thursday4life
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Nice build hah, I think I'd rather have the terabyte and a half of space than the better proformance of the raptors. I was worried about space in the case as the 8800 is so huge but im guessing there is enough space for the sound card? Im going to use the Tuniq120.LOL your build is really amusing because it is VERY similar to my build, except for the fact you got some expensive mobo I dont know about and an unnecessary 2nd WD Raptor ( unless you want to RAID 0 em for a ridiculous unecessary amount of performance ). I disagree with B1gapl, although the WD 750 gig is a good choice, its not as fast as a raptor...close...but then again so is the seagate 80 gig 7200.10 everyones raving about. I got one of those for storage of my media/music and just 1 WD 150 gig at 165 after MIR for games/OS.
I'm also having the same problems deciding what OS to use, right now Im using xp but when I eventually go to vista for dx10 the 64 bit performs better in some applications but has less compatability. If your going to dish out around 2k for a system like me, GET a sound card. The best deal is the Xi-Fi Xtreme gamer for 50 bucks after MIR at circuit city ( think this amazing deal ended now its like 80 ). The Xtreme music series has severely lacking capability in comparison to the Xtreme gamer and I heard their just rebadged Audigy 2s or something. No mobo sound can ever compare to a sound card, trust me I've heard both and there is a HUGE differance, especially for games/music.
Also uh what HSF are u going to use?
Is there any reason you decided on G.Skill DDR 800 PC6400 HZ Ram over the ballistix everyone is recommending? Why did you choose Gigabyte P-35 DS3R over the Asus P5K? I read reviews on both of them I think the Asus is better but I could be wrong. What thermal paste should I get for my Q6600?
Crysis really does look amazing, i'm really tempted just to get vista just to play it lol.