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Old 03-18-2008, 03:12 AM
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Could someone tell me if these parts are all compatible.

Case: Apevia X-Jupiter Full Tower Gaming Server w/ Temp Display and Fan Control 420 Watt Power
Power Supply: CoolerMaster Unit 600 Watts eXtreme Power - SLI Supports
CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 8MB L2 Cache 64-bit
Motherboard: EVGA nForce 780i SLI Mainboard FSB1333 DDR2 3 x PCIe x16 SATA RAID w/ USB2.0,IEEE1394,&7.1Audio
Memory: PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory
Video Card: 2x NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express
By the way I'm buying this from Cyberpower and the end product is going to be around 2000 dollars with monitors.
If you have any suggestions for hardware please just tell me.
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hehe, its really not that easy to just look at something and tell if its compatible. Becuase even if some of them are problems can still arise. Your pretty good with the power supply, it will pretty much be compatible with anything most* of the time. Video cards are really iffy with the monitors so its best to go to the manufacture and see if they have lists on all the compatible video cards. But for the rest they all seem fine but if you want to be 99.9 % positive that they are all compatible together* then you would need to go to the manufacture sites like i said and look around to see if you can find which things are compatible and which are not. Note* make sure you dont use anything from Maxtor or Western Digital, thier products suck and arent good in the long run. Also one more thing, on the net, google is your BEST friend, you can find most answers on google. try giving it a hit and i most guarentee that you will find success
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I would get a 1000W psu mate, you need all the power you can get these days and you would want to make sure your computer is some what future proof, also I wouldnt bother with the 8800GT, try the GTX or the Ultra there a little more money but you will notice the different before you even turn the computer on (yes there that good)

also how much ram are you looking to gettting, 2GB min, and i think the 780i can hold 8GB (im getting the same card)

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Everything looks pretty compadible. I give you two thumbs up, but...
I would recommend a 1000W PSU as well, that way you don't have to worry about not getting enough juice to those 8800 GTs. The 780i is a really good board, too bad they just released the 790i . I definitely love mine, just be careful about the two SATA ports on the low end of the board, because I think I broke mine... As for a hard drive, Wester Digital is half-way descent. I have one of their 320 GB and it still going strong after two years of abuse.
Do you know what OS you're going with yet? I would recommend Vista HP/Ultimate 64-bit(if you can afford it). I have the HP 32-bit and didn't realize it until after I had it installed. But anyway, it runs great on my setup; no errors, no BSD, nothing. I really like it, but the choice is definitely yours on whether to get it or not. If you do end up getting either one with 64-bit, you should get at least 4 gigs of ram to get it to run smooth.
I would also have to agree with megatron21 on the 8800 GTX/Ultra. If you get either of them, you have the capability of using that 3-way bridge someday, which is what I'm planning on doing someday(when I get the cash ). Also, it just seems like a waste to not utilize the 3-way on that mobo, seeing at that is what is was designed to do. But I suppose it wouldn't be if you had another card to use in that third PCI-E x16 slot.
If either the GTX or the Ultra is out of your price range, just stick with the GTs. I have a friend that just has one and it runs Crysis on high with no problem, so really you're doing a good job with two GTs.
One more thing, DON'T buy any Lite-On DVD drives. I got one off of TigerDirect.com thinking I was going to be able to run Crysis right off the bat... guess again. It acted like there was a piece of tin foil in the drive, and didn't read the disc at all. My friend an I did a little research and found that it just so happened that that particular drive can't read Crysis disks. It really isn't too big of a deal if you're using it for anything else, but if you're a heavy duty gamer like me, it really sucks. I ended up having to go buy another drive just so I could run Crysis. But yeah.
Anyway, that's my two cents. Hope you have fun on your build!
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