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#1 RayvinAzn
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[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]g500 is worse but w/e and if you want a mouse for everyday use... why are you guys reccomending gaming mouses?

I despise the G500, but I feel that the G400 is a great mouse for both gamers and general desktop users alike. Nice shape (for most people, not everyone likes it), good build quality, solid feel, and quality sensor all go a long way to making a great mouse for all users. The low price point and lack of flash help too.
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#2 RayvinAzn
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SB-E lacks pci-e 3.0 support it has 2.0. ionusX

SB-E does in fact support PCI-e 3.0: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5264/sandy-bridge-e-x79-pcie-30-it-works

It's not particularly useful for gaming or anything, but the CPU uses a PCI-e 3.0 controller and the slots on most (if not all) X79 boards are PCI-e 3.0.

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#3 RayvinAzn
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[QUOTE="JetB1ackNewYear"] it does look nice but i may go with the razer...wanna know why its winning me over... blue back lighting XD hahaha!! my pc, speakers, headset, mouse and keyboard now all light up blue haha

A good reason to go with an inferior board.
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I was never very impressed with Chaintech. I'd much rather see Gainward get Tier 1 status across the globe.
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Why is everyone telling him to lose the sound card? If your idea of a good set of speakers/headphones includes the words "Logitech" or "Razer", your opinion on this subject is null, void, and pointless. Might as well ask a blind guy why the Mona Lisa is so popular. Sound cards are not for everyone however - if you're getting one to boost in-game frame-rates, use on some cheap "PC" audio, or just listen to internet radio/low-quality 128kb/s MP3 rips, it is going to go to waste. If you're getting one because you want pinpoint precise positional audio on a high-quality set of headphones or because you've got a solid collection of high-quality audio rips that you want to listen to, a sound card is a GREAT investment. It's not going to work miracles by itself however - you also need good output and a good source. As a baseline I'd say if you're not using a $100+ set of analog headphones (Beats and Bose don't count here either), a sound card probably is a poor investment. If you are looking for a good baseline unit though, I'd start with the ASUS Xonar DG. Usually about $20-$30 for a more modern sound card with better sound quality than an old Audigy SE. I'm in agreement with everyone else regarding a lot of your choices though. The Core i5 vanilla isn't that much cheaper than the Core i5 2500K, and I'd say even for a basic user the potential for serious overclocking might be nice later. That Intel Z58 board is also about as bare as they come. To the point where it's severely lacking in certain areas, especially for the $130 asking price. I could see it being a reasonably good $80 board, but for $130 it's VERY light on usable features. I'm not sure if I'd revert all the way back to P67 though - I'm in agreement with the guy that recommended a Z68 ASRock Gen3 series board. Good price, good features, and probably cheaper than that Intel board. That power supply is also a bit over-the-top. You could easily drop that down into the 500-600w range and be just fine.
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#6 RayvinAzn
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I can agree with the security, but as for system performance, with the hardware available today Windows 7 is fine.

The other things you mentioned:

Browse the Net: Linux is fine

Check Email: Linux is fine, but Oulook is such a powerful program.

Listen to Music: Does Linux support iTunes for example?

Document/Spreadsheet: Does Linux support MS Office? Because Word/Excel is the universal format.

FelipeInside

Thunderbird has good functionality, but if you really need a serious competitor for Outlook, SunBird sounds like it's shaping up to bring more serious competition on that front.

If you're listening to music on iTunes...well, I refuse to install that POS on any of my systems. There are much better media players out there like Foobar2000.

As for documents and spreadsheets, I know you can save OpenOffice files in both Word/Excel standard formats, and they can read them as well.

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#7 RayvinAzn
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If it wasn't for DirectX's stranglehold on the market, I'd be running Linux 24/7. Mint or Kubuntu most likely. Unfortunately as a gamer I am rather tied to Microsoft's proprietary API. I was dual-booting on this machine when I built it in '06, but ever since I switched to Windows 7 I haven't bothered. It's too time-consuming to switch back and forth between OS's just to play games for a bit and then switch back to browse the net and listen to music. The funny thing about Linux is this: 99% of the people that should be using it are too scared to. Anyone that just browses the net, checks email, listens to music, and does some basic document/spreadsheet work is MUCH better off with Linux. Most distros are very light on system resources (good for people that shop for computers at Wal-Mart), secure (less overhead from intensive AV software and less chance of the user screwing their machine up), and easy to use.
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That's pretty anemic memory bandwidth for a high-end card, especially since that number is almost exactly the same as the GTX 580, except with a smaller memory interface and higher-clock GDDR5. The number of CUDA cores also seems suspect, although a drastic shift in architecture could be responsible - I wouldn't expect this card to have literally tripled its shader performance from last gen however.
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#9 RayvinAzn
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no i wasnt what im saying is i have ddr2 and an am3 cpu.. but unless your getting the 960t which costs 50% more or a thuban the x3 rana's are the best you can get in am3/am2+ anymore unless you happen to know somewhere that still has a full stock we should be aware of?

ionusX
SuperBiiz (a highly rated store on ResellerRatings) still stocks a few older Phenom II X4 chips - problem is, they're all on the same price level as the Phenom II X4 960T. Here's something to think about for this processor upgrade though - this is probably the LAST chip this guy will ever be able to get for his platform. Six months from now you probably won't be able to find any AMD processors (new) that aren't either AM3+ or FM1. Spending more now on a processor upgrade that he might be completely unable to get when he really and truly needs it is the best way to go here. I saw too many 939 setup get trashed early because the user didn't upgrade when 939 was getting phased out - instead they just wanted to wait until you NEEDED the performance of a dual-core processor. Of course by then AMD had long moved on to AM2, and even those chips weren't particularly attractive performers next to Core 2. If they'd just spent $120-$150 when I told them to on a nice Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or even a bit more on a nice Opteron 170 they would have easily got another 2 years out of their systems. Upgrading by halves isn't the way to go in this case. Sure the Phenom II X4 960T is 50% more than a $80 Athlon II X3, but it's also just $40 more for an extra guaranteed core, unlocked multiplier, and a chip with L3 cache instead of just L2 (which is up to 30% additional clock-for-clock performance if I remember the old benchmarks correctly).
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#10 RayvinAzn
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[QUOTE="RayvinAzn"] not sold anymore, what you tell me isnt news *points at sig* read it sucka!

ionusX
So you were wrong in your earlier post then? As for your signature, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to see. Purple text on a black/purple background doesn't particularly make things legible, and a blue-haired anime character isn't exactly rare.