QUOTE(gerbil)
although you may need a back up plan for your case ... the blue case is good and all but ... a dear friend is stuggling with his case ... due to the multiple case fans as well as the noise it makes...
btw, how much did it cost you?? must be an arm n a leg ...
Ya, the fans are getting pretty loud after almost a year now. I'm either going to buy a new case, which is what I'm looking into right now. Possibly a Lian Li with Water Cooling.
And the PC stuff cost me about $800 after everything that I just bought.
I already had EVERYTHING that I didn't list a price for.
I picked the case up for only $30 if that's what you meant though, lol
But for the other stuff, the TV was about $2000 when I bought it quite a while back (a few years), the Reciever was a little over $1200, same with the DVD player, the Center Channel Energy Speaker alone cost about $1350...
But that is all with HUGE employee discounts while working at GoodGuys as a Home Audio Tech/Floor Manager.
And it was all several years back with most of the products were top-of-the-line and new on the market...
QUOTE(BrutalDrew)
However, an Opteron (146?) would of been a much better choice then the 3700+ if your overclocking. It would of been cheaper and overclocked better. I would of also gotten a single 1GB stick of G.Skill value. This way you can upgrade to 2GB without running four sticks. The G.Skill also overclocks very well for the price.
A Fortron AX500-A would of been a better choice then the Antec. It is a more capable supply and cheaper.
Also, I really hate the case. But that is personal preference, so it doesn't really matter.
I'm not considering overclocking untill I get Water Cooling, but the 3700+ is the overclocker's Wet Dream.
With sufficient cooling, it can be overclocked from 2.2Ghz to about 2.8-3.0Ghz without breaking a sweat. The motherboard is going to be the issue with overclocking. But like I said, I'm not even considering that yet. If I decide to overclock, I'll maybe swap out for a new motherboard or just stick with mine and overclock it to about 2.5Ghz or so.
And remember... I only paid $228 for the 3700+...
As for Memory, 2GB doesn't really help out that much. In most applications/games it will only give you a 10-25% increase in performance than 1GB. So I decided to stick with 1GB for now, and If I ever decide to up it to 2GB, I'll just buy another set of 2x512 of what I have now.
And I wouldn't really want to attempt to overclock the memory, I don't like risking too much...
And as for the case, it's something I bought for $30 because it had a slight crack in the front panel above the 5.25" Drive Bays, and I liked it at the time. But it is growing old on me. As I said at the beginning of this post, I'm investigating LianLi cases right now...
QUOTE(heinrich)
Very jealous of your receiver!
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style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) I get that a lot.
One of these days, I'll post pics of my entire Home Theater setup.
I'm currently looking into buying 2 more 4 person sofa's to set up on risers one behind the other behind the current sofa I have. So that it has more of a Theater aspect to it.
Also looking into carpetting the walls with 1/4" black carpet to increase the acoustics of the room.
But ya, the reciever setup is pretty chaotic right now, lol
I am running out of optical inputs! I have my Xbox, Xbox360, HD Comcast TV Reciever, Denon DVD-2800 DVD Player, and now my PC... AGGHH!!
So ya, I may have to upgrade soon to a newer AVR model...
I'm glad people don't think my PC sucks! I got A LOT of help from some of the guys over at
OverClockersForum.com. And I did quite a bit of research before I purchased anything.
Thanks for the comments so far,
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Danny
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