Help with my custom build:

[bluedeviltron]

Actually, do you think Frys will take back a video card if it's been opened and installed? Because I'm thinking about installing it and trying out HL2. If it looks good, I'll just keep it, but if it could look a little better, I might take it back...

 

[flatblastard]

If you have any doubt about the card, then take it back before you open it. The extra $100 for the x800xl will probably be worth it in the long run.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: bluedeviltron
Actually, do you think Frys will take back a video card if it's been opened and installed? Because I'm thinking about installing it and trying out HL2. If it looks good, I'll just keep it, but if it could look a little better, I might take it back...

i have personally bought and installed $200-$300 scsi hdds from them just to have clients tell me that that is not exactly what they want and want to get more storage space for the $$$ and fry's took it back no problem. this has just been my experience though

 

[snomunki]

bob4432: I know Antec is very popular, but I have never seen it at the top of any side-by-side tests. Enermax/OCZ has been stealing the show everytime.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: bluedeviltron
Help with my "custom build"

It's considered "generic" anymore. 😛

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: snomunki
bob4432: I know Antec is very popular, but I have never seen it at the top of any side-by-side tests. Enermax/OCZ has been stealing the show everytime.

i have not really read any test regarding p/s, i have just read other peoples recommendations and i have been using antec cases for ~5years and that original case is still going. many friends of mine use their cases via my recommendation and everybody is not only extremely happy with the case, but also the p/s.

in the near future i will be probably purchasing a new m/b to do some serious o/c, then i might change my mind as i will need to adjust the cpu and ram voltages as my current m/b will not allow this.

i just feel that a lot of people feel they need 500W when they really don't. kind of like audio amp ratings, it depends on how clean and consistent the power is, not always how much ther is. many, many, many moons ago (16yrs) i was really into car audio and when i bought my car amp, i chose at that time a power 300 which was a rockford fosgate amp (before they went mainstream and you had to go to serious stereo shops to get them) and paid $1000 for it. my system consisted of 1 18"Cerwin Vega in a huge ported box made out of 3/4" MDF and then a pair of either 5 1/4" or 6 1/2" and 1" tweeters, either mbquart or jbl, with the back channels combined together and then front two in stereo and that system, although was rated at only 300W would kill many other systems that had "1000W" amps in both volume and sound quality. i guess this rant is about about quality and not quantity. i am sure enermax and ocz make good p/s, but being the cheap bastard that i am i am not going to pay $100 for a p/s when i could get a p/s and a nice case too.

could you point me in the direction of some of those test so i can read them?