Recent content by Lyan

Though I have not had a chance to test it out since mine is shipping to me right now, a few people from these boards as well as others recommended XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler. Thats another 20 off of your total price. As a last question though, why did you choose that case? Are...

Rosewill RP550-2 ATX12V v2.01 550W Power Supply - 56.99 or for 10 $'s more and 50 more watts Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W SLI Ready Both are rated really well and I think the 600W one would serve you well even if you bumped to SLI. Also both of them are about half of what the avg price of...

Thanks for the suggestions calvary1980, and thanks for the welcome. I think I'll definitely go with the heat sink, from what I've read about it it seems very good. About the memory though, I do want to stick with 4GB and they mentioned earlier that sticking to 2x2GB sticks would probably be best...

Thanks for the replys, I've been doing a lot of looking around and weighing the value of certain things and weather or not I really need them. Long story short I dropped the new case, PSU, and the heat sink. I think I may opt for a E8400 instead of a Q6600 and get the above recommended heat...

Hello guys, I'll start off with the basic guiding ideas behind my system build. First is that I'm trying to keep it fairly budgeted; under or kind of close to 1000 dollars. Second, my main focus for this build is primarily video editing and graphic design, but still capable of gaming. Third...