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FPSLabs Home: Intel High-End system

By: Christian Koebel - Published November 05, 2005 at 7:03 PM EST - Writer Archive
This system is designed for a good time, but it doesn't come cheap.







High-End Intel System






































































Part



Name Price

CPU



Intel Core2 E6700

$530.00

Motherboard



Abit AW8D $169.99

Video Card



XFX 7950GX2

$609.00

RAM



2GB G.Skill DDR 800

$148.49

HDD



Western Digital 320GB 16MB Cache

$105.99

Optical Drive



BenQ DVD-RW LightScribe Burner

$36.49

Case




Antec P180 ATX case

$119.99

Sound Card




SB X-Fi XtremeMusic

$81.99

Power Supply




Antec NeoHE 550W

$118.00



Total:


$1919.94

Possible Upgrades:

Replace Core2 E6700 with Core2 X6800 (+$469.00)

Replace Western Digital 320GB HD with Western Digital Raptor 150GB (+$154.00)

Replace Antec 550W with OCZ GameXtreme 700W
(+$51.99)





Total after upgrades: $2594.93



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AMD for the win!
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Horrible Selections. Why add a SLI mobo if you are not going to setup the SLI configuration. Also for $30 more you can configure a total of 160GB RAID 0 for increased perforamnce. Especially in a 2$K system.
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raid-0 have over-hyped advantages.
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AMD FTW

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