Lol. Thanks again, all! You don't want to know how long it took me to put this system together. I'll just say "several hours" from start to the final install of Win7 (installed Win7 3 times).
It really is my first build, and I spent a lot of time staring at cables and trying to decide how best to route them, fixing little mistakes (eg. installed mobo then had to take it out because I forgot the backplate), etc. What held me up was some of the small details that you just don`t notice in photos/videos if you`ve never done something before. Otherwise, the case itself has a lot of room and is easy to work with, aside from the 2 uppermost 5.25`` drive bays.
Lemonlime, I'm very happy with the 5750s. I actually was torn between the 5750 (should be great for now) and 5770 (might be better for the future) going into the build. Locally I could only find 1 5770 though (vs. 3 of the 5750s) so that made the decision easy. For my purposes now, the 50s are very good. NFS runs absolutely smoothly with the default settings, and I haven`t tried to push beyond those, yet -- wasted a lot of time trying to get the Logitech PS2/3/PC wheel and pedals working properly, then installed almost all of my remaining software. I probably won't be able to play around with things much until the weekend.
Last edited by zc1; February 9, 2010 at 08:49 PM.
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