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Neo_RiP

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Hi i just want some ideas of what you guys think if theres something i can change to make my compute better!

CASE: THERMALTAKE FULL TOWER KANDALF LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM BLACK
LINK: http://www.thermalta...s/vd4000bws.asp

PSU: THERMALTAKE TOUGHPOWER 850W
LINK: http://www.thermalta...W0131/w0131.asp

CPU: INTEL QUAD CORE QX6700 2.66GHZ X4 (OVERCLOAKED TO 3GHZ X4) 2X 4MB CACHE 8MB TOTAL

MOBO: ASUS P5N32-E SLI NFORCE 680i
LINK: http://www.asus.com/...amp;modelmenu=1

VIDEO CARDS: 2X ASUS 8800GTX 768MB DDR3 374BIT DX10 IN SLI
LINK: http://www.asus.com/...amp;modelmenu=1

RAM: CORSAIR XMS2 DDR2 800MHZ 2X 1GB DUAL CHANNEL

DVDWRITER 1: LiteOn SHM-165H6S LightScribe 16X DUAL LAYER

DVD WRITER 2: LiteOn SOHW-1693S 16X DUAL LAYER

HD: 2X SEAGATE 250GB SATA-2 16MB CACHE NCQ IN RAID 0

Any suggestions will be much appreciated...
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james_8970

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Honestly, buying two 8800's is not spending money wisely. You won't notice a difference between 80FPS and 120. Buy a second one later on down the road when the prices decrease and get some other hardware, like where is the sound card, speakers? You could get a much better monitor.
Also with water cooling, i think you'll be able to achieve better over clocking results then 3GHz.
James

Edited by james_8970, 10 January 2007 - 05:20 PM.

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afg34

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get a raptor for hard drive, it will decrease your load times in games
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james_8970

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i'd only consider a raptor if you are big into photoshop otherwise the price ratio/performance ratio makes no sence. Since there is virtually no improvement for games. Even if your big into photoshop, it really doesn't deliver a big enough improvment in performance to really suggest them. All in all, if you looking into saving literlly a couple seconds go and pay the extra 100$ or so for the same amount of space just a "faster drive". I don't really recommend a raptor, but if you have no budget, might as well go for it. If you do have a budget, are you keeping the price of the OS and monitor in mind?
James

Edited by james_8970, 11 January 2007 - 12:31 PM.

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