New gaming rig

[Johnny Grenade]

Built a new gaming rig this weekend. Here's what I ended up with. Plays great.

ANtec Nine Hundred case. $79
ANtec TruPower Trio 550 $69
GigaByte GA-P35-DS3L $93
Kingston HyperX 2GB DDR2 PC-8500 (1066) $94
Intel e8400 Wolfdale Core2Duo 3GHz,6MB L2 $225
Pioneer SATA DVD burner $59
Total: $619 + Tax

I reused the Graphics card and Hard drive from my old setup.

eVGA 8800 GTS 320MB PCI-ex
Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM 74GB

Here is a link to what the chassis looks like.
www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=15900

[unisol]

Sweet. Nice rig man.

Does the faster RAM help out? I ordered some real low latency DDR2800 RAM. I hope it doesn't hold me back.

[Johnny Grenade]

Im real happy with it. I recently shrunk a DVD and was amazed at how the new Intel cores slice through that task. Way better than my dual core AMD did. I can see why Intel focused on optimizing for compression algorithms. Also dont have the problem with locking a game to one core like I did on my dual 4800.