Building my first rig

[Cobra6]

Well I got my Koolance PC3-426 case and waterblocks today. I am going liquid cooled on the CPU, Northbridge, RAM, graphics card and hard drive.

Here are the Specs for this beast:

Abit Fatal1ty AA8Xe Socket 775Mother Board
Intle P4 561 3.6ghz 1MB Cache 800 MB FSB Socket 64T
GeForce PCI Express 7800 GT OC w/ 256MB GDDR3
4 GB of Corsair DDR2 RAM
250 GB Seagate Hard Drive
HP Lightscribe DVD R / RW
Plextor CD/RW
And powering this beast is a Enermax 600 watt power supply.

Photos to follow as soon as I get it together

[WardenMac]

Good grief, why not just add another 600 or so and go with dual vid cards too 

[Cobra6]

Actually thought about it. The Vid card I have supports dual vid cards...need another 300 bucks.

[Whisper_44]

Just work some more OT? It's not like you are busy playing online with us or anything?

Seriously, sounds like a fine rig, I'm jealous

[Cobra6]

Here is the bare bones case.

[WardenMac]

Thats a helluva gaming rig for someone that dont game anymore, lol. Looks good man.

[toyski_kb]

i did the same thing, spoiled myself by building a tower
thermaltake chassis 20x9x22  w/ one 80mmfan,  two 90mm, and two 120mm fans
DFI LanParty mobo, AMD 2.8ghz 64bit (amd first time user -love the power it posses)
two XFX 7800gtx pci-e (i JUST got the second one)  OC'ed out the ass of course
4gb OCZ DDR - timing: 2-3-2-5
one 500gb SATA HDD, two 147gb SCSI HDD's
600w SLI Ready silverstone Power Supply

= $6k inclduing what is not included
proof of pic's an be provided ^   

i do want to go with the exos-2 liquid cooling, but the damn thing is already so cold.  Im really mad how i thought of this great idea back in highschool, which is by submerging it into some kind of conductency - - > just didnt think of cooking oil http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans/
only took two months to pay off, 8hrs of labor, and a bottle of canadian whiskey
wow, i went overboard, and ffs its hard to burn it out on virtual memory =D
i can barely even see cobra using his entire 4gb of ddr

annnnnnd finally got a bulb for the lcd projector (if you like the family to whatch while sitting anywhere in the room, i recommend on investing in one)

[toyski_kb]

and dont forget the 7.1 Crtv SndBlstr Card  w/ my home made 7.1 surround sound and sub woof's

[Cobra6]

It runs at a cool 88 degrees when I am not gaming. With BF2 and turbo mode...106 degrees. Turbo mode is overclocing the processor to 3.8ghz with Abits "Guru" software. Makes overclocking very simple (though it was not hard before). BTW...one of the RAM chips was bad, so I only have 3 ghz's of RAM. Bad ram chip is hard to detect.

[ogre_h]

That lightscribe a Dual Layer burner? If not, I'd recommend getting one. NEC and Pioneer make 'em for around $40. I use a Pioneer DVR-110D in my G5 and an NEC ND3540A in my PC.
You may also want to get just a straight DVD/CD player (no burning) because some backup CDs can't play in burners.
Other than that, it looks like a real nice system. What sound card?

[Cobra6]

Lightscribe burns DVR's as well as CDR's plus you flip the special DVD over and it laser etches the other side for a better looking cd.

[Cobra6]

Here she is from the side

[toyski_kb]

Hah, oh dont worry, i was only kiddin'.

[WardenMac]

Looks like a borg

[Cobra6]

You are right! I am going to name it 1 of 5 

[BTs_GhostSniper]

Here she is from the side

It's scary shit like that inside of PC's that will forever keep me buying Apple Macintosh Computers. 

[WardenMac]

LMAO, I hear ya on that. He better not spring a leak. Now if he could figure out a way to send cold beer through that thing with a nozzel on top  . Now that would be a machine 

[Suicide_Commando]

Sweet looking gaming rig Cobra. Maybe now you can get more kills than deaths in BF2.   

And figures you'd like a kegerator/PC Mac.    That might be a good idea for a business...

[DarK.]

Yeah, I want to build my own MAC one day... just need a good job and about 5 k or so.... While I'm dreaming I'd like a pony.