Woot, finally placed the order.

[MasterCraft]

Placed my orders with newegg, gameve, zipzoomfly, and pc-cargo for my computer gear.

I've got a pretty impressive setup coming I think, heres the specs.

See It Here!MotherBoard = ASUS P5AD2-E Premium
See It Here!CPU = 3.4 550 - am upgrading to the 570J 3.8 as soon as I get paid again
See It Here!VGA 1 = 6600 256mb from leadtek, for use until I get the 6800 GT
See It Here!VGA 2 =EVGA 6800 GT
See It Here!RAM =2x1GB OCZ EB DDR2-533 3-2-2-8(yes 2 gigs, drool ******* )
See It Here!HD =74 gig raptor, why chose anything else?
See It Here!Case =Coolermaster Stacker
See It Here!PSU =OCZ 520w Powerstream
See It Here!Optical =plextor with 8MB buffer, (I wanted the dual layer one but it was out of stock, ordering soon)
See It Here!sound card =creative labs audigy ES
See It Here!thermal paste =AS5
See It Here!HSF =thermalright XP-120
See It Here!HD cooler =vantec
See It Here!fan upgrades =120 and 80's of the same thing
See It Here!Mouse = the only choice
See It Here!LCD = hehe

all positive and negative feedback / I hate you lots comments accepted and encouraged

 

[MasterCraft]

Final price after all things considered, (some small stuff not listd, headset, keyboard, etc etc)

$3770.73

 

[MikeyLikesItSI]

Christmas bonus much? Good luck with it!

 

[CandymanCan]

wow $3300 ?? Thats kinda way to high if you ask me.

 

[MasterCraft]

wow $3300 ?? Thats kinda way to high if you ask me.

$3700

all newegg listed prices, So it was actually not a bad deal


And no, no christmas bonus.

Just got the PSU via fed-ex from PC-cargo. Should have the newegg order and zipzoom tomarrow as well, gotta love overnight express.

 

[MasterCraft]

bump for input

 

[batboy]

Looks good. Thinking about getting that LCD too (if price drops a tad) and passing the 17" Samsung to my g/f.

 

[MasterCraft]

Looks good. Thinking about getting that LCD too (if price drops a tad) and passing the 17" Samsung to my g/f.

My cousin has one, man they are SWEET

0 ghosting, fast as lightning, bright and great color depth. highly recomended.


btw, Assuming I get a good chip what kind of overclock you think I'll be hitting with that 3.4 bat? best guess?

 

[jcw122]

wow thats some insane specs man...have fun with that!

 

[batboy]

I sure hope you hit at least 4 gig stable.

 

[MasterCraft]

I sure hope you hit at least 4 gig stable.

I've got the works man, heatsinks out the wazoo. I have alot of fans, the case I ordered has mounts for 3 120mm fans on the front

cross flow motherboard on top of the xp 120 on it, should make for some nice cooling

 

[CandymanCan]

Well im hoping u have as much good luck as i am with my New DFI mobo i got today, increased my Overclocks from 2.5ghz to 2.6-2.7ghz

 

[Captain Newbie]

Input: Well, you're going to have a fun Christmas

Congrats on your purchase; I wouldn't have spent that much, but I'm not most people it seems.

 

[beau_zo_brehm]

mannnn nice system! Similiar to mine, but a few more dollars put into yours. If you have that much money to blow, why didn't you go with a better cooling solution?

 

[MasterCraft]

mannnn nice system! Similiar to mine, but a few more dollars put into yours. If you have that much money to blow, why didn't you go with a better cooling solution?

I am actually, I have plans to upgrade to the 3.8 E0 stepping, I've also worked out a deal with a member of these forums for a phase change for the CPU.

everything else will be watercooled

the xp-120 is just to I can overclock and such until I can upgrade to the 3.8.

 

[beau_zo_brehm]

I am actually, I have plans to upgrade to the 3.8 E0 stepping, I've also worked out a deal with a member of these forums for a phase change for the CPU.

everything else will be watercooled

the xp-120 is just to I can overclock and such until I can upgrade to the 3.8.

Sounds awesome. Fugger from xtremesystems.org got a 3.6 ghz p4 to run at 6.3 ghz and bench at ~5.9

 

[Sucka]

Not a fan of that case, esspecially if you wanted to stack a prommy under there. But i'm also very bias to Lian Li's.

Hard drive cooler really needed? I dunno about that one...

Wait for a DL burner, you'll be glad you did.

Why not a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS?

Otherwise looking very nice, would be glad to call it my own

 

[MasterCraft]

I'm not worried about the phase change, I have other ideas for that

the hard drive cooler was nececary for personal reasons, actually for the 4 other high end drives that crapped out on me due to heat

I got the plextor burner now, and am buying the DL burner as soon as it's in stock.

I have plans for a higher sound card as well, one that will have the addon card for a guitar plug-in

 

[Sjaak]

that looks like a pretty decent system


just that i myself would never spend that much money on pcs in one time, lol (and no, not because i never HAVE that amount of money )

 

[Sucka]

That's why i said to get a better case (cooling)

You asked for input, not trying to dog your system, just putting in my thoughts. Merry X-mas