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Damn you guys are convincing. How do I create this bundle on Newegg - any special technique - do they have a bundle section?

 

hehe rich, i have a speciality for builds:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17883751

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17899307

i have a nack for getting components into tight budgets

its the only thing im good at

as for 3dmark, i dont know becuase i play games not 3damrk LOOL

go one chooose it, you know u want to, and infact with the rebates, get an artic cooler freeze 7 pro, and OC the nutts of that proccessor, reach 333 on the FSB due to the RAM, which timesd by 12.5 (multi) = OVER 4GHz, realistically with the cooelr/proccessor your looking at a minimum of 3.3GHz, and who knows the maximum

 

Hey, just find the individual parts from newegg and keep on adding to cart.

I've bought like 20 thousand dollars worth of stuff from there ahha.

 

just search in the search box for each item.


(remember you will be building it your self)

the retail thread is this:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/672592

 

So when you get on Newegg, you just start building the list?? and all of a sudden they say "Hooray, you've got a bundle going - so we're going to throw in your favorite game, blah blah." Is that how it works? I'm going to go over there right now and build out my "shaff slick mofo" wishlist right now.

$20,000 - booze you BIG SPENDER!! hahahaha!

Sam, you just HAD to push me over the edge like that "DO IT" But of course you got me with the 8,000 to 10,000!!! NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!! LOL

 

the game is added one automatically with the GPU just add the GPU and you will see the game auto added. IICR MSI and ubisoft colaborated on a deal with every MSI card gets vegas with it.

 

Ok thanks!! Hey that ***Spec Me*** thread looks good. So a guy like me puts what I want, and approximate price, and guys like you will suggest the parts? Wow!!

(The bargain thread looks good too!)

 

Sorry for the double:
Hey, I don't need the PSU - right?? That looks like a great deal at $30, but it's 17 amps on the 12 volt rail, and I have 20 amps right now. My 'green' case which is getting the x850xtpe has an allied 350 with only 15 amps on the 12 volt rail, which might be a little bit thin for that gfx card, but what's the point of changing out my gaming rig psu. That drops the build price to only $277!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, the penalty for living in Cali - where Newegg is - almost 8% sales tax!! Oh well, paradise for 8%? I guess it's worth it lol.

 

but that PSU is brilliant, AND is over 80percent efficient.

its not just about the amount of rails on a PSU but how "clean" the rails are, and if under load their ripple is minimal aswell.

just because a PSU states their amperage at 30As doesnt mean you will get the full 30, maybe at 20As the thing will give up, do to the 30A being a theoretical maximum not continuous value.

yep about the spec me, i opened one up on aD aswell

 

Allright then - I have the shaff slick mofo wish list filled out - $277 plus 25 for tax, and 12 for shipping, minus 25 in rebates - about 290!! Hahahahaha.

Most of the reviews are mentioning an FSB cap at 415 preventing max overclocking - but I'll let you guys help me later with that, and I might add a better cpu cooler.

Speaking about that - if I add that arctic cooler you were talking about shaff, what's the part number and price on that?

 

your multi is 12.5

an FSB of 415 means 12.5 x 415 = 5178.5 MHZ

thats over 5GHz, so mate, your more than fine

here what i am talking about for the cooler, get this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134

OR if you feel its to much then this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134R

also id recomend these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835154003

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100010

 

You can find some pretty good deals if you look for used stuff.

Asus P5Q for 75 bucks. Cost 140 dollars new.

http://www.overclock.net/sale/395758-cheap-asus-p5q-sony-psp.html

E6750 for 85. Prefer it over the E5200.

http://www.overclock.net/sale/398397-e6750-ip35-pro-g-skill-2x2gb.html

 

Well Boozer, Shaff put together such a great budget list for me that Sam says will bust 8000 3dmarks - I guess I'll just go with new stuff for now, since I basically don't know what I'm doing unless shaff says different...

Shaff, should I just stick with the build you've put together or get some of this used stuff boozer just brought up? (Leave it to boozer to start complicating things lol)

Regarding the hsf - one with 3 pipes is $27, the other is $12. I'll just get the better one I guess.

Regarding the extras, I already own a little bottle of Artic Silver 5 so I don't need the Tuniq paste, right? And I don't have the arctic cleaning stuff - but I'm not going to have to clean any paste off a brand new cpu, am I, or am I wrong about that?

By the way, I remember estuansis talking about using a piece of glass to make sure his sandpaper was super flat when he scraped his cpu and his hsf before he put on the paste. What number sandpaper is that - like 400? Should I get a piece from a hardware store, or is that something special I should get from Frozen CPU. I DO have a small mirror about 3 x 3 inches - will that work? What's the best technique for putting on the paste - I know you don't want to overdue it - should I do a little reading? Got any nice links?

ONE MORE IN THE RECORD-BREAKING SERIES "8,000 newbie questions from the harvard noob" AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK WHERE EVER FINER BOOKS ARE SOLD lol
Thanks -Rich

 

I would buy that used stuff instead. But I have bought used stuff before so maybe thats why I'm more comfty with it. Saved about 200 bucks off my last personal build

As for cleaning the paste, you can just use rubbing alcohol. Also for apply it you just want a thin line across the cores. Look on arctic silvers website for instructions. no links, too lazy. Go google it haha.

 

8% sales tax versus 17.5% VAT. You'll live...

That PSU may only have a 17A rating, but I'm using it to power what is in effect a gaming PC that uses as much power as yours will, probably more, and I trust it to do that. I wouldn't trust either of your current units to pull that off.
For the HSF, you won't need to clean anything off a cooler unless you're removing paste off a cooler that either you've used before, or comes with its own pad already, and even so, window & glass cleaner will do almost as good a job. I just buy the proper stuff to be sure, it's hardly expensive...

 

Was at the fragsoc freshers' fair stand today, four PCs were setup playing UT3, three of them with 8800s, one with an HD4870. My god, the difference in graphical quality is night and day, the 4870 is streets ahead of the 8800s with colour accuracy...

 

Sam, because of you, and your fine eye for detail, some of us, like me! are ATI fan boys. Good for you for making those side by side comparisons and keeping nvidia honest - well not really, but keeping us informed. LOL (So with my newegg 8% sales tax - I'm still ahead versus the 17.5% VAT - yeah, I guess I'll make it.

Ok, boozer, I'll go to the arctic web site - I've read the info before. So estuansis' sandpaper is overkill? Not really needed?

Hey, regarding this P43 mobo, unless I'm mistaken it won't support my storage devices. I have 3 ATA devices, two hard drives and a dvd burner/reader. Am I gonna have to pick up a Sata hard drive and ghost my xp drive over? How much will that run me?

-Rich

 

Almost all new boards only support 2 P-ATA devices, it's just standard practice. Rather than shell out for a new S-ATA drive unnecessarily, you can just buy a cheap PCI IDE card to plug one of your ODDs into.

 

Maaaaaaan, did I miss alot
And only I email reminder (Grr)

@boozer - congrats on the new lappy

@rich - good luck with your build

@shaf - Fitting stuff into a budget can be hard, nice skill you got there

@sam (so you don't feel left out ) Have you finished GRiD, or not yet, anyone else as well for that matter

PS - I was seriously thinking of a 360 around the same time I bought my laptop, dunno why I didn't go with it

Maybe because my laptop can do more............

 

Well, that's an idea. A card like that is probably $10, right? But for the extra $40, maybe the $50 seagate is worth it - 250 gb up from my 80 - I'm running out of room for these new games.

So if I were to do that, does norton ghost care about ata versus sata - I might have to keep the FAT file system - yeah norton probably wouldn't like ntsf, but I am running FAT anyway on both drives. Have you guys ever used norton ghost for expanding hard drive size without re-installing everything again?

BTW a Sata 3.5" fits the same slots as a Pata 3.5", correct?