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[AC9breaker]

Yeah, after years of saying I was gonna do it, I'm finally doing it. Building myself a PC. I've been trying to read up as much as I can on stuff and have been browsing newegg speculating. Anyway, I figured this would be more productive if I got some input for you guys. Primarily this is gonna be a gaming PC, but I at the very least want this PC to be relevant for 5 years, and I'm gonna be using it for more then just gaming. School, musings, w/e. Possible I'll be leaving the PC on for long periods of time so maybe cooling will be a factor?

I like me some nVidia chips and I'm not planning on overclocking (yet) so intel is fine with me. Any ESD precautions I should take and such would also be appreciated. I'm planning on working with a 900 dollar budget for the rig itself. But it's flexable. So... show me ya moves!

[AC9breaker]

So for the most part I'm on my new pc and have everything up and running except for my CPU. Seems like the 750i mobo's don't get along too well with quad cores unless you update the BIOS. Fortunately for me the CPU on my old PC is a dual core so I switched it out. With that said however, I still haven't gotten around to updating the BIOS and this PC is running off my old dual core CPU. I've burned the Bios update on a CD that I got from the EVGA forums and set my CD-ROM as the Primary boot device. But it just goes straight to windows. Haven't really tried anything with it though, was waiting for today since it's my day off. Hopefully I'll have this figured out by the end of the day.