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The Moditory’s Post Holiday Purchase Guide |
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Written by RotoSequence
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$2000 – Powerhouse
- Processor: AMD Opteron 165 1.8 GHz 2x1MB L2 - $320.25
Atacom
- Heatsink: Thermalright XP-120 - $58.99
Newegg
- Fan: Acoustiproducts 120mm Silent Acoustifan - $25.95
Quiet PC
- Motherboard: Asus A8N SLI-Premium - $169.89
Monarch
- Graphics Card: Biostar 7800 GTX - $449
Newegg
- Memory: Corsair XMS 2x1GB CAS 3 RAM - $208
Newegg
- Hard Drive: Two Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA 150 250 GB - $205
Newegg
- Case: Lian Li PC-75B - $225
Newegg
- Power Supply: Enermax Liberty 620 Watt - $174.99 (Before $20 Mail in Rebate)
Newegg
- Optical Drive: Plextor 16x DVD Burner - $79.99 (Before $20 Mail in Rebate)
Newegg
- Total: $1961.06
AMD’s socket 939 Opterons are famous for their stability, capability, and low price. With their extreme overclocking abilities, the 1xx series of Opterons have won the hearts of enthusiasts everywhere, and will perform admirably in your own systems as well; the 165 however, is special. This dual core processor will allow you to run even the most processor intense application without slowing down your computer; encode video and play the latest games at the same time! Socket 939 1.8 GHz 1MB L2 x2 Opteron. No heatsink included.
A revolution is taking place in computing; the noise output of computers is an important factor for many, and Thermalright’s XP-120 is a monster of high performance heat dissipation. Combined with an Acoustiproducts 120 mm quiet fan, this combination will keep your processor cool, and be whisper quiet. If youre feeling a little more adventurous though, any 120mm fan will work on this. If you REALLY want to push your cooling to its limits, the more revolutions the better!
An improvement of the A8N SLI-Deluxe, the A8N SLI-Premium offers silent cooling by through the use of heat pipes; this cooling solution is both quiet and efficient, and allows improved performance at a lower noise level. With all the stability offered by the SLI-Deluxe, this board is a winner. Socket 939, Nvidia Nforce 4 SLI chipset, 4 PC 3200 DDR slots, two PCI Express x16 slots (2x8 in SLI Mode).
The most important part of any gaming machine is its graphics processing unit; Nvidia’s GeForce 7800 GTX is the penultimate gaming graphics card, offering 24 graphics pipelines, dual DVI outputs and incredible performance. It doesn’t get much better than this. Should you decide to go SLI, it could potentially get twice as good. PCI Express x16 Graphics card.
Corsair is a well known maker of RAM, and with two gigabytes of it, even the latest games will still leave room to spare; those of you who like to multitask and run the latest, greatest games will appreciate the difference two gigabytes of RAM makes, and Corsair’s is some of the best in the industry. 2x 1 Gigabyte DDR RAM, CAS 3 PC 4000.
Need reliable data storage? Seagate is the only hard drive maker to offer a five year warranty on their full range of products – and their hard drives earn it. Inexpensive, well made, and very quiet, these are the drives to get. 250 Gigabytes of space on SATA 150 will work quite well for holding all your games and tons of media – imagine how much more you can hold with two. Two 250 Gigabyte SATA 150 7200 RPM Hard disk drives.
Lian Li; the ultimate enthusiast case. With spacious design, and beautiful aluminum work, the PC75-B is a long time favorite. ATX full tower aluminum chassis.
To maintain the ultimate computer, you need the ultimate Power Supply. Enermax’s Liberty 620 Watt PSU may not provide the 860 watts and above that PC power And Cooling may, but it offers 620 at a lower price, and is SLI certified. Trust me, this is probably far more power output than you could ever hope to use! ATX Power supply.
Plextor is the ultimate in multimedia, and this 16x DVD burner will do wonders for creating your movie and hard drive backups. 16 x 8 x 16 DVD/CD Writer/Re-writer/Reader IDE optical drive.
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