Just ordered new computer

[Drunken F00l]

Bought all the parts on newegg. Feel free to make me feel bad and tell me how shitty my choices were or something.

http://www.sourceop.com/randomimages...oppingCart.pdf

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

I would have gone for more reasonable ram, I tried ram that fast and it made no difference in benchmarking or gaming FPS so I went for ram less than half that speed

I personally like Evga motherboards, if not only because they have sound-card quality sound on board. ( haven't used Asus in like 10 years)

for the price of that video card I would have SLi'd 2 9800's GX2's for a BRUTAL COMBO!!!

your case is the fucking best

your hard drive is the fucking best

your power supply would be the best with modular supply, but the combo deal balances it out

If I were paying that much for a processor I would go for water cooling (because its acutally quite easy to install it into that case, because its the best)

I went for dual cold cathode lights.

I am assuming that you were looking for an honest opinion...

[Drunken F00l]

Yes, thank you. I didn't get SLI because from what I heard it doesn't help much and also because I can get another GTX 280 later and SLI those.

I was going to get this RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145197

But I decided I was going all out on this comp so I got the faster RAM. Had I decided to get the cheaper RAM, I probably would have got a cheaper mobo as well. From what you said, it sounds like it won't be worth the extra few hundred bucks, but, oh well. I know for next time. Hopefully it'll be worth something.

I thought about water cooling, but I've never done it and I didn't want to break shit or make a mess or something so I went for the quiet fan.

The mobo I have now is ASUS and it rocks. I've installed other newer ASUS mobos in other comps as well for my job at my university and they rock harder. So since I've never seen an evga mobo and have had good times with ASUS, I went with them.

[larz]

Nice. I want your gpu.

[Hell-met]

Can I get your old rig

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

SLI'ing is only ineffective on Intel-chipped motherboards. The motherboard you have actually has twice the FSB bandwidth specifically for SLI'ing cards.

Ram is also a big issue, next time you go shopping look for something that is SLI-ready. Getting SLi RAM means you get the EPP memory banks, which has proven to have a much higher clocking with cooler temps, and more stability than standard non-SLi RAM. The Nvidia chipsets also auto-overclock it a pretty decent clock rate so it will be an advantage if you don't normally overclock your stuff.

other than that The ram you got will be fine, as the other ram would have been the bottleneck in a quad-280 system.

[Drunken F00l]

Can I get your old rig

How much are you willing to pay.

[Kaylee]

imo best not to spend over $2000ish on a computer and just get them more often if you could afford to spend more. You can usually get 80% of the power for half the price.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

every once in a whille technology takes a big enough leap to buy a wholle new rig, after you do that you can spend about 100-200$ a month modernizing it.

[Hell-met]

Can I get your old rig

How much are you willing to pay.

Sorry, I meant, as in - CAN I HAS UR PEE SEE?

Not for real. I'm getting one by myself pretty soon. Hopefully.