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edgab2020

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Alright guys thank you very much for the two guys who have helped me in my old forum a ton i owe you guys. Here is my new thread and i want to know what people think about this final set-up. Now for all of you who dont know I am in college in engineering and i want to create a very good engineering computer. So look and tell me what you guys think. Also if you guys think that I can go a little cheaper and dont need as much power please post in here and we can see if we can ease it up. However here is the final set up tell me what you guys think.

OK since my wishlist didnt work here is the Set-Up:
Motherboard: ECS BLACK SERIES GF8200A (V1.0) AM2+/AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb 3.0GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor
RAM: 2xG.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK
Hard Drive: 2x Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: PNY VCQFX370-PCIE-PB Quadro FX370 256MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Workstation Video Card
DVD/CD Player: SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 22X DVD Burner
Tower: APEVIA X-CRUISER-BK/420 Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply
Monitor: Acer X193W+BD Black 19" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 2000:1 (ACM)
Speaker: Logitech X-540 70 watts 5.1 Speaker
Keyboard: Logitech 920-000914 Black 106 Normal Keys Wired Ultra-thin Illuminated Keyboard
Mouse: Microsoft Arc Black 3 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB 2.4 GHz Wireless Laser Mouse
Touchpad: ADESSO CyberPad 8.5'' x 11'' Active Area USB Digital Notepad & Graphics Tablet
Webcam: Rosewill RCM-8163 True 1.3 M Effective Pixels 1280 x 1024 30 fps USB WebCam

Thnak you for any help.

Edited by edgab2020, 28 June 2009 - 03:17 PM.

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Need to define definition of "engineering". Computer engineer? Software engineer? Old-fashioned engineer with hammers and what not? What do you want to do with the computer?
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it is just regular engineering i am an aerospace and mechanical engineer and so we are doing CAD programming and Matlab so thats what it is sorry about that it is just mainly focused on CAD work. But i also want to be able to do a bunch of things while working on CAD programs. So sorry about not being specific earlier
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