Our company is looking at building something like...ridiculous...to take to the county fair this year to kind of unveil a new line of high performance machines. They asked me to put together a parts list for a non-skulltrail machine, someone else is doing a skulltrail build (Im assuming its going to be about 2 grand more.)
so your company wants to show off products but ur buying products what does ur company you work for make also nice pick on the CPU u can get a cheaper one for 339 and its the same but its 2.66 ghz
so your company wants to show off products but ur buying products what does ur company you work for make also nice pick on the CPU u can get a cheaper one for 339 and its the same but its 2.66 ghz
Agreed. Also if your company dose OCing and the likes set up a liquid cooling set up that's OCed. (LN2 might be better )
Message edited by Shadow703793 on 06-11-2008 at 11:04:31 PM
so your company wants to show off products but ur buying products what does ur company you work for make also nice pick on the CPU u can get a cheaper one for 339 and its the same but its 2.66 ghz
also do 8gigs x 8gigs ram.
They just asked for a parts list, we have distribution paths that we would go through to get the parts, not newegg.
What are you going to be doing with it at the Country fair? If you're not just going to sit it there and give out a laundry list of parts, then you might be able to pick some more specialized parts to make it really shine in your demonstrations. Like if you're just showing games you could probably go for a higher over-clocked single core, but if you're going to show any kind of rendering you definitely want all 4 cores.
Definitely go with the velociraptors. I love mine. I'd go for 8 gigs of ram too if you arn't overclocking. If you plan to overclock, then it'll be harder to get high FSB ratings with 4 2 gig dimms.
If you're dropping that kind of dime on a PSU I'd go for a PCP&P, but I'm sure that thermaltake will do just fine.
If your timeline isn't too soon you can probably wait on the new lines of vid cards coming out. They'll likely outperform your listed video cards.
That's a good enough case. Personally, if you want top of the line I'd probably go for a Lian Li. However, their cases generally don't have the omg look at me appeal that a lot of the other cases offer.
You should probably make use of the window too and install a nice big aftermarket CPU cooler. Maybe drop in some cold cathodes or something for the kids.
Would go for something stylish like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811112057 Don't know what group your company tries to target but I believe that a lot of ppl. disgust those LED covered space monsters.
Just take a look at Apple's huge success, I don't think that comes from performance
Mainly we'e going to be running some games on the machine, we're not allowed to run particularly violent games because my company is lame.
So no Crysis.
So we're probably going to do a racing game like GRID, maybe a RTS like supreme commander or something else we can find, and we might put LOTRO on it just for the sake of DX10 compatibility and how pretty that game can be.
My heart is broken for no crysis though
As for the case, they really did want kind of a LOOK AT ME model, otherwise a Lian Li would have been ideal. I'll see if I can steer them towards it.
I'll also bring up the idea of the multi raid, 2x veloci in raid 0 and then maybe do 2x 1tb drives mirrored or 3x 1tb drives in raid 5.
yeah, I also want to ask the question - what kind of display are you using?
and I agree with someone up there...spend the PSU money on a PCP&C rather than a thermaltake. They're nice units and all, but PCP&C is better. Guess it doesn't matter too much, they're all high end.
Sound? Better go with a nice pair of speakers, if you're going to. Whether you need a dedicated sound card or not is up to great debate, but the speakers matter much more than the card, as long as the two are compatible.
Have you thought about an aftermarket CPU cooler, too?
also nice pick on the CPU u can get a cheaper one for 339 and its the same but its 2.66 ghz 
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