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New Rig Time

Posted: May 24th, 2010, 22:58
by No1Jew
Time for a New Rig as Jewbotchery (page 7 of this thread) can no longer keep up the pace.

I'm 95% possitive going to get what's listed but I want to get it right this time,


Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 Mobo
Intel Core i7 920
Patriot Viper 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C8
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5870
Coolermaster Storm Sniper All Black
Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 1000W
Corsair H50-1 Watercooler
WD Caviar Black 640GB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
A spare DVD drive I have
Win 7 64bit

Note: I can't afford a faster GPU

So please make suggestions that may be of use before I order a bag of shit !!

Posted: May 25th, 2010, 10:45
by Dr. kitteny berk
I'd buy ThisHDD instead.

And I reckon you could get away with a 700w psu with no problems.

Posted: May 25th, 2010, 11:03
by Dr. kitteny berk
Oh, and Coolermaster PSUs have been getting Crappy reviews recently.

I personally like corsair and enermax

Also this is really handy for ballpark figures, suggests a
~500w PSU for that spec, so I'd go for 650W (or better) to give upgrade headroom, while not spending loads extra.

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 15:09
by No1Jew
Ok Cheers Doc.

Made the changes (and a few more) this is it.

Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield)
Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58
Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 Toxic 2048MB
Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB
Coolermaster Storm Sniper All Black
Corsair HX 650W ATX Modular
Corsair H50-1 CPU Watercooler
Akasa SSD Mounting Kit

VAT FREE £1300

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 15:19
by Dr. kitteny berk
No1Jew wrote: Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s
Really wouldn't bother, you could buy 5 samsung F3s for the same money, stick them in raid 0, and have something painfully fast (and with a high risk of failure)

save your money

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 16:24
by HereComesPete
In terms of SSD's have a read of this. It gets technical p5 onward.

Right now, if I had money to almost burn in terms of PC parts I would buy an Intel or Samsung SSD. I plain wouldn't buy any other type until the problems are fixed, because they don't outperform samsung fseries let alone velociraptors.

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 16:58
by No1Jew
In that case a VelociRaptor might be more my thing as the word RAID to me seems like Black Mans Voodoo magic. Haven't got a clue how to set it up, or what. quite franckly I would rather try and install windows on a big steaming Poo !!

So if SSD's are that bad I'll go for one of these or simular flavour

Western Digital VelociRaptor 450GB 10000RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache

It doesn't have to bee a maisive drive as it will only have Win 7, Adobe CS2 and a few games installed.

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 17:17
by Dr. kitteny berk
Split thread, to make my brain werk better.