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**Andara Bledin** · 09-14-2012, 08:30 AM

1) Vague yea. Slightly high DOA/failure rate.

2) Maybe yea. Notable DOA/failure rate. I prefer Rosewill, personally.

3) Solid yea.

4) Solid yea.

5) I hate Radeon, so my vote is utterly biased to auto-nay. I always go GeForce and never have issues. My boyfriend most recently ended up having to swap to GeForce, himself after his Radeon refused to behave.

6) Solid yea. I've got a Cooler Master myself.

It's worth noting that I'm not particularly experienced at putting together a high end machine, but I have been building my own systems for over a decade, which comes out to only three machines, so I must be doing something right.

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**gremcint** · 09-14-2012, 05:50 PM

for the graphics card is there a specific geforce one? there's just so many different graphic cards. And even if I have a model there's still 10 different manufacturers of the same card.

**Andara Bledin** · 09-14-2012, 09:31 PM

I haven't actually seen a lot of difference in the different people building the cards with the GeForce chips. Mostly it has to do with size, configuration and cooling. It's worth noting that I tend to end up with mid-range to trailing edge cards, so I tend to end up having to upgrade as new games come out that the old cards can't handle.

In 2005 I had a Chaintech. In 2007 I bought a stronger Chaintech when that one fell off the trailing edge. In 2009 (my last system build) I ended up picking up a BFG. It fell off the trailing edge this year (Diablo 3), and was replaced with an MSI.

In all that time, I've had a few problems when a driver has introduced a problem, but those have always been minor and fixed quickly.

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**RichS** · 09-15-2012, 02:59 AM

1. The LG DVD burner is OK. I have 2 currently, one may have a problem with burning, the other is fine. I have a Plextor in my main build, and it's been great. I do have a Sony in another with no problems.
2. Corsair power supply - I've got the HX750, going on its third system build with no problems.
3. Asus makes good mobos - I got the M5A97EVO for my main AMD build.
4. Never used Corsair memory, so I don't have any yes/no recommendations. I've primarily used Kingston, but I've currently went with Mushkin and G.Skill memory.
5. Looks like a good graphics card - I haven't had any problems with either AMD or Nvidia as far as graphics. I do like my EVGA GeForce 560Ti, and support for PhysX doesn't hurt either. The previous card I was using was an MSI Hawk HD5770, still going strong in my kid's computer.
6. Great cooler from the reviews I've read - I have a Hyper 121+ in a build that's been pretty good, got a single core AMD up from 2.2 to a stable 2.5 GHz overclock while still running ~ 45 degrees C.

**gremcint** · 09-15-2012, 05:19 AM

Newegg specifically reccomended the cooler to go with the processor, some other people have said be careful it's not too big for the case.
I'll take some measurements before I order.

The HX750 is modular and it's only a little more so I'll probably go with it.

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