Well, I finally got sick of my old slow computer so I'm building a new kick-ass one. It will be used for gaming, HD video editing, and Photoshop predominantly... The game I'm most looking forward to kicking some butt in is GTA4, and probably Crysis... :lol:
Just got the last of the components in today, will be putting it together tonight:
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l7...rBuild1of4.jpg
AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition- 3.0 GHz Quad-Core processor of fury! Once I get my water-cooling setup finalized (just need some tubing and non-conductive fluid) I'll be overclocking it to 3.5 GHz.
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l7...rBuild2of4.jpg
ASUS M4N72-E SLI Motherboard- Supports AMD Socket AM3/AM2+/AM2, built-in SATA RAID and 7.1 audio.
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l7...rBuild4of4.jpg
XFX GeForce GTX 260- 896MB on-board memory, 216 core processors of supreme kick-ass. Can't be beat for the price IMO, and I can go SLI in the near-future to double my graphics power. Also looking forward to CUDA/OpenCL support in the future for video re-encoding software and other stuff...
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l7...rBuild3of4.jpg
OCZ Platinum Edition 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR2 800 SDRAM- To make sure I don't run out using Photoshop, video editing, or playing heavy-duty games. The next logical step would have been 16GB I guess, but it would have cost 5x as much because I'd have to get 4-gig dimm's. I didn't want to go with DDR3 because of the price.