Ordering Tomorrow!!! Any Thoughts?

spitzoid · 6 Dec 2008 at 18:35

Please take a look at my spec which I will FINALLY be ordering tomorrow.

What do you guys think? Would you add/change anything?

Chimerical · 6 Dec 2008 at 18:37

Looks good. Why that screen in particular? Why not just buy a TV tuner for your PC and then buy a better screen, i.e. a non TN panel. Also, I would just get the standard P6T not the Palm Edition, which seems to simply come with an external readout display thing...or something.

Glaucus · 6 Dec 2008 at 18:40

£400 on a hard drive is silly.
also spend the extra £10 and get the zalman psu..

I think the antec 1200 looks cheap/tacky and nasty. You could get the Lian Li PC-A10A Aluminium Full-Tower for £20 more.

RJC · 6 Dec 2008 at 18:44

Nice setup, only thing I would change is the thermal compound to Arctic silver 5 or MX -2.

Does the SAS drives work off std SATA connectors :confused:

Cybermyk · 6 Dec 2008 at 19:01

RJC said:
Does the SAS drives work off std SATA connectors

Nope, but the motherboard does have SAS connections.

I'd think the cost of the SAS drive is a bit OTT though. I'd be looking at the 940 chip and a SATA RAID.

Kelt · 6 Dec 2008 at 19:22

I'd get the HAF 932 over the 1200. People with these have been swapping to the HAF.

alex24 · 6 Dec 2008 at 19:36

Lose the hard drive and screen and get a wd black 1tb and a decent sammy panel.

spitzoid · 6 Dec 2008 at 19:38

Chimerical said:
Looks good. Why that screen in particular? Why not just buy a TV tuner for your PC and then buy a better screen, i.e. a non TN panel. Also, I would just get the standard P6T not the Palm Edition, which seems to simply come with an external readout display thing...or something.

Which monitor would you suggest? I'm not actually too bothered about the whole TV thing, just want a 26" screen with at least one HDMI connection.

spitzoid · 6 Dec 2008 at 19:41

AcidHell2 said:
£400 on a hard drive is silly.
also spend the extra £10 and get the zalman psu..

I think the antec 1200 looks cheap/tacky and nasty. You could get the Lian Li PC-A10A Aluminium Full-Tower for £20 more.

The Antec 1200 looks good to me - but I guess it is a personal opinion - it has also got pretty good reviews wherever I look.

I know £400 is a lot for a hard drive but as far as I can tell other than SSD (which are even more pricey) SAS drives are the quickest thing around?

I will swap the PSU though I think

spitzoid · 6 Dec 2008 at 19:41

Cybermyk said:
Nope, but the motherboard does have SAS connections.

I'd think the cost of the SAS drive is a bit OTT though. I'd be looking at the 940 chip and a SATA RAID.

Which SATA's would you RAID?

spitzoid · 6 Dec 2008 at 19:43

alexhull24 said:
Lose the hard drive and screen and get a wd black 1tb and a decent sammy panel.

Any suggestions for the screen?

I want a quick HDD set up. What would you suggest?

dovey · 6 Dec 2008 at 19:50

spitzoid said:
Any suggestions for the screen?

I want a quick HDD set up. What would you suggest?

A couple of http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-197-SE in raid?

Then spend the money saved on a better screen, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp... 26" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black Aluminium

Cybermyk · 6 Dec 2008 at 20:24

spitzoid said:
Which SATA's would you RAID?

WD's, Seagates or Samsungs. I have a couple of Seagate 500Mb drives in RAID0. I might go for a RAID5 (another disk) in the future but it's a new build.