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I haven’t gamed in a long time, but I wanna get one to play Spore. I’ve bought most the components and ready to assemble, just waiting on the nforce 590 boards for Intel to be released:
E6600 Core 2 Duo Processor (went with Silent Water as cooler choice)
1x Asus 7900GTX (will SLI in future)
2GB Corsair XMS 6400
2x Raptor 75GB in Raid-0 array
700 Watt GameXStream OCZ
Aerocool AeroEngine II Case (wish I would have went with Antec 180B)
Motherboard: Asus nforce 590 whatever when it’s out.
A dvd burner/a case fan or two/usb floppy (yeah RIGHT LOL)/etc.
Total cost: Roughly $1500.
Total time to assemble: About a hour.
For an hour of time I’m able to have a kickass system for 1500 bucks, whereas the cheapest retail computer I can get pre-built with everything that I want (and let’s face it most of the time retail computers do NOT have everything you want) is going to cost about 2k-2.2k minimum. I’d much rather spend the hour it takes assembling everything than pay the extra $700+ for retail.
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