God, this build is so much a product of this forum I'm considering naming it my OCF box...(I say this in all honesty, with thanks to all of you, I would still be banging my head against my original build concepts if it wasn't for here), but I've finally narrowed it down to one part in each catagory (instead of, "which out of these 30 GPU's should I get")
Tl;dr version, here's the build.
Case
COOLER MASTER Stacker RC-832 320$
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 209$
Hard Drive
2 x Seagate 500GB 32M Barracuda 7200.11 110$x2
Memory
G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2-1000 CAS5 F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ 120$
Graphics
GeForce 8800 GTS, 768MB PCI Express 200$
Motherboard
X48 290$
PSU
Corsair 620HX 140$
OS
Windows Vista Home Premium 64
Now, chances are I'll be switching over to a 64bit linux distro, but that's neither here or now. Other peripherals are being discussed as well in other places, so yes, I have thought about things like fan controllers dvd drives ect.
for budget, consider a 2800$ limit.
Tl;dr version, here's the build.
Case
COOLER MASTER Stacker RC-832 320$
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 209$
Hard Drive
2 x Seagate 500GB 32M Barracuda 7200.11 110$x2
Memory
G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2-1000 CAS5 F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ 120$
Graphics
GeForce 8800 GTS, 768MB PCI Express 200$
Motherboard
X48 290$
PSU
Corsair 620HX 140$
OS
Windows Vista Home Premium 64
Now, chances are I'll be switching over to a 64bit linux distro, but that's neither here or now. Other peripherals are being discussed as well in other places, so yes, I have thought about things like fan controllers dvd drives ect.
for budget, consider a 2800$ limit.
