The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Need? LOL! One I suppose. Unfortunately, A person never knows when ONE is gonna quit. I love having extras on hand. In my opinion, one is a joke. 2 is relatively safe. I suppose any more than 4 is overkill though
This coming from a guy with 12! LOL!

 

even 1 is too much.

 

Shaff: Two months or thereabouts, nothing to some people, quite a lot to others...
Omega: Well, your call really. All I'll say is I hope you'reoverclocking the CPU and using at least two 6+6 pin graphics cards.
Of course you don't need me to point out that's $474 on a CPU/board/RAm combination. You can get an i5 750 with a P55-UD4P and faster RAM for that. The advantage of AMD systems is they're cheap, perhaps you're overdoing it? Just a thought...
Russ: Never had any rattle out of my GH20NS15.

As for the ODDs, I agree with Shaff. One per system is too many, One between all your systems is enough. After all, who burns discs any more?
The CD/DVD/BluRay/whatever is definitely an out-of-date technology.

 

I burn discs

Overdoing it! LOL! The board is required for Triple Crossfire, The Cpu is necessary (To me), The ram I really haven't given much thought. Its latency is good at an affordable price, 4gb is lower than I'd like to be, but I'll cope for now. And the G-Skill is cheaper than Mushkin(Which I like dearly). Though for a few extra pennies, I could go with the Mushkin, and decrease the latency

 

Triple crossfire? Really? :S
Buy an HD5970 and have done with it... Saves a lot of faff, power cables and so on...

 

So your suggesting, That I go with This lesser freak of technology LOL! Which would probably appeal to me, if it had dual lan. But, it's not just that. tri-crossfire COULD be appealing to me down the road. Not sure. Sorta planning ahead. I know I'm gonna have this board a while. Perhaps you're right though. A lan card can be bought cheap, and a powerful GPU/s can really hit the spot

 

A genuine Thank you Sam, for making me reconsider my options. Sometimes I can't help but shoot for the best of the best LOL! Minus the i5/i7 builds I'll probably be searching for other ways to save money over the weekend, and be looking at SSD drives.
1. I don't know when Western digital is gonna send the replacement/repaired drive.
2. I now have the excuse I needed to go SSD
And when I sell the Velociraptor, it'll help financially. Anyone interested, drop me a PM.

 

Oman7,
It's not just the Lan, but you are giving up 2 16x PCIE slots for two that only do 8x8 when paired in crossfire, plus you lose a third 8x PCIE! I would get the better board if you are entertaining the thought of future crossfire!

Russ

 

Yeah I was thinking about that, and probably will since the case I want to put this all in isn't out yet either. Only problem is multiple crashes a day get's old really fast lol.

All I'm going to say is my TX750 cost 80$ ;P Sure modular is nice but is it really worth the extra money?

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Only time I've ever owned more than one ODD is back when dvd's were still relatively new so I the old cd only reader/burner was lying around.

 

gotta have at least 4 in your tower at all times. no questions asked.
and there is a ton of people who burn disc. if not the disc companys would be going out of business. oh they are TY had to team up with JVC to make a nickle...lol

OM7 ya really should give intel a go around. again..

 

Or the GH20NS10 or GSA-H62N...

NOW Sammy... what kind of question/statement is that?? lol. You know that a lot of people burn discs for whatever reason and besides we don't all have the time/money to do a networked system like you have or the others for that matter. Of course creaky still burns discs now and then plus has some sort of freakish network setup too!!

 

i jsut have HDDs to back the movies/tv onto and another with fat32 formatting so i can play 720p/1080ps on my PS3.

plus since getting into 1080p vids, and the cheapness of HDDs, DVDs are too small. now blu rays, when i get a burner ill probably use.

 

Oman, do you use heavily multithreaded apps? if so go for the amd setup as you will be able to upgrade to a 6 core processor unlike with lga 1156

 

greatest case mod, EVER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rVLj0ibNWA&feature=player_embedded

 

Russ, or anyone that might know.
is there a newegg distrubution center in the midwest area? my parts are already in memphis tenn. thats where my case came from. ithought there was only the 2 centers 1 in jersey and 1 in california????

 

Shaff,
Not near as cool as the Doom III One! LOL!

Russ

 

Do you know if Intel's 6 core cpu's will be for 1366 or will they bring out another socket type for them?

 

I am aware of the 16X 16X slots. I've decided(while at work), that I doubt I'll ever be the enthusiast that some people are. Like sam for instance. Perhaps somewhat of an enthusiast. But nowhere near it. I think i'm more toward the "Creaky" side of things. In that, I'm ok with lesser graphics, if they work. Perhaps Dual GPU's would be cool one day. I think 8X 8X will be an ok start for me. Besides, I'm more interested in jumping on the "SSD" side of things If I can skimp on a few things, I just may be able to pony up some more dough! LOL!

Shaff, the 6 cores do sound appealing I can think of a few apps that may benefit from it. And I'm sure, some of the larger application designers will catch wind of 6 core processors on the market, and adjust their software accordingly. Heck, I guarantee BD Rebuilder will become 4-6core capable then

 

Omega: The 790FX chipset is still recommended over the GX if you want crossfire later on, but unless you're going to be crossfiring dual cards, it's still not much to worry about.
Maw: The 750W TX was never $80, that must have been one impressive deal you got...
Intel's 6-core CPUs will be for socket LGA1366. They will not, however, be released on LGA1156 as far as I'm aware.