About to order- advice on this Spec:

fishlick

fishlick

fishlick

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Hello, 1st post

Building for a music production PC so need power, ram and silence.
Don't need wifi/graphics etc so went for the P5K standard rather than deluxe but thinking about the P5K C (?)
May do a slight overclock but looking for stability over performance.

How are these specs looking:


Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
(£187.99)

Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£79.89)

2 x Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB)
(£133.92)

Western Digital Raptor 36GB WD360ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM
(£66.96)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(£54.04)

Asus GeForce EN7600GS Silent HTD 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express)
(£46.99)

Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Black)
(£82.24)

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
(£68.14)

Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B Heatpipe CPU Cooler
(£29.36)

Samsung SH-S203BEBN 20x20 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
(£19.96)

Total : £812.90 (VAT & Delivery)
 
Id highly suggest getting this ram instead, its more than adequate at stock speeds for you and can overclock to ~800-1000mhz in most cases.

The p182 is £5 extra or something and has much better cable routing, go for that if i were you.

Also the advantage of the raptor isnt significant enougth to really justify the additional cost, get 2 cheaper drives and run them in RAID 0 , itl give you more space and pretty similar performance, or get an additional storage drive and have it all running in raid.

Whats the use of the pc ?

The sythes a pretty good cooler, possibly a little noisier i believe, but good all the same.Comparison on cooling ability here. Also a fan(or 2) would have to be added to the thermalright adding a little to price, go for the sythe or a tuniq 120 if i were you.
 
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fishlick said:
Why do you think it's better?
I did some reading and the "silent PC" crew rate the ninja

also, there's none in stock and no ETA!
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if you 're case cooling is ok stick with the ninja as u can run it passive or with a quiet fan.

DavidB said:
Whats the use of the pc ?
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"Building for a music production PC so need power, ram and silence. "
 
Thanks, overlooked that, would a sound card not be in order too then ?
If your going for 4gb of ram you may want to use 2gb sticks so you could potentially add to what you have in the future.

Something along the lines of this ?
 
fishlick said:
May do a slight overclock but looking for stability over performance.
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Is either stable, or its not. There is no in between.


Too many people think "OMGZ Overclocking = BURN OUT!!!11111 and crashing!!!1111"

NO it doesn't. If it does then your either pushing to far or doing something stupid.

Stability however depends on stable for how long, no computer is stable 24/7 365. Stable enough not to crash in 24 hours? A week?
 
DavidB said:
Thanks, overlooked that, would a sound card not be in order too then ?
If your going for 4gb of ram you may want to use 2gb sticks so you could potentially add to what you have in the future.

Something along the lines of this ?
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Sorry, already have a soundcard - M Audio Audiophile 24/96 from previous system.

DavidB- Yeah changed for the P182, thanks for that.

Also you guys have confused me on the RAM issue. Do i only need PC5300 at 667mhz then?
I went for the P35 chip set and 1333FSB MB for upgradability, there could be affordable native quads in 12-18 months time, would it not be best to get higher spec RAM now?
 
Concorde Rules said:
Too many people think "OMGZ Overclocking = BURN OUT!!!11111 and crashing!!!1111"
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lol, that's me!

noob to overclocking, I did my first one the other day on E6400 to 2.8 on stock fan and it was idle at about 50C so i reset it all!
 
well, i think the new native quads run at a fsb speed of 1333, which divdd by 4(intel quad pump there processors) is a fsb of 333mhz, the RAM fsb speed is half that of whats stated, eg 667/2 = 333.5mhz, so the RAM matches the FSB perfectly.
 
DavidB said:
Also the advantage of the raptor isnt significant enougth to really justify the additional cost, get 2 cheaper drives and run them in RAID 0 , itl give you more space and pretty similar performance, or get an additional storage drive and have it all running in raid.
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do mean run 2 smaller drives in raid as the system drive?

it's about the same price (raptor) for 2 of these
 
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