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RE: Time for a new computer :D
You know, why don't you macfags go visit a gay bar or something where you can discuss your love for cock in all the detail you require?

Anyway, why don't we get back to talking about Th3rmal's PC's specs like he intended when he posted this thread?

Th3rmal: Your set up is pretty much exactly mine, which I bought a few weeks ago. The i7 920 is lovely, and with 6GB of DDR3 RAM and Windows 7 x64 it flies. Only one consideration, based on a friend's recent purchase of a similar system (also i7 920, no overclocking): he found during heavy gaming the stock cooler wasn't sufficient for cooling the CPU, so you might want to invest in a better heatsink.

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Th3rmal: Your set up is pretty much exactly mine, which I bought a few weeks ago. The i7 920 is lovely, and with 6GB of DDR3 RAM and Windows 7 x64 it flies. Only one consideration, based on a friend's recent purchase of a similar system (also i7 920, no overclocking): he found during heavy gaming the stock cooler wasn't sufficient for cooling the CPU, so you might want to invest in a better heatsink.
Ah thanks for that, hadnt considered that. Is it possible to get a better heatsink for around $50AUD?
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RE: RE: Time for a new computer :D
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Th3rmal: Your set up is pretty much exactly mine, which I bought a few weeks ago. The i7 920 is lovely, and with 6GB of DDR3 RAM and Windows 7 x64 it flies. Only one consideration, based on a friend's recent purchase of a similar system (also i7 920, no overclocking): he found during heavy gaming the stock cooler wasn't sufficient for cooling the CPU, so you might want to invest in a better heatsink.
Ah thanks for that, hadnt considered that. Is it possible to get a better heatsink for around $50AUD?

Yeh, http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/default.php?page=1&cPath=75   :P
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Th3rmal: Your set up is pretty much exactly mine, which I bought a few weeks ago. The i7 920 is lovely, and with 6GB of DDR3 RAM and Windows 7 x64 it flies. Only one consideration, based on a friend's recent purchase of a similar system (also i7 920, no overclocking): he found during heavy gaming the stock cooler wasn't sufficient for cooling the CPU, so you might want to invest in a better heatsink.
Ah thanks for that, hadnt considered that. Is it possible to get a better heatsink for around $50AUD?

Yeah, as Discrate's post shows, any decent non-stock cooler isn't particularly expensive, and does a better job of cooling.
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DDR3 is triple channeled? Didn't know that myself :|
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Well in about 9 hours time I will hopefully be getting all the parts (assuming they havent run out of anything, last time I called they didnt have  my gfx card but they said they might be getting some in that day), and assembling it, once its done ill tell you how it is :P
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Ok.
Thanks for your support :P

Anyway, I did it, I bought and assembled my new computer.

I had to get a cheaper brand of my gfx card (they didnt have the one I wanted in) and bought a Thermaltake M9 case instead.

Either way, its awesome :P Still dont have win7 till tomorrow tho (well I have 32 bit, just not 64 bit yet)

Will post results on how it performs!
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DDR3 is triple channeled? Didn't know that myself :|
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DDR3 is triple channeled? Didn't know that myself :|
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the clue's in the 3

to be fair, apparently dual channel ddr3 chipsets are available, but the i7 isn't one of them. so I guess the fact that most ddr3 equipment is triple channel isn't so much the spec, but rather just convention. I wouldn't be surprised if the decision to go primarily triple channel from intel/etc had something to do with the fact that it's ddr version 3, though.
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