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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    OK, so here's my final take on this. I've decided to stick with a Dual core E6700 instead of going quad core for a couple reasons. First I am concerned about wattage / heat from a highly OC'd Q6600, especially since I have "only" got an 850W PSU and an air-cooling setup. Second, I think my...
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    New Gaming Laptop

    Depending on your needs / budget, three of the flat-out fastest notebooks available today are 1. Asus G1S / G2S 2. Asus F3SV All three are Santa Rosa parts, so they sport 800MHz CPU FSB. They also have Geforce 8600 vid card, although the F3SV is a slower GS part. G2S is 17" screen, the...
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    Thanks for that. I think I'm gonna stick with a Sound Blaster though. Better support at home.
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    P5N32-E SLI Plus vs 680i RAID 0 performance

    That's the problem, neither can I. Well I'm beginning to think that I'll just go with the 680i, RAID problem and all. With 4x500GB drives I'll get my 110mb/sec and have a 1 TB redundant setup. Thanks for the help guys.
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    Got me an Xbox 360 - have some questions

    Oh no! That's just terrible luck! Well these are some of the good games I've played on my 360: 1. Forza 2 (not played full version, only demo, but it's awesome) 2. PGR3 3. Oblivion 4. Gears of War Good luck with getting your 360 fixed.
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    I understand what you're saying Purd, I'm not confused! =) I was just thinking that I would get the Fatality card because of the XRAM feature that card has, so that my CPU gets as little load as possible. I connect my card to my amp with 3 mini-jack to RCA cables.
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    TcG, you mentioned earlier that I should go with the E6600 instead of E6700 if I go dual instead of quad. I made my mum a new system three weeks back with a E6600 and I can only get it to run at around 3 GHz with stock cooling. All told that's not a bad result, considering it's stock cooling and...
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    Yes, I did notice that the P5N32-E SLI Plus scored a little higher than the Striker Extreme in some benchmarks. What I like about the SE is that it has the power on / off, reset etc buttons on the board, so I can test my new parts here before taking them home (my case is at home in India). I...
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    I run my PC through my Denon 4306 amp and have a 5.1 set of B&W Series 6 speakers with an ASW-2000 sub! ;o) That card does look interesting.
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    Well, the primary concern with Quad vs dual core is heat, seeing as I will only be cooling with air. Granted I've got a huge case and I'm gonna pop 4-5 120mm fans into it to generate a small hurricane inside, plus I'm getting the best HSF currently available, but I'm still a little concerned...
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    Hey PurdueRy, The sound card I'm looking at costs around $140 and has 24bit, 192KHz capabitiy. Not too bad all told, plus I was under the impression that my CPU overhead would also be lower with this card than with onboard sound. The reason I want to go with the OC 8800GTX is so I have a...
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    Hi Husky. I think you're confusing the Asus Striker Extreme for the Asus Commando. The Striker Extreme is an nVidia 680i board, the Commando is a Intel 965 board. I would really like to experiment with water cooling tbh, but the thing is, I live in India and it's going to be a real PITA to...
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    Thanks for the reply TcG. Funny you mentioned that DDR2-800 Mushkin RAM; I pretty-much reached the same conclusion myself after posting my message! =) As for the PSU, it's already in my Stacker 830, so yeah, I've already got it and don't really want to have to buy a new one. The question...
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    I thought about going water-cooled but I've decided against it. This does make me think that perhaps I'll be better off with a E6700 Oc'd to the wall. As for the MB, I don't get it? I never said I wanted a 965!
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    P5N32-E SLI Plus vs 680i RAID 0 performance

    I am looking to put together a new system in the next few days and I was thinking of buying a 680i motherboard (Striker Extreme in all probability) until I realised that the RAID 0 performance of 680i motherboards is stuck at around 110mb/sec due to a problem with the MCP6 Southbridge on the...
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    Does anyone know of a good set of 2x2GB Sli Certified EPP DDR2-800 or 1066?
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    Well, I think I will not upgrade this system for around 2 years or so, and then I will probably update the video cards. The motherboard / CPU will probably be kept for around three years or until there is a newer CPU AT LEAST 2x the performance as what I have, so perhaps the quad-core makes...
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    I wish I could, but I need to put together a new system within the next ten days or so. That RAID controller looks interesting, but I think I'd go nuts if my system made several loud beeps at post. Any other thoughts?
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    New build. Appreciate your suggestions.

    Hi guys, I'm planning on building myself a new rig with the following parts. I mostly use my PC to game, surf the net, rip CDs and occasionally video encoding. I am also frequently compressing and uncompressing large numbers of files (up to 3GB at a time). Let me know what you think of my...