Old Gamer building a new rig

[nOcLuE98]

so, your saying forget about going SLI or Crossfire. I can understand that, from what Ive read you only gain around 50% by running it anyway. Maybe Ill go with the recommended Gigabyte board and try to locate a e8400. I think the 9600 is the way to go on a 1440x900 19 widescreen too.
Only worry I have is the CPU cooler, Ive read nightmares on how hard they are to get on. I believe the one I have pick comes with the thermal paste already on it, so I dont have to worry about getting to much/to little.

yeah, if you are not gonna OC far, then get teh AF7, if you are gonna OC for real, get a TRUE.

and 9600 will do just fine on that res. and a gigabyte and e8400 sounds awesome

 

[OTHG_ChefTreb]

and e8400 sounds awesome

yeah, If you could only find one,lol. maybe in a couple of weeks?

 

[nOcLuE98]

yeah, If you could only find one,lol. maybe in a couple of weeks?

there will be some soon. They cant be all gone

 

[krazyq]

or you can get the q6600 from me!!!!

 

[nOcLuE98]

true, and a evga GT from veedub for.. like 215? shipped I think

 

[OTHG_ChefTreb]

Thanks for the input, I went for the Gigabite and the E6750 being the E8400 price jumped to over $250 and is still out of stock. Also went with the Evga 9600. Anothe question I have now is, the MB has specs for memory as memory standard = DDR21066, so I got rid of the Mushkin 800 and replaced it with this Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail. keeps me right at the same price point with savings on the MoBo and vid card. smart move? or is there another brand that would be as good but less expensive, Patriot, GeIl , OCZ?

 

[veg1992]

Team Xtreeme or something like that are my new recommendation over Ballistix now, because they are 1 sided

 

[Invisible]

here's my new recommendations
Newegg.com - GeIL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

Newegg.com - Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

also not sure abou these but they look uber
Newegg.com - GeIL Evo One 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail


and vernon when you said Teem xtreme which did you mean
Newegg.com - Team Xtreem DARK 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
Newegg.com - Team Xtreem 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

 

[veg1992]

the D9 Micron ones:

Newegg.com - Team Xtreem 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

also the Evo ones look smexy!

 

[Invisible]

whoa the reviewers say they can get down to 3-3-3-7 @ 800