 | Cooler Master Cosmos ATX Full Tower Case Silver - (RC-1000-KSN1-GP)
Buy new: $175.29 Great case with a fatal flaw, grab some Koolance HDD water coolers if you are building anything above a "casual" computer in one of these. I usually avoid cooling HDDs but this case has the HDDs in a virtual toaster oven without any cooling solution. First time I built in this case, the Raptor X's I was using to install the OS's got too hot to touch.
Besides that little oversight, the case great.
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 | EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 nForce 780i SLI 3xPCI-Express x16 PCI-Express 2.0 Socket 775 A1 Version Motherboard
Buy new: $206.49 / Used from: $189.99 Some nice minor upgrades from the 680i's. Working well so far
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 | Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad-Core Processor, 3 GHz, 12M L2 Cache, 1333MHz FSB, LGA775
Buy new: $1,005.00 / Used from: $750.00 About to be outdone by another Intel, but still the greatest chip out right now in my opinion.
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 | eVGA e-GeForce 8800 Ultra 768 MB PCI-E Graphics Card
Buy used from: $625.47 Load THREE of these in the new EVGA 780i Motherboard for the hottest graphics money can buy as of the last day of 2007.
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 | Corsair Dominator Quad2X4096 4X1GB PC2-8500 1066MHz DDR2 (QUAD2X4096-8500C5DF)
Buy new: $195.75 Run 4GB (2 x 2 matched pairs) for a dual boot XP Pro/Vista Ultimate config.
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 | Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro Series Sound Card ( 70SB046A00000 )
Buy new: $133.99 / Used from: $95.00 Just a great sound card
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 | Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SATA/150 10,000RPM 16MB Hard Drive
2 of these in raid-0 running the OS's, main programs and demanding games (Crysis, Hellgate London, etc) in Direct-x 10.
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 | Hitachi Deskstar 0A34915 HDS721010KLA330 7K1000 1 TB SATA 3.5-Inch Hard Drive
Buy new: $162.56 Four of these floating for back-ups, files and media storage.
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 | Sony BWU200S DVD+/-RW Blu-ray Disc Serial ATA (SATA) Drive
Buy new: $599.99 / Used from: $349.99 Blue ray combo drive with great performance, and as always, Sony has Style.
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