new pc

[jm85]

thanks to diablo and others.. i have ditcehd cyber power for monarch..


Case: 100744 - NO PS - Lian-Li PC-6070 Plus Aluminum Ult
Power Supply: 100162 - PS 520W - OCZ OCZ52012U ModStream ATX 2.0 Case Fan: None
Motherboard: 110224 - DFI Lan Party UT NForce4 Ultra-D Audio/GB
Processor: 12A209 - AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 1MB 90nm Rev. E San D
Thermal Grease: 800018 - Shin-Etsu G675 Thermal Grease
Heat Sink Fan: 130150 - Thermaltake A1772 AMD
Memory: 140509 - DDR (400) 3200 - 1 GB (2 pcs 512) OCZ Gol
Hard Drive: 150239 - SATA - Western Digital (WD740GD) 74 GB/10
CD-RW/DVD-RW: 160611 - DVD-RW - Plextor PX-716SA DVD±RW 16x8x16x
Video Card: 190676 - eVGA GeForce 6800 256mb 256bitDDR/PCI-E/H

Subtotal for 80311 with your selected options: $1,798.00


WHat do u guys think? any suggestions?

 

[senseless]

1) You dont need a raptor as your OS drive for one.. I'm starting to get irritated at the haze of confusion surrounding those drives. No matter how many times or how many different ways i explain it people still keep recommending it =/

The raptor drives have 2 heads, so they allow read/writes at the same time. They're also 10,000rpm so they get a little faster throughput. But you arent going to notice **ANY** difference between it and a WD 40gb 8mb cache 7200rpm ide drive. Those extra 2800RPMS are just killing the life of the drive especially if you're going to be gaming on the system.

2) Getting a 4000 isnt going to do you anymore good than getting a 3200, especially if you're overclocking. You're just flushing your money down the toilet. The 3000,3200,3500,3800,4000,fx series, etc all come off the same wafer.. Meaning the same core that is in the 3000 is the same core that is in the fx-55.. The only difference is where the multiplier is locked at.

3) If you aren't going to be overclocking there is no reason to get overclocking memory

4) the evga 6800gts are sweet good choice, and the dfi sli board is the only one ive seen as of yet that will run both pcie slots @ 16x.

 

[jm85]

thanks so much.. i think i will get the xp 3200 and overclock it.. i really need this advice, since i dont want to flush my money down the drain.. with that change, will the system be good?

 

[jm85]

oh.. and whats a good raid controller?

 

[aspire]

you mean the amd athlon 64 3200 not the xp3200 big difference
and you shouldnt need a raid controller with that board

 

[jm85]

sorry.. meant the 64 3200.. how fast could it be potentially overclocked to? perhaps to fx55 levels? thanks

 

[senseless]

For the price of the raptor drive you should be able to get a 80gb 7200rpm 8mb cache drive as your C: aswell as a 200gb or so sata or ide drive to store all your music and stuff on.

If you want to do some overclocking i'd suggest the amd64 3200 venice.. It will be fairly easy/straight forward to take the 2.0ghz clock and crank it up to 2.8-2.9.

If you want to save some money, or be able to get another component.. I'd also suggest getting non-overclocking (cheap) ram and just changing the memory divider so that it always sits at 200mhz (so that you overclock only your processor and not your ram)

 

[aspire]

spend the money get some reasonably good ram
speaking of ram
www.zipzoomfly.com has a sale on their corsair value ram
75 after rebate for dual 512m sticks of pc3200

 

[jm85]

how come u use a winchester?

 

[senseless]

because i bought my system before it (the venice core) came out..

I had an amd64 3500 venice i brought home from work to test out for a couple weeks. So i know all about its overclocking abilities, and it far exceeds what a winchester can do. But im happy with what i have for now =) When i buy my 3 computer cluster setup, all 3 systems will be running venice 939s clocked at 2.85ish (just to be safe)