[Kenjii]

Originally Posted by alex

Very well spec'd.

Superb hdd (I have the same) runs quiet and cool.

Good balance overall, especially if combined with a 1680x1050 tft. It'll kill anything thrown at it on the 1280x1024 monitor you've spec'd though. Might want to think about a 320mb version of the 8800 though, as the 640mb version is overkill for that screen.

But swap out the P5-B for a P5-K and make use of the 1333mhz fsb the cpu is capable of. Shouldn't cost you much more, if at all. But if you take my recomendation regarding the card you'll still save money overall.

Thanks! I did change it before i posted this, just forgot to metion it
This is my new: http://www.inno3d.com/products/graph...f8/8800gts.htm

[SKyR!D3]

no im just one of these strange people that like a fresh install every so often. Although as i dual boot xp and vista and have all of my files stored on a seperate partition its not really that hard for me.

[Kenjii]

From the Norwegian friend at the forum which created the setup.

As for the hard drive, I somewhat disagree, and agree as well. Samsung
is well known for their products of quality, especially in the hard drive section.
Several tests show that Samsung is well up there on the top of price/performance,
but also among so many. As I have a very good experience with Samsung, I recommend it to everyone. All my hard drives are very quick, I've never had any dead hard drive yet through the years, as well as having some really good temperatures compared to other ones. As for the talk about the Raptor X, it is by far the thing I would never buy. As a very proper test from the largest page in Norway with news within the computer world shows, it would might be worth it, if the price changed radically. Tests show that the difference is not that big, the biggest difference I’d say is the sound; A noisy hard drive that costs much to much and does not give the performance by the price. If we take a look at the CPU marked these days, you can see that AMD is really pushing the Athlon 64, and it makes me think why such great performance underestimated CPUs can do this, but Raptor X won’t move a penny on the price. I paid 238 pounds when I bought my 4200+ AM2, and I can barely believe my own eyes when I see that it costs 51 pounds these days. All because of Intel suddenly being with CPUs much greater than AMD at the marked (C2D). And the motherboard, for my defense I am saying that this is just something I chose quickly, it is cheap and good. I am not right at the high-end of knowing what is the best within motherboards at the moment, as the marked has really exploded in the last couple of weeks now. It can get to much some times.
Regards from just an normal forum helper from Norway

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

the "samsung spin point" is a hard drive also we call the screen card a graphics card, but thats just some english for you


personally i dont like samsung.. they make good phones but i think they should stay outta computers an tvs


although their phone baterys die easily.......

[Hybr!d]

Originally Posted by 4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie

but i think they should stay outta computers an tvs

They make TVs that get some pretty good reviews actually, definetely top gear.

[hAvAAck]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

They make TVs that get some pretty good reviews actually, definetely top gear.

out of all the TVs we've ever owned, samsung was the best.

[alex]

Do you get the feeling that, between us, we've kinda hijacked this thread

[Hybr!d]

Thread 0wN3D.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

They make TVs that get some pretty good reviews actually, definetely top gear.

hmm.. ok they dont make them big enough for me though

(youre probably gonna come back and say they make the biggest TV available...but oh well...

[alex]

Those women are 7" tall by the way........