I am currently building a system with an Antec Solo case and a Gigabyte GA-P35-DSP motherboard. The tri-cool fan that comes with the Solo has a power connector to be connected to the power supply. It also has a switch to adjust the speed manually between low, medium and high. I was hoping to connect...

- Solo with those components will need fans and fan management . You've said nothing about this. It's also a regular-sized case, meaning more HDDs, memory sticks, possibly hot CPU and hot video card(if you add one) will raise temperatures. Think wiring through before you begin: what may need to com...

Living Ghost wrote:Don't get that processor. Core 2 Duo's perform much better than the quad cores, they overclock better, etc. They're better in every way, not to mention being cheaper. No Windows consumer OS can handle more than 2 cores or 3 gigs of ram, anyway.

I'm getting the quad core for Photoshop.

Why 3gb of RAM? Why not just get 4x1gb dimms, or better yet, 2x2gb? If budget is a concern, get 2gb now, 2gb later. You're running Vista64 I hope? You also don't need ddr2/800 unless you are going to overclock; even ddr2/667 will take you to 3.0ghz without o/c the ram, but the g0 q6600s are said to...

Well, for a little less, you can get this card, which is actually better: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102699 If you wanted to bump up a notch, I'd go with a DDR2 2600 Pro for an extra ten bucks: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102103 But as you ...

Vista is a lot nicer than XP. For what it's worth, NVIDIA can't code Vista drivers for shit. Go ATI HD 2000, you'll be a lot happier. Lower power, just as passive, Avivo video processing. . . I'm definately going with Vista. I can't imagine putting together a new build that I would like to last for...

I will be doing my first ever build after 7/22. This machine will be primarily a photoshop and video editing machine. Thus it will need lots of hard drive space, IEEE 1394 ports, and lots of memory. I may experiment with overclocking, but that is not a necessity. Due to the location of it, it will a...