05-18-2008, 10:26 PM
When I built my system in January, I went with the same Gigabyte motherboard you are looking at now. To go with a SLI capable system at that time, I would have had to spend almost twice as much on the motherboard, and seriously considered a bigger power supply. So it is $100 to $200 in additional costs for the barebones, and you still haven't bought the second graphics card yet. To that I said, no thanks.
Regarding the cases, even a somewhat loud computer today is so much quieter than the things people were building about 5 years back with 80mm and sometimes even 60mm fans all over the place. The first time I tried to POST my new system, I forgot to plug my monitor to the power outlet, and the system was so quiet that I thought it had failed when it was actually still running.
Regarding the cases, even a somewhat loud computer today is so much quieter than the things people were building about 5 years back with 80mm and sometimes even 60mm fans all over the place. The first time I tried to POST my new system, I forgot to plug my monitor to the power outlet, and the system was so quiet that I thought it had failed when it was actually still running.