Best Setup I have Ever Seen!!!

[doordand]

And it is MINE! Post your specs here and please, everyone, feel free to comment on any of the posts.

Intel P4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz
Asus P5WDG2 WS Professional
Corsair XMS DDR28800 2Gb
Adaptec SAS RAID 4800SAS
4x Cheetah 15K.4 SAS in RAID 0
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
2x BenQ BW1000 Blu-ray (coming soon)
Koolance Exos 2 Liqud Cooling

 

[muffins]

kinky

 

[3lfk1ng]

Nice setup....although I hope your not playing games on that quadro...lol....gl with the shaders.

I just hope your not one of those noobs that purchased a Quadro because it was eons more expensive than any other graphics card on the market and you thought it "must be the best"

Cause that would be really sad.

 

[mayouuu]

well, who cares?

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Best setup you have seen personaly? Cause like life, there is always someone or something beter. But nice setup anyway. Why do you need 2x blueray?? Its not even decided if that will be the format of choice. I would rather have a blueray/hd combo drive which i have read is comming soon too.


Recomindations:
More memory.

 

[doordand]

I agree, more memory. As you could probably have guessed, I am somewhat broke now. So yes, I do plan to add at LEAST 2Gb more. And no, I didn't buy the Quadro cause it was eons more expensive.

 

[IcY18]

should go raid 5 if you have that many drives, has the same speed as raid 0 but with data protection...

 

[angry_ducky]

8O you have 4 (!) 15K RPM HDDs! Why the P4, though?

Here are my pathetic specs:
Athlon 64 3700+ (s939)
DFI nF4-DAGF
2*512MB generic DDR400
ASUS X600 256MB
Western Digital 250GB SATA
DVD Burner
DVD Drive
430 watt Thermaltake PSU (18A on the 12V rail)

 

[yourmothersanastronaut]

What's your case and PSU? That's a hella fast system, but I hope you're not trying to game on it...

 

[Fox_granit]

Why are are you doing the SAS when the board has RAID5 SATA built into it. Are you using ALL of the SATA ports? Its not going to be any faster than using the one's on the motherboard...........Seems like a waste of money to me.......

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

What are you doing with the computer? I could say that is the best system ever to run quake 2, But the worst system ever made to run mac OSx games.

 

[dean7]

Well, I think that is a great PC for running office apps, photo editing, etc. I really hope you didn't just buy that CPU though, because C2D kills it.

I had a Quadro card (came with my precision workstation), and got rid of it. It sucks for gaming, and I'm not sure what the point of it is, since it doesn't seem to do anything better than a card aimed at gaming.

 

[clue69less]

should go raid 5 if you have that many drives, has the same speed as raid 0 but with data protection...

Every test I've seen shows RAID0 as faster than 5 in almost every benchmark category. 10 is also faster than 5 in most benches.

I'll be interested to see if your Enermax 620 will drive two 7950s... Mine could not even drive a single 7900GTX. It would dive a single 1900XT, but not two.

 

[Nitro350Z]

Why did you go with P4 and not a C2D? the new ones are a lot faster and you can overclock fairly well on the ws pro.

How big are the cheetah drives? are they really loud or are they still within decent limits?(was hoping to get ~4 in raid 0 for a new rig too)

You have a nice setup but definetly more ram and only 1 blu-ray drive would be needed really. Maybe try swapping out the P4EE for a C2D X6800.

What case did you put this in?

 

[Natecannon]

It sounds like a workstation computer.

Anyways my specs are this:

Falcon Northwest Mach V:
. Silverstone (Falcon Northwest Mach V) case
. Silverstone 600Watt Modular Power Supply
. Asus P5N32-SLI Dlx.
. Intel Core 2 EXTREME X6800 2.93GHz
. Corsair 2GB TwinX DDR2 8500C5 W/EPP
. 250gb WD +250 external
. X-Fi
. Icon Watercooling
. BFG nVidia 7950gx2 1024mb
. Lite-On 16X Dual Layer DVD+-/RW
. 22" Acer 19" Benq LCD

 

[angry_ducky]

Here are my pathetic specs:
Athlon 64 3700+ (s939)
DFI nF4-DAGF
2*512MB generic DDR400
ASUS X600 256MB
Western Digital 250GB SATA
DVD Burner
DVD Drive
430 watt Thermaltake PSU (18A on the 12V rail)

Pathetic indeed.

It's better than what you were using until recently :lol:

I don't really care anymore; all I care is that I can play NFS:MW.

 

[306maxi]

And it is MINE! Post your specs here and please, everyone, feel free to comment on any of the posts.

Intel P4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz
Asus P5WDG2 WS Professional
Corsair XMS DDR28800 2Gb
Adaptec SAS RAID 4800SAS
4x Cheetah 15K.4 SAS in RAID 0
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
2x BenQ BW1000 Blu-ray (coming soon)
Koolance Exos 2 Liqud Cooling

It appears that you are trying to stroke your ePenis on a public forum. This thread is quite sad.

 

[futurini]

I'll add a big monitor with at least 1600x1200 resolution like:
Samsung SyncMaster 204B 20.0' 5ms
Samsung SyncMaster 214T 21.3' 8ms

Also, a good keyboard like Logitech G15
and a good mouse like Logitech MX700

 

[knupxfon]

My new gaming system:

Intel C2D x6800 Extreme
Asus P5NSLI Nforce 570 (just a temp till the 590 boards come out)
OCZ Platinum PC7200 2gb w/EPP
2 Evga Geforce 7950GX2's
4 Hitachi 500GB HDD's
Creative SB XFI Platinum
NEC 16x +- DL Burner
Asus 16x DVD
Silverstone 750w PSU
Dell 24" WS LCD
MS Laser Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard
Logitech THX Certified 5.1 Surround speakers
Trendnet 106mbit Wireless nic.

 

[Natecannon]

My new gaming system:

Intel C2D x6800 Extreme
Asus P5NSLI Nforce 570 (just a temp till the 590 boards come out)
OCZ Platinum PC7200 2gb w/EPP
2 Evga Geforce 7950GX2's
4 Hitachi 500GB HDD's
Creative SB XFI Platinum
NEC 16x +- DL Burner
Asus 16x DVD
Silverstone 750w PSU
Dell 24" WS LCD
MS Laser Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard
Logitech THX Certified 5.1 Surround speakers
Trendnet 106mbit Wireless nic.

Wowzers, and I thought I spent alot!!

 

[erik_tilton]

How is that MS Laser Mouse (6000)? Should I get that or the Logitech G5? *hijacking the topic temporarily*

 

[Mg00C]

Intel P4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz
Asus P5WDG2 WS Professional
Corsair XMS DDR28800 2Gb
Adaptec SAS RAID 4800SAS
4x Cheetah 15K.4 SAS in RAID 0
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
2x BenQ BW1000 Blu-ray (coming soon)
Koolance Exos 2 Liqud Cooling

Intel C2D x6800 Extreme
Asus P5NSLI Nforce 570 (just a temp till the 590 boards come out)
OCZ Platinum PC7200 2gb w/EPP
2 Evga Geforce 7950GX2's
4 Hitachi 500GB HDD's
Creative SB XFI Platinum
NEC 16x +- DL Burner
Asus 16x DVD
Silverstone 750w PSU
Dell 24" WS LCD
MS Laser Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard
Logitech THX Certified 5.1 Surround speakers
Trendnet 106mbit Wireless nic.

I'm pretty sure knupxfon's system is better than yours considering the core 2 duo EE. Also like evryone else has said i'd only go with one bluray. What would you use 2 blurays for?

 

[306maxi]

Intel P4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz
Asus P5WDG2 WS Professional
Corsair XMS DDR28800 2Gb
Adaptec SAS RAID 4800SAS
4x Cheetah 15K.4 SAS in RAID 0
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
2x BenQ BW1000 Blu-ray (coming soon)
Koolance Exos 2 Liqud Cooling

Intel C2D x6800 Extreme
Asus P5NSLI Nforce 570 (just a temp till the 590 boards come out)
OCZ Platinum PC7200 2gb w/EPP
2 Evga Geforce 7950GX2's
4 Hitachi 500GB HDD's
Creative SB XFI Platinum
NEC 16x +- DL Burner
Asus 16x DVD
Silverstone 750w PSU
Dell 24" WS LCD
MS Laser Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard
Logitech THX Certified 5.1 Surround speakers
Trendnet 106mbit Wireless nic.

I'm pretty sure knupxfon's system is better than yours considering the core 2 duo EE. Also like evryone else has said i'd only go with one bluray. What would you use 2 blurays for?

For bragging on an internet forum that's what!

 

[Fox_granit]

i figure if a person is going to drop that much money into a rig should understand what they have on the motherboard. i guess i'm like prozac26, its a waste of money. i only buy what i can get the use out of, and i do much more than game. Video compression, music serving, video serving, photoshop editing, a lot of graphics work.

SAS was intended for doing what?......major storage, in other words a SAN. I don't think he's setting up a SAN, so why invest in something that will not increase his speed any? The card runs through his bus system instead of being directly on board with the raid 5. Its redundancy that your getting no use out of. a waste of money.

Corporations that use SAS are trying to save money by running SATA over SCSI. The only reason you do that is to save money buying SATA drives in a large bulk. your not going to see an increase in speed. This guy ain't buying drives in bulk; he's not going to have 40 HDs hooked up to 5 or more servers. Running a raid 5 on his machine using SATA would have done the same thing without him spending any money on a SCSI card and the SAS adapters.

 

[MagicPants]

My new gaming system:

Intel C2D x6800 Extreme
Asus P5NSLI Nforce 570 (just a temp till the 590 boards come out)
OCZ Platinum PC7200 2gb w/EPP
2 Evga Geforce 7950GX2's
4 Hitachi 500GB HDD's
Creative SB XFI Platinum
NEC 16x +- DL Burner
Asus 16x DVD
Silverstone 750w PSU
Dell 24" WS LCD
MS Laser Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard
Logitech THX Certified 5.1 Surround speakers
Trendnet 106mbit Wireless nic.

Just to find something to rip on... I'm not a huge fan of MS mouses, they were the best a few years ago but the ones I bought recently crapped out on me early, the buttons would stick. I switched to logitech and besides some goofy drivers I'm happy.

Also since it looks like you just enjoy throwing money out the window... could you send me some?