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The CoolerMaster Stacker and Thermaltake Armor are nice and cheap cases to hold all your SCSI drives in.
Originally posted by: Agnostos Insania
Originally posted by: bob4432
the catch is it is a crt that weighs probably >120#'s and will take up all of your desk
Cool. I've never entirely understood the weight issue that people have for stuff. I guess maybe if you move a lot or something, but my monitor and computer case haven't left their initial positions in years. Give me a solid steel computer case and CRT monitor any day.
What is VapoChill LightSpeed, and what are you talking about DDR500? To my understanding the motherboard only supports DDR memory running at DDR400 (PC3200).
Dropped the OS down to XP Home, XP Professional isn't necessary for me (I don't do fancy networking or anything), to save around $50
As far as SLI goes I wouldnt say necessarily its a waste. IMO its not yet taken to its full potential. Its still in its infacy IMO. incomplete.
Originally posted by: Some1ne
If you're shooting for high-end, that'll do it, although I've said it before and I'll say it again, SLI is a waste.
Originally posted by: t0mn8r
Dude,
I would seriously consider http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144160 as your boot drive. It makes a big difference especially in a system such as yours.
Data drive is variable dependent on your budget (I went all out for 4 x 250 GB RAID 0).
I partitioned C to be 32 GB (FAT32 for imaging), a 4 GB restore partition and the rest for scratch and paging file.
Hope this helps.
Originally posted by: Vallybally
To OP. As others have suggested, unless you are rich where price is no matter, you are much better off getting a PC for half the price which is 80% as fast (or 90%+ with some OCing). Generally speaking, living on the bleeding edge for non-millionares is foolhardy because a $3-4k PC today will be worth half that every year. (ie $1.5-2k next year, $750-1k two years from now). In addition, there is no difference that the human eye can perceive from 70fps to 90fps is there? Far as I know, about 30FPS is 'life-like' motion. Today's games run basically as well on a $2k PC as a $4k PC. And they'll run nearly as well on even a $1k PC if you shop smart (not counting monitor).