Witchfire

Well, almost....

Just starting the build. I made an attempt at re-routing some of the wiring, and will continue to do so, but I'm not counting on a perfect wiring job.








I don't have the HDDs yet. Just ordered a pair of 320GB Seagate perpendicular SATA drives I plan to run in RAID 0.

I'm running the X1900GT with the stock cooler on it for the time being, but I'll most likely get a Swiftech MCW60-B and some good ramsinks for it real soon. Either way, it should do me just fine until R600 shows it's head to the public.

Here are the full specs:

Intel E6600 Conroe
Crucial 2x1GB PC2-6400 (using Micron Fat Body chips)
GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3 mobo
Creative X-Fi Platinum
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 PSU
HIS X1900GT Rev. 2
2x Seagate 320GB 16MB cache SATA 3.0Gb HDDs in RAID 0 (C:/ drive)
2x Western Digital WD2500KS SATA 3.0Gb HDDs (individual storage)
1x Hitachi 250GB ATA100 HDD (storage)
My Cooler Master AMMO 533 with custom w/c setup
NEC ND-3550A DVD Burner


I know I'll end up getting the DFI RD600 mobo when it becomes more available (and after DFI works out the wrinkles they're famous for having in new release boards! )

After that, I see R600 Crossfire in my future.

Any thoughts, people?

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ThaWaxShop

Hmmm that mobo looks familiar What Week did you get? (C2D)

Witchfire

I have no clue... Lemme pull the CPU block & take a pic. Then you can tell me what the hell I got!

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ThaWaxShop

itll be on the side of the box

Syrillian

Mmmmmm... that's nice.

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Custom Cases:
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Case Mods:
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Semper Fidelis

Witchfire

No box, I bought it as an OEM

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legoman786

Yay! Hooray for money!

Too bad I aint got any

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ThaWaxShop

Week 28 should be a nice overclocker

Witchfire

I've been gathering parts for this rig for almost three months now, only buying what I could get great deals on. The only thing I couldn't get a great price on was the PSU, and it's already a monster for what you pay.

CPU: $275
RAM: $188
mobo: $80
PSU:$199
X-Fi:$36 (gotta love eBay)
HDDs: $190
775 kit for TDX:$16

The rest of the hardware I've had for a while. Not a bad upgrade for $984, I think.

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Witchfire

Waxy, thanks for the info.

Is there anywhere I can look that will give me some info on how to decipher Intels coding system? I barely understood AMD's, and I know jack & squat about Intel. This is my first ever Intel build.

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