05-19-2008, 02:14 AM
Quote:Just out of curiosity, what were the rest of your computer parts and would you have changed any of them if you had to do it again?
CoolerMaster CM690 case
Corsair 450VX power supply
Intel Q6600 with a Tuniq tower on it
WD 750 GB SATA hard drive
EVGA 8800GT
4 x 2 GB A-data DDR2 800
some Samsung DVD-R
I'm planning to buy a new sound card and a new mouse (MX 518 maybe), but I've been strangely unmotivated to spend money for the past few months.
I haven't had any hardware problems or regrets. My thought on the RAM was that in a few years if I could use the extra, it would probably be out of production and more expensive (at least new) than it is now. My thought on the quad core was that I can easily max 4 cores while mixing music. Only time will tell whether either of those thoughts had merit, but the prices were reasonable enough compared to my previous builds. What can I say about video cards... you spend a fortune today and tomorrow there will be a new one and a few weeks later another. Maybe you have the right idea always grabbing the previous gen cards as soon as the bottom drops out. If you do that with video cards and never buy a game until it is 6 months old, you'd save a ton of money on both ends, be able to run everything at max, and never pay $60 for a bad game...