My new Rig, Xmas and reward money come together to make something buetiful Options

[ORCACommander]

Hey all I got myself a new computer and built it by myself from scratch.
This is all of what I bought http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWi...Number=13934067
I got a mouse keyboard and monitor from an old hp pavillion my mom had. Interested in pics? here they are http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e35/amas...mputer%20Build/

My most taxing games atm are UT III and Company of Heroes. I have not tested UT III ingame yet but COH at highest settings with 4x AA never drops below 45 FPS

I have OCed the proc to 3.2 gigs and the gfx is 700/1728/1000

[Roani52]

Yeah, I know. But since I have the moneys for 2 GTX295s, a new PSU won't be a problem
It doesn't have a 8-pin PCIe connector, which is required for all High-End GPUs (which suck up power).
And I wanna get an i7, but well... I won't get permission for that either. And otherwise, my next CPU is going to be an Sandy or Ivy bridge (core 'i8').
8 Cores by default

[Sir Modsalot]

It doesn't have a 8-pin PCIe connector, which is required for all High-End GPUs (which suck up power).

Not really. The only graphics cards that require an 8-pin are the GTX 295, GTX 280, and Radeon HD4870X2. The 55nm GeForce GTX285 and GTX260 only need 2 6-pin connectors; same with the Radeon HD4850X2. Even after all that, graphics power requirements are quite exaggerated these days. It's entirely possible for my 400 watt Liberty to run a 9800GTX+ if I wanted and stay stable; it provides 40 amps combined and has the necessary dual PCI-e power connectors, something that no other 400 watt PSU has. That is, unless I also wanted to step up to a 90+-watt quad core.

This post has been edited by Sir Modsalot: Feb 1 2009, 09:02 PM