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Unread 03-02-2008, 01:11 PM   #6
ben333
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Default Re: Newbie with a system plan but requesting input

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Originally Posted by billbartuska
....how's that ben333? add anything?
Well bill, I agree that he really has no need to water cool the south bridge, memory or hard drive, etc. But the north bridge is a maybe if he plans some serious over clocking. Slip of the knife, a good way to cool things like ram and hard drives is using quiet fans to blow over them. It helps a lot. Also about t lines, I myself hate them but they do save space and improve flow. I usually use a 1" PVC T and then get three 1" to 1/2" threaded adapters. After that I just get two 1/2" barbs and a 1/2 inch cap. This gives you a compact res with very little flow loss. About the ram 4 gigs is not a bad idea when using a 64 bit OS but with a 32 bit OS is silly because the OS can only see 4 gigs and usually shows up as less (because the video card has ram and you can only have a grand total of 4 GB including video cards (I think)) Thats about it except the computer hardware you've chosen. I think that for most people Intel is a better choice. Especially for the over clocker / gamer. And as bill said, you can not run crossfire on a SLI board. Also I notice you are getting a 320 GB hard drive. Thats fine but I just wanted to let you know that 400 I think it is is the best buy for the money right now (more GB for your dollar)
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