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    New PC Specs...

    I havent had a personal PC in well over a year, this is the system ive built in my head thus far....and advice to mods I should make too it would be appreciated...


    MOBO: Gigabyte GA-k8nxp-sli nforce4 SLI/SATA/1394b/PCiE
    CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 512k 939-Pin
    RAM: 1024mbDDR pc3200 400PC (2x 512)
    VID: PNY VCG6600GXPB Geforce 6600GT 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
    HD: Western Digital Caviar 75gig 10000rpm Raptor
    CD: SONY DVD-RW
    MON: ViewSonic E90B Black 19" CRT

    Lil under 1100 so far..which is where I want to keep it...


    Thanks in advance...


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    You may want to ensure that your memory's got a little bit of overhead in terms of clockspeed. Not sure how comfortable you are with overclocking or if you're even interested, but it's a great way to get a pretty decent bump in performance for little to no effort. Because the multiplier is locked on the high side, you have to overclock the FSB and memory as well as the CPU. A 10% bump is pretty much guaranteed, at the least.

    Or you may want to get a 3200, if the extra few dozen bucks will fit into your budget.

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    HD: Western Digital Caviar 75gig 10000rpm Raptor <-noisy if you care Fen

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fenudwin

    HD: Western Digital Caviar 75gig 10000rpm Raptor <-noisy if you care Fen
    I've had a few 10000rpm drives in my time, and the noise and lower lifespan are really not worth the minimal performance boost and increased price.

    Do yourself a favor, and spend $30 less for a 300gig 7200rpm drive. You'll thank yourself later by having 4x the space for a drive that is more reliable.
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    Agreed, and look for one with NCQ (native command queing), same price & a bit faster performance.

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    Looking to build myself a WoW comp for raiding, because HardPuppet isn't gonna handle it.

    I'd like to spend no more than $750 bucks, but it only has to be able to install WoW and run it for raids. If you have any ideas as far as parts, please, feel free to make comments.

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    yah, I think im going to opt for a phatter HD rather than faster...

    i havent been a gamer in well over a year, the only PC game i really want to even get into is Half Life 2...havent even thought about MMORPG's.... is EQ2 or WoW any gewd? : P
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    DND-Online looks neat, any of you doing beta for that or anything?
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