Overclocking Estimate anyone?

Hmmm, I think raptors are quite warm. I'd bung one of these in for storage:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-076-SA&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1665

No, I'm telling porkies, I'd use this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-080-SA&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1665

Blimey, the mem you specced is even more expensive than I imagined! get cheaper ram and spend the money on some good wine or something!

Any old cheap DVD writer would do to be honest, they do break after a fair bit of use no matter how much you spend on them, better to save a few £.

Dare I ask, what's your current system?
 
hehe, a busted up Samsung Q70 laptop (i am ashamed to say)
When i decided to get a desktop, i decided to do it, BIG STYLE!
Or what ever youd call it, this build actually gets a lot of aggro, mostly due to price

But thank you for your post, any more input?

Edit: Also £24 is an expensive CD drive?
 
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WolfmanRocker said:
Also £24 is an expensive CD drive?
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Well, there are cheaper ones. As I said, they all break eventually (I've worn out quite a few), price doesn't seem to make any difference. OK, so you save £8 with a cheaper one, that's not to be sniffed at. It's not that people are tight, it's wastefulness that's the issue.
 
Like the others have already said, it's pointless buying a 950 when you can have a 920 for a lot less.

Unless your a benching addict, using extreme cooling there really isn't any point in buying the higher end i7's.

Even if you're using top notch watercooling on a 950 you won't be able to push that chip much further than you could push a 920 tbh, maybe a couple hundred MHz at the most, which to me is pretty pointless considering the price differences between the 950 and 920..
 
WolfmanRocker said:
Case: Thermaltake Level 10
Graphics Card: XFX ATI Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card x2 in CrossfireX
Hard Drive: Intel X25-M 160GB SSD + 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB in RAID 1
Memory: Corsair 12GB (6X2GB) 1600MHz 8-8-8-24 Dominator
Motherboard: EVGA Classified Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
Optical Drive: LG BH08LS20 8x Blu-Ray-RW/DVD±RW Dual Layer SATA Drive
Power Supply: Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply
Processor: Intel Core i7 950 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 3.06Ghz OC@ 4.20GHz
Processor Cooler: Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium - Fatal1ty Champion Series 7.1 Sound Card
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why would you spend this money on a custom build

for a start, get a big lian li or something else big with custom water

if you are going to do it - do it properly

get a 920, 950 is not worth the premium

quad GPU drivers from ATI and NVIDIA are shambolic
get one 5970 if you really must

a single 5870 can run any games on a 30" monitor, anything above that will show appauling returns for money

are you really going to get a classified and stick a h50 to it?
you will get 4.2GHz max on any 1366 chip using a h50

please remember that if you are considering spending £500+ on a case, make sure it isnt a Thermaltake

sorry to sound blunt but these are incredibly bad choices.
 
rjkoneill said:
why would you spend this money on a custom build

for a start, get a big lian li or something else big with custom water

if you are going to do it - do it properly

get a 920, 950 is not worth the premium

quad GPU drivers from ATI and NVIDIA are shambolic
get one 5970 if you really must

a single 5870 can run any games on a 30" monitor, anything above that will show appauling returns for money

are you really going to get a classified and stick a h50 to it?
you will get 4.2GHz max on any 1366 chip using a h50

please remember that if you are considering spending £500+ on a case, make sure it isnt a Thermaltake

sorry to sound blunt but these are incredibly bad choices.
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Exactly,

Even if you wanna get top end gear to e-peen around,
The 920, 6gb dominators, 1 ssd or 2 ssds and 1 storage hdd, decent FULL TOWER case, mid/high end mobo and 5870 is more than you will ever need.

Instead of spending loads on GPU/CPU/MOBO better put that cash towards high end water cooling or maybe even phase change. That will be lot better choice.

And no, most expensive parts aren't actually going to give you more performance, really, if you can tell me the difference between 150 and 170 fps while gaming without looking at fps meters then I'll delete my account here and never come back.

Tbh you probably won't be able to see the difference between 60 and 1000fps so if you like you can stuck in 4x 5970s and 2x i7 965s on dual cpu board with 32gb of memory but it's not gonna help you.
 
rjkoneill said:
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my aplogies.

i retract that comment
to clarify:

i can see why you would want to spend lots of money on your system.
i have done just that and it is a great investment and something i am really proud of.

however, the choices you have made seem to be a 'pick the most expensive of everything' type basket where no thought has been applied to the overall performance of the system

my opinion - get a £1500-£2000 system and a £1200 monitor.
 
I can see this all being seeming pointless, but.... it really isnt
The reason i want the Thermaltake so much, is because since its leaked plans onto the internet, i've prized it as the greatest desktop tower to date (im the kind of person that would buy an obscurely fantastic item and never show it about) in a few years, i dont want to look at my LianLi case, i want to see the TTLvL10.. i understand why it ISNT the best tower (cooling, size, design, cost) but i still hold it above all others

The XFX stays the same, as i intend to (as originally posted) crossfire 2

1x SSD and 1x Sata (velociraptor) is there another supporter of the EcoGreen with a reason

If buying a cheaper RAM still means that i dont have to swap it out later on (1-2years) then it willl be downgraded

I want to keep the EVGA 3-way as at some point over the next year, running 1x30" and 2x24" screens is going to happen (as i read that the board has 30" monitors in mind)

I cant see £24 being wastefull (theres plenty of posts above saying change part out) but very view that say "what to"

Since no ones contested the power supply (i'll leave that alone)


the i7 950 will be changed down to the i7 920 (overclocked, what kind of speeds are there?)

and with the i7 920, the watercooling currently provided is sufficient to cover overclock
 
The motherboard is no better, and no worse, at driving three screens at once than any other X58 motherboard.

The 920 will overclock to exactly the same speeds as the 950 for you if it's under air cooling

The H50 performs no better than air cooling, so you will not get watercooled performance from it

I value function over form. As such I consider that case an abomination.

You evidently don't follow that quad crossfire just doesn't work very well, so I'll just say it again. You don't want four gpus, performance will occasionally be worse than with two, occasionally better, but always a lot more hassle

Buy one of the top end builds from here. Rjkoneill has his name to one of them. You're clearly unwilling or incapable of researching the build yourself, so buy one of the preassembled and be happy that it's performing better than anything you'd put together yourself would do.
 
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WolfmanRocker said:
its pretty extensive but see the link
http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/intel-overclocking/18240-evga-classified-intel-x58.html
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If you were linking to my thread at Clunk's forum as an idea of the sort of clock you want from your rig, i'm afraid you will be very dissapointed.

As has been said 100's of times here and elsewhere, unless you are running under phase, anything other than a 920 is a waste of time money and effort.
A 950 will get no higher than 920.

I don't know why, but this thread reads as if it could have been started by dvdbunny :)
 
Is it just me, or does that Thermaltake Level 10 case look nasty?

I know there are a lot of people on this forum who think it's amazing, but when I hear the name Thermaltake, I cringe.

I've never liked any of their products, and this case is no different, it just looks stupid imo, and is terribly overpriced to.
 
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