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Old 04-26-2012, 01:16 PM   #16
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Lookin like a nice rig that, mate. What's your all in cost on that?
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Old 04-26-2012, 01:25 PM   #17
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Helluva lot to play Solitaire.

I'm of the envy.
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Old 04-26-2012, 01:32 PM   #18
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Is your monitor going to be worthy now?
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Old 04-26-2012, 01:37 PM   #19
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The jumbotron will be delivered tomorrow!
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Old 04-26-2012, 02:01 PM   #20
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After I mail in 5 or 6 rebates, it is around $1100.

I plan to use my hd tv with a hdmi cable, but tony says I will want a monitor. Next bonus maybe.
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Old 04-26-2012, 02:45 PM   #21
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Wow, that ain't half bad.
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Old 04-26-2012, 07:22 PM   #22
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Pretty slick.

Are you sure about the i5? IIRC, thats a dual core, but each core can handle two threads. Don't ask me how that works. The i7 is quad core, my gamer friend swears by it.

And good call on the many fans and chunky power supply. My gamer mate had a system custom built, it all worked well except the power supply wasn't quite up to all the components and it had a tendency to overheat.

Great project for the lad to work on, too.
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Old 04-27-2012, 07:16 AM   #23
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do you have all the cables you'll need ?

Don't know how this works, but the power supply came with 4 SATA pugs for the hrad drive etc, but there was another4-6 pin cable linking the SATA devices, hard drive and optical drive, together, maybe then to the mother board, this cable wasn't in with the new power supply, maybe it's included in with the hard drive.
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Old 04-27-2012, 09:33 AM   #24
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I have not yet opened the hard drive boxes, but the power supply has a huge pig tail.
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Old 04-27-2012, 12:15 PM   #25
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d'oh. I didn't get a sound card. There is a head phone jack on the mother board. Do I need a sound card, or is the one on the Motherbaord going to be sufficient?
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Old 04-27-2012, 01:15 PM   #26
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On board sound is fine.

I want a solid state drive. I've also seen a spinning drive with ssd cache. Clever.
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Old 04-27-2012, 01:16 PM   #27
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d'oh. I didn't get a sound card. There is a head phone jack on the mother board. Do I need a sound card, or is the one on the Motherbaord going to be sufficient?
I wouldn't use the one on the mobo. Ya got all that other good stuff, don't start skimpin' now.


ETA: Listen to someone (besides me, I mean) who knows more. I've just had bad luck w/onboard stuffs.
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Old 04-27-2012, 01:20 PM   #28
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I wouldn't buy an after-market audio card unless you intend to use the PC as a recording rig, or amp simulator, etc.
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Old 04-27-2012, 01:22 PM   #29
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All the Vinyl to digital conversions I did with my music collection were done with the onboard sound card. They sound great. Mine was stereo. I assume yours is too. If it's mono, you may not be happy. (Our laptop has a mono onboard sound card and it sucks.)
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Old 04-27-2012, 01:24 PM   #30
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He got a hot-rod motherboard, I'm assuming the audio is as good as human ears need it to be.
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