Today the last two key components arrived: the graphics card and the OS. For the graphics card I went with the BFG 7900 GT OC. It’s a 256MB, 256 bit, PCI Express x16 card which uses Nvidia’s latest chip (24 pixel pipelines). It comes out of the box slightly overclocked, but I might end up taking it higher. And of course I might eventually pick up another one to run them in SLI.
As far as the OS, I went with XP Media Center. Pretty easy choice here – cheaper than XP Pro and added media playback features that will work great with the small touchscreen on the case.
Now let the build begin!
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Yet another box from newegg at my door today. This time it was the CPU and DVD burner. For the CPU I went with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+. It’s a dual core, 64 bit, 2.2 GHz (stock), with a meg of L2 Cache for each core. The included heatsink is actually a nice unit, too – we’ll see how it performs soon. My goal is to overclock this to 2.4 GHz that the 4800 chip runs at (which is $170 more).
Also in this shipment was a Lite-On DVD Burner. It’s 16x for DVD+/-R, 8x for dual layer, and 48x for CD-R. Oh, and it does Lightscribe direct disk labeling. A sweet buy at under $50.
Both items pruchased at newegg.com
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