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My girlfriend and I are going to Recon2000 seeing as its about a mile from my house. Shes going to use my machine and im building a new one. I want to know what everyone thinks would be the best gaming buildout. The whole setup is going into a 2u or if possible a 1u rack box.(which is going to be powder coated CHROME)

My dual xeon server does play well and I can have every goddamn app I own open and not effect game performance. But the overall gaming performance of the machine is not what it could be.

So what is every ones advice.

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is this a money is no object type of thing?

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I would like to keep it under 񙇈-񙦘, since I really am going to build one.
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Sorry to say, but Xeons would be tottaly useless gaming wise. See they only run up to 833Mhz (I think) and those cost insanley more compared to a 833Mhz CuMine. Plus for gaming the large cache of the Xeons is pretty useless. So I would suggest getting like dual gig PIII's or better. Now for the rest that's simple

Proc's - Dual PIII 1Gig+
Mobo - ABIT VP6 (dual capability of course, and I think it has integrated RAID)
RAM - 512Mb's of 150 or 133 RAM (150 for OCing and 133 for not.) You really can't get too much RAM for Win2k.
Video Card - Geforce 2 Ultra (duh!)
Sound Card - SbLive! (again duh) platinum if you want
HD's - Extreme speed: 9Gb 15K Cheatah's (SCSI)
.......Mid : 75Gb Cheatah's (SCSI)
.......price/per.: multiple IBM Deskstar 75GXP 75Gb (IDE)

And the rest are not such obvious choices. Ethernet card (netgear, intel, or 3com.) Case. DVD. CD burner. Etc. Etc.

This is if you wanna spend good money and go dually if your not then that's a whole different MB and proc setup

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I'll see you at recon2k d00d! w00t!

oh also since its not till june u might as well wait for the geforce 3 and whatever new cpus come out by then

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Sorry to say, but Xeons would be tottaly useless gaming wise. See they only run up to 833Mhz (I think) and those cost insanley more compared to a 833Mhz CuMine. Plus for gaming the large cache of the Xeons is pretty useless. So I would suggest getting like dual gig PIII's or better.


Um....didnt I just get through saying that.

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My dual xeon server does play well and I can have every goddamn app I own open and not effect game performance. But the overall gaming performance of the machine is not what it could be.
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oh also since its not till june u might as well wait for the geforce 3 and whatever new cpus come out by then

With out a doubt, I will have a Geforce 3 but there really isnt that much time left. Feb is almost over and theres only 3 months left to the beginning of june. Theres no way Id want to jump into something like recon with out at least a months burn in and test time.

It would not be good to show up with a problem like the 赨 Athlon 650 and motherboard that would not work with the newly released Geforce Pro that I had. A motherboard that puts out 10 watts per socket and a Video card that needs to draw 16 watts isnt very compatable.(usually I do like to "SEE" my video not just a black screen)

So I need to get my ducks in a row.

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Your sig tells it all, hal0. Pentium 4? RDRAM?! You'd better check up on your dealer, that crack he's been selling you can't be good.
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problem with that system is that it has an mx and doesn't have klipsch pro media

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I was thinking of running more like 2 gigs of mem or whatever the max is for the particular board i get. Plus I already have a badass hookup for hardware. I just gotta decide what i wanna get. I could probably get it for half price.
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