee said:I don't think Quad SLI is available from anywhere else at the moment.
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.
sizzlinggrace said:i wanted to build my own computer this summer
i should probably learn how first
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?
Aristotleeileenbunny 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?
We talked about this. Get on it silly!!!sizzlinggrace said:i wanted to build my own computer this summer
i should probably learn how first
That b what I have. I have yet to see any dual core issues. Im running 32bit windowsValve1138 said:Dual core for the win.
Get an X2 3800+, you'll be much happier in the long run!
It comes with high marks from me. <3 theac for building me a system list.Ryokurin said:I just noticed that the 3800 dropped to the under 300 dollar mark so I'll probably do it soon myself.
fly said:That b what I have. I have yet to see any dual core issues. Im running 32bit windows