It will be comming out of tax return money, and the processor, motherboard, and vid cards are what I'm splurging on, everything else I need to get is on a budget.
I guess one of my most major conserns is PSU, I was thinking the neopower due to the detachable leads, so I could customize what leads I have, being I'd only need the motherboard power, 2 sata power connectors, and 2 pcie power connectors. It has a 120mm fan in the psu along with dual rails.
I was thinking the dual 12v rails would be good due to the 2 vid cards, being each vid card takes 1 pcie lead ( or via adapter 2 4pin molex leads ) each that having them both on one 12v rail and everything else on the other would keep the system stable even when overclocking both cards and cpu.
I don't really have a case budgeted in, so will try to make do with the one I have.
I haven't been posting most of the day because I had my computer in pieces doing a few minor mods, drilling out some rivets completely removing the HDD cage and the riveted platform it sat on, used electrical tape to tape up all my psu wires, ran my 2 80mm case fan leads behind the MB tray and connected them to one of the spare psu leads that I tucked back there, that before now were just dangling. Ran the IDE ribbon for my CDrom actually underneath my motherboard and used duct tape (ya ya but silver case doesn't show up bad) to tape down things such as wires in the bottom of case that go to power switch, the sata wire that goes to my HDD ect... all in all, the only wire you can really see now is an inch thick black one that is the power to my MB heh (also wrapped in electrical tape).
I took out a rear blower, a dual fan 5.25 slot blower, and a 3rd 80mm case fan and my case is running way quieter and even cooler if you'd believe it.
Also my pitiful little 300w powersupply's voltages are more stable and higher than when I had all that other crap hooked up.
Taped all the holes off that would let air into the case except for the intake fan and the area of the exaust fan.
Intake fan has a filter, and now that the case is pretty much air tight it's going to stay spotless inside. If it wasn't such an unprofessional job I'd post pics of how it looks because I'm impressed.
Maybe when I finally do build my new system I'll try doing stuff like using real shrink wrap for the wires and whatnot.
All in all, I'm pretty proud of what I've accomplished in a short time w/ some wire cutters, electrical tape, duct tape and creative thinking.
Go me!
