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Andrew, unfrotunately no I can't get you a key :D I was one of the first 2000 to activate my beta key when Kane's Wrath was released, hence how I got in. You are welcome to come round for a gander if you wish... Might even be able to hook you up with my key for you to play, so long as you aren't on when I want to get on :worship:

Managed to become part of the Red Alert 3 beta for anyone who cares. Pretty fun and the whole naval base building adds a whole new twist to things, pretty good so far IMO

ey mate yea i got in to, havnt started playin yet have been busy building some computers for people. Hopefully get onto it on the weekend. How is it any good??

guys what do you think of this build??

i've had my pc for over 3 years now and i think it's time for an upgrade. i figure i'll keep the same case, burner, keyboard, mouse, and probably move a hdd over.

please tell me asap as i'll go pick it up from all needs in the morning.

GA-EP45-DS4P $191

INTEL E8500 $210

WD WD6400KS 640 GB $94

cORSAIR TWIN2X4096-6400c5 4GB $139

Thermaltake TR2 RX 550W $97

Gigabyte HD4870 512mb $366

ohh also am i able to take my current vista home premium OEM and install in on the new pc without any hassles? what i mean is will it still activate as it's a totally different pc or will it be all good?

thanks.

guys what do you think of this build??

i've had my pc for over 3 years now and i think it's time for an upgrade. i figure i'll keep the same case, burner, keyboard, mouse, and probably move a hdd over.

please tell me asap as i'll go pick it up from all needs in the morning.

GA-EP45-DS4P $191

INTEL E8500 $210

WD WD6400KS 640 GB $94

cORSAIR TWIN2X4096-6400c5 4GB $139

Thermaltake TR2 RX 550W $97

Gigabyte HD4870 512mb $366

ohh also am i able to take my current vista home premium OEM and install in on the new pc without any hassles? what i mean is will it still activate as it's a totally different pc or will it be all good?

thanks.

parts are fine , only thing id change is the PSU , get a corsair HX620 , better quality and it is modular

guys what do you think of this build??

i've had my pc for over 3 years now and i think it's time for an upgrade. i figure i'll keep the same case, burner, keyboard, mouse, and probably move a hdd over.

please tell me asap as i'll go pick it up from all needs in the morning.

GA-EP45-DS4P $191

INTEL E8500 $210

WD WD6400KS 640 GB $94

cORSAIR TWIN2X4096-6400c5 4GB $139

Thermaltake TR2 RX 550W $97

Gigabyte HD4870 512mb $366

Nice setup apart from the PSU.

Corsair or Seasonic PSU. They are the same thing.

The 640AAKS is a very quick drive. :blink:

Hmm went and bought it all on Saturday along with a 21.6 inch samsung monitor.

Awesome setup love it.

Also decided to get two of the hdd and am running them in RAID0 muhhaahaha so fast.

On the case of the power supply it is modular, and it seems to have more than enough juice for everything so far.

Crysis at 1650x1080 everything set to "High" and i get a constant framerate of 45-50.

^^^ That's an awesome rig you've put together, it's near identical to mine :)

GA-EP45-DS3R

Intel C2D E8400

Seagate 7200.11 500GB+750GB

OCZ Platinum 8500 (1066Mhz) 4GB

Seasonic S12+ 650W PSU

Nvidia GB 8800GS -> soon to be HD4870 of some sort

im running this on my desktop... got a couple others about but this one is slightly moar interesting

GA-M56S-S3

AMD X2 6000+

Kingston 1G 800 (four of em)

Gigabyte 8800gt (512)

WD 1TB 7200 (got three of em)

WD Raptor 150G (bootdrive)

Antec Neo Power 550W

also have two LG W2252TQ's (22" widescreen 2ms)

gonna get better ram next

any suggestions?

Sticking with the stock frequencies for your mobo - kralster's Corsair TWIN2x4096-6400C5 PRO 4GB would be an obvious choice or OCZ Platinum-PC2 6400 4GB (2x2GB). Also, both should have reasonable potential if you plan to OC.

Sticking with the stock frequencies for your mobo - kralster's Corsair TWIN2x4096-6400C5 PRO 4GB would be an obvious choice or OCZ Platinum-PC2 6400 4GB (2x2GB). Also, both should have reasonable potential if you plan to OC.

cheers, i'm leaning towards corsair... probably not gonna OC it, just gonna leave it stock and stable

hey everyone, im going to upgrade my ram in the next couple of days and im after some advice. currently it has 2 512MB PC3200 sticks in it. im debating whether or not to just put another 2 in there to get 2 gig of total RAM or swap them all out for single 1gig sticks so i have a total of 4 gig of RAM.

now my FSB is 800Mhz so what are the advantages of upgrading to a higher speed ram as well?

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