[quote=“Rx3,post:2,topic:39244"”]
how much for the Sharp?
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I got an insane deal at sears a few months ago… it was about 1000$ with tax 
[quote=“The_Russian,post:4,topic:39244"”]
Total cost of parts minus the massive tv?
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With the speakers, keyboard, and mouse about $1800. The hard drives were 350$ of the price… the runner up was the quad core at 290$.
[quote=“ryanmcell,post:5,topic:39244"”]
Very nice, I <3 AC Freezer’s heat sinks, incredible cooling possibilities without having to run water cooling.
Although I would run Vista Ultimate over Home. Nor would I have actually bought a copy of the OS, but that’s just me 
Looks good, what happened with the old rig.
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Yea AC is amazing, I have their video card cooler on my other computer, that thing works great. Vista Ultimate was almost double the price and included even more crap I didn’t want… so it wasn’t really worth my time. The old rig will be up for sale soon, I’m gonna miss it…
[quote=“90NA300ZX,post:6,topic:39244"”]
ugh i would love to know how to do all that…probably so much more cost efficient than buying a product already put together, and the obvious bonus of having everything you want and only what you want, none of the extra junk…
:tup:
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Its honestly really easy, the motherboard manual walks you through the whole thing. I was scared doing it for the first time but now I know there is no reason to be at all. Just start researching at anandtech.com, tom’s hardware, ect. Buy the parts and build!
[quote=“Rx3,post:10,topic:39244"”]
I gave up on HDD activity lights. I can’t remember the last computer I had that the HDD LED worked on.
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Those things sucked… I kept trying to clean up the cable and they would always fall out… those still little pins on the mobo are ridiculous to find again.
[quote=“ZOMGVTEK,post:11,topic:39244"”]
How does that lcd look? That one allways looked a little yellow to me, but thats decently adjustable on a computer. Im assuming that video card came with some sort of cool calibration software?
I dont know about being that close to a 42" monitor though. Wouldnt you need to massively move around to see stuff, and text would be rough?
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Actually I was pretty skeptical about using a 42" for the photo business but coming from my 20" dell fpw2005, its alot better. The aspect ratio (16:9 vs 16:10) is great because it fits my (3:2) pictures perfectly with the toolbars I typically use. The colors are much more vibrant on the tv and the contrast ratio’s on the sharp aquos’s are some of the best on the market. This is my primary display and its great to be able to switch from HDTV, to photo editing, to watching movies, to gaming, to general windows useage all on the same big quality screen. The big problem I had with the tv, as some of you mentioned, was that sitting a normal distance from it causes alot of searching on the screen because its so big. Basically I ended up modifying my desk to make it a little longer so I sit roughly 3 feet away from the monitor, it feels like a perfect distance and the resolution looks seemless with the calibration I have set on it.
As for multiple monitors… I really can’t stand having breaks in my monitors… and even if I link 3 20" together (which would take some extra hardware as I only have 2 DVI ports on the video card) the maximum size I could blow up a 3:2 picture would still be smaller than on my 1920x1080, the overall height is 30 pixels less… now your going to say, just get a 24" then, but again with the toolbars I use, I am contrained on both width and height, and a 24" would give me more height but not more width, thus no more extra detail for me. Now if I was doing pure video editing (no gaming or movies or anything) I would go with a single 30" LCD monitor, they run up at 2560x1920 (?) so that would be a big increase in detail and almost come close to a 1:1 disply of my photos. Judging by the prices on these (~1000+), and the fact that they are only good for photo editing and windows usage, I found it much more cost affective to lose a little on the pixel end of things but gain alot in the sense of area, thus making it useful for gaming (running modern games at 2560x1920 takes disgusting amounts of computing power), movies (they only max out at 1080P anyways), and HDTV.
[quote=“ILCisDEAD,post:13,topic:39244"”]
kind of seems like a terrible idea to use a TV for something like that… video games yes… but photobusiness?
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^^^
[quote=“Jon,post:17,topic:39244"”]
Nice stuff!!
VISTA!!!:uhh:
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Vista is great… in modified form. In stock form it is enough to make me want to kill someone… I click a file, popup “do you want to run this file”, click yes… “user account control needs your attention, click to install”… ugh… click yes, “this file could potentially damage your system, click ok to continue”… want to kill someone…
But anyways, after going through some tweak guides, disabling windows security center, UAC ect. Its excellent. Some of the new features, are actually really helpful. Having 64-bit has been a little bit of a pain at times, I’ve had to download all new drivers for everything, but at least they are available, up to date, and work good.
[quote=“ryanmcell,post:20,topic:39244"”]
Its not like $5000 in parts, check newegg, I bet proly 1200-1500 total as that video card is def a good chunk of cash though lol. Nice job Josh.
HDD leds, as well as pwr buttons led, reset led, etc.; if I don’t have the mobo manual, or the board and cables aren’t labeled I’ll just say fuck it, but pretty much all new equipment have them labeled and takes a matter of 30 seconds to hook em up.
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Thanks ryan
Also I just want to say this thing O/C’s amazingly. I’m up at 2.93ghz without even having to touch the voltage. The video card is overclocking nicely too, up to 840mhz (from 777mhz) on the core and up to 2240mhz (from 2100mhz) GDDR4 memory clock. Still runs nice and cool too
Crysis at 1080p makes my jaw hit the floor!!
