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really any processor with decent speed would be solid. if you figure 8gb of RAM is like 50$ and a decent motherboard is around a hundred, that gives you between 175 and 225 to spend on a CPU and still have cash for tax and shipping. you should be able to find an i5-3570 for around 210$, which is a quad at 3.4ghz, and is Ivy Bridge so it's as new as it gets. if you want below that, there's a ton of sandy bridge models around that price too. spend a bit more and you can get a quad with hyperthreading, which is eight cores and even better. you won't need a cooler unless you're folding or something that's multi-core AND long-term. the normal cooler should be good if you use real thermal compound. i recommend intel for music purposes, since they just blow away amd in most price/performance metrics. for RAM i usually use G.SKILL - their 2x4gb kits are great in terms of performance and i've never had one crap out on me. for a board, msi sells an H77 board (the G43 i think) for well under a hundred that's pretty solid. it can't be overclocked but is a great board and msi's cheaper offerings tend to be pretty nice. i have been impressed with their sub-100$ offerings recently.

the hardware or the dressings?

first track is still one of my favorite chillout tracks on my ipod.

mine's 'mailed' via email as of yesterday...check your mail, dude!

mine's fully digitally mailed, so i'll send it out as soon as i remember when i'm home. having a newborn just makes you forget everything else

9800GT will run on basically any PCI-E 2.0 slot, and should run on PCI-E slots as well. How much are you looking to spend? RAM is cheap - if you don't know why you'd want better RAM than just G.SKILL's standard 2x2gb or 2x4gb packages, you shouldn't get it - but there's lots of options for other stuff.

this is pretty awesome. i'm enjoying it.

there isn't two deal threads. one's a history of builds and computer questions, and one's a specific deal that i am running. similar topics but definitely not the same thing.

kenogu labz got a slightly modified version of the first system in the thread, in a storm scout case. check it out here. there are dancing cats!

i just want to point out that it's super hilarious how everything goes full circle. someone quoted neblix in this thread a few posts back as their guy that they learned computer stuff from. neblix learned from me. it's the ciiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiife! anyways, COMPOOTAHS -------- http://i.imgur.com/Do3dz.jpg sorry for the crappy picture - my phone's camera is only kinda ok. this one's clearer but smaller. modular PSUs are just so expensive nowadays for what you get. i could have done more cleanup but wanted to leave it a bit loose for additional stuff down the line. also, those cronos SDDs are fantastic. i've got a video of it restarting - that is, from windows to off back to windows again - in under 25s, after graphics drivers and everything are installed. not bad at all. my only complaint is that they lack the nubs that allow for snap-in SATA connectors to stay connected no matter what. it might have been my cable, too, so maybe they're flawless =) really a nice tight system. the only issue i encountered was that i underquoted the shipping cost by almost 40$ (40lbs to washington is apparently more than 40lbs to ohio ), but kenogu was nice enough to cover the difference. he can post specs if he wants. edit: yes, those are cats dancing around sheet music. a friend of my wife's family made a quilt when we were married. i build computers on it.

there are some kick-ass games on there, though, so it's not THAT bad =) DA:OU will be pretty sick, as is ruse and SoaSE. and they'll run like butter on that system when i finally get to build it!

if we have questions for our person, should we send them to wes, or what?

i still play. my username is prophetikmusic.

i didn't get a pm if we're supposed to.

doug, if i got you, i'd want to get you percussion stuff. you should clarify with what you actually don't have. i'm not buying you a black swamp tambourine or something, but maybe i can find some metals you don't have or something.

i should post some interests. i play league of legends, eve online, and a bunch of other random console things. i don't really have any games i want for consoles, but i am interested in pokemon conquest if anyone wants to splurge on a real game (not really keen on most other ds games, i've played most of them). i have an xbox, so live points is a positive if you want something simple. i have a blu-ray player, so i'm always up for blu-rays. it might be worth checking to see if i have it already. i like explosions (a la Avengers) and intrigue (a la The Prestige). along the line of games, i love card games and the like, particularly economy games like catan and dominion (i own no expansions!) and cooperative games like flashpoint. beyond that, i like game-y stuff. i'm 26 and married and a Christian so not everything's really appropriate when it comes to gamer clothing and the like (i'm a mens L/XL depending on the day) but i still like a lot of it. i'm not a huge fan of memorabilia, but if it's something stuffed and cute and able to be nom'd by a baby, well, i've got one of those on the way before christmas, so that's totally cool. i like whiskey but don't own a good whiskey glass or any stones, so that would be a cheap cool thing. i also love love love bawls guarana, in the blue pebbled bottle (as anyone who knows me from mag knows, i'd blow 20-30$ on the stuff every MAGFest because i don't get it elsewhere). my wishlist at amazon is here.

i would love to participate. i have had fun with this the last two years and while i don't have a ton of liquid cash i am still interested =)

anyone else interested?

anyone who wants to pay me something fair, it's yours. you can use it with steam if you want. first to respond gets it. i don't need the whole preorder price but a reasonable amount is appreciated.

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01357/ also, pandora's got some solid stuff if you look under 'new age ambient' or something like that. owen won't be sleeping for very long at one time for a while anyways =)

awwww, i missed that computer. zoltan, i banish you! intel. there are a ton of awesome CPUs for cheap in the intel space. amd is hot, inefficient, and slow, and you are basically wasting money if you're going for the same performance envelope as intel. G.SKILL is the only ram i bother to buy. it's cheap as balls. don't worry about the speed unless your board can't handle 1600mhz. if you actually want to overclock your CPU - which i wouldn't bother with unless you really know enough to bother with it - spend the cash on an awesome CPU that's unlocked (the "k" designation). your cpu is the only thing drawing power in a build without a big graphics card, and even an overclocked mega-cpu ain't taking more than maybe 300w total from the wall. look in the 400-450w range. look for the 80+ label for efficiency. corsair, silverstone, and a few others make nice PSUs in that range. you should be spending roughly 40-50$ for that size. ignore cheap crap. shoot me a mail with your pricing level that you're looking for and i'll see what i can work up for you to build.

yeah, we're kind of pinching pennies ATM too for the same reason - although linnea's got another month till the due date. you never know what the holidays bring. let me know when it's time, bardic =)

quiet little bump. i've had a few people inquire about systems, but they want to change the builds some. that's totally fine! i'm cool with adjusting for whatever you want, like if you want to go a step down on the graphics card, or you want to add hard drives, or something. just let me know and i'll tell you roughly what it'd cost. i also use different cases if you want. those were just a few demos.

i'm agreeing with your point, not going around it. that's why i think that either an existing trilogy close to ROTJ - like the thrawn trilogy or (to a lesser extent) jedi academy or the x-wing series - or a few books immediately following the end of ROTJ, like Courtship of Princess Leia, Bakura, or I Jedi - would be awesome picks. they're still SW as we know it, they introduce some baseline characters that can be worked with in other movies to provide a transitional point between the old and the new and the newer, and they've still got recognizable symbols - the Empire, the Rebels/Republic, all the main characters, etc - that are easy to pick up on without losing anything big. you can't go too far into the EU before you start hitting the wall, but there's a lot of content right after the fall of the empire that would be worthwhile to get into. as much as i'd love to see the corellian trilogy or the black fleet crisis in-film (and black fleet is perfect if you want a rawer, more adult set of films), it's never, ever going to happen. i know they're going to pull a Star Trek and spin off in some new direction, complete with children's books and action figures, but i can hope, can't i?

i hope they just pick up and option something awesome and self-contained, like the thrawn trilogy. slice out some of the garbage and you've got a pre-made three-movie set with the ability to have another two in the duology. it lets them develop new characters for future movies in mara, pellaeon, the noghri, and karrde, it introduces a whole new side to the universe for a lot of people...there's a lot to like there. they could also go the safe route and do something like the Truce at Bakura, I Jedi, or any number of *freaking awesome* solo books. or go with the x-wing or wraith squadron novels, all of which are basically pre-made for episodic release. i would be surprised if they rebooted the series, particularly with the enormous amount of effort and development that the Unifying Force series, legacy of the force, and especially the fate of the jedi series. there's just too much material there, and half of it is recent within the last 4-6 years.