Quote Originally Posted by Crinale
bu-rays are what, 50gb each?
Dual layer ones are, but they're about $10/disc right now. Single layer ones are 25GB, and only about $1.00/disc.

Quote Originally Posted by lee
personally i'd rather pay more for ddr3 ram and have a quad core processor

Just a matter of opinion, but to me building a pc is to do 2 things:

1) guarantee the parts are good
2) get the most performance for the money

I'm not sure you're doing the latter. For what is in the end not so much more money, you could have more processor threads available in addition to faster ram.
When I built the machine DDR3 ram was significantly more expensive (around triple), plus I would have had to get a Core i7 processor (more expensive), and Core i7 mobo (more expensive). All of that is more reasonable now, but at the time it would have been more than twice as much. In case you missed it, I built this box in Jun 2009 I ended spending about $800, which is not too shabby for what this thing can do.

Quote Originally Posted by lee
Anyway, looking like a nice build so far man, hope she turns out good! More pics of the box itself are needed!
This it is where it sits right now, it's our media machine and my gaming machine.

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