Tek-Almighty September 13, 2007 Share Tek-Almighty Member September 13, 2007 Just keep in mind that the quads run hotter than the dual cores. Your room will be warmer and you will NEED better cooling in your case. And I should be fine with my CM stacker. 4 x 120 fans in/out and 2 x 80 in/out. I just saw a E6750 for $199....mmmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 13, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 13, 2007 6750 at $294 shipped.... http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=CA1938254 Anyhoo, as I start the rebate process for the memory, I notice that although the product code is correct, the precise UPC code does not match what the rebate wants. Wonderful. This will be a joy to clear up. -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 17, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 17, 2007 Getting down to the wire and time for the big dime to drop. Quad at $280 shipped now, but gonna go 6750 and use the "savings" for the vid card which I still am not happy spending money for. WD HD 500b just pinched at $106 shipped. This is at Fry's right now and if you are in the states that do not charge tax, $100 with free shipping isn't bad at all... Damn system is coming in at a $1000, and I was really trying to get it in the ball park of $800. Video card is teh suck and that's really all there is to it. -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek-Almighty September 18, 2007 Share Tek-Almighty Member September 18, 2007 Looks good, you bargain hunter. Where'd you score the quad core 6600? Did you buy vid card yet? I have decided to get the mobo, ram, and cpu first...then do vid card last. I'm luck cuz I get used same case and power supply. I guess I will wait til launch of NVidia 9000 series, and hopefully catch a deal on prices. I've never had a top shelf vid card in my rig, always one step down... Upon further checking in the evga exchange program. They give you current market cost for your old card (90 days) towards current market (read: "their retail") cost of new card. So If I buy 8800GTX for $500...and in 1 month, 9000 series ships and prices drop on 8800GTX to say $350. Then they will give me $350 towards cost of the new $550 card. Heh...that means that I get to pay $750 for the new top of the line card. ON...second thought...maybe I won't do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwack September 18, 2007 Share bushwack Member September 18, 2007 Damn system is coming in at a $1000, and I was really trying to get it in the ball park of $800. Video card is teh suck and that's really all there is to it. -Fk A grand isn't all that bad considering what your getting. You could hit the 800 dollar mark no probs, jet get a 8500 GT. $100 for a 500gig drive? Wow seemes I spent that much on a 250gig not so long ago...hmmm guess its nearly been 2 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 18, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 18, 2007 No quad bought for me Tek but if you are looking for that price, ClubIt and ZipZoomFly are the low guys on that one right now (ClubIt promises G0 step, ZZZ says nothing) $194 shipped for the 6750 - yeah, $85 for two more cores but on this one I think I'll save the dime and upgrade if needed in a year. I'll pick up some money "back" moving some of the old systems I've got around here right now but still - yeah. Feel slightly better about missing the Dell deal on the 8800gts - that one would have been at 500mhz, couple places have the MSI OC version at 576mhz for $350 after rebate - that's worth $30. -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler September 18, 2007 Share boiler Member September 18, 2007 I would strongly encourage you to go evga for your graphics card when you get to that point. their price/performance is one of the best available, and the lifetime warranty and support are top notch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 18, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 18, 2007 Sorry, went with the MSI OC'd version - saves about $30 over the Evga version. Frankly, I won't be doing the upgrade thing in the next 90 days, and although the lifetime warranty is nice, the stock warranty will cover it for as long as I realistically have it. What is nice about these OC versions of the 8800gts is how remarkably close they get to 800gtx speeds. Final kit was: Intel 6750 Dual core Samsung SATA/Lightscribe dvd burner, etc. MCI 8800gts 640 meg, 575(?)mhz vid I'll drop the pictures and the price break out in the main thread later. Came to around $612 or something all told. Shipping blew chunks all around. No one seemed to have the dvd burners for less than $35, either $30 plus five shipping, or $35 free shipping elsewhere. Same thing with the vid card, either one or the other so that the price was the same free shipping or otherwise. So from the required $12-ish shipping I dropped another $10 to make sure it gets here by Friday. Overall I did ok I think. I might have been able to squeze another $10 off the HD if I was more patient, maybe another $20 to $30 on these last three parts with same patience, and the extra $10 for 3 day didn't have to be spent. Solid on cost but not great. $900 would have been great. Less then that and I'd be gloating. Now to see how the build out goes and what the benchmarks come in at. Hello weekend project. -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaM2 September 18, 2007 Share akaM2 Member September 18, 2007 gl flitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 19, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 19, 2007 Finally got the ship confirm - should be here Friday. I suspect I'll need beer - I should buy some... -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwack September 19, 2007 Share bushwack Member September 19, 2007 New hardware and beer go great together. Just don't start drinking till you open up the first box. Also I can't remember the last time I did a fresh O/S install without a cold one...or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 20, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 20, 2007 Time for the beer run - everything arrived 10 minutes ago (and a day earlier than indicated via tracking) -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly September 20, 2007 Share dragonfly Member September 20, 2007 Everyone knows the tracking personnel are liars. Have fun with the build! I'm actually a little jealous - I dont really want the new parts, but it's fun to put together. Maybe I should go play tetris... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 21, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 21, 2007 Started at 11pm, done for the nite at 215am and will pick up in the morning. 1) Saving those bread twist ties and using them for cable management = good idea (if one does not have velcro or real plastic secure ties) 2) Antec 900 case may not have a removable MB tray but everything else is top notch. 3) Spot the most important item on my desk... First power up after Noon tomorrow hopefully... -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler September 21, 2007 Share boiler Member September 21, 2007 The beer is clearly the most important item on that desk from what I can see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly September 21, 2007 Share dragonfly Member September 21, 2007 Looks good man! What OS are you gonna install? I think the most important item on the desk is the pci slot cover sitting by your laptop's mouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohawk September 21, 2007 Share mohawk Member September 21, 2007 very informative thread. I'm looking at the exact case and psu, but haven't seen prices that low, not on newegg.. how often do they fluctuate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 21, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 21, 2007 The case was nailed on sale, plus rebate, *plus* $10 paypal coupon. So the case was probably the steal of this build. The powersupply being a close second. First boot and all is well, no smoke (ahh the memories of my first AthlonXP build...). Each of the fans on the Antec 900 have little switches for lo-med-hi settings. The case, with all those fans on low, is for all practical intents and purposes, whisper quiet. Even one fan on medium and you will hear it though. Seems the stock Intel fan under no load keeps the chip in this case with fans on low right at about 37c, case at 39c. Put another way, the spinning dvd installing the op system right now is the loudest component. I got pics I'll throw up here as I get this thing up to spec. For fun, I'm going Vista Ultimate - we'll see how long I can stand it. 500 gig drive partitioned out into three more or less equal 160gig partitions. FWIW, Vista install on a fresh system is a couple clicks and done. The bar says I'm 2/3 done. -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclean September 21, 2007 Share Unclean Member September 21, 2007 Hey Filter -- do you get any kind of educational discounts on software like Vista? I noticed you didn't list it in your pricing above. How much did that run ya? And post up when you're seeing some action on your new compy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 21, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 21, 2007 Vista Ultimate = $20 bucks XP SP2 = $10 I picked up both. Bushwack pointed out that the original XP probably did not support SATA out of the box so I upgraded my disc media for the hell of it. Vid Card drivers just finished, now for the hell of it and to possibly cause problems, lets do the Gigabyte drivers. The Vista disc is a May 2007 build and I have not connected to the internet yet for updates - one step at a time... I'll need new drivers on the vid card as well. You'll love the before and after Windows experience rating re: no vid card drivers vs. vid card drivers -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclean September 21, 2007 Share Unclean Member September 21, 2007 Vista Ultimate = $20 bucks XP SP2 = $10 I picked up both. Bushwack pointed out that the original XP probably did not support SATA out of the box so I upgraded my disc media for the hell of it. Vid Card drivers just finished, now for the hell of it and to possibly cause problems, lets do the Gigabyte drivers. The Vista disc is a May 2007 build and I have not connected to the internet yet for updates - one step at a time... I'll need new drivers on the vid card as well. You'll love the before and after Windows experience rating re: no vid card drivers vs. vid card drivers -Fk Awesome prices! And I say you rock that computer @ 640x480, 256 colors. Who needs fancy colors and lots of pixels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZesteR September 21, 2007 Share ZesteR Member September 21, 2007 Nice job on not regretting ur buys yet still getting recent updated hardware! also, i'm still waiting for this thread to turn into two pages... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 21, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 21, 2007 Puttering for the last hour or two to avoid the inevitable - the moving of all the old stuff off the IDE drives and software reinstalls. Lots of room for tweaking but I'm going to do the pcmark (and maybe the 3dmark) runs before hand to get a baseline. Memory is currently at 5-5-5-15, I should be able to get 4's out of it. Handy Util: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php PCMARK05 = 7665 (stock settings) -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill September 22, 2007 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member September 22, 2007 3DMARK06 = 9066 (stock settings), mid 30's to low 40's for frame rates (except for the cpu nonsense) Time to get to work now... Scratch that, Vista Nvidia hotfixes plus latest beta Nvidia Geforce drivers, then another run at 3DMARK06. Huzzah! 9167 with the newer drivers. -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclean September 22, 2007 Share Unclean Member September 22, 2007 This thread is the work of satan himself. I think you're making everyone want to upgrade, FK. Must... not... drop $1400! A score of 9167 is just madness... nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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