New Highend Rig

AthlonTom

AthlonTom

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Afternoon all :)

Im looking to get a new high-end system.

Budget is upto 3K, Don't need a monitor KB or Mouse

SCSI is preferable, as well as a 2 Socket MoBo, you don't have to use all OcUK parts but it would be preferable if possible

4 Gigs of RAM is needed


The whole thing needs to be quiet too and DX10 Compliant if thats Possible!!

The system needs to be able to play Crysis on max :)
 
How about

2 x CellShock 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-8000C4 1000MHz Dual Channel Kit £234.99
(£276.11) £469.98
(£552.22)

EVGA nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard EVGA nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £154.99
(£182.11) £154.99
(£182.11)

Enermax Galaxy 1000W EGA1000EWL ATX2.2 Modular PSU Enermax Galaxy 1000W EGA1000EWL ATX2.2 Modular PSU £199.99
(£234.99) £199.99
(£234.99)

2 x BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £339.99
(£399.49) £679.98
(£798.98)

Intel Core 2 Quadro Extreme Edition QX6700 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - Retail Intel Core 2 Quadro Extreme Edition QX6700 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £554.99
(£652.11) £554.99
(£652.11)

2 x Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (0A33437) Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (0A33437) £109.99
(£129.24) £219.98
(£258.48)

Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM £132.99
(£156.26) £132.99
(£156.26)

Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£19.96) £16.99
(£19.96)

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)

Akasa Eclipse 62 Aluminium Case - No PSU Akasa Eclipse 62 Aluminium Case - No PSU £87.98
(£103.38) £87.98
(£103.38)

Total : £3,023.05

What a budget :D
 
AthlonTom said:
That looks awesome!!!! Though I shouldn't imagin it will be in any way quiet!!!
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True, but it might not be as noisy as you think. The 8800s aren't that noisy, and the tuniq on low is quiet. You could put in a P180, that would quieten it down.

TBH, for that money you could get someone to build you a high end water-cooled setup. Or do it yourself if you're feeling adventurous! Swap the 8800s for one 8800 of the water-cooled variety,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-037-BG

and buy yourself a water-cooling kit to stick on the back of that eclipse:-

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-021-SW

Jobs a good'un!
 
Yep killer system, but a bit excessive Trust me I'v been there, its just far too much grunt & nothing out there to really test it.

But if thats what you want, then go with it ;)
 
Van Diemen said:
Yep killer system, but a bit excessive Trust me I'v been there, its just far too much grunt & nothing out there to really test it.

But if thats what you want, then go with it ;)
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You could drop to 2GB of memory, and just have the one 8800 GTX, it would come in at 2.3k and still eat all games and apps for breakfast.
 
melbourne720 said:
You could drop to 2GB of memory, and just have the one 8800 GTX, it would come in at 2.3k and still eat all games and apps for breakfast.
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I think I will drop a graphics card, keep the RAM though.

When will AMD 4x4 be available?
 
Hust got a quote from a major manufacturer:

Intel Core™ Two Extreme X6800, 2.93GHz, 1066FSB, 4MB L2 cache
4.0GB (4 x 1.0GB DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM Memory
73 GB SAS 15000 Rpm Boot Drive
250 GB SATAII 7200 Rpm Storage Drive
16xDVD RW
Vista Ultimate
750 Watt PSU

Only a NVidia Workstataion GFX Card in there though (NVS285) but there is a pair of PCI-E 16 Slots so I'd have to get an 8800 on top

£2048, would this be a better option maybe? Though there is still the addition of the 8800

I forgot about the donar parts from my exsisting PC! Heres the spec - though the bits don't have to be used;

A64 3500+ @2.6 Ghz (tec cool with water) (water and tec not going in new pc)
2 GB Geil PC 3500
Raptor 74 GB (Boot)
WD 320 GB (Storage)
Audigy 2 zs Plat Pro
2 x 6800 GT 256
DFI Mobo
tagen 480 PSU
No Case!!!
 
I'd lose that competitor pricing, but that quote you got looks rubbish to me. No Quad core, no decent graphics, That half the cost! Slower RAM too, that stuff I spec'd is a million times better.

You could build a PC as powerful as that for a little over a grand!
 
Bah - it seems impossible to build a pc to meet my specs now I've thought about it. Meh

SCSI and quad core with a second free cpu socket aint going to come in at budget - well not with the required ECC Dimms if its a multi cpu board
 
melbourne720 said:
Why do you want a multi CPU rig? Won't quad core do what you want it to?
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I won't know until I get it, I've got to do some pretty funky stuff with VMWare for some software I'm developing, Oracle hogs enough resources without being sat on a virtual machine, I might have to goto xeons for there extra virtualization features, additionally one of the products utilizes a Sybase database which won't run on a virtual box
 
Managed to do it;

Found a 2 Socket Mobo with 1 Quad Core Xeon, 2 Gigs of RAM and Full SCSI

£987 :D

That just leaves an 8800 to get from OCUK + some more ram
 
Are xeons ok for gaming? Always thought they were more server side and pants for games? Probably wrong
 
A[L]C said:
Are xeons ok for gaming? Always thought they were more server side and pants for games? Probably wrong
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It seemed to matter back before OS's were NT based, but now as OS's like XP have had to become more robust to deal with security there getting more like the traditional no nonsence business OS.

Theres a few frames in it - not much more
 
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