Hello everyone, Been lurking around this forum for awhile now and thought I would make an account to get some advice on some upgrades I'm planning. Here is a list of parts I'm planning on http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128401 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115214 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231277 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136320 4 of these for raid 10 And last but not least an icage for extra hdd space in my case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999141 I've already got a case (Thermaltake armor Full Tower) and already own a psu corsair tx 750 watt, and a ultra 120 heatsink (I figure I can reuse this heatsink aslong as I can find a 1156 bracket?) So I haven't really been keeping up with the new cpus and mobos, But from my understanding the i7 860 is really good bang for the buck. Not really sure what to go with on the motherboard , I see gigabyte is a recommended brand nowadays. Any suggestions are welcome. As for my graphics card, I forgot to mention I own a gtx 275 which I will be reusing as well. I know about the new 5xxx series from ati but I'm not planning on upgrading this gfx card at the moment, Main reason is CUDA support and not so much gaming. Another thing I forgot to mention , I already own a OS Windows 7 x64 Home premium.
Hey mate just letting u know cant really read the image even after making it bigger can u just right the spec parts and we can help u further. As a motherboard Gigabyte are good general motherboards i would also recommend Asus with the new i5 or i7 series processors. Maybe for for a little more PSU.
There are bolt-through kits for the LGA1156 socket for the Ultra-120s, I know, I've bought one in anticipation of my i5 upgrade However, they aren't very easy to find, have a trawl through performance cooling websites to try and find one. Your component list is solid, but I'd recommend this board over the one you've chosen: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128412 The P55A series features USB3 (never know when it might come in handy) and an improved CPU socket more robust for overclocking with etc. The i7 860 is a decent CPU, if you need the hyperthreading. If you actually need CUDA for a program you use, by all means keep the GTX275, but a lot of people buy nvidia products for CUDA even though they have no idea what it does. I will make the assumption you're not one of those people I would steer you away from Asus boards, stick with Gigabyte and you will likely have a far more reliable system. borhan: A 750W PSU, for one graphics card, and a 95W processor? That's overkill as it is, suggesting him upgrade is lunacy!
Thanks for the suggestions sam , I was actually looking at that very same motherboard , So I guess the GA-P55A-UD3 LGA it is. As for the 1156 bracket , http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/thermalright-lga-1156-bolt-thru-kit.html I think I lucked up and found one Any yes I make pretty good use of CUDA , I wouldn't say I use it to it's full potential , But for what apps I do use it for I wouldn't trade them for anything lol
That's fair enough, and on that basis it's a perfectly good reason to be sticking with nvidia. (The only reason at the moment, I might add)
Yea I can understand that, now honestly I was tempted to snag 2 5850 for crossfire. But I figure once the fermi is released the 5xxx series may see a price drop.
They almost certainly will. If you're not much of a gamer though, there's very little reason to use crossfire really. One HD5850 is a powerful gaming performer as it is.
Yea, I not exactly a big gamer , Mainly left4dead 1&2 and the modern warfare games, And yes some crysis... but I've already completed that game aleast 100 times lol. I wonder if it would be possible to run a 5850 for games and maybe run my 275 for physx if needed and cuda , and folding.
Yes it is possible. Using the HD5850 for games and the GTX275 for CUDA isn't hard. Using the GTX275 as a PhysX card whilst gaming with the 5850 is less straightforward, but it is possible.
Alright thanks for the info sam, I'll look into that for sure later down the road. Just ordered all my parts, Should have everything by this wensday maybe by this time next week I should be up and running.
So, I got everything together sam and its up and running like a champ .. currently running the folding smp client and its doing an amazing job so far. Only down side is that one of the 4 hard drives was doa so no raid 10 yet
Well I just wanna bump this one more time , Just got everything situated. And I am one very happy camper, Instead of replacing the bad hdd with another 500 gig I decided to pickup a raptor instead and use the remaining 3 hdds in I guess you would say in a JBOD setup, No performance gains in doing so but I hate managing multiple hard disks lol and having everything combined in one volume makes everything easier for me. And again thanks for the mobo suggestion sam I feel as if I'm set for awhile on upgrades... ... or maybe not .
Rather confusingly, using drives on their own with no RAID setup is not JBOD. JBOD is rather like RAID with all of the disadvantages, but none of the advantages. Why people use it is beyond me, other than combining volumes.
