PC I am building....

[fleck]

The last 4 systems I've built have used ECS boards, including my last system and current system. If you're not looking for all the features in the world they are great boards for the price. Never had one DOA or die/fry on me.

ASUS still makes some of the best boards and the new bad boy in town for quality and price is 'ASrock' which was founded by former ASUS engineers. ASrock will be the manufacturer I'm going with for my upcoming build.

 

[mjonesjr]

I really like my XFX board. It has worked without any problems.

I am getting ready to upgrade some parts in the system. I am going to give Newegg another try.

- Case:
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Full Tower
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160

- RAIDMAX RX-700SS 700W Moduler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152030

- XFX PVT96OZDFU GeForce 9600 GSO 1GB Video Card
**This thing comes with COD 4 & COD5!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150340

 

[mjonesjr]

Here she is built. I love this thing. I am pissed however, one of my 500GB hard drives died on me so I am going to have to buy a new one before I can seup RAID again. Hopefully I will have one tomorrow.

 

[fleck]

That Asus cooler is F**ing INSANE. You might as well have gotten a water block & kit.

 

[mjonesjr]

Thanks. I like the ASUS fan, but I want a Cooler Master V8 or a V10.

V8:
http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=2869

V10:
http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/landing/v10/

I don't really want to go with water cooling. I don't really trust water inside an electrical piece of equipment.

 

[fleck]

That's ridiculous. I remember my first big ass heatsink and fan that I used on my Celeron 366@550 and it would be the average size now. I was at CompUSA and I saw those monster heatsinks that Thermaltake is putting out these days, I would never put something like that in my system.

 

[mjonesjr]

I want to keep mine cool. I like the side cooler of the V10 that will keep the RAM cool. The V8 is $59.99, I haven't seen the V10 for sale anywhere since it was just released yesterday.

I have heard that someone is coming out that uses nitrogen or c02 to cool with. I might look into that, but I don't want water.

 

[mjonesjr]

Here is some info on the different type of cooling for PC's now.

http://www.computerpoweruser.com/Editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/u0413/02u13/02u13.asp&guid=

 

[fleck]

Newegg has the V10 for $140 FYI

 

[mjonesjr]

yea I saw on there a minute ago. It is nice, but I will probably stick with the V8 for that price. Or I might just upgrade the fan in my ASUS CPU fan.

 

[Jaymz9350]

yea I saw on there a minute ago. It is nice, but I will probably stick with the V8 for that price. Or I might just upgrade the fan in my ASUS CPU fan.

If you go to upgrade the fan I'd look at some yate loons. they can be found cheap at petrastechshop.com and come in low med and high speeds. they have higher static pressure than most 120x25mm fans (assuming this is what your heatsink uses) which helps with moving air through the fins.

I use 2 of the high speeds on my heatsink but have them on a speed controller as they are fairly noisy.

 

[mjonesjr]

Thanks for the heads up. I am going to order a fan controller tomorrow for my 6 fans.

 

[Jaymz9350]

Thanks for the heads up. I am going to order a fan controller tomorrow for my 6 fans.

yeah my fan controller was one of the best investments i've made. There's a total of 9 120mm fans in my case and at full blast they are pretty loud. run them at 5v most of the time and they are almost silent. bump them up to about 7v for gaming and 12v for all out stressing.

 

[addiman09]

Bump RAM up to 3GB GDDR3 and make it a 8800 or better or you will be obselete in 3 months.

 

[mjonesjr]

Bump RAM up to 3GB GDDR3 and make it a 8800 or better or you will be obselete in 3 months.

Obsolete in 3 months, doubtful. DDR3 hasn't fully taken off yet as majority of motherboards on the market are not capable of handling DDR3.

I just ordered a pair of 2GB 1066MHz RAM (4GB total) for my machine. I am going to be upgrading to a AMD Phenom II X4 3.0 GHz real soon.