Building new quadcore rig/Need advice!!!

Sarman

Sarman

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Hey guys, I have been lurking around here for some time researching on what to get etc...

Anyway here is the thing...It has been a couple of years now since we bought our last computer and although it has gone through a few upgrades, it's kinda rusty now. So I planned to build a new PC myself. We were gonna give the current comp to my uncle that has come to stay for a week from France, but the thing is I am waiting for the R600 to come out and now reports are saying late March, but my dad wants me to start ordering now...

So with thet current situation in mind, this is what I am planning on getting (main components):

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quadro Extreme Edition QX6700 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.66GHz (1066FSB)

Motherboard: DFI Lanparty UT ICFX3200T2R/G RD600 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2

Memory: CZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel ATI Crossfire Series DDR2 (OCZ2A8002GK)

GPU: Connect3D ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) *I WILL EXPLAIN WHY*

HDD: Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache x2

Optical drive 1: Sony DDU-1615 DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM

Optical drive 2: Pioneer DVR-111BK 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black)

Case: Lian Li PC-A10B Aluminium Full-Tower - Black

PSU: Seasonic M12 modular 700w


So what I am thinking is buying that graphics card, waiting a few months till the R600 comes out and maybe goes down in price a little...then by that time DX10 games will be out too.

Apart from that though, does the setup look alright? Also as this is my first time building a computer I am worried about stuff like will the power cables of the PSU reach everything and stuff like that :D, so I need some reassurances before I order.

Thank you in advance for your help!
 
What kind of multi-tasking are you going to be using this for? A server? CAD, Photoshop or 3D Studio rendering?

Or just normal office/encoding/music/gaming? If so you don't need quad core.
 
Save a few quid and just get a normal Raptor, unless you MUST have the see-through window. :)

Do you definitely need 2 optical drives?

Consider Silver ;)

With the GFX card, yes good plan, but why not get an even cheaper one?

As mentioned, the Quadro is pricey. Go for it if money is no object, but for encoding/gaming, the conny E6600/700s are more than up to the task.
 
That should be a great system but you are going to be paying fairly heavily for it. Quad-core isn't utilised fully in many things as far as I am aware, simply because people don't code for it without an existing need.

As mentioned, why the Raptor X? Your case isn't see-through so to get it seems a shade pointless not to mention it has half the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) of the non-window drives, that said the MTBF of the Raptor X is still estimated at 150,000 hours which ought to be enough for most.

If you are going to get two optical drives why not make both of them DVDRWs, the price difference now is so small it only makes sense to me on a restricted budget which you don't appear to be suffering from.

I might change the PSU to a Corsair 620w if they are in stock, based on the same design as the S12s but with the M12s detachable cabling and built to even higher standards. :)
 
OK I definately want the 2 optical drives, and yeah you are right I might as well get 2 Pioneer ones...

About the Raptors, I didn't really notice the window bits lol, but do you think I will see a noticeable performance increase with a RAID 0 setup with the 2 raptors, or am I better off opting for lower speed and higher storage capacity? What do you think I should get?

Also about getting a cheaper GFX card, well I do wanna be able to play games SEMI-well for these few months, especially considering monitor size/vista aero, and tbh its very cheap for it's performance, as it is only like £100. But yea the only slight downside is that it might be overkill as a physics card lol.

Also money is no issue as long as it's under £2800 or so (used to be 3K but now I need to have the money ready for R600), but of course if I can save here and there (e.g HDD) then that's good.
 
Personally I would go for larger drives running raid 1 (mirrored), you get slower write times for sure, but the raid 1 gives better read times (good for games). You need the space for video encoding, and the raid 1 safety means you're unlikely to lose all that hard work (one disc can fail and you keep your data) :)

UKB
 
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