Hey Guys,

As you all know, my computer is crapped out on me, first time these things have ever happened to me. I took all of your advice and decided to have a computer built rather then buy one from Alienware. I would also like to thank the members of *BK*, you saved me over four thousand dollars. I went to my local computer store and purchased parts to build a computer and it should be all ready to go by this comming week. I bought some exciting parts and I would like to share them with you...

Asus P6T Motherboard
Antec 1200 Gaming case ( 5 FANS )  ----- NO MORE HEAT
Corsair Ram Sticks (12 GB)
(2) GTX 285 Graphics Cards
Logitech G9 Mouse
Logitech G19 Keyboard
ThermalTake 120MM Cooling Fan  ------ Had to buy and extra to be safe
Antec TruePower Quattro Power Supply
WD 1 TB Drive
WD 500 GB Drive
Multifunction Card Reader
22x Sata DVD-RW


Most Important

Intel I-7 965 Processor  ----- Yes, Thats 3.2 Ghz

I think that heating issues were a thing of the past

THANKS BK

woah doby! i will never kill you now =[

nice build Doby

its not the rig thats nice, it was the budget you had

Dude thats a BIG RIG!!..Pretty much overkill for COD5..guess I'll have to play some Crysis with you now as you'll only be able to see a difference in that game!...It's all good tho...I like killing people via "MAXIMUM STRENGTH" as much as I do with my trusty .357!

holy cheese sauce, thats a SICK sounding rig, maybe someday when im done uni I can afford such a beautiful baby like that,

Thats one nice system Doby !!!!!

CONGRATULATION

WISH I KNEW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

I'M GLAD YOU WILL HAVE WHAT YOU WANTED

ON WITH THE GAMING

1) Will you be using a 64 bit version of windows?  If you are only using a 32 bit version 12 gigs is pointless.  32 bit versions can only see maybe 3.4 gigs of physical ram.
2) Try a Samsung Spinrite.  I sit on 2.5 terabytes of drive space, but my main windows drive is a Spinrite 500 gig.  Thing works like a champ with zero issues.
3) Is an SLI/Crossfire setup really needed?  A lot of games it doesn't make much of a difference.  But I dunno about in COD5.
4) If you can stand to wait another week.  Wait till the Microsoft Windows 7 public release candidate is out.  It is free and works for a year.  You could let the rest of us know how well it works for gaming. Or grab a copy which I am sure will be floating around certain places within a day or two anyway.

Nice  Doby.

yea onto what tetor said, SLI or crossfire has no impact on CoD5, performance wise, esspecially if your getting the gtx 285, seems like the money isnt an issue, but you can just wait a year or so and then get a 2nd Gtx 285 for a much cheaper price and then run crossfire or maybe you can get a thermaltake liquid cooling system instead of the 2nd gtx 285, they run for around 100$-200$

I must hate and envy you now...

I decided to go with SLI because I was looking down the road, it would be windows 64 bit as I am familiar with the ram issue.
I do not want to do liquid cooling because if you do not order it like that from a manufacture such as alienware it will often times void many warrenties, I chose to get enough fans to keep it running cool, I am also going to try to learn more autocad and possibly some sort of graphic design, but I mainly chose SLI because I do not want to be riding the curve, I want to be ahead of it, I hoped that when I purchased this system that it would be a little ahead for a bit and I wouldnt have to upgrade or change anything. I might also try running the windows 7 as a test for the gaming as it was mentioned earlier. I might also step up the hard drive a later date, depending on if I will need alot of room. COD5 has NO NEED for SLI, but I might move onto trying other things as well, but not games..... COD has me by the shirt now...

Doby

Doby just so you are aware.  I believe May 5th is the release date for the Windows 7 release candidate.  Though *cough* torrent sites should have it sooner, and I don't see there being a problem with that as it is free anyway.

I was thinking about installing it in place of XP on one of my laptops, wouldn't be doing any hardcore gaming on it though.

If SSD drives have stepped it up you might want to try one of those as a main drive.  I know they had issues with Vista at one point but I think that may have been fixed.  No idea on Windows 7 though.

And since we're on the subject of operating systems;  I have absolutely no problem with Vista.  In fact, if you set it up properly, it is more stable and faster than XP will ever be.  When I first tested it out I gave it a bad review because they had changed so many things.  Eventually I did a complete install though and learned it's inner workings.  It is now tweaked just how I like it and runs beautifully.

SWEET!