I made a budget of about $1200 on a new computer, I got about 3/4 of it now and I am still waiting for Intel Conroe to drop in at Newegg.com for better deals than any other online store that you can pre order. Here are the specs so far:
Case: Antec Performance I P180B Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel for durability through the majority of chassis 1.0mm cold rolled steel around the 4 x HDD area ATX Mid Tower Computer Case – Link to Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129017
Opt. Drive: SAMSUNG Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-R 32X CD-RW 52X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE Combo Drive – Link to Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827151086
HDD's: Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive – Link to Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144122 | Then I'm going to use my 120gb data hdd that I have now in this PC and putting it into my new one.
Video Card: XFX PV-T73G-UDD3 Geforce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card – Link to Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150140
Floppy Drive: SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Model MPF920 Black – Link to Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16821103116
Processor: : Intel Conroe E6600 2.40GHz 4MB L2 1066MHz FSB 65W | I'm still waiting on Newegg to get the processor which will be around $280 - $350.
Motherboard: Don't know yet, still awaiting to find out which will be best and most compatible with the Processor.
Memory / RAM: Don't know yet either, awaiting to see which will be best for the Mobo and which will be stable for overclocking.
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I am going to overclock my processor to about 3.0GHz because I don't want to fry any thing just yet. I'd eventually try to get it to 4.0GHz and add a fan onto my heatsink to run cooler. Any suggestions so far?
Case: Antec Performance I P180B Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel for durability through the majority of chassis 1.0mm cold rolled steel around the 4 x HDD area ATX Mid Tower Computer Case – Link to Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129017
Opt. Drive: SAMSUNG Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-R 32X CD-RW 52X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE Combo Drive – Link to Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827151086
HDD's: Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive – Link to Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144122 | Then I'm going to use my 120gb data hdd that I have now in this PC and putting it into my new one.
Video Card: XFX PV-T73G-UDD3 Geforce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card – Link to Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150140
Floppy Drive: SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Model MPF920 Black – Link to Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16821103116
Processor: : Intel Conroe E6600 2.40GHz 4MB L2 1066MHz FSB 65W | I'm still waiting on Newegg to get the processor which will be around $280 - $350.
Motherboard: Don't know yet, still awaiting to find out which will be best and most compatible with the Processor.
Memory / RAM: Don't know yet either, awaiting to see which will be best for the Mobo and which will be stable for overclocking.
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I am going to overclock my processor to about 3.0GHz because I don't want to fry any thing just yet. I'd eventually try to get it to 4.0GHz and add a fan onto my heatsink to run cooler. Any suggestions so far?