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Building a New PC
Sideways:
Even on those mini-cases you can buy fans... always ALWAYS have a fan mounted over the CPU (not the CPU fan, mind you, but an actual fan off the side of your tower with "plumbing" from your CPU). Also, the power-supply fan should be a decent size, along with a rear case-fan, and - if you can make the space for it - a top-mounted fan as well.
My one friend has this case which has the side-mounted-CPU fan, the rear case-fan, and he custom-installed a top-fan. The case actually has heat gauges on the front, and the interior runs VERY cool... usually around 10degrees celcius (50degrees farenheit).
nihilist:
I have a Shuttle SN26P/AMD X2 3800+ (OC'd), 2GB RAM, two 7800GTX cards, and two 250GB Seagate HDs running in a RAID1 array. It's pretty spiffy, and didn't cost $4000.
SpacemanSpiff:
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MBM-K8NE-3000 :: Gigabyte K8NE NVIDIA Socket 754 ATX Motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2.0GHz Processor with Fan (4 lbs)
$199.99
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You should definitely get a Socket 939 board and CPU. They're slightly more expensive (in total maybe 20 bucks or something, at least that's how it is over here), but 754 will die soon, whereas 939 will live for at least 1 more year, which gives you the option of upgrading the CPU.
JJMitchell:
Thanks.
I'll look for a 939 board.
est:
also: even though it's not explicitly stated, the geforce 7600 should run Oblivion just fine, as it's more powerful than my card. It's the "value" version of the 7900, which is basically just a 7800 with some tweaks.
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