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jombee:

--- Quote from: Todd H on March 03, 2009, 08:28:25 am ---Well, my cab is now finished with the exception of the PC. Anybody got any CPU/motherboard reccomendations? Like jombee above, I'm looking at the E8500 CPU. What's a good mother board to go with this processor? I'm planning on overclocking to 4Ghz or higher. I'm also going to need a good video card that will let me play modern PC games like the upcoming Street Fighter IV. The motherboard will be mounted inside the cabinet instead of a case. What about a beefy power supply? Any particular model?

I've been out of the PC building scene for a while since I started using Mac's. The last time I built a PC was during the Pentium 3 years. So any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Todd, here is the motherboard that I am most likely going to buy.  I will be running a single ArcadeVGA2 PCIe card, so the single PCIe slot will not be a problem for me.

GIGABYTE GA-EP45C-UD3R intel p45 chipset ATX form factor 1xPCI-E(x16)/3xPCI-E(x1)/3xpci/4xddr2/2xddr3 w/sata2 raid,lan(gb),1394,usb 2.0 & audio (cpu type:intel - socket 775)





taz-nz:

--- Quote from: Todd H on March 03, 2009, 08:28:25 am ---Well, my cab is now finished with the exception of the PC. Anybody got any CPU/motherboard reccomendations? Like jombee above, I'm looking at the E8500 CPU. What's a good mother board to go with this processor? I'm planning on overclocking to 4Ghz or higher. I'm also going to need a good video card that will let me play modern PC games like the upcoming Street Fighter IV. The motherboard will be mounted inside the cabinet instead of a case. What about a beefy power supply? Any particular model?

I've been out of the PC building scene for a while since I started using Mac's. The last time I built a PC was during the Pentium 3 years. So any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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To get most out of your E8500 i suggest a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R , I'm not a fan of the dual memory type GA-EP45C-UD3R that jombee suggested, the single memory type boards tend to be more stable,  my abvice is stick to DDR2 for a Core2 , leave DDR3 to the Core i7.

Graphics card wise it depends on what you want to spend, but currently for PC gaming I'd suggest either a ATI Radeon HD4870 or HD4870x2.

Power supply, it depends which graphics card you go with and what else you plan to have in the system, but a good brand name (Seasonic, Enermax or similar)600w for the HD4870 and at least a 750w for a system with a HD4870x2.



Todd H:

--- Quote from: taz-nz on March 03, 2009, 10:13:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Todd H on March 03, 2009, 08:28:25 am ---Well, my cab is now finished with the exception of the PC. Anybody got any CPU/motherboard reccomendations? Like jombee above, I'm looking at the E8500 CPU. What's a good mother board to go with this processor? I'm planning on overclocking to 4Ghz or higher. I'm also going to need a good video card that will let me play modern PC games like the upcoming Street Fighter IV. The motherboard will be mounted inside the cabinet instead of a case. What about a beefy power supply? Any particular model?

I've been out of the PC building scene for a while since I started using Mac's. The last time I built a PC was during the Pentium 3 years. So any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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To get most out of your E8500 i suggest a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R , I'm not a fan of the dual memory type GA-EP45C-UD3R that jombee suggested, the single memory type boards tend to be more stable,  my abvice is stick to DDR2 for a Core2 , leave DDR3 to the Core i7.

Graphics card wise it depends on what you want to spend, but currently for PC gaming I'd suggest either a ATI Radeon HD4870 or HD4870x2.

Power supply, it depends which graphics card you go with and what else you plan to have in the system, but a good brand name (Seasonic, Enermax or similar)600w for the HD4870 and at least a 750w for a system with a HD4870x2.





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Just what I needed to know. Thanks. Any particular CPU cooler I should look at?
joeH:

--- Quote from: Todd H on March 03, 2009, 08:28:25 am ---Well, my cab is now finished with the exception of the PC. Anybody got any CPU/motherboard reccomendations? Like jombee above, I'm looking at the E8500 CPU. What's a good mother board to go with this processor? I'm planning on overclocking to 4Ghz or higher. I'm also going to need a good video card that will let me play modern PC games like the upcoming Street Fighter IV. The motherboard will be mounted inside the cabinet instead of a case. What about a beefy power supply? Any particular model?

I've been out of the PC building scene for a while since I started using Mac's. The last time I built a PC was during the Pentium 3 years. So any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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The Gigabyte board is a good board.  I'm running my E8400 clocked to 4.0ghz on an Asus P5Q Pro. May want to check that one out as well.
taz-nz:

--- Quote from: Todd H on March 04, 2009, 08:16:40 am ---Any particular CPU cooler I should look at?

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To quote myself.


--- Quote from: taz-nz on March 03, 2009, 03:04:25 am ---The Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer offers great value for money, but if you want to go all out get a Thermalright True Black 120 and a couple of Scythe SFF21F 1600rpm fans.

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There are more extremem options but they aren't really needed with the E0 stepping E8500s.

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