The problem is the more you talk about it and the more you ask it gets more complicated
I know! That's my problem. I could have settled on parts awhile ago but I need to know everything! lol And I'm always worried that I missed something and that there's something better and cheaper out there.
You need to accept it right now that there is ALWAYS going to be something better and cheaper tommorrow. Judge your purchase on how it performs for you and your needs, not on price or what else is out there. The fact is THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS IF YOUR HAPPY WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR PURCHASE.
You need to accept it right now that there is ALWAYS going to be something better and cheaper tommorrow. Judge your purchase on how it performs for you and your needs, not on price or what else is out there. The fact is THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS IF YOUR HAPPY WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR PURCHASE.
Yes I know, I just want to be happy and content with what I get. And with that said, should I stick with the evga 780i, or go with the evga 750i? Which is the more rock solid trouble free mobo? That's my biggest concern right now, and really the only thing holding me up from making my purchases tomorrow. Well that and I don't know what heat sink to get for the processor ??
its a real nice rig dont get me wrong but, imo, if it were me if im spending over a grand im going to shell out a couple hundred bucks more for the newer stuff which will last longer. just my opinion though
Read the column and listen to everything Broadwayblue is saying, he's 100% right on....and this is coming from a 10 year IT professional with a degree in computer science.
If you're not overclocking, stop buying into the hobbyist crap. Buy solid, buy reliable and buy the best you can afford at the time you're building.
Nice rig, then again im not much of a gamer and would rathe rput money into storage and RAM then a videocard thats outdated in 3 months (and manages to suck up half your PSUs power).
Personally, I never saw the point of overclocking outside of the old school celeron OCing (am I showing my age yet?). Instead of investing all the time to squeeze andother 100 mhz or 7 FPS in a game id rather just buy the more powerful stuff and run it stock. I guess things have changed sinc ebecoming a sysdmin since now, my time is money (And I switched to a Mac *runs and hides* ).
People obsess over CPU steppings, High power fans and super huge cooling setup. which was fun when I was 16, now, not so much.
Personally, I never saw the point of overclocking outside of the old school celeron OCing (am I showing my age yet?). Instead of investing all the time to squeeze andother 100 mhz or 7 FPS in a game id rather just buy the more powerful stuff and run it stock. I guess things have changed sinc ebecoming a sysdmin since now, my time is money (And I switched to a Mac *runs and hides* ).
People obsess over CPU steppings, High power fans and super huge cooling setup. which was fun when I was 16, now, not so much.
You know, my fascination with Rangers blue is leading me to do all this because of the blue led lights everywhere! lol jk. I think for the most part, I am getting the most bang for my quid. Could I do better, of course. And yes, I take everyone's postings here into consideration. I am not blind to what other people tell me.
You know, my fascination with Rangers blue is leading me to do all this because of the blue led lights everywhere! lol jk. I think for the most part, I am getting the most bang for my quid. Could I do better, of course. And yes, I take everyone's postings here into consideration. I am not blind to what other people tell me.
Hahaha, yeah man, no worries, sorry for the offtopic rant. Looks like a great rig!
OH blue LEDs, if its in your room, prepare to never get any sleep
Microcenter has some of the parts cheaper, but they aren't in stock. Damn it.
skrew it. ordering form newegg now.
Strange, newegg is uaully cheaper. Ive never been anything but happy with NewEgg (and its really nice tha tthey have a warehouse in NJ so you get you parts pretty quick if youre in the tri state area).
Wow! My package arrived at my doorstep in LESS than 24 hours, after just paying for standard shipping. I wonder if the items could have been shipped an faster if I had paid $50 for top of the line shipping! All 7 items came in 1 box with a lot of peanuts. The OEM dvd burner and HD were bubble wrapped together.
You'll be fine, dude. It's gonna kick ass... I just reinstalled Windows and it feels like my computer shed its shackles... it's running incredibly fast. Yours is gonna be even faster, though... I got a Dell XPS 700, 2 gigs 667 DDR2 RAM, 320 GB HD, Intel E6600 dual core 2.4, and an ATI 1900XTX 512 MB video card... it is flying through Win XP right now. Hope you have XP and not Vista...
You'll be fine, dude. It's gonna kick ass... I just reinstalled Windows and it feels like my computer shed its shackles... it's running incredibly fast. Yours is gonna be even faster, though... I got a Dell XPS 700, 2 gigs 667 DDR2 RAM, 320 GB HD, Intel E6600 dual core 2.4, and an ATI 1900XTX 512 MB video card... it is flying through Win XP right now. Hope you have XP and not Vista...
Yea I went with XP Pro 32 bit. Not going to Vista untill it becomes as stable and as well supported as windows 98 !
I wanted to go try xp pro 64 bit, but I heard lots of problems with software prevented any true enjoyment.
Yea I went with XP Pro 32 bit. Not going to Vista untill it becomes as stable and as well supported as windows 98 !
I wanted to go try xp pro 64 bit, but I heard lots of problems with software prevented any true enjoyment.
Pretty big mistake, vista runs 10x better than XP. The problems you hear are people who drop vista on their 3 year old pile of crap computers and then are mad because it doesn't work too well.
It's pretty much picky with any hardware older than 2 years that is it's biggest flaw, but on a new system it's great. It's amazing how many people get fooled by the cool dude mac guy talking **** about the PC on those commercials.
edit: oh and the other killer was mostly the comp manufacturer's fault of putting vista on all their desktops and laptops that came with 1gig of ram. You might as well go run win 3.x before you run vista with 1gig of ram.
You are going to tweak the rig to death. 
