Last look ordering Monday

[pawn]

After lots of chats and advice, I'm going to get these monday or wait for them to be free shipping and on sale.
What you guys think?


Antec Sonata with 550 PSU
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16811129036

ASUS P5K-E
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16813131196

ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16835186134

CORSAIR XMS2 4GB(2 x 2GB)
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16820145176

EVGA 512-P3-N841-AR GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16814130325

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16819115037

Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16822136012

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16822144701

SAMSUNG 225BW Black 22"
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16824001083

Microsoft Windows Vista 64-Bit Ultimate
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16832116215

Thanks for the looks

 

[aevm]

Good choices.

The Raptor is out of stock at newegg. Also, a bit noisy, but the Sonata should take care of that. Still, for that sort of money you can get a 5-times bigger WD7500AAKS which matches the Raptor's speed in lots of benchmarks.

 

[mlaporta]

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
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Seagate Barracuda ST3500320AS 500GB 7200.11 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
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Samsung SH-S203B SATA

(Get the "Retail" version of the optical drive in order to get software with it. This will include the decoder you'll need to watch movies on it.)

 

[akhilles]

Now that's the new gaming rig standard.

 

[boredguy8]

OK I'm a newb at hardware configs, but this system (the motherboard) would only let you have one graphics card, right?

 

[CmdPT]

/\ yes. There is no point on going SLI or Crossfire anyways so 1 card slot should be enough.

 

[ComputerCustomizer]

That will be an awesome computer. Instead of the raptor, it would be cheaper and faster to get two 250gb drives and set them up in raid 0.

Other than that, looks great.

 

[Ignatious]

If you've got the cash, drop 4gb more ram.

 

[chuckm]

If you've got the cash, drop 4gb more ram.

8 gig of ram????
Very nice rig, close to what I want to do.

 

[pawn]

Anyone have a link to those benchmarks on the raptor vs 7200 drive?

 

[mlaporta]

Good build!

 

[CmdPT]

Raptor vs 7200.10-11 rpm drives there is not much of a difference in performance. So what if you could load 1 second faster on a raptor than those 7200 RPM drives the price for performance is not worth but thats just me.

 

[pawn]

so go for raid 0 then i guess. I'll just make sure i clone my Drives often.

 

[boredguy8]

Anyone have a link to those benchmarks on the raptor vs 7200 drive?

http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?articleid=1007

"There is no point on going SLI or Crossfire anyways so 1 card slot should be enough."

Really? What about having the capacity to expand? I was thinking about building a system around the GeForce 8800 GT 512 and then adding a second one when more money becomes available. Why is that not a good idea?

Thanks for the feedback.

 

[CmdPT]

http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?articleid=1007

"There is no point on going SLI or Crossfire anyways so 1 card slot should be enough."

Really? What about having the capacity to expand? I was thinking about building a system around the GeForce 8800 GT 512 and then adding a second one when more money becomes available. Why is that not a good idea?

Thanks for the feedback.

Because the performance gained from having 2 card vs 1 card is not very significant. You will hardly notice the performance increase from having 2 cards in SLI.

 

[makotech222]

wolfdale is also out of stock. im waiting for it as well. when is it coming?

 

[tjhva]

I would get this RAM:

2x2gigs @ 68$ after MIR.

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220227


I realize this screen is $120 more (after rebates) but if I was buying a new LCD, it would be hard for me not to get one that offered 1080p resolution. But, your needs and interest may be different than mine:


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001234

 

[tjhva]

Or -

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184