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First DIY comp, need help in selections Razgriz 12-27-05
Posted by Razgriz on December 27, 2005, 2:32 pm
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I want to build a system around a Thermaltake Armor case and Ati
x1800xt vid
card. Watercooling is definately an option, and I would
like at least 500-800
GB of hard drive space and 2 Gb DDR2 RAM.
I'll be sticking with an Intel
Pentium 4 3.2Ghz as my processor. The
hard drives and RAM arent a problem, I
have lots of research into
those, but a new motherboard is an issue with me as I
have no
knowledge about these. Any ideas?


Posted by Conor on December 27, 2005, 3:32 pm
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says...
> I want to build a system around a Thermaltake Armor case and Ati
> x1800xt vid card. Watercooling is definately an option, and I would
> like at least 500-800 GB of hard drive space and 2 Gb DDR2 RAM.
> I'll be sticking with an Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz as my processor. The
> hard drives and RAM arent a problem, I have lots of research into
> those, but a new motherboard is an issue with me as I have no
> knowledge about these. Any ideas?
>
If it is your first build, stick clear of water cooling. Just use a
decent copper heatsink instead of the crap Intel one.

--
Conor

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After all, if they hadn't funded the IRA for 30 years, we wouldn't know
what terror was.

Posted by Razgriz on December 28, 2005, 8:31 am
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Yeah, probably go with watercooling instead of air cooling, so I wont
have to
worry about the heat as much. But I need a motherboard that
can run Intel and
has at least 2 PCI-EX 16 slots.


Posted by on December 29, 2005, 12:43 pm
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I am kind of playing around with the same ideas. I found an ASUS
Motherboard that looks promising try googling P5N32-SLI or P5ND2-SLI.


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