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Ninja Edit: Just Pulled The Trigger

Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:53 am

Epox EP-8NPA7I

EVGA 6800GS

Sempron 64 2800

Subtotal: $340.50

Also will be ordering a firewire card and 512MB RAM (ram for someone else)

Total budget is $400, but I think I'll blow it by $20 or so.

This has been a long saga, I've been pestering the SBA for days now. I was seriously considering an X850XT that Newegg has for ~$220.
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Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:24 am

Ewww, socket 754. I guess you can't beat the price though 8)
Seems reasonable to me though.
Any chance of picking up a second 512 stick?
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Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:28 am

Looks like it will work. Maybe you should sell your soul for this..$50 more :lol:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103424

Or the venice version for $2 more.
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Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:38 am

Usacomp2k3 wrote:
Any chance of picking up a second 512 stick?


flip-mode wrote:
(ram for someone else)


LicketySplit wrote:
Maybe you should sell your soul for this..$50 more


I would love to. I just can't do it. The wife is watching me like the Eye of Sauron :lol:
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Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:43 am

flip-mode wrote:

I would love to. I just can't do it. The wife is watching me like the Eye of Sauron :lol:


Tell her you will not drop the ring and will do the chores for a month..inclusively :lol:

Its a sickness ill tell you. Tell her youre drawn just like Frodo :wink:
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Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:49 am

LOL at Lickety. I put her through way too much already - she makes the cash while I go school!
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Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:09 am

He is going to throw his hands up soon and run around the room screaming ieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..why me :lol:
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Re: Finger on the trigger, will order within hours

Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:23 am

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Tell her you need all the CPU power possible for all those hard to calculate college math problems lol! :lol:


It's called overclocking. Keep it on the down-low though :wink:
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Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:30 am

There are upgrades, downgrades, and um, sidegrades. This has been a sidegrade most certainly, but with more prospects for the future: get to move to pcie and upgrade CPU if it seems worth it. The only real upgrade will be the 6800GS. I cry at the loss of the DFI board. And the XP-M for pete's sake.

I don't suspect I'll notice any difference between a Sempron 64 2800, which I will overclock, and the XP-M (@ 2.3)

Old system:
DFI NF2 Ultra Infinity
XP-M 2500
6800 128

New system:
Epox EP-8NPA7I
EVGA 6800GS
Sempron 64 2800

Old system sold for price of new parts plus I put it together for him, install all of his crap, and provide some degree of tech-support. He's happy, I'm happy.
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