New rig...ready to order

Demon[KcsF]

Demon[KcsF]

Demon[KcsF]

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Hi all,

Right I have finalised my Core2 rig and am ready to place my order, I would like some confirmation that all the components I am going to order are OK and that everything will work fine together.

Core2Duo Rig:

ASUS P5W DH Deluxe i975X, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533 / 667 /800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 S775, 2.40Ghz, 1066Mhz FSB, Conroe Core, 4M Cache Retail

2Gb (2X1Gb) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC6400 (800), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, EPP

512MB Sapphire Radeon X1900 XT PCI-E (x16) Mem 1450 MHz, GPU 625 MHz, 48 Pipes - Mastercard

512MB Sapphire Radeon X1900 XT PCI-E (x16) Mem 1450 MHz, GPU 625 MHz, 48 Pipes VIVO - Slave

74 Gb Western Digital Raptor, SATA, 10000 rpm, 16MB Cache

2x250 Gb Samsung Spinpoint P SP2504C, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, 9.0 ms, NCQ

Silverstone "TEMJIN" TJ06S-W (Silver) Aluminum Supertower Case with Window (w/o PSU)

600W Silverstone Strider ST60F Quiet SLi Dual PCI-E EPS12v ATX Quad 12v v2.01 120mm Fan PSU

Scythe Ninja CPU Cooler

How does it look?

Cheers

Bry.
 
Replace Samsung with Seagate or Western Digital
Do you need 500+GB straight away? Why not just buy a 320GB single HD for now, then add another when you're out of space? From the other thread Raptors don't seem that fast. What's your monitor? Could just get X1900XT/XTX for now and see how that fares.

Personally I would just buy a new GFX card for your one in your sig...more than good enough.
 
Everything looks fine there. I think the only thing i'd change would be the 250gb samsung drives. The new Seagate 7200.10's are seriously fast according to reviews and should do nicely in that expensive rig ;)
 
I was going to run the Samsung drives in RAID but I think I may just go with 1 SeaGate 7200.10 300GB instead.
My monitor is an HP f2105 @ 1680x1050 resolution

Bry.
 
I would go for single XT/XTX card for now...playing games here fine, just Oblivion a bit low (bit that's a demanding game anyway)

COD2, Quake 4, Doom 3, Fear all fine.
 
I'm pretty sure you'll be aware of this but I'll say it anyway, you can't just designate any X1900 XT card as a mastercard, it actually has to be a Crossfire/Master edition, so if your not certain, make sure that is what your getting :)
 
Tetras said:
I'm pretty sure you'll be aware of this but I'll say it anyway, you can't just designate any X1900 XT card as a mastercard, it actually has to be a Crossfire/Master edition, so if your not certain, make sure that is what your getting :)
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Yep, I am aware of that, but thanks for pointing it out anyway. :)

Well I think I will change the Spinpoint HDD's for 1 320GB Seagate and go and place my order.
I will post again once I have built the system with some oc'ing results and benchmarks.

Cheers

Bry.
 
Dont forget to update you sig with your new rig to just to make me jealous until i order mine demon ;) hehe

Hope it comes soon mate.. :D
 
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