Dropped the hammer on a few upgrades.

[HannibalX]

My venerable Antec TP2.0 550 watt PSU has been giving me problems over the last few weeks so I decided it was time to replace it and at the same time go with a modular cabling solution to clean up the case a little.

I was browsing Newegg for a PSU and ended up with the SeaSonic M12 SS-600HM which has great reviews. Somehow two Asus 8800 GTXs ended up in my shopping cart as well! Hehe. I also bought an XF-I sound card to replace my aging SB Live! 5.1 that I never was able to make work in Vista.

So everything should be arriving today and I'll put the new parts in tonight. My system is pretty fast right now (I think anyway) so it should fly once I have everything up and running.

 

[RussianSensation]

dual 8800GTXs, wow Are you waiting for Phenom for cpu or Penryn?

 

[HannibalX]

My FX-60 is only six months old so I will be hanging onto it for a year or two. Besides right now I am GPU limited on everything I am playing games wise, which the GTXs will fix. Swapping out a new mobo/cpu/ram won't yeild that much better results for me to justify it right now (I know you are asking how I can say that after buying two GTXs hehe). I have been running stable @ 3.0 Ghz for a few months now, once I get my new Zalman cooler I will be looking for 3.4 GHz. Right now I am on stock cooling for the FX-60.

 

[RussianSensation]

For someone with high end components like you I'd recommend the Tuniq Tower 120 or Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 over the Zalman heatsinks. Right now Newegg has a special on the tuniq for $45 with shipping in.

BTW, what monitor are you using? The reason why I ask is that I hope it is a 30 inch dell

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
For someone with high end components like you I'd recommend the Tuniq Tower 120 or Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 over the Zalman heatsinks. Right now Newegg has a special on the tuniq for $45 with shipping in.

BTW, what monitor are you using? The reason why I ask is that I hope it is a 30 inch dell

:thumbsup:

 

[HannibalX]

The TT is a nice product, no doubt.

I've have great experience with Zalman products and will be sticking with them.

 

[HannibalX]

Everything is put together. I loaded XP-64 bit because I have heard about SLI issues with Vista... this thing is incredibly fast now. I am happy.

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Everything is put together. I loaded XP-64 bit because I have heard about SLI issues with Vista... this thing is incredibly fast now. I am happy.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Congrats once again. I should have my new Quad / 8800 system this weekend too. You can probably max out all your games at 2560x1600 with dual 8800GTXs.