"mrtricks"
It is a CyberPower one. http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/
Technically, I am paying over the odds for it - you can get it cheaper.
I paid extra for:
£5.00 - Extra case fans
£11.00 - Rounded cables
£11.00 - Professional wiring and CPU thermal compound
£15.00 - Windows® XP Media Center 2005 - to gain the free Vista upgrade
£20.00 - Media Center Remote Control
£23.00 - for heat spreaders on the RAM
So, an extra £85.00 - there was no real need to take the Asus Striker Extreme nForce 680i apart from the 'Bling' value of it. They do cheaper 680i mobos.
Bare in mind people that the 8800 GTX only cost me £316.00
With regard to the new ATI card - I know. However, for my new system I was determined to go for Intel and nVidia.
I'm not worried too much about speed issues of future graphics cards as the 8800 GTX will drop in price as newer cards are released - the mobo can take 3 of these cards - so, as long as DX10 remains the standard for the next few years, I am laughing - I'll just pop in another 8800 GTX from the bargain basket in a year or 2. The main thing here was to get on the DX10 rung.
EDIT:
Ordered from CyberPower - just to increase the fact it will show up in a search engine
It is a CyberPower one. http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/
Technically, I am paying over the odds for it - you can get it cheaper.
I paid extra for:
£5.00 - Extra case fans
£11.00 - Rounded cables
£11.00 - Professional wiring and CPU thermal compound
£15.00 - Windows® XP Media Center 2005 - to gain the free Vista upgrade
£20.00 - Media Center Remote Control
£23.00 - for heat spreaders on the RAM
So, an extra £85.00 - there was no real need to take the Asus Striker Extreme nForce 680i apart from the 'Bling' value of it. They do cheaper 680i mobos.
Bare in mind people that the 8800 GTX only cost me £316.00
With regard to the new ATI card - I know. However, for my new system I was determined to go for Intel and nVidia.
I'm not worried too much about speed issues of future graphics cards as the 8800 GTX will drop in price as newer cards are released - the mobo can take 3 of these cards - so, as long as DX10 remains the standard for the next few years, I am laughing - I'll just pop in another 8800 GTX from the bargain basket in a year or 2. The main thing here was to get on the DX10 rung.
EDIT:
Ordered from CyberPower - just to increase the fact it will show up in a search engine