OT: New PC!

[NullAshton]

Bah. Go Nvidia, they have SLI mode.

[Atrocities]

Who can aford an SLI system? OMG just $900.00 bucks for the two top of the line cards, then another $1,900.00 for a decent top of the line system.

If I had $2,800.00 extra dollars I would spend it on other things like things I need to live. But still it would be sweet to have a mega top of the line system just once in my life.

[AgentZero]

And ATI has Crossfire, which is more or less the same thing. Aside from the fact that the ATI card I'm getting is almost as powerful as two nVidea 7800s, and if I whack a second one in there, well then..

[NullAshton]

Hey. Go bold, get 4 Nvida 7800 512 GTXs, all working together in SLI mode! Have the power to do whatever you want!

[Renegade 13]

I concur with Kwok. I've bought a couple items from them, they have good prices, good shipping and a very wide selection.

[AgentZero]

Well, I'm sold. Priced my computer out on their site & it came out €500 cheaper. €700 if you count the fact that since I have a huge big room with loads of space back home, I'm going with a 21-inch CRT instead of the 19-inch flatpanel.

[AgentZero]

Well, the order has been placed, and this is what I'm going with:
Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400
Motherboard Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire
Ram 2 GB PC3200 DDR
Hard Drive #1 Seagate 80GB Sata HD
Hard Drive #2 Seagate 400 SATA HD
Optical Drive LG 16X Dual Layer DVDRW
Video Card Sapphire Radeon X1900 XT 512MB Video
Sound Card Creative Labes SB X-FI Platinum
Speakers Logitech Z5300 Speakers
Keyboard Logitech G15 Illuminated Keyboard
Mouse Razor Diamondback Plasma Mouse
CPU Cooling Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower
Power Supply Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT
Monitor 21" NEC CRT
Case Thermaltake Tsunami

Now, the important part, is all the new software to load onto the system since I won't be getting it hooked up to the internet for the first weeek. So far, I've got:

Tweak UI
AVG Anti-Virus
Ad-Aware
Azureus
Directory Opus
DivX Codecs
Firefox
Foobar2000
Irfanview
Java Runtime Environment
Limewire
Media Player Classic
Open Office Suite
Photoshop
Spybot
Thunderbird
Trillian

Any other recommendations/things I'll be kicking myself if I forget?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Floppy drive. I like floppy drives.

[Thermodyne]

I’d make one change to the software, you should try the Windows Defender Beta from MS. It’s free and works well.

You moght also want to try the IE7 Beta2, if for no other reason than to see how much IE has changed. I'd keep the Firefox as primary. Also didn't see Adobe reader, I have the corp re-d of 6 if you want it.

PS: What about RAR?

[Fyron]

I'd recommend utorrent over Azureus, personally. 4 MB ram usage is hard to pass up. Its got most of the important features of Azureus, with more being added every update.