Thread: my shopin list!---> melas

"only 3450.58€"

it cooks dinner as well as washing your feet? u can get a decent car with that overrated price lol :-P

lol thats true james sis got a honda for €1000 and its unnatural
my m8 got a sumburu imrpeza with neon for €1500

omg...big prince melas :O

is a big price 3450.58€...we can buy a lot of mary jane Motorcycle...car...snowboard

good luck ...but./...

Melas - WTF? Are you kidding me? I will take my current system for you and break it down. This is in US dollars, but the conversion to Euro is even cheaper.

Case - Existing Alienware case I had. The full tower HUGE case. Price $0
Mobo - EVGA X58 SLI Intel X58 Socket LGA1366. TRIPLE SLI board. Price $299.
CPU - Intel Core i7-920 2.66Ghz 8M LGA1366 CPU. Price $248.
Vid - 2xEVGA GeForce GTX 280 OC 1GB PCIe. In SLI. Price $269 each.
PSU - Corsair HX1000W 1000W. Price $260.
Ram - Corsair XMS 6144MB PC10666. Price $100. No point in the 2000mhz. CPU is the bottleneck, not ram.
CPU Cooler - ULTRA CHILLTEC AM2/775/I7 CPU COOLER. $120 OCd to 3.84 and temps are 35C idle, 40-42 Load.
HD - WD Caviar Green 1TB 32MB/SATA-3G. $100
OS - Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit DSP. Price $180. I didn't have the OS so needed it.
DVD - Sony 20X DVDRW SATA Retail. Price $40. Needed one since my last one was IDE.
CPU paste - OCZ Freeze Thermal Extreme Conductivity Compound. Price $6

Total - $2080 USD. Euros? 1,488

Now let me break down yours.

Case - Mid tower. Not the best choice because you run out of room and the newer 250+ series video card BARELY fit. I mean BARELY fit into it where it isn't a tight squeeze, you are actually grinding the outside of the vid card against the drive bays. Additionally, you won't get adequate airflow if you decide to do SLI.

Recommend: Get a full tower.

CPU - Best choice. These things are cheap for the amount of overclocking ability you can do with little.

Recommend: No recommendation, solid choice.

CPU Cooler - Liquid cooling? Don't bother. The i7 920 can get to 4.0 on Air alone. With liquid, you aren't pushing it much farther because you are limited to the RAM and chipset voltage and frequency changes modifiers.

Recommend: Any solid air cooler. Zalman, Ultra, Coolermaster.

Ram - No point in the faster ram as the cpu will be your bottleneck.

Recommend: The Ram I bought. Triple channel, 6gb. $99 us, so about 75 Euro?

Mobo: Asus P6t Deluxe. Some reviews have been poor and limited in overclocking abilities. I am a big fan of Asus motherboards, but would have to go with the EVGA. Additionally, 12gb ram is overkill (counting above) unless you do TONS of video editing. I have 6gb ram, and can run 2 instances of WoW, 1 of CoD4, 250 fps in cod4, and still have over 2gb free ram available.

Recommend: EVGA x58. Best board for the money.

GPU: Really? Why spend the money. 1st Gainward aren't the best in the business. EVGA and BFG are. 2nd, why two 295s? The performance increase in one 295 doesn't justify the cost.

Recommend: EVGA 280, or 285. In SLI you wont be seeing any frame rate loss in any game now, or near future. Plus EVGA has a turn and upgrade policy. Same with BFG. If you buy a card and within 1 year want to upgrade, you can turn yours in for FULL Retail value of when you purchased it for credit to the upgrade. Can't beat that.

HD - 2x 2tb? Do you really need that much space? Are you Raid 0?

Recommend: 2x 1tb if you want space. I am using only 1tb drive and still have 700gb free. But granted it's new for me and I haven't moved everything over.

PSU - 1200watt? You can run the 1000watt and still have enough power for a third vid card.

Recommend: Corsair 1000w PSU. The connectors are male plugins so you only connect what you need. Keeps the case clean.

damn, I'm blind again for 30 mins...but good point pencil :-P u can buy a house confiscated by the fuckin mod with that amount of money

#2pencil CRITS Weedman for 1000000 by Spell of Long Post!
Weedman dies!

hehe, IN YOUR PORNOGRAPHIC DREAM MAYBE xD the one where u dream JohnDoe naked...don't hide, we all know u love him

Stixx is my lover. Didn't you see the pics of us in that JohnDoe thread? I am the bigger one. I mean, I must be because I am good at a video game where he had to cheat to be "good".