Overclockers heaven...and then some :)

[Calaf]

My new object of affection. I seem to find pleasure in designing rigs for people. This one is for my friend who wants to have the pleasure of overclocking but is needing a mid-level professional graphics card for his modeling. What do you all think? I'm adding a SATA 10k RPM HDD because he won't be purchasing for about 2 weeks and I figure the new drives will be at newegg and googlegear by then. It will be for the OS and applications.

Cables
Cooler Master UTC-F18 Round Floppy Cable - $9 (www.newegg.com)
Cooler Master UTC-A24 Round IDE Cable - $12 (www.newegg.com)
Tripp Lite P940-19I Serial ATA Cable - $15 (www.googlegear.com)
Case
Cooler Master ATC-111C - $182 (www.newegg.com)
CD/DVD
Samsung SM348 Combo - $70.99 (www.googlegear.com)
CPU Thermal Paste/Grease
Arctic Silver 3 Polysynthetic Thermal Compound - $6 (www.newegg.com)
Fans
Thermalright SLK-800(A) CPU Heatsink - $38 (www.newegg.com)
Vantec Stealth SF6025L - $10 (www.newegg.com)
Floppy Drive
Samsung 1.44MB - $7 (www.newegg.com)
Hard Drives
Seagate Barracuda 120GB Serial ATA - $175.50 (www.googlegear.com)
Keyboard/Mouse
Microsoft Natural Multimedia & Optical Wheel Mouse - $32.50 (www.googlegear.com)
Memory
Corsair TWINX1024-2700LL - $255 (www.googlegear.com)
Monitor
Sony 21" GDM-5010 - $190 (www.ebay.com)
Motherboard
Asus A7N8X Deluxe - $138.50 (www.googlegear.com)
Power Supply
Antec TruePower True430 - $82.49 (www.googlegear.com)
Processor
AMD Athlon XP 2100 - $93.50 (www.googlegear.com)
Speakers
Altec Lansing AVS 500W Multimedia - $33 (www.newegg.com)
Video Card
ATI Fire GL 8800 - $232 (www.newegg.com)
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Sub-Totals (S&H included)
eBay - $239
Googlegear - $863.48
Newegg - $565.21

Grand Total
$1667.69

If anyone is interested in me designing them a rig, post your interest here and I'll get in contact with you.

 

[smahoney]

I realise that you are using two sites to save on shipping - but I would recommend looking at bestbyte.net for the cables - I picked up a bunch of silver round cables, Crystal LED fans, AS3 paste for much less.

The 111C is a nice case - I almost ordered the 201C-SX2 until I went to CompUSA and picked up a Lian-Li PC-82 there for 149.99 - with window and five fans(2R,2F,1T) with front fan filter and a really easy to remove mobo tray. It doesn't have a bay door so I went with all black components - looks pretty cool with the two tone silver finish.

Do you think the Stealth fan will push enough air to cool and overclocked Athlon XP?

I have a P4 and ordered an Alpha 8942 and have aluminum spacers to rigid mount to the mobo tray - I am adding a 120mm to 80mm fan adapter and a 120mm aluminum fan - 84CFM at only 32dBA - heavy weight but with the rigid mount to the mobo tray it isn't a problem. The Stealth is nice and quiet, but it doesn't push a lot of air for a CPU cooler. You might want to rethink that part - nice config though.

 

[CraigRT]

CoolerMaster cases are seriously the shiznit... They make the nicest cases I've ever seen!