Wolfbane
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Hi,
Long story short, I'm trying to get the spec for a high performance pc to hopefully order it monday at the latest.I'm in N.ireland in the UK and would be buying it local
I had the specs of one priced on the alienware website (not ordering from there though) but as i looked over them i realised it wouldnt work.
Among many things, there were 4gb ddr2 667mhz ram, 8x500gb HD's linked together by RAID into 4 partitions, Liquid cooling (im looking for it to be silent) Dual 512mb 7900 SLI cards, PhysX processing, and a video optimiser.
But i just found out the PhysX wont be out till may, and AMD aint doing ddr2 till the month after that (i think?).
But i cant wait that long.
So here I am looking for help, for the full spec of a high performance system.
It'll be primarily a games machine, but i will be using it for work to edit images, edit HD video (5 cameras and about 12hrs footage from each), animate 2D then soon 3D with maya.
But in time i will be getting a mac to do all the editing on, but then i will still be using the pc to make the animations.
But the reason i am here is because I dont know what all i need....what motherboard is compatible with what, this ram works with this but not that.....will the one liquid cooling be enough, or will i need extra cooling on the HD's (definately), ram, video cards, processor, etc and what kind of cooling, cos too much water is bound to be a bad thing.....in fact id rather take the water out, but i dont want to use fans, cos im looking for a quiet pc.
Then theres the whole ATI/nVidia argument, ati good if the patch is out, nvidia overclocked in the box.....raid controller for that amount of storage space.....
i honestly aint too sure when it comes to parts, but when its on and running i can get stuff done, so any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Long story short, I'm trying to get the spec for a high performance pc to hopefully order it monday at the latest.I'm in N.ireland in the UK and would be buying it local
I had the specs of one priced on the alienware website (not ordering from there though) but as i looked over them i realised it wouldnt work.
Among many things, there were 4gb ddr2 667mhz ram, 8x500gb HD's linked together by RAID into 4 partitions, Liquid cooling (im looking for it to be silent) Dual 512mb 7900 SLI cards, PhysX processing, and a video optimiser.
But i just found out the PhysX wont be out till may, and AMD aint doing ddr2 till the month after that (i think?).
But i cant wait that long.
So here I am looking for help, for the full spec of a high performance system.
It'll be primarily a games machine, but i will be using it for work to edit images, edit HD video (5 cameras and about 12hrs footage from each), animate 2D then soon 3D with maya.
But in time i will be getting a mac to do all the editing on, but then i will still be using the pc to make the animations.
But the reason i am here is because I dont know what all i need....what motherboard is compatible with what, this ram works with this but not that.....will the one liquid cooling be enough, or will i need extra cooling on the HD's (definately), ram, video cards, processor, etc and what kind of cooling, cos too much water is bound to be a bad thing.....in fact id rather take the water out, but i dont want to use fans, cos im looking for a quiet pc.
Then theres the whole ATI/nVidia argument, ati good if the patch is out, nvidia overclocked in the box.....raid controller for that amount of storage space.....
i honestly aint too sure when it comes to parts, but when its on and running i can get stuff done, so any help is appreciated.
Thanks
