Guest MegaloManiac Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 HDD i hate Maxtor and Seagate. I love Hitachi, its one my longest lasting hdd ever that and western Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AI James Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 meh i love my 40 750gig seagate satas, never a problem with any of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lantusx Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 PROC : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819115003 MOBO : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813131184 RAM : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820145539 x2 (mobo has 4 slots) PSU : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817341002 GFX : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814150229 HDD : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136054 x2 (in Raid 1) Case : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811112099 Heatsink : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16835118005 Thermal Compound : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16835100007 You can get whatever kind of case you want (i recommend lian li, they are built like tanks) , but make sure to get any empty fan slots filled also pick up some arctic silver thermal compound! it is worth 5x what you pay for it. lowered my pc temp about 4c idle. And i tried to keep the bottlenecks out :x this setup should kick some serious ass in a good vented case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no0b4lif3 Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 i have a computer case already, has 3 fans in it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lantusx Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 o_o but its a 3 dollar one >.< as long as its solid and wont flex when you handle it though it should hold well. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no0b4lif3 Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 o_o but its a 3 dollar one >.< as long as its solid and wont flex when you handle it though it should hold well. lol it costed me 3 buks, cuz i bought it from my cousin and its an older one... i like everything that u picked out, except instead of 2 of those hd's i want 1, and then one bigger one, for storing my music and such... and maybe if i have the oney, i might get a little bigger graphics card, and ill prolly get a cheaper soundcard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lantusx Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 aye i just like the raptors alot because everything loads hella fast, especially with that xms ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no0b4lif3 Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 ok, thanks a lot, is there any special kind of HDD that i need to get, so things will work together? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiofanaticz Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Dont know what ram lantusx picked out, but xms is decent ram. I have 2 gigs of xms pro and works fine.. BUT.............. Why 4 sticks? That is not only a waste of money, but also a waste of performance.. You will never get 4 sticks of ram to run as tight as timings as 2 sticks resulting in lower performance. So get just one memory kit that has two 1 gig sticks of ram resulting in 2 gigs total. two memory kits with 4 sticks of 512mb ram will be no where near as fast. Ditto on the LianLi cases, they are beasts and are designed for cooling. I read someplace on a test about them that they used 2 idenical comuters and the average case temp of the lianli case was 8 degrees cooler. None of the links want to work for me so I cant really tell what was all picked out. But for a motherboard, get either EVGA, ASUS, or DFI. Those motherboards are the most reliable and will give you the most obtions for overclocking if you ever deciede to do so. Video cards- EVGA all the way, no other company can compair to a EVGA card, Almost every EVGA card has a higher core clock and memory clock speed then other company like bfg, xfx, pny. Not to mention EVGA's warrenty, which is if you fry it, its covered with the warrenty, if you overclock it to far and fry it, its still covered, if you buy it used from a friend of a friend of a friend and your the 4th owner of that card and something goes wrong its covered in the warenty. And then you have the EVGA step up program. Which I believe is if you buy a card, and lets say 3 months down the road a newer card comes out and you want that one, you can send your card into evga and pretty much trade it in towards the new video card. So say you go out and buy the 8800 gtx or whatever, drop 600+ bucks on it, and a month goes by and the 9000gtx comes out, all you got to do is contact evga and tell them you want the new card and you got this 8800 and they will give you money for your card. Ram - Corsair all the way, it dont matter if its the value select or the xms or xms pro. Corsair tests every stick of ram that goes out the door (like rockford fosgate does with their amps). You will not get DOA ram, and you will know your ram sticks are matched for ultimate performance. Powersupply - a power supply is a power supply for the most part, but if you are running good pc parts you need to have a psu to back it up. You will want to get at least a psu with dual 12 volt rails (just incase you ever plan on running sli '2 video cards' you will need a dual 12 volt rail psu) and you want to make sure that on each 12 volt rail you are getting at least 16+ amps. You should be able to find a decent one for around 75 bucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 meh i love my 40 750gig seagate satas, never a problem with any of them please tell me that's a typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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