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Feb 9, 2011 | 07:16 PM

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NateDieselF4i

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Originally Posted by Tremar

Well it definately is overkill if you ask me, what you have should perform plenty well.. I was going to build one for about 700 bucks in december with a gtx 460 then i ran into some financial issues

Yeah, I spend a little bit more than that. I'm sure it will be plenty tough for a few years.

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Originally Posted by redzintimidator

Run a raid 0 hdd array, youll be much happier with speed. Or a SSD for windows partition/programs and a regular hdd(or raid 0 array) for data

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OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Item #: N82E16820227551

and

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Western Digital Caviar Black WD6402AAEX 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Item #: N82E16822136544

Feb 9, 2011 | 07:18 PM

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Tremar

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Originally Posted by NateDieselF4i

Western Digital Caviar Black WD6402AAEX 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Item #: N82E16822136544

Where are the VelociRaptors at lol

Feb 9, 2011 | 07:40 PM

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Where are the VelociRaptors at lol

Figured no need with the SSD

Feb 9, 2011 | 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by NateDieselF4i

The gtx 580 is $500
radeon 6970 is $370
that was my primary motivation in that decision.

DC Online is my current game.

Diablo 3 i'm looking forward to and perhaps Guild Wars II

DCUO? Why didn't ya just grab the ps3 version like I did

Feb 9, 2011 | 07:54 PM

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Superdork admition. Here goes my reputation around here - I've been playing all my MMO's with the same 3 guys since Diablo 1.

Never actually met them in person however, but we all use Ventrilo to talk. Need the comp for that.

We play on the Zero Hour server fyi