EggXpert

Thanks man.  Believe it or not, it came in just under $2500 bucks, so not too bad.  And I said realtek, but I think thats just the audio driver.  This link http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.aspx?Image=13-127-237-02.jpg%2c13-127-237-03.jpg%2c13-127-237-04.jpg%2c13-127-237-05.jpg%2c13-127-237-06.jpg%2c13-127-237-07.jpg%2c13-127-237-08.jpg&CurImage=13-127-237-05.jpg&Depa=0&Description=ABIT+Fatal1ty+AN9+32X+Socket+AM2+NVIDIA+nForce+590+SLI+MCP%2fSPP+190+ATX+AMD+Motherboard+-+Retail  shows the plug in card as an audiomax HD 7.1.

 Works fine for me, why get a new one?

http://www.anandtech.com/myanandtech.aspx?member=189167 <--- Click to see my rigs

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ /w Zalman CNPS9500

Memory:  G Skill F1 PC4000 USU2 DDR500 2x1024mb

Hard Drive: 2x Maxtor SATA 250GB Raid0 , Vantec NexStar SATA ext. w/ Maxtor 250GB HD

Video Card: EVGA  Geforce 7950 GT KO 512MB, forceware V 91.31

Motherboard: DFI UT nf4 SLI-DR expert

Sound Card: integrated

Power Supply: OCZ PowerStream 600W

Speakers: Logitech 5.1

Case: Thermaltake Full Tower Armor

Monitor: Hanns-G HW191D 1440x900 widescreen

I have been pretty happy with my computer.  Seems the more upgrades I do to it, the slower it gets, but who knows?  I think I will probably scale back the hard drive space and get higher performance hard drives.  I don't find myself needing tons of space. 

Processor

AMD Athlon X2  4200+ Windsor

Memory

4GB (excessive, I know) Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 

Hard Drive

2x 160GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives in a Striped raid

Video Card

eVGA 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCIx-16 

Motherboard

Gigabyte GA-M59-SLI  AM2 Nforce 590 Motherboard

Sound Card 

Onboard, looking to get a dedicated sound card 

Power Supply

OCZ GameXStream 700W

Speakers

Sennheiser PC150 headset 

Operating System

Windows XP Pro 

Fans

3 x 12mm Fans 

Case

Apevia X-Pleasure 

Keyboard

Logitech Comfort Ergo Wireless Keyboard 

Mouse

Logitech MX1000 

Monitor

1 NEC 992BK and 1 Acer Gamers Line 20" 8ms DVI LCD 

Misc

NEC 2500 DVD Burner, Acer 32x CDRW 

Sig has the basics. 

Additionally:

Saitek Eclipse Keyboard, Logitech G5 Mouse and a Zalman CNPS 9700 cooler 

Antec P180 Mid-tower ATX case
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - overclocked to 3.06Ghz
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
2GB OCZ DDR2 PC2 6400
eVGA 256-P2-N516-RX GeForce 7800GT
2 x 19″ Hanns G DVI LCD Monitors on one arm
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1
250 GB SATA Samsung Spinpoint Primary Drive (in 2 partitions) - “Rocky” and “Colt”
250 GB SATA Samsung Spinpoint Secondary Drive - “Tum Tum”
Thermaltake Big Typhoon 120mm CPU Fan
3 Antec TriCool silent cooling fans - 2 x 80mm, 1 x 92mm
Rosewill RP550S-2MK 550W Modular Cable Power Supply
Zalman VF900 VGA cooler
Canon Digital Rebel XT
Bright green Cat6 ethernet cord - hell yes
Telex USB M-560 Shotgun Microphone (with homemade pop filter)
Logitech X-530 70 Watts 5.1 surround speakers
Logitech MX518 Optical Mouse
Logitech UltraX Keyboard
Logitech Dual Action Gamepad

You can barely hear it running. 

My "rig" is essentially my HP dv5000t notebook.  I'm a college student, it works out pretty well.

As for desktops, I have two P4 folding rigs in my dorm room (flat rate tuition = I don't care about a power bill).

Rig 1:

 Pentium 4B 3.06 Northwood @ 3.2~Ghz (stock volts)

Masscool socket 478 HSF (works pretty well) 

 Gigabyte IPE1000 (865 chipset)

1GB Kingston DDR-266 ECC

$20 Xabre something-or-other video card

 420w Thermaltake Purepower

80GB WD IDE hard drive (model is irrelevant in this case)

Old manilla white case I had laying around

Ancient generic 48x CD-ROM

LG DVD-ROM

Ancient Yamaha PCI sound card (merely for offloading sound from the CPU) 

Rig 2 (old "broken" Gateway I got for free):

Pentium 4C 2.6Ghz Northwood

Stock Gateway HSF

 Gateway motherboard (865 chipset)

 Integrated video at the moment

512MB generic DDR-333

Cheapest generic 320w PSU I could find on Newegg

20GB WD IDE hard drive (ooooold)

I have a 3500+ rig at home I gave to my little sister to use.  Better than both of those...by far...I'm nice like that.
 

keitholi:

Thanks man.  Believe it or not, it came in just under $2500 bucks, so not too bad.  And I said realtek, but I think thats just the audio driver.  This link http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.aspx?Image=13-127-237-02.jpg%2c13-127-237-03.jpg%2c13-127-237-04.jpg%2c13-127-237-05.jpg%2c13-127-237-06.jpg%2c13-127-237-07.jpg%2c13-127-237-08.jpg&CurImage=13-127-237-05.jpg&Depa=0&Description=ABIT+Fatal1ty+AN9+32X+Socket+AM2+NVIDIA+nForce+590+SLI+MCP%2fSPP+190+ATX+AMD+Motherboard+-+Retail  shows the plug in card as an audiomax HD 7.1.

 Works fine for me, why get a new one?

When i got an x-fi card it made a huge difference in processor load of games.  Will take away when explosions really start going off, just a bottleneck on your system.  You could prolly get away without it since you do have two 8800gtx cards.  Yeah thats good shopping, but still out of my budget.  Any onboard audio is gonna slow down your system regardless, so if your into games its a good upgrade.

Im still waiting for someone to post thier pics of thier Zalman Tower with water cooling.  Those are Fxing SWEET!

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AMD Athlon 64 3200+ • Corsair XMS 1.5 GB (3x512)

2 Maxtor 120 GB (Raid 0) 

XFX 256MB PCI-Ex16 7950GT 

Abit KN8 Socket 939

Windows Vista Business Edition 

4 Fans • Raidmax X1

Logitech G5

Rosewill Slime Keyboard

Dell 19" Ultra Sharp LCD

My rig:

• Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
  
• Abit AW9D Max
  
• BFG 8800GTX
  
• BFG Ageia PhysX PPU
  
• 2x 1gb DDR1066 Corsair DominatorTWIN2X2048 - 8500C5D
  
• Integrated Sound
  
• 500gb Seagate 7200.10 16mb cache SATA
  
• 400gb WD 16mb cache SATA
  
• Lian-Li v2000 case
  
• PCP&C 610 watt PSU
  
• Dell 2005FPW
  
• Logitech G15
  
• Logitech G5
  
• Windows Vista Ultimate x64

Hmm,

Processor:AMD AThlon 64 3500+ @ 2.54GHz

Memory: 2 x 512MB Kingston Value Ram

Video Card: Nvidia Geforce 256MB 7600 GTS

Motherboard: ECS RS482M

Soundcard: On board

Power Supply: 400 Watt(I dunno the brand)

Operating System: Windows Vista 32-Bit

Fans: 2 80mm case fans(One Blue, One Red) Ultra Blooming HSF for processor

Monitor IBM P70 17in CRT

Computer Name: UTADA

Most of my stuff I got onsale and as combo deals. Not high end stuff at all but it gets the job done while falling just a little behind higher end systems. Plan on upgrading to AM2 and an 8600 or 8800 over the summer but this system still runs good.

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eVGA NF68-T1 SLi

C2D X6800 @ 3.9GHz Stable, cooled with a Tuniq 120

4GB Twin2X2048-10000C5DF

160GB Raptor (Boot), 2x750GB Seagate Perp Striped (Storage),  2x500GB Seagate Perp Striped (Games), 250GB WD Sata (backup), 200GB WD IDE (previously Vista drive..now just kinda sits there and does nothing), 250GB Seagate USB/Firewire External (mp3s)

2x8800GTX ASC3's @ 685/2200

X-Fi Elite Pro

PCP&C 1kW

Creative Labs Gigaworks S750

Vista Ultimate primarily

2x120MM in HD cages, 1 80MM in HD cage, 1 120MM in the top of the case

Thermaltake Armor VA8000BWS 

MS Natural Keyboard Elite (oldie but a goodie), G5/G7/MX900/MX1000

Westinghouse 37" LVM-37W3/Dell 2405FPW

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Full topic on Cairo Shell

Big Huge Box:

4200+ X2

2GB PC3200

~1TB Combined HD Space 

6600GT

Also it's a freaking huge Lian-Li PC71 :D 

Laptop (Thinkpad R51):

1.6GHz Pentium M

512MB PC2700

25GB HD (4200RPM == sux :()

Intel GMA 

iMac:

2GHz Core 2 Duo Merom

1GB PC2-666 (you know that it's not really 667)

160GB HD

X1600 

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So who else is mod's around here, just thought you might know since you are one.

@ OP sorry for getting off topic.

Let me see here...

Athlon 64 3800+

XFX Geforce 7600 GT 256 MB

1.5 Gigs of DDR2 533mhz Ram

160 Gigs of hard drive space

Sound Blaster Live 24 Bit

305 Watt Power Supply :(

Logitech Headphones

Windows XP Media Edition

Samsung 2000:1 Contrast Ratio 2MS Flatscreen LCD Monitor :D  (Sweeeeet Monitor to make up for the sad Power Supply)

Standard 3 button optical scroll mouse.

AMD X2 4200

2gb xms 3500 extreme

320 wd SATA2

18x Writemaster DVD Dual Layer Burner

2x PNY 6800 oc  PCi express cards

not much but a start

Waiting for My EVGA nvdia 680i MB, Intel E6600 cpu and 4gb Patriot PC800 low latency Ram.,

Thanks to NewEgg, here's my precious rig thingy.

Motherboard: Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600

Cooler: Stock

Memory: 2x1GB Patriot eXtreme Performance DDR2 RAM (4-4-4-12)

Hard Drives: 320GB Seagate, 160GB Western Digital

Optical Drive: LG 18x Lightscribe DVD/CD/Everything Else Burner 

Video Card: eVGA Geforce 8800GTS 640MB

Monitor: Viewsonic VX1935wm (1440x900, its enough for me)

Speakers: Logitech X-230 2.1 Speakers

Case: Antec Nine Hundred

Power Supply: Enermax Infiniti 650W PSU

Keyboard: Microsoft Wireless Comfort Keyboard 1.0A

Mouse: Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000

Operating Systems: Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows XP Professional

Intel Core 2 Duo E-6400 w/CNPS 9700

ASUS P5W DH DELUXE/WIFI-AP 

HIS  Radeon X1950PRO 256MB PCI-E

OCZ Platinum 2GB (2 x 1GB)

WD 320GB SATA 3.0 16mb Cache

Soundblaster Live24

THERMALTAKE TR2 500W

Antec 835SXII w/6 fans

was going to upgrade   a while back but decided to wait until AMD released a CPU that will compete will with the core 2 line. then  all of the core 2 prices and AMD prices will further go down allowing me to get something really high end for cheap. 

Motherboard Asus A8V 

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.8 GHz

Memory: 2x 512MB (dual channel)

videocard: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra (256 MB) overclocked  (I also have a quadro FX 4000 which i usually swap out with my 6800 when i want to use MAYA 3D )

cooling: zalman cnps9500

Hard drives: 2 internal 160GB 7200 RPM Hitachi  drives,  1 external 60GB samsung drive in a acomdata enclosure and 1 external 160GB Hitachi drive in a acomdata enclosure

 Sound card: audigy 2 zs

Optical Drive: 2 cheap 16x dvd burners that I got from newegg

keyboard: a old compaq internet keyboard (really old but it is built like a tank and has lots of extra buttons) http://www.compaqrepair.com/images/compaq/keyboard/Picture1.jpg

 
Mouse, Logitech MX-518

Power supply: 500 watt ultra PSU

 Operating Systems: Windows xp professional, Ubuntu linux, windows 98, and windows vista Ultimate  (quad boot :) using partition magic and the pqbw tool that it comes with

 screenshot: http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/4067/screenshotzw5.jpg

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Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600

ECS PN2-SLI2+ (V1.0) LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit

BFG Tech BFGR88640GTSOC2E GeForce 8800GTS 640MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card

Creative Sound Blaster SB0570 Audigy SE 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

ENERMAX Liberty ELT500AWT ATX12V 500W Power Supply

SONY 16X DVD±R DVD Burner With 5X DVD-RAM Write Black IDE Model DRU120C

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate DVD

LIAN LI PC-61 USB Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

ViewSonic Optiquest Series Q22wb Black 22" 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor

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Parts should arrive tomorrow

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Newcastle

2 Gigs DDR400

2x Seagates at 40Gigs each

ATI Radeon x1600

Random Asus Mobo

Logitech 5.1 Speakers

Windows XP Pro SP2

Logitech Keyboard

Logitech Laser Mouse

21" CRT

Free computer that i got from my friend, so im not complaining

This is my latest build using parts mostly purchased at NewEgg:

Antec Sonata II case (CompUSA)

Ultra X-Connect 700-Watt Modular Power Supply  (TigerDirect - I like the modular design)

Intel DG965WH MB

Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.4 GHz

DIAMOND X1950PRO256PCIE Radeon

2 gig of Kingston DDR2 667 RAM

Two (2) 160 gig Seagate SATA 1.5 HD's in RAID O (taken from and older system)

Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500 GB SATA 3.0

LG GSA-H42N 18x DVD burner

LG GSA-H10L 16x Lightscribe DVD burner (taken from an older system)

Extra 120 mm fan

Ultra Floppy Drive w/ Built-in 7-in-1 Flash Card Reader (Tiger Direct only because the NewEgg equivalent was out of stock)

Internal SCSI ZIP 100 Drive on an Adaptec PCI SCSI card (taken from an older system)

Samsung 225BW 22” Widescreen LCD w/ 5ms response time, 700:1 Contrast (Circuit City)

Dell wireless keyboard and mouse by Logitech (taken from an older system)

Windows Vista Home Premium

Norton Internet Security 2007

AutoCAD 2007 (Trial)

MS Office 2007 Professional

• Word 2007
• Outlook 2007 w/ Business Contact Manager
• Excel 2007
• Access 2007
• Publisher 2007
• PowerPoint 2007

MS Expression Web (Trial)

MS Money 2007

Corel Paint Shop Pro XI

Adobe Photoshop Elements 5

Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0

Roxio Media Creator 9 Suite

iTunes

Diskeeper 2007 Home (trial) **removed**

The system worked perfectly for 3-1/2 weeks.  Then I started getting some strange "COM" error (can't remember the exact error).  I thought it was something to do with Windows Vista and didn't have time to trouble shoot so I let it ride.  2 weeks later, some of the USB ports stopped working.  I started trouble shooting by removing some peripherals, restarted the PC and it wouldn't post.  Removed all unnecessary parts and tried again... no post.  My first thought was the motherboard had a short but couldn't get it to post out of the chassis.  I did all I could with the parts I had and couldn't get it up so I took it to a local shop to have the parts tested.  They think it's the MB as well.  Unfortunately NewEgg won't take back an Intel MB so I'm gonna have to deal directly with Intel... fun fun...

** UPDATE** - The problem was the motherboard.  New one is in and everything is back to normal :-)

I got a Dell Dimension 8400, about 2-3 years old now, and ready for upgrading

Processor - Pentium 4 530, 3ghz
Memory - 512mb Dual channel 400Mhz
Hard Drive - 80gb sata, 200gb sata
Video Card - 128mb pci express x16 radeonx300
Motherboard - dunno, whatever Dell put
Sound Card - intergrated 5.1
Power Supply - I believe its a 400 or 450 watt, I forget
Speakers - Dell a425 speakers w/sub
Operating System - XP pro sp2
Fans - 1 stock and 1 dynex blue LED fan for fun
Case - Dell
Keyboard - Dell Quiet key
Mouse - Some microsoft 5 button one
Monitor - 2 Dell 17" Ultrasharp monitors
Misc - Has stock dvd-rom, after market cd-rw and dvd-rw drives