So... I was f'ing around at work today

BeerCheeze

Nice use of company time... but I went to NewEgg to build my "I won the lottery" system. Here's what I came up with.

Mother Board: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail - $164.00

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Toledo 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4800CDBOX - Retail - $890.99

RAM: 2x - CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model Twinx2048-3200c2pt - Retail - $602.00

Video: 2x - XFX PVT70FUNDE Geforce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail + Battlefield 2 PC Game EA (Combo) - $1108 Yikes

HDD:
* RAID 0 System (C: ) Drive: 2x Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM - $366.00

* RAID 1 Storage (D: ) Drive 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3400832AS 400GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive with NCQ - OEM - $530.00

DVD: PLEXTOR Black IDE DVD Burner Model PX-716AL/SW - Retail - $143.99

Sound: CREATIVE Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro 70SB036000000 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail - $212.00

PSU: PC Power & Cooling 850 SSI SLI, EPS12V, SSI 850W Power Supply - Retail - $420.00 (would you have expected something else from me??)

Case: Thermaltake SHARK VA7000BWA Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail - $159.00 (Not 100% sure on this one... but it looked nice)

Mouse & KB: Logitech Cordless Desktop MX3100 967513-0403 2-Tone PS/2 RF Wireless Standard Keyboard Mouse Included - Retail - $98.00

Speakers: CREATIVE GigaWorks S750 700 Watts 7.1 Speaker - Retail - $429.99

Monitor: 2x - NEC LCD1970GX-BK Black 19" 8ms LCD Monitor - Retail - $1,039.98 Yikes

Shipping: $67.93 (F'ers should just ship for free)

Grand Total: $6,231.88 Yikes

So what would you build/buy if money was no option? (No freak'n cray super computers here... try to keep it "plausible")

And any suggestions to this rig?

FOX · Posted: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:09:46 Post Subject:

only 2 gig'o ram?? you getting weak or holding out?? lol... thats soooo damned expensive

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:12:21 Post Subject:

No, it's 4GB (2 x 2x1GB). Come on man... read, read... Laughing

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Money is not option? I'd go with borderless 21" LCD's Smile

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:32:11 Post Subject:

I was looking into bigger LCD's but I wanted the low response time. That monitor has a 8ms (Grey to Grey I presume) response time, Brightness of 400 and a Contrast Ratio of 700:1. So all in all it would make a good monitor for gaming. Going up to a 20" or 21" you lose too much spec's for the gain of only a couple of inches.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Well check out Apple's LCD's, those are some NICE monitors Smile

Even for the 19" I'd go for Borderless LCD's, I'm assuming you'd be putting them side by side, which is what I would be doing Smile

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:50:12 Post Subject:

I want a bigger badder case in your setup... An d the price gets a good bump, too...

http://bigbruin.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=3024201/search=Lian+Li

I really do like these, and have tried for a review sample... (ni dice).

EDIT: better pics at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811112074

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

If you got a DFI mobo, you could get pc4000 from OCZ and overclock the shiznit out of it with that 4800 cpu. You could turn it in to a 5200+ cpu with a minimal amount of work and go with 2t on the ram.

renovation · Posted: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:51:33 Post Subject:

Dr. EvilCheeze stop dreaming and order the system up and have it billed and built on the company time Smile

you just dont have the big kabonas we all thought you had do we Smile

Evil_spork · Rated R Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 65

1. never buy plextor. 3 times the price for a very crappy drive.
2. DFI > asus nf4 mobo. hands down.
3. well i forgot what it was but try 4 gigs of ram to start Wink