Well good and bad news my motherboard died this weekend which sucks because I gotta buy a new one but it gives me an excuse to buy new shit which is always good. Anyway I ran a AMD 4200+ 939 socket chip and since you can't buy any new decent boards for it new anymore I figure hell might as well upgrade my system. I only have $650 max to spend on everything but I'm looking at the evga 680i board. I'm looking for a solid gaming motherboard with overclocking features and SLI. I hear its great for overclocking which I am definitely going to do. So give me some input on finding a better board for the money. Here is a little about my PC.
Parts already have:
Thermaltake 850 watt power supply
Cosmos 1000 case
2 x 320 GB Seagate hard drives in raid 0
evga 9800 gtx
Looking at adding:
Intel Wolfdale e8400 & evga 680i combo $364 ($20 mail in rebate)
OCZ Reaper ram $65 ($35 mail in rebate)
swiftech water cooling system $200
Total with shipping $648 on newegg
Also for those of you who know stuff about water cooling I'm thinking of going to it since we keep the air off and my PC is upstairs and its hot as hell here. I'm looking at this swiftech water cooling system and the benchmarks for it are pretty good and beat every other water cooling system I've seen it up against but I was wondering in the future I would probably add a cooler on my graphic card or cards in the future will the pump be strong enough to add stuff on to it later?
here is the link for the swiftech http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6835108076
Thanks for any help. Karma will come to people who help.
Parts already have:
Thermaltake 850 watt power supply
Cosmos 1000 case
2 x 320 GB Seagate hard drives in raid 0
evga 9800 gtx
Looking at adding:
Intel Wolfdale e8400 & evga 680i combo $364 ($20 mail in rebate)
OCZ Reaper ram $65 ($35 mail in rebate)
swiftech water cooling system $200
Total with shipping $648 on newegg
Also for those of you who know stuff about water cooling I'm thinking of going to it since we keep the air off and my PC is upstairs and its hot as hell here. I'm looking at this swiftech water cooling system and the benchmarks for it are pretty good and beat every other water cooling system I've seen it up against but I was wondering in the future I would probably add a cooler on my graphic card or cards in the future will the pump be strong enough to add stuff on to it later?
here is the link for the swiftech http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6835108076
Thanks for any help. Karma will come to people who help.
Last edited by pvtmoustacheride (2008-07-06 21:31:03)