The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Boy it's hard to decide when it comes to pricing parts and the quality you want and need.I did some pricing on what.I paid on
my 3 parts just got some more G.Skill today 2x2 getting ready to put the Blu Bye U Back together again with Added Features anyway.I thinks Ro we make way out better when me and get are cpu's at the Mic they seem to have that I5 $10 lower this week the same price.I paid for my E8400 a year ago or less.I'm thinking to do a 1156 build mid nexts year myself here's my figures.I came up with on my 775 build and later down the line 1156 build

my cost




1156 build





the i5 is 149.99 at the micro + Tax 6.5% = $9.75 tax = out to $159.74
out the door there's only a $19.70 different between the two builds for me plus trying to talk Newegg into some Free Shipping on the chat.I did it tonight cause.I spend over $250 dollars in parts
you gotta think prices gonna drop on some parts and the eggs free shipping and the promo deals

 

mmm, wonder who's else is? name some names Please

 

Will,
In case you don't know it, the Q9550 from MicroCenter is an SLAWQ, which is C1 stepping. That's why the cheap price! I called earlier to see if they would tell me and the guy came back with SLAWQ! The better one is the SLB8V with C0 stepping.

Russ

 

My Friend Russ Mine as you may not know Here at the Cincinnati aka Sharonville where.I live and where Micro Center is all they are selling is SLB8V are EO stepping.I just took a picture of my box



Rob Has the exactly the same one Batch Number and All ,are Micro Center Sales man sold it to us Dan Moody

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/member.php?u=23132

Your Store must be Carrying the older 1's in stock...Lol

you see the egg got this in stock now..I wonder which one gonna be the best to have?



they already talking mess about it on yahoo

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/7-Myths-About-Windows-usnews-661053706.html?x=0&.v=1

 

bigwill68,
I'll wait on win 7 until all the bugs are known and removed! I haven't stood in line for an OS since Win 95! LOL!! I was so disappointed when I got it home, as it was nothing like the Beta version I had been using for 6 months! Hated Win 95! I'm happy with both 32 and 64 bit XP-Pro, and it will be around until 2014! I doubt that I will be! LOL!!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Actually most of the bugs with Windows 7 are non existent. 90% of the R+D and bugfixes were done through Windows Vista. 7 is relatively bug free as far as new releases go. Much better than XP ever was at release. So far it has worked with everything, including actually working with my sound card; Something Vista refused to do even on different versions and with the new SP2. I'd say make the jump now. No need to be afraid of change here, the final product is instantly familiar and so much sleeker. It takes much better advantage of your hardware than XP 32 or 64. And for stuff that normally doesn't work, try the XP Mode VM or one of several compatibility modes.

I am 99% happy with 7 right now. Mostly a bug where, as Sam pointed out to me, it randomly forgets your home network settings. But not a problem here it's not a big deal to set back up.

 

Estuansis,
Nope, not yet! First I need to put a Quad in mine, then I'll think about a new OS! I'm pretty happy with 64 bit XP-Pro!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

I don't really have any "bugs" with windows 7 per se. More just irritances with certain components that aren't there and should be. The Display properties box, manually moving windows and a few other little things.
Actually Creaky, for me Windows 7 is the first OS not to have huge issues in details mode... :S

 

Try a few thousand in list view. XP would take minutes to be able to navigate around and open folders. Win7 can handle it in a couple of seconds tops, it only takes a while if you've done 'Sort by Artist'.

 

Well Fellows The Boss is almost back together new paint job on the inside and some modifications to the body added 4 barrel from the 2 barrel for a little more speed than B4 as you can see.I'm waiting on a few more Parts to come in nexts week to fire it up and put the new OS on it and Yes.I'm going IDE on my rom drives they are two of my favor drives to use old school's.I left a space open to add another TB later as you can see...



Working on wire management here



I think i'm tired and gonna lay down





Happy Building
Ya'll

 

Lol wut? No graphics card?

Looks nice and tidy in there Will, good work. Can't say the same about my PC as of yet, the wires aren't long enough to be tidied up...

 

I heard you were a little on the SHORT side. All graphics and NO cpu!!! hehehee.

 

nice and clean build there will.

 

3.4Ghz Q9550 is no CPU? I'm hurt...
Might not be the 4Ghz you guys can push for with your single PCIe slot systems, but it's rock solid, and the voltage can be brought down nicely (talking of which, I'm going to have a stab at getting that lower). It also gets me a nice full 1066mhz memory speed

 

You know I was just jacking with you. It's cpu jealousy at this point!! I'm about 1.5-2 years behind the lastest tech so in the summer sometime I'm sure that I'll get me a little Q9550.

 

A Q9550 in 2010? I think you'd be better off aiming for an i5 if I'm honest...