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Help with building a tower
kitamesume:
wait, what? i see them at 135$, plus you`ll miss one stick, well you could buy a lone stick later.
kyubixmunky:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on June 17, 2011, 08:33:54 AM ---wait, what? i see them at 135$, plus you`ll miss one stick, well you could buy a lone stick later.
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woops
http://promotions.newegg.com/neemail/june-0-2011/72hoursale17/index-landing.html?nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL061711&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL061711-_-EMC-061711-Index-_-E0-_-Enter
yeah with promo code: EMCKDJC39
datora:
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--- Quote from: kitamesume on June 17, 2011, 08:33:54 AM ---you`ll miss one stick, well you could buy a lone stick later.
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Triple channel kits for Intel mobos.
I do wish that AMD boards supported that trick; it's worth a nice little performance bump.
kitamesume:
holy crap, hey ditch the idea about g.skill, look at the left side, its the sniper kit for 77$, didnt i mention they're worth 130$?
datora:
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Well, notice that the Sniper kit is G.Skill ... and it's usually ~$90 @ newegg. But yeah, w/ EMCKDJC38 it's another 15% off through Sunday evening.
The timing isn't all that impressive: 9-9-9-24; I like seeing 7s and a 21, which can often be found in a similar price range w/ G.Skill Ripjaw series.
But then, this isn't for an extreme performance build, so it's plenty good enough for a very solid budget system. Not many reviews in the feedback, but it's 9 for 9 at 100% 5 eggs. Usually a Good Sign. Notice recommends to go 1.35 V instead of the rated 1.25 for stability, and overclocking this set doesn't seem a slam dunk, either.
With care, everything else for this build has come in well under the $800 target. This is a case where I'd invest ~$15 of the previous savings into stronger RAM and OC it for a bit of a performance edge, especially if I'd grabbed a 965 and OC'd that up to ~4.2 GHz with an SSD for the OS/system drive. You could find some 1800 RAM and push that up into the 2300 range under those conditions for a nice bit of a boost & be safely running the system much closer to its maximum potential.
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