Purchasing parts for your custom rig

Blog Picks — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:33:27 GMT

Purchasing parts for your custom rig. Which brands do you need to buy when you are purchasing parts for

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TempestKing — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:58:08 GMT

Good stuff, I would add a company, silverstone for PSUs and cases for HTPC.

~TK

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Sayuro — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:33:54 GMT

Antec makes good budget cases and high end ones,

I got the P182B and its amazing!

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Aedion — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:23:04 GMT

thermaltake should also be added to the list of cases.

also OCZ and FSP PSU's have good price/quality ratios.

and seagate bought maxtor, so those can be combined.

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Capt. Insane — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:48:18 GMT

I've heard lots of bad things about Thermaltake. For the most part, cases seem over-priced and not worth the money

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phantomraider — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:20:43 GMT

I agree Thermaltake should be added for PSU,cases,and watercooling.I have used their products for years without a hitch,also with RAM Kingston make very good products too,not sure about overclocking because I don't overclock.

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carugoman — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:34:15 GMT

hmmm,let's see here,what to purchase and where to purchase? I'll add a few of my favs not because I'm an eggspurt(which I'm not...I've never been asked!) Nor, am I educated in the field which I am (had my grad degree in EEE, BTW is what computer engineer nerddom with a head-prop jobber used to be called?) having worked in the field a few years BEFORE Bill Gates stole CSM program code and made a fortune on what was to be considered "freeware!" That's a big no-no but I digress...NEWEGG overall does a great job on price/service/value matrix. True, they're not the only game in town! EBAY is just a toilet for far-east trash and Chinese overload. Why waste your time when time is monney? Check the 'real' market prices at websites like anandtech mwave tomshardware extremetechbuilder and also try directron and computergeeks for old and low price stuff, like say you want to build a RENDER FARM and need like 30 mobo's with a matched array of 30 HDD's with 2GB's RAM on each board and 2.8- 3.0 GHzs socket 775 CPU's also. AAWWWAADDAAHELLL!!! Might as well through in some CADD software and a 5KW power source, 3 pairs of 25CM whisper -quiet (well almost!) fans three to aside on a rack system. I got the power supply and the fans from a rather bizarre 'blast from my past' hippie- happy place called American Science and Surplus(there's even a website.) ANTECH cases are the best price/value... thermaltake is way too overpriced for what you get. If you're teed-off because ANTECH makes a closed-panel case, get off your fat-a** get your DREMEL tool and cut the panel to whatever your pretty lil heart desires, paint it even! Back that panel up with a thin sheet of clear acrylic ( you DID take the panel OFF the case BEFORE you started this project,right FAT-a**?) All y'all have a happy halloween; the grandkids just showed up.

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rpwolff — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:52:24 GMT

The system I built 2 years ago used sata 1.5 cables. The system I built this year uses sata 3.0 cables. Can I use the older cables on my newer drives?