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Otterah

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Ok, I built my computer about 2 years ago, but i feel with my college money an work money, I can afford to upgrade away from AGP an totally change everything for the better. Now, I dont know shit about compatability, but I know how to put it all together.

The first time, I basically coppied my friends computer so I knew what parts worked with what, but since i upgraded my video card an PSU.

This list I made from parts from this mag i saw but I d/k if they are the exact parts because newegg search can be buggy sometimes for parts.

so I have this list

CASE: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133008 $84.99

MEMORY: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145575 $189.00

HARDDRIVE: 1)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136012 $274.00
2)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144005 $280.99

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103608 $855.00

VIDEOCARD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814125024 $489.99

MOBO: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131568 $194.99

TOTAL $2366.98

Now I just need help seeing if they all work together, an if not, the part that doesnt, or parts, if you guys can help me find ones just as good but compatable. I just suck with numbers of each model an stuff if you understan what im saying..
 
yes when i first built it I had a 420 that came with the case but later uped to a 550, not a big deal but i was just saying what i did change.
 
That all looks pretty good. I personally dont think you should spend that much on a raptor, but it doesnt seem like you have much of a budget, so why not.
 
ohh ok, its really worrying me ho wth elatest card have to go to such an extent to keep the chips cool on thegfx card, i mean is all that piping and heatsink and fan really necessary
 
Christian Darrall said:
wouldnt you prefer a size instead of speed
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The 10K drive will boot up Windows alot faster, and load games much quicker. It will also make file transfers go much quicker.
 
ya it will be used for 90% games. The non game things are just little things like photoshop an movies an music an stuff.

An as aboveme said about the SATA an the mobo, the reason i asked you guys lol.

So about that now..

EDIT: i will probably sell this comp to friends for a starting bid of like 500 an see who will spend the most, so there is a bit of money to help.
 
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thealmightyone said:
I don't think the mobo can take the raptor. The raptor is a SATA I drive, yet the board only has 4 SATA II ports.
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SATA150 is backwards compatible with SATAII.

ya it will be used for 90% games. The non game things are just little things like photoshop an movies an music an stuff.
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And those are all things that would benefit from a faster hard drive.
 
can someone explain why these are similar price when the one is better than the other.
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Good marketing. The Raptor's marketing powet comes from the catchy name and the fact that it's the only non-SCSI drive with a rotational speed higher than 7200rpm. You'll often find Raptor fanboys (not to be confused with fans) intermingling with RAID0 fanatics as well as with performance-OEMs and midlevel PC hardware magazines. Sure the Raptor's higher rotational speed gives it a noted advantage but there's a often forgotten guideline of "if you have to ask about it, odds are you wont notice the performance difference" ... well that and, well, you probably wont.

its better for gaming, it can pull data faster
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For the record, if your gaming performance is bottlenecked by the harddrive (which, for the record, it isnt), then you are in very serious trouble. Case in point ... the bandwidth going to a highend videocard is what ... 40GB/s+? Now take this fancy ass Raptor ... and assume of course that it can actually run at SATA3.0 speeds (which it cant), what does that give us ... 300MB/s? ... Needless to say, you're in quite some trouble if you think a fast harddrive is gonna help with gaming.

ohh ok, its really worrying me ho wth elatest card have to go to such an extent to keep the chips cool on thegfx card, i mean is all that piping and heatsink and fan really necessary
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You'll be fine :)

The 10K drive will boot up Windows alot faster, and load games much quicker. It will also make file transfers go much quicker.
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If, by much quicker we mean a whopping 3 seconds, sure (i had the chance to actually test this out since one of my customers wanted a Raptor150 ... which ironically allowed me to afford spending money on myself)

I don't think the mobo can take the raptor. The raptor is a SATA I drive, yet the board only has 4 SATA II ports.
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SATAII is backwards compatable. Furthermore, nothing is gonna come in range of hitting SATA speeds so we've not have to worry about that

SATA150 is backwards compatible with SATAII.
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strikes dyslexia again? ;) (SATA150 cant be backwards compatiblr with a newer spec)

Any thoughts?
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Way too much money, way not enough performance.

In the rough ballpark pricewise but a crapload more powerful in virtually any respect.
 
i saw those Evga cards but i saw the reviews an they seemed to be breaking allot.

mostly im just trying to upgrade so far ahead that ill have the best i can get at the time an still have it being great in a year. I know how things change an get better so fast, like 2 years ago my comp was one of the best things around here now its still good but obviously nothing like what im trying to get now.
 
i saw those Evga cards but i saw the reviews an they seemed to be breaking allot.
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Ive gone through 5 so far (selling them, not breaking them) and not had a problem since. Regardless, the nice thing about eVGA's warranty is it has obscene coverage :)


mostly im just trying to upgrade so far ahead that ill have the best i can get at the time an still have it being great in a year.
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Well in that case, the AM2 rig I picked out will outlast your S939 box :) The dual videocard config cant hurt either.
 
ohh thank u very much :)

my friend keeps telling me to go intel instead of AMD but i never liked intel as i never liked ATI for video cards since i changed to nvidia.
 
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