Updated: Tech Olive’s Dream Rig
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 29th, 2009 at 10:14AM
New year, new dream rig. Many new changes. Check it out. Enjoy.
- Antec Twelve Hundred Full-Tower Case – $215
Still one of the best cases ever, and Antec just pwns.
- Thermaltake Toughpower 1,000W Power Supply – $320
1,000W should be plently.
- EVGA 132-BL-E758-A1 Intel X58 Motherboard – $300
DDR3 and Tri-SLI/Crossfire support.
- Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 3.2GHz CPU – $1,020
Our first Core i7 build. Uber fast.
- Noctua 120mm SSO CPU Cooler – $85
We were kind of limited due to the new LGA 1366 socket.
- Mushkin 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 Dual Channel RAM Kit – $330
You’re saying that 8GB is a waste? We don’t care.
- Dual Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 Video Cards – $920
We would’ve gone Triple but we had to leave room for the sound card.
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Sound Card – $140
Endorsed by Fatal1ty so we know it’s good.
- Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10000RPM SATA Hard Drive – $230
Not yet time for solid state.
- Dual Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drives – $340
Holy toboggan Batman! 2TB!
- LG Blu-ray SATA Burner – $230
Blu-ray will be more mainstream within the next couple of years.
- Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit – $180
Vista sucks, but so does XP 64-bit.
GRAND TOTAL: $4,310
AMD is really lagging behind. I really hope they get back on top soon. It doesn’t really matter I’ll never buy an Intel CPU. Why no solid state yet? I heard something about the bus speed being horrible or something…
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Why will you never buy a intel Lamilla?
Also, nice work Craig, wish I could have that system!
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I have my reasons.
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