Mainboard: A Small Biostar Triforce which surprisingly came with some great overclocking settings. I'm overclocked to 2.75Ghz, running at 45 degrees Celsius and this is using the stock heatsink. - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138105
That's it for now. The case I'm using was given to me a while back and is pretty plain, no special HDD and the monitor I'm using is an old CRT monitor but when I can save up enough another 1500 dollars(just 2 paychecks!), this is what I'll have:
Videocard: A bad ass Sapphire card shall take up the only PCI Express 2.0 slot I have. I never crossfire them or anything and it supports the HDMI setup I want, Crysis at max settings, and will be good for a while. If I get a good enough Christmas bonus I'll go ahead and grab the 2 gig card but for now, this is the one - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102795
Power Supply: I've worked with a total of 4 OCZ GameXStream 700 watt power supplies and love them. It's powerful, has a 5 year no hastle warranty and is just bad ass looking in my friends Antec 900 case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341002
HDD: The terabyte and a half Seagate. It's fast, holds everything I want and more and for someone like me who copies everything to my PC makes this indispensable. I use Daemon's Tools Pro which can support 32 virtual drives. I hate scratching my CDs and DVDs so I want to put them in my Dick Drive ONCE and never have to do it again. With all this space it makes it much easier on me. Hell I may get two strictly for ISO back up - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337
The TV is gonna be for gaming and movies while the monitor is for everyday PC use and will be complete when wireless HDMI becomes available. I really can't wait for this.
I have a few other things I want like a webcam and such but it doesn't overall affect my PC. Total my newegg saved list(webcam and such too)is a grand total of $3,211.85. Thankfully by not having many expenses along the way this is almost completely possible and hopefully nothing happens within the next 2 months. Here's a link to the list if you want - http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/Public...Number=10590108
Starting out with an AMD Phenom wasn't the best idea in the world, but it will do I suppose (If you haven't ordered this lot yet, for the love of god, change it for a Core 2 Quad and Intel board) The rest of the build is pretty good. OCZ GameXStream units aren't very good (yes, you've built with them, but trust me, a 700W GameXStream will suffer at any more than half that), but since you should be under 300W you should be alright.
Originally posted by sammorris: Starting out with an AMD Phenom wasn't the best idea in the world, but it will do I suppose (If you haven't ordered this lot yet, for the love of god, change it for a Core 2 Quad and Intel board) The rest of the build is pretty good. OCZ GameXStream units aren't very good (yes, you've built with them, but trust me, a 700W GameXStream will suffer at any more than half that), but since you should be under 300W you should be alright.
I was given this AMD and am quite pleased with it. If I wanted to spend more I'd get a DDR3 Mainboard with a quad set up due to epic RAM speed but This AMD is fine and really kicks ass for the price. It surprised me greatly. As far as the GameXStream power supply goes, we use the mess out of it all the time with no issues. The first one I put in a machine is being powered by that supply and has a RAID set up with a total of 12 different HDDs, 6 via promise cards and it's a high usage server which we use for data transfer at our home office and it hasn't faulted once. All our PC get files of of that thing and it backs up all our data and it's using that power supply. For real personal use we've gamed with a Vista based rig, with Crysis to the Max level of settings and had numerous programs running in the background to see what the machine could do before we made it a server and never had a problem. The only problem i've seen is that people aren't getting rebates back which I don't ever do half the time.
