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[Inferno]

Yeah. Having less space forces you to organize better and be more efficient anyways. I like that.

[Bodzilla]

Got a new puter.

my old one got struck by lightning.
Yeah dont trust surge protectors, because they are useless pieces of shit!

2.8 I7 Quad core (it's the old chipset but who cares)
4 gb dual channel ram and a
new motherboard to make use of it. (just one of the p55 ones)
and 700 OCZ power supply.

Looking at getting a 5850 to replace my 8800GTX down the track but as it is i already play all my favourite games (tf2 l4d UT3) on max settings anyway so not looking at one now, plus i wanna see what nvidia do.
Being my second time around upgrading i've decided to pretty well stick to mid range shit, Upgrading and getting new mo boards with the intel chip for example sounds like a good idea, but when it costs about an extra 400 bucks for the new motherboard and more expensive processor it just aint worth it.
90% of the time when it comes to upgrades you'll do over hauls anyway.
so you'll get a new CPU thats bigger and more powerful but requires a new motherboard to run it, so while your doing that you may as well take advantage of the new tech increase's with ram.
and if ya do this say once every 2 years you'll have unmatching chipsets and sockets anyway.

Foudn that out with my quad.
didnt really need the quad but i got it on the illusion that if i wanted to upgrade later on i'd already have a computer mother board that supported it, 2 years later i7's are coming out with completely different sockets and we are looking at 6-8 cores very soon.

It's beign built and it's driving me fuckign crazy, been 3 weeks already since my computer died but theres always little problems that keep slowing us down.
The new Motherboard was dead on arrival which sucked massive dick but unless theres something major i should have it next weekened.

woop.

[flibitijibibo]

Any sound card on that machine? Or was that for a friend's? (Just curious, what with the guitar stuff and all)

[Bodzilla]

yeah but it's coming later.

it'll be an elite pro

[Rook]

Any sound card on that machine? Or was that for a friend's? (Just curious, what with the guitar stuff and all)

you're going to love this one: sound cards can suck my ballz

[Inferno]

you're going to love this one: sound cards can suck my ballz

Every rig I've ever owned.

Integrated sound.

In short. IAWTP.

[flibitijibibo]

He needed it for his guitar/bass/band. Elite Pro console, etc.

[Inferno]

So do any of you guys know anything about www.ballisticgamingpc.com ?

They seem legit to me and my parents say there going to order tomorrow.

[Cojafoji]

yes they're legit, and they have reasonably priced (20% - 25%) retail gaming computers. it'd be cheaper if you built it yourself, but your parents are psycho.

[Bhamid]

I was looking around and apparently ATI 5 series cards can do something with Dolby True HD or something through their HDMI, so does that make it a sound card or does it still use the integrated decoder?