Welp, everything arrived in good order last week and built it up during one evening...it's been 3+ years since I've done a full build, so I did something stupid and put EVERYTHING together only to realize I had forgotten the backplane for the mobo...had to take a lot of stuff out and unscrew the...
OK, just pulled the trigger. Total with shipping is $1350. Went with the Core 216 for GPU...figured what the hell. The Zalman CPU fan should be OK...it's less than 70mm high. Will let you all know how it turns out :)
A couple of responses:
-I went with the GTX 260 because of PhysX support and better Linux driver support. At least, last time I checked Nvidia had better Linux support
-Price difference between the PC 6400 and PC 8000 RAM is negligible. It's possible that I might want to OC in the future...
Hey all, did a quick build, just wanted to do a sanity check to make sure all the parts will work with each other. This will be a gaming box, not really interested in overclocking, and I'm planning on ordering this ASAP.
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin...
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