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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
I just priced out a system with an Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor with 6 Gb of RAM, cooling, a good case, power supply, 10,000 rpm hard drive, a DVD and a Blue Ray burner on NewEgg.com for $1585.
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You?re going to love that computer. I ordered the parts from NewEgg.com and I?ve been running it for 2 weeks now. Vista Ultimate installed so fast that I thought I did something wrong. Rendering a 25 minute HD scene with transitions, watermark and some color correction took under 12 minutes to render to an AVI file on an external eSATA hard drive. The same file took under 16 minutes to render to an external USB hard drive. My setup is as follows:
Intel Core i7 940 Nehalem 2.93GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
COOLER MASTER V8 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit for System Builders
ASUS P6T Deluxe LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 1GB Video Card
CORSAIR CMPSU-1000HX 1000W ATX12V 2.2 Modular Power Supply
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory
2 Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
LG Black Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16X DVD±R DVD Burner SATA Model
LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound