MSI P6N Diamond
Intel QX6700
2 x TWIN2x2048-8500C5D (4 Gig) With Corsair cooler
1 x EVGA 8800 GTS (possibly will add a 2nd for SLI)
1 x samsung OEM DVD writemaster
1 x GGC-H20L blu-ray/HD-dvd DVD-burner
2 x Samsung 250G drives (dont remember the model)
10 x WD75000aaks
Promise supertrak EX16360 (raid controller)
Creative X-FI platinum
2 x BDU-350Sata hot swap cages.
I was considering a thermatake 1000W w0132ru?? is this too little?
No its even more than enough
consider OCZ PROXSTREAM 1000W too, its a very good PSU
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XPS M1730,IntelCore2Duo T9300@2.5GHZ,2x8800MGTX in SLI,4GB DDR2 667 RAM,DUAL 250GB 7200 RPM,VISTA HP with SP1,17" with 1920x1200 resolution
COOLER MASTER Stacker 810 RC-810-SKN1... Is my case, It is perfect for everything, lots of room for Water cooling. The 2 bpu-350SATA cages take up 6 x 5.25 slots. My 2 other hard drives have their on 5.25 spots, like to keep my OS seperate. The last item is the 5.25 creative device for external connections. All total 11 spots are used. This case is perfect and very roomy.
Now I am re-thinking my mobo choice. So Far, I am not having any luck OC my board. I can not get it to even display the bios and I haved tried everything. Frustrating, i should of went with my gut and not bought the P6N. I just needed the 4x 16x PCI-e slots. I rethought that also and bought a new raid card the one listed above, I was using a rocketraid 2320, which I needed 2 of those.. This card has multilane sataII to support 16 sata drives. Then I sold my hauppauge wintv pvr-500 MCE due to lack of PCI and PCI-E slots.
Now I am really re-thinking the mobo. Any suggestions, I probably will not SLI now, but still need the 2 x PCI-E (16 and 8). At least 1 PCI for my creative card and has to overclock well for my quad core. No Wifi necessary, I have gigabit through out my house.
Message edited by scmeis1 on 12-09-2007 at 11:57:04 PM
There is ALOT of complaints about those BDU-350Sata's on newegg... I think i may have to look at something like this for my server, but ive got an Antec Titan that has the slide rails that may not fit well. Plus i notice it only has 2 SATA power on the back and 3 Molex is it possible still to have 5 SATA power drives connexted.?
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"The MB is 31 C and the CPU is 109 C. I think it's the CPU overheating."
yep. I have had that for well over a year. I just added the 2nd one this week, I like them. You just have to maintence them, like most server type of devices, they need to be kept dust free. I rarely care what is said on newegg. I look for certain things only in comments, otherwise I chalk it up to lack of knowledge.
I can not use either of those boards, they are x16 and x4 on the pci express slots. I need at least an 8x along with the x16.
Message edited by scmeis1 on 12-10-2007 at 12:46:01 AM
I dont see the point of having that many HDDs in one system...
First the heat generated inside the case from that many HDDS should be insurmountable... Proper water cooling may bring it back to legitimate temps, but offloading the HDDs to an external case properly designed for the specific task is a superior option. Let alone a second CPU on older hardware running Win2k ( or Win2K3 ), over Gigabit...
That many HDDs in a single case seems like a bad idea on many levels...
That is a matter of opinion, where space is a concern. This has nothing to do with my topic, of a power supply and now on to the motherboard. This case is very well cooled, and even without water cooling is lower then I would hope for.
Nice board. I finally decided on the Asus X38 maximus formula. It had the right growth potential, friendly overclocking, and just the right amount of PCI-E and PCI slots for me. http://www.asus.com/products.aspx? [...] odelmenu=1
I thank you very much for you input! Now I just hope my 8800GTS works on a crossfire board LOL.
