Will tip BTC for good info/suggestions on the hardware I'm about to buy - page 3.

Meatball

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You can probably drop the CPU down a bit since there's not really a reason for Quad Core with what you're planning on doing. You can probably go with either one of these, save yourself $80 and be fine.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103873

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103903

The other thing to be worried about is that case might be a bit too tight with those two cards. It'll probably fit, but really cram stuff together. Luckily your vid cards have the power pins on top, so that should be alright.

Those 6950's are pretty good and if you are a gambler, you could always flash them with a bios to unlock some of the extra shaders (don't do the 6970 bios flash, just find the 6950 shader unlock flash..)

Insuremeplz

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Quote from: miningnew on June 09, 2011, 03:26:48 PM

Why do you need a dvd drive?

and you can buy much cheaper CPU!!
You could boot from a usb disk

I'd like to use it as my main computer as well as a miner. Do you have a suggestion for a better priced CPU? I don't want to sacrifice performance too much and would like to be able to do light gaming and day to day uses.

miningnew

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Why do you need a dvd drive?

and you can buy much cheaper CPU!!
You could boot from a usb disk

Insuremeplz

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I'd also like to use this as my main computer, light gaming, word processing, school work type stuff. This will be my first computer I've built so I appreciate suggestions on if everything will work together, if things will stay cool enough, better GPU to buy (cant find 5830/50's) or anything else you can think of. I already have windows XP, keyboard, mouse. Do I need anything else? Include BTC address for tip.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151175

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811815006

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157243

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150523 (two of these)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256072

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231253

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103899

I'd also love to cut about $150 off this price, so if there's anywhere I can save costs without reducing performance too much I'd love suggestions. Thanks!

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