Last Ray of Hope

With my job near starting (This Monday), I’ve decided my PC needs a bit of an upgrade, been nearly a year since I last added something to it.

A lot of things I already have such as a great 2ms 3000:1 monitor, and G7 carbon fibre edition mouse.

So after a while of browsing the web, checking bandwidths of DDR3 over DDR2, and seeing what I could build on the Dell website, I starting playing around with ideas on the Scan website, looking for some amazing parts.

The end result in my opinion, is a Behemoth of a machine, and I was holding back to keep the cost low (Imagine 3x SLi).

Heres what I have got:

Motherboard: Asus Striker II Extreme

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9770

Memory: 4GB (2×2GB) CorsairTwinX XMS3 Dominator DDR3

GPU (2x): 1GB EVGA 9800 GX2

HDD (2x): 1TB Samsung (32MB Cache)

Sound Card: Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion

This all comes to a grand total of $2600.97. Just under a grand less than what Dell would have charged for a similar machine. The two HDD I will be putting in Raid 0 Striped.

Originally I was going to get a PhysX card, but as a friend pointed out to me, the latest nVidia drivers allow a 9 series card to be used for physics calculations.

Needless to say, unless I get out of a loan, its gonna be a gradual buildup til I can afford such a machine.