I'm wanting to trade my custom built desktop to get a new better laptop. My brother just got a loaded E1705 and I liked it so much that now I want to upgrade myself. Anyway, I just built a very nice rig back in June to test out the Core 2 Duo before it was released. I love this desktop alot, but I just don't use it much. It's fast as hell and does pretty much anything you want on demand. Here are the specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 ES Step 5
Intel BadAxe 975X motherboard(no mods)
OCZ Gold DDR2-800 2gb(2 x 1gb)
Samsung SpinPoint 500gb(2 x 250gb) in RAID 0
ATI X1800XL 256mb PCI-E
Zalman VF-900 Dual Heatpipe VGA Cooler
Samsung 16x DVD-RW w/ 5x DVD-RAM and LightScribe
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 MCE TV Tuner
Sabrent 52 in 1 Media Card Reader
ThermalTake Big Typhoon CPU Cooler
Enermax Liberty 500w Modular PSU
ThermalTake Armour Jr. Case(Black)
ViewSonic 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor(1440x900) with VGA and DVI
I spent just about $2,000 on this when it was all finished. I'd like to think it's worth about $1600 right now. This computer was built with the utmost care. All the wires are carefully tucked away in the case and every heatsink surface has AS5 on it. The computer runs flawlessly and is very fast. It's not quite the ultimate gaming rig, but all you'd need to do to change that would be to upgrade the video card. The E6600 has absolutely no problems running at 3.6Ghz day in and day out. It will max out at about 3.9Ghz(it might do 4.0, but I didn't push it too hard). The OCZ memory will hit 1100Mhz without a problem. The x1800XL doesn't overclock that great, but it runs awesome at stock speeds. It hits about 9,300 in 3D'05 and 5,100 in 3D'06. The computer currently is dual booted with Windows XP MCE and Vista Ultimate. I can keep it that way or reformat and just run the OS of your choice. Vista Ultimate is an evaluation version(build 6000), so it is only good until July(according to MS). It's currently partitioned with 2 drives in the RAID, but that's all easily changed if you want it set-up differently. No matter what you run on this though, this computer will do whatever you want and it'll do it fast. This is top of the line without spending thousands and thousands of dollars. Sure, you can get the x6800 or even a quad core, but you're going to end up spending alot more money. This is faster than a stock x6800 at half the price.
I will add a few pictures of the benchmarks now and I will add pictures of the actual computer later tonight. Feel free to ask me any questions you want about this computer.
TRADE: What I want to trade this for is a E1705 with a Core 2 Duo, 7900GS, at least 1 gig of RAM, at least a 100gb HD and a WUXGA screen. I'd like one that at least has an upgrade to Vista available, or has Vista already on it. I'm willing to consider other 17" laptops but the specs need to be very similar to the E1705 above. This will be my only computer so it needs to be able to game decently and be pretty quick. I don't want to go back to XP as I've already been using Vista for months now, so Vista is pretty important.
PM me or email me(camride at yahoo.com or gmail.com) with offers. Thanks for looking!
Oh, I'm also willing to sell the whole thing for $1600 + shipping. Let me know if you're interested in buying it outright.
Pictures of the PC are up. Just so you know you will get everything that comes with the PC, including the box for the MB, extra cables, Media Center Remote plus a bunch more. I will also give you the invoice from newegg(where I bought almost everything) in case you have any problems with the hardware. Everything runs perfect though, so you shouldn't run into any problems.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 ES Step 5
Intel BadAxe 975X motherboard(no mods)
OCZ Gold DDR2-800 2gb(2 x 1gb)
Samsung SpinPoint 500gb(2 x 250gb) in RAID 0
ATI X1800XL 256mb PCI-E
Zalman VF-900 Dual Heatpipe VGA Cooler
Samsung 16x DVD-RW w/ 5x DVD-RAM and LightScribe
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 MCE TV Tuner
Sabrent 52 in 1 Media Card Reader
ThermalTake Big Typhoon CPU Cooler
Enermax Liberty 500w Modular PSU
ThermalTake Armour Jr. Case(Black)
ViewSonic 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor(1440x900) with VGA and DVI
I spent just about $2,000 on this when it was all finished. I'd like to think it's worth about $1600 right now. This computer was built with the utmost care. All the wires are carefully tucked away in the case and every heatsink surface has AS5 on it. The computer runs flawlessly and is very fast. It's not quite the ultimate gaming rig, but all you'd need to do to change that would be to upgrade the video card. The E6600 has absolutely no problems running at 3.6Ghz day in and day out. It will max out at about 3.9Ghz(it might do 4.0, but I didn't push it too hard). The OCZ memory will hit 1100Mhz without a problem. The x1800XL doesn't overclock that great, but it runs awesome at stock speeds. It hits about 9,300 in 3D'05 and 5,100 in 3D'06. The computer currently is dual booted with Windows XP MCE and Vista Ultimate. I can keep it that way or reformat and just run the OS of your choice. Vista Ultimate is an evaluation version(build 6000), so it is only good until July(according to MS). It's currently partitioned with 2 drives in the RAID, but that's all easily changed if you want it set-up differently. No matter what you run on this though, this computer will do whatever you want and it'll do it fast. This is top of the line without spending thousands and thousands of dollars. Sure, you can get the x6800 or even a quad core, but you're going to end up spending alot more money. This is faster than a stock x6800 at half the price.
I will add a few pictures of the benchmarks now and I will add pictures of the actual computer later tonight. Feel free to ask me any questions you want about this computer.
TRADE: What I want to trade this for is a E1705 with a Core 2 Duo, 7900GS, at least 1 gig of RAM, at least a 100gb HD and a WUXGA screen. I'd like one that at least has an upgrade to Vista available, or has Vista already on it. I'm willing to consider other 17" laptops but the specs need to be very similar to the E1705 above. This will be my only computer so it needs to be able to game decently and be pretty quick. I don't want to go back to XP as I've already been using Vista for months now, so Vista is pretty important.
PM me or email me(camride at yahoo.com or gmail.com) with offers. Thanks for looking!
Oh, I'm also willing to sell the whole thing for $1600 + shipping. Let me know if you're interested in buying it outright.
Pictures of the PC are up. Just so you know you will get everything that comes with the PC, including the box for the MB, extra cables, Media Center Remote plus a bunch more. I will also give you the invoice from newegg(where I bought almost everything) in case you have any problems with the hardware. Everything runs perfect though, so you shouldn't run into any problems.
