Moidock's new build

[moidock]

Not much games.

I plan on getting Bioshock on it and maybe some COD4. Will use it for work mostly. BTW, they sent the case in a black AW box.

[DominiKing]

I wanna get a new case for my Vaio because the one that it came with is too small. Everything is all cramped together and i'm scared it'll overheat one day. Am constantly cleaning it for that reason. I've gone to a couple of computer stores to see if they'd switch it for me and every place i've been to has said no because Vaio's come custom and they dont want to touch it.

[moidock]

Well, the old build is gone as of today. I know it will be well taken care of.

Building the new one should start within a month. In the meantime, the AW case is there on my desktop, dormant...waiting....

[Craig]

Nice Moid...so you're sticking with the same parts listed in this thread?

[DominiKing]

If so it's not a bad build.

[basso4735]

case is piiiimp

[moidock]

Yep, I'm sticking to the AW case.

I have an old 80GB hard drive which I'm going to use for system and applications only, I'll start with a 250GB HD for storage.

The other system specs to start include a Core2Duo 2.0Ghz CPU, a single Nvidia 8600 VC, SLI motherboard with Quad Core CPU support, 667Mhz DDR2 RAM, 700W PSU and dual DVD writers.

That case has space for six hard drives so there's plenty of room to grow.

The specs for the old build were:
- Intel 875PBZ mobo.
- One 40GB and one 80GB HD.
- Dual DVD writers.
- 256MB NVIDIA 7600 VC.
- 4 sticks of 256MB Kingston DDR RAM.
- Sound Blaster Digital Studio card.
- 550W PSU.

Not a bad rig at all, it could run Bioshock as well as current games quite acceptably . It started with simpler specs (single DVD writer, 512MB of RAM and NV 5700 card, lesser PSU, lower sound card) and worked my way up with upgrades.

I was thinking of upgrading it further but I have some growing needs regarding computing, storage and graphics power (that's why the upcoming mobo is SLI and Quad Core capable) so I needed to start from scratch.

[moidock]

First parts ordered.

- ABIT Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI.
- Core2Duo E2180 Processor.

[moidock]

Updated parts list:

- ABIT Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI mobo.
- Dual Core E2180 Processor.
- 2x1GB Kingston DDR2 667 RAM.
- Western Digital 80GB HD (system). From the old system.
- Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA HD (storage).
- EVGA 8600GT 512Mb GDDR3 video card.
- LG 16X DVD writer. From the old system.
- Ultra X-Finity ULT31848 600-Watt PSU.
- Lighted fan set.

So far, it's all I have. Will look at some keyboards and mice I saw locally.

Second DVD writer, will purchase locally too.

[Craig]

nice picks...that 8600 is a beast!