Rate my build please

[digitalwingx]

Hello this is my planned upgrade, please feel free to give comments & suggestions, thank you.

■Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz
■GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R
■Corsair TWIN2X1024-6400C4 x 2
■Leadtek 7950GT 512M
■Seagate 160 SATAII x 4 RAID5

Some explanation:

As you can see I'm not shooting for high budget but rather keep it low. I like to try a RAID5 with 4 HDs considering Seagate 160G is pretty cheap. Because the whole thing about Vista/Direct10/nVidia8 I think I will just stay with a good 7 series nVidia Card.

 

[Maziar]

Get a Q6600
or a E6750 for just a few more

 

[wingsofzion]

Hmm 4 x 160GB's in Raid 5? From my knowledge the write speed of Raid 5 is slower when under load. The failure rate also is not that great. So your going to raid 4 160GB drives, that's 640GB of space. Why not buy 1 Western Digital 750GB drive? Seagate's 160GB drives go for about $54 bucks. $54 x 4 = $216. One WD 750GB drive cost $200. You'd be saving $16 bucks and getting 110GB of more space. Do you really want to go through Raid 5 hell? Think about it, maybe you are doing it for a specific reason we are not aware of but if it was me i'd stick with the 1 drive. Saves you from wasting 4 of your sata ports also and use 1. Spring for another 750GB drive if you need it a year or so down the line and you have 1.5 TB (Terabytes) of space.

 

[desidude006]

x1950xt might do you better, but thats if you find it at the right price. If you want to save some money, get e4300 and oc it to ~3 ghz. Doing this will basically give you a e6600 w/o the extra cache.

 

[nhobo]

The E6750 is $17 less than the E6600 on Newegg.

RAID is an expensive waste unless you are running a critical server.

The GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L will save you $35.

Good idea to stick with XP.

 

[wingsofzion]

You can even get 2 400GB Seagates. $94 each and use them both as individual drives and you'll have 800GB or space. 160GB more space than raid 5'ing 4 160GB's and you'll save $28 bucks. Take our advice bud, don't raid those 4 160's. Waste of time and energy cause if one of those drives fail your screwed and so is your data.

 

[digitalwingx]

Thanks all for the advice.

Yes I found that E6750 is actually cheaper then E6600, I think I will get E6750 instead. BTW anyone knows why is E6750 cheaper?

The reason why I want to go with a RAID5 build is because I'm currently using 2 Seagate 160G RAID0 (I don't have alot files to storage what I care is speed), and it's a little (but noticeable) faster. So I thought if i get 4 of thsoe HDs I should get better speed and should go for RAID5 because 4 HDs have higher failure rate. Admittedly I'm pretty new with the RAID thing: should I go for RAID0 x 4 instead?

BTW can anyone suggest a few good CPU fan to go with it?

Thanks again.

 

[Maziar]

the reason that E6750 is cheaper is marketing i think

 

[Joe_The_Dragon]

Thanks all for the advice.

Yes I found that E6750 is actually cheaper then E6600, I think I will get E6750 instead. BTW anyone knows why is E6750 cheaper?

The reason why I want to go with a RAID5 build is because I'm currently using 2 Seagate 160G RAID0 (I don't have alot files to storage what I care is speed), and it's a little (but noticeable) faster. So I thought if i get 4 of thsoe HDs I should get better speed and should go for RAID5 because 4 HDs have higher failure rate. Admittedly I'm pretty new with the RAID thing: should I go for RAID0 x 4 instead?

BTW can anyone suggest a few good CPU fan to go with it?

Thanks again.

with on the board software raid things may end getting even slower.

 

[digitalwingx]

the reason that E6750 is cheaper is marketing i think

Hmmm that's interesting with my experience with RAID0 (A8N-SLI) I find it's noticeably faster than non-RAID set-up, or is it just in my mind?

 

[T8RR8R]

* Core 2 Duo E6750 2.6GHz
* GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R
* Corsair TWIN2X1024-6400C4 x 2
* EVGA 320MB 8800GTS
* WD 160 SATAII x 2 RAID0+1 WD 80 for storage

This is what I'd go for and it's about the same price. Q6600's are great BUT they use ALOT more power and very very few programs will be able to use all 4 cores, even over the next couple of years.

 

[digitalwingx]

Hmmm is WestDigital better than Seagate?

 

[aevm]

Depends on who you ask.

 

[mad-dog]

(Hmmm is WestDigital better than Seagate? )
Yes, and No....
I use a pair of Seagate 320's in RAID1
Raptors may be a millisecond faster but are much noisier!
Mirrored vs Striped.......hmmmmm
Striped vs Mirrored.......hmmmmm
Secure data backup.....priceless

 

[T8RR8R]

WD vs Seagate is just brand choice. The only reason I say WD 160GB is because they have some pretty high overall ratings, they aren't the quietest, the fastest or cheapest, but overall they do very well consistantly.

 

[digitalwingx]

Thanks all for the advice I think I will go for a RAID0 setup of sort, and grab a E6750 instead.