Building a new rig Chew* style

[chew*]

Ok so a customer of mine needs a pc quick, Since quick means i cant thoroughly test it for a week like i usually do i offered to sell him my sons rig that is tried trued and tested. Since im honest, i told him i sent some serious volts to my x1800xt and add the fact that he is a nvidia fan boy I offered to replace the card with a brand spanking New 7800GT. So now come friday its time to order my parts to replace my sons rig.

I have $1100 to play with for the new build. So here's what i came up with. Of course the vid card I'm picking up tommorow as I need to make sure it agrees with the current rig that is being picked up on friday.

motherboard Free (sapphire PI-A9RX480)
Memory Free (one of my current sets of ram)
Enermaxliberty500w $110.00
x2 3800 $300.00
7800 gt $300.00 (buying for customer swapping with my x1800xt)
DVD/RW $40.00
Floppy $10.00
Seagate 250 7200.8 $103.00
NZXT case $120.00
TTBT heatsink $60.00

Total $1043.00
Budget $1100.00

All in all I'd say thats a preety solid build and I really haven't shopped around for deals so i may be able to save a dollar or 2.

[Absolute_0]

Yeah pretty solid, but the NZXT cases, aren't those the gaudy plasticy looking ones? For 120$ you could get hooked up with Lian Li.

[WesM63]

Looks good chew.. more R@H power?

EDIT: on the nzxt cases.. they are ugly and cheap IMHO. Way to expensive for what they are.

[chew*]

Hmmm now you have me in doubt :( I thought the case looked sharp and had good ventilation. Here's the one in particular that im talking about.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811146018

And yes more cruncing power. I came to the realization that when my son games R@H production is almost non existent. Hoping that with dual core it will at least run one core for R@H while the other games. Plus even if it doesn't when its not gaming it can make up for lost time.

[One_Hertz]

they do have good ventilation... but they are really plasticy...

[nn_step]

Replace the NZXT case with a Lian Li
and Lose the Floppy...

[chew*]

hmmm i always use a floppy......I always run memtest from floppy flash from floppy etc etc.......And i edit bios files and test them via floppy. As for plastic well it cant use much more than my TT soprano. I personally dont like Lian-Li cases and I have a Kingwin case here that preety much blow's the older Lian-Li cases away however i choose not to use it as the layout is similar to Lian-Li.

[nn_step]

Or you could take that $10 and instead get a Thumb drive and you can do everything a floppy can do and more...

[[XC] DragonOrta]

how do you F6 SATA drivers during an XP install from a thumb drive?

[nn_step]

Hence I have 1 USB floppy in storage...

[Quest_7F]

nothin wrong with floppy