My New Setup! (Comments Welcome!)

My budget is around $100.

I wanted to go Lian-Li, but unfortunately none of the cases in my range had a window and good air cooling potential. I think I'm going to buy a NZXT Lexa case.
 
I have one, and it's fine with air cooling!

Lovely case. Only downfall, even thinking about touching it leaves fingerprints, LoL.
 
Sounds amazingly like my setup...:D ;) The G.Skill RAM model -GBNQ is pretty good for me, had a gig of GBNR sitting around at the same speed that was on par but the second gig of GBNR was scheisse:mad: by itself or with its partner kept me at 360FSB, while the first allowed a 412FSB by itself (3.7GHz). Unfortunately trying to run asymmetric with the GBNQ's and the good GBNR still kept me locked down to 360FSB, blows chunks so I went back to just 2GBs of RAM until I can grab another set of GBNQ sticks to test my overclocking with 4GBs again.:rolleyes:

Lian Li is pretty nice but pricey... I'd go with a good NZXT, Cooler Master or Thermaltake. The Antec 900 seems to be popular as well. From what I've seen of $100 cases on Newegg its a tough middle ground; you either go with a $50 case and mod it for better cooling/aesthetics, or a $150+ case where they're pretty good out of the box. One thing I wish all case makers would do is give a little more room between the right side of the mobo and the HDD/Floppy/Optical Drive area, most are too cramped to run wires or hook up side-facing SATA/Floppy/IDE connectors, not to mention taking the mobo in and out when upgrading/troubleshooting. Falcon Northwests ICON case has the right idea.:worship: I'll spend a few minutes looking at the Egg again to see what else they got. (Performance-pcs.com is another good place to look for exotic parts/cases if you haven't checked them out.)

TJS

EDIT: Been checking out Newegg.com, here's an interesting case for $85 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811290001. It actually reminds me a lot of my NZXT Zero with the difference being the huge front fan instead of a 120mm, and a huge fan on the side door instead of 4x120mm fans... and $65 cheaper. :] (I'm not a big fan of 'cool looking' cases, but this doesn't exactly fall under the 'Transformer' lot so I give it my approval. ;] )
 
lol, it ain't the prettiest but it is functional, and I said it was an 'interesting' find... Vader can accept or reject it as he will. The only thing questionable about it would be its durability, and my NZXT is pretty good so I imagine it is as well ($5 says the APlus and my NZXT are designed and manufactured by the same company;) ). And good looks usually come with a higher price tag, unless you want to make a project out of it... and time equals money, so you're paying for it any way you look at it.

TJS
 
Ok so this is my plan, lemme know how you guys feel bout this:

Right now buy this:

P35 Mobo

E6600

8800 GTS 640

2GB ddr2 800

Later on(2-3years?):

New P35 Mobo

DDR3

New CPU?

Prolly new GFX card to....bah

this plan sucks.

Maybe I should just get a 965 and an e6600 and upgrade to P35 and quad in a year or so?

Smarter?

Also posted on the other thread...
 
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