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Hello, I'm Dylan. Just to let you know (for future reference) I'm a 13 year old Canadian.
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Message edited by Myhand on 05-29-2008 at 03:14:14 AM |
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Motherboard: The one you linked doesn't look like a very good motherboard. In fact i'm leaning towards crap. For a similar price i'd suggest an ASUS P5K.
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I wouldn't touch a GTS 640 atm. They're reasonably powerful cards, but you'd be much better off with a GTS 512 or a GT. Also, as Lucuis said, I hear the 9600 is a good card. I've never heard of that monitor, so I don't know, but a solid choice in that department would be a Samsung 226BW. In fact, I'd go with a 226CW so you don't take any risks about the panel. I also hear the HP W2207 is excellent, if you don't mind the screen being glossy. That case uses 80mm fans, and like Lucuis mentioned, they won't shift a whole lot of air and will be very whiny. The Antec 900 is a solid choice in terms of airflow, but not the quietest case. My dad uses one of these and it's virtually silent, and appears to have good airflow due to a nice, spacious design and huge fans, although if you go for that you'd be restricted to a micro ATX mobo. Also I'd recommend an aftermarket CPU cooler - they can be a right bitch to fit after the system's put together, often necessitating complete removal of the mobo to fit a backplate (you may very well want to overclock later on, even if you don't want to now). I'm currently using a Tuniq Tower 120, which is generally considered to be a very good heatsink, and if you've got decent airflow and you choose not to overclock, you can run it with the fan off and it will still probably cool better than the stock cooler. If you don't want to spend that kind of money or you can't fit a Tuniq Tower in your case, I hear the Arctic Freezer 7 is decent. That optical drive looks like it should be fine, but perhaps a bit pricey (I'm not too familiar with prices in USD, so it might be standard). RAM I don't know much about. I'm currently using this, and it's OK, I hear it can be pushed up to around 950MHz, although mine is currently running at 864MHz (I'm now tightening timings My 2 pence Message edited by Demonic Goldfish on 05-26-2008 at 04:09:38 PM |
). I do know that my mate uses 
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