OT: New PC

[Atrocities]

Well I broke down and order a PC today.

CyberPower Gamer Infinity 8800 Pro SE

* CoolerMaster Cosmos Silent Gaming Tower Case
* CPU: (Sckt775)Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6850 CPU @ 3.00GHz 1333FSB 4MB L2 Cache 64-bit
* CD: Sony Q170A 18x Double Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive
* CD2: 16X DVD ROM
* CABLE: Round Cable Upgrade for Hard Drive, Optical Drive & Floppy Drive
* FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer
* FAN: INTEL LGA775 CERTIFIED CPU FAN & HEATSINK
* HDD: Single Hard Drive (500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
* IEEE_CARD: IEEE 1394 CARD AND DRIVER
* KEYBOARD: PS2 MULTIMEDIA INTERNET CONTROL KEYBOARD
* MOUSE: Microsoft® IntelliMouse® Optical Explorer 4.0A USB & PS/2 Compactible
* MODEM: PCI 56K V.92 FAX MODEM W/ VOICE
* MOTHERBOARD: (Quad-Core FSB1333) Asus P5N32-E nForce 680i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard
* MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)1GB (2x512MB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Mushkin Brand)
* NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
* OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional w/ Service Pack 2
* POWERSUPPLY: 600 Watts Power Supplies (CoolerMaster Unit 600 Watts eXtreme Power - SLI Supports)
* SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
* SPEAKERS: Logitech (BLACK) X-540 70Watts 5.1 Configuration Speaker System
* USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
* UPS: OPTI-UPS VS575C 575VA/345W UNINTERRUPT POWER SUPPLY
* VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)

* FREEBIE_CU1: FREE Game! Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
* FREEBIE_CU2: FREE! CyberPower Multi-Purpose Carrying Briefcase
* FREEBIE_CU3: FREE! Cyberpower Unleash The Power T-Shirt

Final Bill $1459.00 + S&H costs.

[AgentZero]

That's a mighty fine looking computer. I'm not entirely sure what the "Round Cable Upgrade" is, but ok.

[Kana]

8800GT is a good vid card for the money. Will easily play just about any game now, and that may be in the near future. Its only list of things to buy. Plus it looks like from your Motherboard, you can upgrade to a quad-core down the road if you want.

Round cable upgrade is probably the cable attached to the hard and optical drives. They are usually a flat 'ribbon' cable, and take up alot of space inside a PC. The round cable takes up less space and probably allow more air to circulate and such.

[Fyron]

How do you do a round cable upgrade of a SATA HDD, though? SATA cables are practically the size of round cables already. They probably charged AT $50 for it...

That is one ugly case... It reminds me somewhat of the ugly Apple style of design, but with rails. At least it lacks LED runway strips.

What's with the second DVD-ROM drive? HDD read rates are orders of magnitude above what discs do, so there is no benefit for copying a disc anyways...

You probably could have saved $2-300 by getting the parts from newegg and slapping it together yourself. Too late for that though, I guess...

[Combat Wombat]

uhhhhh for that much you should have gotten a nice widescreen lcd with it

but that is gonna be one blazing fast computer

[mrscrogg]

AT , alot of people will have an opinion of what you purchaesed , good and bad , if it's what you wanted just enjoy !

[Xrati]

Good Luck with your Christmas gift to yourself!!!
Gotta take care of number one!

[Atrocities]

I had thought about buying the parts and doing it all myself but then I ran a chance of repeating what had happened with the blue box. Bad experience. (Shudders horribly) Any ways the system I bought, yes it is an ugly case , is almost 80% of what I wanted at about a 15% savings. I didn't get the second video card or HD, and the case is ugly. I opted out of the LCD monitor and went with a reserve power supply and XP pro over Vista. The system comes with a 3yr warranty, (which as we all know is pretty much buyer beware,) but it was also highly recommended by many. So in the end the trade off was build it yourself and live with it, or pay someone else to build if for you and live with it... and save 15%. I opted for the discount... I know, I am a sell out.

[dogscoff]

I don't think the case is ugly. It comes in different colours, too - I'd have gone for purple or the brown one.

Only a gig of ram? Given the outrageously fast processor I'd have thought you'd want more ram than that! Especially if you one day want to run Vista on it (which is a possibility, given that this is a gaming rig). That said, by the time Vista becomes bearable Direct X 10 will be available on XP anyway...

[Atrocities]

I will call and amend that right now. Thanks Dogscoff, great catch.