Good canadian site and build me a comp

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#1 purquoise230
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hey guys i wanna build a custom comp but have no idea which case would be compatibal and what types of ram and stuff to put in and i also need asite that ships to canada because i live in vancouver and if there is one a site that lets you pay monthly over a 36-48 month term ok what i want in the comp is 2 SLI 8800GTX or ULTRA atleast a 3Ghz processor windows vista whichver version is best and 2-4GB of ram DDR3 if u can and atleast 500GB of 7200RPM and 3.0gb/shardrive if u cant find that its fine and a good motherboard and whatever other stuff i missed i dont have any idea of what kindof cooling or power i'd need so if u can make my comp it would be much appreciated:) i want this thing to be crazy:)
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#2 SilentShadow
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This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but I suggest understanding how to build your own computer first and then ordering. Knowing what's compatible and why is very important. Tigerdirect.com also has a Canadian version of their website located at http://www.tigerdirect.ca/
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#3 purquoise230
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This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but I suggest understanding how to build your own computer first and then ordering. Knowing what's compatible and why is very important. Tigerdirect.com also has a Canadian version of their website located at http://www.tigerdirect.ca/SilentShadow

yea i gotta friend thats gonna build it for me but hes in australia till the 24th
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yea i gotta friend thats gonna build it for me but hes in australia till the 24thpurquoise230

What kind of irresponsible "friend" let you go for specs like that? Unless you're got a monitor bigger than 24", you do not need SLI 8800GTX cards, nor are they going to provide more than a few months of future-proofing over a single card at best. Any 3.0GHz or higher processor? Northwood Pentium 4 @ 3.2GHz would be acceptable then? I really hope not. DDR3 RAM? How are you planning on running SLI with DDR3 RAM? There aren't any motherboards out that support both DDR3 and SLI.

Basically, I'd make sure your "friend" knows what he's doing before you go galavanting off and spend $3000 CAD on computer parts that you and most likely he know nothing about.

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#6 SilentShadow
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What kind of irresponsible "friend" let you go for specs like that?

Basically, I'd make sure your "friend" knows what he's doing before you go galavanting off and spend $3000 CAD on computer parts that you and most likely he know nothing about.

RayvinAzn

That's exactly along the lines that I was thinking. Like I said, know what you're building and why. I'd hate for you to buy the parts, put it all together and find out that half of your system isn't even compatible with the other parts.

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#7 IAM-CA
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Best sites in Canada are

http://www.ncix.com/ is good, cause they price match any advertised Canadian price... Their weekly advertised deals are great and since they are in BC, there is no PST to other provinces like Ontario - so I usually save more in tax than I pay in shipping.You can probably go in to get your parts and save the shipping.

http://www.directcanada.com/ is also good (most prices slightly better than NCIX)and has free shipping on orders over $300 (also in BC)

I also usehttp://www.anitec.ca/(also in BC), and for local pickup (for me near Toronto)http://www.canadacomputers.com/, http://www.pcvonline.com/ and sometimes http://www.tigerdirect.ca/ (usually high prices before rebates) for parts... all can be price matched at NCIX.

For choice of parts, I suggest you give a budget and let us know what you want to use it for. Do you have a monitor/keyboard/mouse, etc. and what resolution you plan to game at. We can suggest some good parts based on that.