$8000 dollar budget

[PP Mguire]

im curious myself, and when you get the order post pics!!

 

[The General]

The verdict is in...

Processor - Athlon 64 X2 4800+

Case - Lian Li V-1000B-W Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

Memory - 4 x CORSAIR XMS 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model CMX1024-3200PRO - Retail

Harddrives - 2 x Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
2 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Video Cards - 2 x eVGA 256-P2-N525-AX Geforce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail

Sound Card - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Elite Pro 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail

Motherboard - DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

Powersupply - COOLMAX CW-650T EPS12V 650W Aluminum ATX v2.01 APFC Power Supply w/ "SLI" - Retail - Retail

Optical Drives - SONY Black IDE Combo Drive Model CRX320EE/B2S - OEM
SONY Black IDE DVD Burner Model DW-Q30A BK - OEM

Operating Systems - Debian and WinXP Pro x64

I decided to go all out ... this is what I came up with. I'm sure ya'll will disaggree with some of my choices, but screw off

I also decided that i'd go with the monitor i have .. which is the 8ms 19" L90D+ hyundia... its pretty nice ... but somewhere along the lines i think ill get a really nice projector or somethnig ... sounds like fun to me.

i wont mention the price .. you'll have to add it up yourself

 

[Flanker]

I disagree with the Sound Card. The $120 would have been just as good as the $400 one. The Elite is actually for those that do professional sound recording.

Windows XP Pro x64 won't run everything you throw at it, especially games.

What about the Speakers/Headset?

 

[The General]

im in a band ... and we havent done much recording yet ... so thats actually a good thing.


yeah i also have the x86 xp pro so ill try them both out.



still undecided about speakers/headset yet ...

 

[Sprooty]

Nice system you got there.

My additions seem to be wrong.

EDITED!

 

[The General]

maybe you didnt take into account two of each harddrive ... 4 gigs of memory and two of the video cards ...


it was like 4800 plus tax and shipping... >.<

 

[PZEROFGH]

4800 isnt a lot...

 

[Ste]

The verdict is in...

Processor - Athlon 64 X2 4800+

Case - Lian Li V-1000B-W Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

Memory - 4 x CORSAIR XMS 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model CMX1024-3200PRO - Retail

Harddrives - 2 x Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
2 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Video Cards - 2 x eVGA 256-P2-N525-AX Geforce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail

Sound Card - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Elite Pro 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail

Motherboard - DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

Powersupply - COOLMAX CW-650T EPS12V 650W Aluminum ATX v2.01 APFC Power Supply w/ "SLI" - Retail - Retail

Optical Drives - SONY Black IDE Combo Drive Model CRX320EE/B2S - OEM
SONY Black IDE DVD Burner Model DW-Q30A BK - OEM

Operating Systems - Debian and WinXP Pro x64

I decided to go all out ... this is what I came up with. I'm sure ya'll will disaggree with some of my choices, but screw off

I also decided that i'd go with the monitor i have .. which is the 8ms 19" L90D+ hyundia... its pretty nice ... but somewhere along the lines i think ill get a really nice projector or somethnig ... sounds like fun to me.

i wont mention the price .. you'll have to add it up yourself

Don't need 4 gigs of RAM, 2 is quite adequet.

That sound card blows for the money, I posted a better one earlier.

Coolmax power supplies suck. with the money he had, he can go OCZ, PC power and cooling or an Antec one, all of which are light years better then coolmax.

Plextor Drivers perform better and last longer then sony, For this amount of money he can go plextor.

 

[PZEROFGH]

get 4GB and just put 2GB in and later on put 4GB lol.

 

[Sport1031]

For RAM get 4 x OCZ Gold 4000 VX or 4 x Mushkin Redline XP4000.

For the sound card get Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality FPS.

Get a PC Power & Cooling PSU.