Critique this rig please :)

lay-z-boy · 25 May 2007 at 15:52

Get the Asus P5K Deluxe, awesome mainboard, overclocks very well, very stable, great new chipset and bucket loads of features.

Don't give me that sli bs as the G92 (new nvidia gpu) is 2x faster than the 8800Ultra and it would be smarter to sell the gtx and move to the g92 if you wanted faster.

hp7909 · 25 May 2007 at 16:02

Darg said:
No No No No No!

Never buy this board. A crock of absolute s**te{snip}

Thought that was just the Plus version :confused:

Jaffa_Cake · 25 May 2007 at 16:07

Ambro said:
I think you should get the raptor if your spending £1000 anyway

You can get 640gb of storage space in RAID0 for less than a single raptor. This is much faster than a raptor anyway.

Raptors are a waste of money.

Tbh I think that mobo is overpriced too Chris. The new DS3P with the P35 chipset would be my choice from reading over in the Mobo forum.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-085-GI

stinka · 25 May 2007 at 16:44

i would get the ds3p it owns and clocks well sli is to much trouble so you dont need an sli board

id get 2 x 7200:10s in raid 0 good drives i only have 200gb's and they **** on a single raptor for £100

Ambro · 26 May 2007 at 01:16

Jaffa_Cake said:
You can get 640gb of storage space in RAID0 for less than a single raptor. This is much faster than a raptor anyway.

Thats not completly truthful, although a raid setup maybe faster at data transfers it can't come close to the raptors seek times which are more important for general use.