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From: Jim Cochrane on 29 Jan 2010 17:56
Thanks to everyone who responded to my post "Building a core i7-based
music workstation". There was a lot of great info in your responses and
it helped me, along with the online research and review-reading I did,
select what looks to be the components of a quality, high-performing,
real-time music system. For those who suggested going with the Phenom
II instead of the core i7, it does looks like a very good alternative
and I considered it, but I decided to go with the core i7. I won't go
into why I chose the i7 here, but if anyone is curious, I can go into
that in a separate post.

In case anyone is interested, here is a list of the components I ordered
(which should be all here by Monday), with prices [everything but the DVD-RW
drive and the RAM I bought from newegg.com]:


34.89 [Lite-On 24X Serial ATA DVDRW-LT-IHAS324-24x]

159.99 [Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case]

99.99 [Mushkin XP-650 650W ATX12V SLI Ready Modular Power Supply]
($40.00 Mail-in Rebate)

269.99 [GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard]

288.99 [Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W
Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920]

159.99 [Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM]

74.99 [Noctua NH-U12P SE2 120mm SSO CPU Cooler]

38.99 [GIGABYTE GV-NX84S512HP GeForce 8400 GS 512MB Video Card]

258.15 [BL3KIT25664TB1608 6GB kit (2GBx3), Ballistix Tracer 240-pin DIMM
(with LEDs) Upgrade for a Giga-Byte GA-EX58-UD5 (rev. 1.0) System]
($239.99, Approximate tax: $10.17,
Shipping charges: Express shipping (2 business days) $7.99
Estimated order subtotal: $258.15)



Jim

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