Comments on this new rig please

colsie008 · 24 Oct 2008 at 10:11

have not built a machine for 2 years now so after trawling through a lot of the "spec me" threads I came up with this for myself.

Hows it look? Appreciate your help!

Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail

Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD3000GLFS)

Asus P5Q Premium Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

OCZ EliteXStream 800w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply

Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) Supplied with
Airflow Fan (TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF)

Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)

just persia · 24 Oct 2008 at 11:48

You're definitely going to want some fans in there

EsaT · 24 Oct 2008 at 11:55

PSU is overshooting, those components will have hard time in reaching 400W peak draw.

Raptors are small in capacity but if that's enough Velociraptor is about fastest "desktop" drive.

Kelt · 24 Oct 2008 at 13:28

I'd get a 1TB Samsung F1 instead of the WD.

And if you need a 800W PSU, get the one as in my sig. Modular, utterly silent, and with a 3 year guarantee.

Pay the extra and get the HAF 932. But I would say that!

(Great case, btw)

colsie008 · 24 Oct 2008 at 15:38

Thanks for the responses...

I'll probably end up getting this fan Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) in the end - hope to try overclocking at one point !!!

Interesting about the PSU, just picked the wattage out of no where

will drop that down to 700 instead.

The HD I like the sound of so i'm sticking to that - got plenty of storage space...

This is a great forum by the way! Cheers