I hate to be a nay-sayer but not all grease is alike. Bad things happen when you buy cheap heatsync compound (it dissolves). Look at something like this: http://www.thermaltake.com/product/A...2150/a2150.asp

And if you want a kick *** case, with or without water cooling, look into something like this perhaps:
http://www.thermaltake.com/product/C...full_index.asp

I am not sure which one, but one of those will be my cases for my new PC this summer

 

well, every product has its retards.

i just modded my own case last time, i wont do it again. too much time and effort. im trying to find a pic of it now. those are nice cases.

this is the next case i will get for my gaming PC.

http://directron.com/xcruiserbk.html

 

the video cards are for later and the ram to but there ganna be Nvidia for sure. this is just to get started.

120GB is not even close to enogh. right know i have 860 GB. one of the HDD is going to my PS2 and one is staying in this pc and the other 3 to the new pc.

those are some cool cases.

Y dont maby of u use newegg??? here is the case for cheaper.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811144151

 

thanks, i am not buying it yet, but i do normally order most of my stuff from newegg as they are normally cheaper. i will do some price matching before i actually buy.

 

Regardless of what others may say, how cool you keep your CPU depends on how long and how well it will perform. Don't go cheap, buy something that will allow you to cool, and cool well, and if you want to overclock.

 

Didn't see it mentioned yet, but what OS are you going with?

Right now, 4G's of RAM can actually hinder performance. If you're gonna go with Vista, you're going to NEED no less than 2G's. Yes, you can run Vista on less, but then you're turning off eye candy and some of the features that make it a (apparently) superior OS to XP.

Food for thought...

 

you must be referring to the Aero theme. which is all the cool little accents and opaques and zoom ins and whatnot. its pretty cool, but i think it actually disables it automatically if your computer cant handle it based on the experience rating.

telgren, tell me about it. the case i modded had a fan in every place i could put one. 10 in all.

 

have not tried vista yet but i am ganna use Windows MCE 2005. i will dual-boot with vista to i juess to try it out.

 

You can put all the fans you want in a case, but if the air flow is not in the correct position its not doing a whole lot of good. Most people make huge mistakes in thinking that you just keep blowing air into a case and it will cool stuff off. The really good cases out there push air into the CPU yes, but they also have air pushing it out somewhere else. Look for a case that has a couple of fans that pull the hot air that rises out the top.

 

Not sure how stubborn people are on here about Mac's, but you can get a Mac Mini starting for $599.

1.66 Ghz Intel Core Duo
60GB Hardrive
DVD+/- DL/RW/R Superdrive
OSX 10.4 Tiger
iLife 2006

I have the $799 version (1.83 GHz Core Duo - 2GB RAM - 80GB Hardrive with 2 external 250GB hardrives), and it kicks my 3.5GHz PC in the *** with just about everything. (even games) You just have to get used to it. Give it a week, you'll never want to use Windows ever again. (Being I was a Windows user my whole life until a year ago. - I was just sick of the "send error report" message every 5 minutes.)

Unless you are a hardcore gamer, the Mac Mini is perfect. If you are the type of person willing to drop $600 on a graphics card, then maybe you should stick with a PC.

Just a suggestion on the Mac. People have no idea how great they are (and they usually bash them without even giving them an honest try).