SubDude199
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OK, Well its time for a better computer.. Not that I really need it - I WANT IT.. A few friends and I always compete to see who can overclock more, or have the better processor or video card. Its time to stop playing games trying to overclock these little processors and video cards. Here is my next build. (I know Intel is lowering price soon, so it may even be a little cheaper in august!)
PROCESSOR: Intel Q6600 (Quad Core 2.4GHZ - Brand New - Newegg/TigerDirect Price AFTER 7/22/07) = $266+$10.00 = $276.00
MOTHERBOARD: EVGA nForce 680i SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 ATX Motherboard (New T1 Version) = $179.99+$8.99= $188.95
VIDEO CARD: EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB = $480
(Originally Planed to run Dual 8800GTS 640MB DDR3 SLI'd = $365+$365+$33.40 = $763.40, but then I realised that ONE 8800GTX will run only a little over 1,000 less in 3dMark06 for $200 less - and then I have room for another 8800GTX when I need to upgrade!)
RAM: OCZ Dual Channel 2048MB PC8500 DDR2 1066MHz Nvidia SLI-Ready X 4GB = $179.99+179.99= $359.95
(I also am not posative on this RAM, I know I want that motherboard so I can run PC8500 - but do I need to do it now?.. or is it worth gettin PC6400 for now and saving quite a bit of money
PSU: Antec Neo HE500W = $61.95+$17.95= $79.90
(I need help deciding on a PSU, I know that antec is a good brand but I have not researched this PSU completly. I think I will need a prety beefy PSU for this setup, Please sugest somehting if this will not work. I do need a 24 pin MOBO connector and a 8 pin (not 4 pin) processor connector, and two 6pin PCI-E connector allong with 4 SATA connectors)
Hard Drives: I do not know exactly what hard drive I am going to run, I do know that I want to look for hard drives that are SATA2 (3GB/s), RPM no lower than 7200, and a Cache of 16MB. Is there anything else I need to be looking at when chosing a hard drive besides size? (Please Read configuration To understand my posable choises in these hard drives)
RAID0 Primary : For running OSS, Using Raid0 to increase speed = $39.99+$39.99+$16 = $95.98
RAID1 Backup: Nothing to amazing, just two 500GB Hard drives to run my backup partition using Raid1 = $99.95+$99.95+$32.90 = $232.80
Hard Drive Configuration: I am taking sugestions on hard drives, I am not sure how I want to configure it I first had an idea of running 4 hard drives total. I dont know if this is posable but I was going use two of those hard drives to run my Primary (C) Partition in RAID 0: Striped for increased speeds but no fault tolerance from disk errors since I reformat often and dont keep important data on my OSS Partition, and the other 2 for my BackUP Partition (D) Running RAID 1: Mirrored for fault tolerance from disk errors and single disk failure but no speed increase since its just for holding my Music, Movies, Game Installers (Stuff that does not need amazing transfer speeds I just need to be sure I never lose the data) If it is possable to run 2 seperate and diffrent raid setups like this, I would like to have the Primary (C) Partition have a total of atleast 160GB using two hard drive of atleast 80GB, and a total of 500GB using two 500GB Hard Drives for BackUP (D).
I am also going to go with liquid cooling, most likely a case premade for that- any sugestions welcome. Thanks
PROCESSOR: Intel Q6600 (Quad Core 2.4GHZ - Brand New - Newegg/TigerDirect Price AFTER 7/22/07) = $266+$10.00 = $276.00
MOTHERBOARD: EVGA nForce 680i SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 ATX Motherboard (New T1 Version) = $179.99+$8.99= $188.95
VIDEO CARD: EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB = $480
(Originally Planed to run Dual 8800GTS 640MB DDR3 SLI'd = $365+$365+$33.40 = $763.40, but then I realised that ONE 8800GTX will run only a little over 1,000 less in 3dMark06 for $200 less - and then I have room for another 8800GTX when I need to upgrade!)
RAM: OCZ Dual Channel 2048MB PC8500 DDR2 1066MHz Nvidia SLI-Ready X 4GB = $179.99+179.99= $359.95
(I also am not posative on this RAM, I know I want that motherboard so I can run PC8500 - but do I need to do it now?.. or is it worth gettin PC6400 for now and saving quite a bit of money
PSU: Antec Neo HE500W = $61.95+$17.95= $79.90
(I need help deciding on a PSU, I know that antec is a good brand but I have not researched this PSU completly. I think I will need a prety beefy PSU for this setup, Please sugest somehting if this will not work. I do need a 24 pin MOBO connector and a 8 pin (not 4 pin) processor connector, and two 6pin PCI-E connector allong with 4 SATA connectors)
Hard Drives: I do not know exactly what hard drive I am going to run, I do know that I want to look for hard drives that are SATA2 (3GB/s), RPM no lower than 7200, and a Cache of 16MB. Is there anything else I need to be looking at when chosing a hard drive besides size? (Please Read configuration To understand my posable choises in these hard drives)
RAID0 Primary : For running OSS, Using Raid0 to increase speed = $39.99+$39.99+$16 = $95.98
RAID1 Backup: Nothing to amazing, just two 500GB Hard drives to run my backup partition using Raid1 = $99.95+$99.95+$32.90 = $232.80
Hard Drive Configuration: I am taking sugestions on hard drives, I am not sure how I want to configure it I first had an idea of running 4 hard drives total. I dont know if this is posable but I was going use two of those hard drives to run my Primary (C) Partition in RAID 0: Striped for increased speeds but no fault tolerance from disk errors since I reformat often and dont keep important data on my OSS Partition, and the other 2 for my BackUP Partition (D) Running RAID 1: Mirrored for fault tolerance from disk errors and single disk failure but no speed increase since its just for holding my Music, Movies, Game Installers (Stuff that does not need amazing transfer speeds I just need to be sure I never lose the data) If it is possable to run 2 seperate and diffrent raid setups like this, I would like to have the Primary (C) Partition have a total of atleast 160GB using two hard drive of atleast 80GB, and a total of 500GB using two 500GB Hard Drives for BackUP (D).
I am also going to go with liquid cooling, most likely a case premade for that- any sugestions welcome. Thanks
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