Trying to pick a case (updated)

[cheesepuffly]

Im currently trying to decide on a case for my new computer. Yeah and the end of the school year, i will have saved up enough for about a 1400-1600 dollar desktop.

I know its gonna have a 800 watt power supply

Two Geforce 9800 GTX+s in SLi (picking those because they are nice and cool heat wide)

a single 1TB hard drive

Either a q6600 on a upgraded air cooler for overclocking to 3.2 GHZ on the 790i motherboard. Or a core i7 920 with some water cooling for overclocking to 3.2 on some motherboard (not sure which one)

4GB ddr3 ram with the q6600 or 3GB ddr3 ram with the core i7 (wanna keep the ram low so i can run 32 bit vista plus i dont really multitask)


a buddy of mine shot a system at me (you know what i mean) which seems pretty good too

a Phenom 940 with upgraded air cooling (havent researched it yet on OCing)

the 790GTX motherboard

two 4870s

4GB ddr2 memory

same power supply (downgrading to 800w for both)
hard drive is the same too




Problem is i cant decide on the case. I am buying it off of www.cyberpowerpc.com pick from the cases there.

I want quality over quantity, more or less, i dont need it to be see through or have special buttons n such.


Lemme know plzkthanxbai

[hybirdisdf]

Bz2 cant run on sli video card.I believe.

[cheesepuffly]

I have plenty of other computers to run it on...

[GSH]

Bz2 cant run on sli video card.I believe.

As long as the driver presents SLI as one, faster, video card, BZ2 can use that just fine. BZ2 just asks the graphics card to paint polygons (triangles), with various texture/fog/etc parameters. BZ2 still uses the DirectX 6 interface, so any DX7-10 feature (transform, lighting, shaders, etc) of modern cards is ignored. But, one thing that modern cards can also do better than their predecessors is paint polygons faster. This is measured by their 'fill rate' -- how fast cards can move data around.

A set of cards in SLI definitely do have faster fill rates than a single card. So, as long as the video drivers make it look like one big fast card, then BZ2 can take advantage of it. Not very much advantage, but some benefit.

-- GSH

[cheesepuffly]

i mean i can run BZ2 on max detail and res on my 8600 GTS with no lag, i think i dont have anything to worry about with a card thats about 5x better

[Red Devil]

Get the biggest one with lots of fans and a big power supply with lots of power leads.

[cheesepuffly]

im getting a 1000w supply, plus im gonna get the 3 case fans (noise doesnt bother me)

[Red Devil]

I have 6 case fans on low.  CPU temp is 32C.

[cheesepuffly]

I have 6 case fans on low.  CPU temp is 32C.

Im kinda learning still, that good? (i mean i know how hot it is but... yeah)

[GSH]

Just google for "32c in f" and it'll do the math for you: http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=32c+in+f&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 . Or, 89.6 fahrenheit. A bit over room temp, which is a good temp for everything.

-- GSH

[VSMIT]

Either a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000/X or a Thermaltake Armor+.

Don't think that the Thermaltake one is there, though.

VSMIT.