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gasmaster will tell me later but give me some ideas on what yall think about this...
CASE: New!! NZXT Khaos Black Full Tower 420W Case w/ Side Panel Mesh
Neon Light Upgrade: 12in COLD CATHODE NEON LIGHT (RED COLOR)
Extra Case Fan Upgrade: Extra Case Cooling Fan (2 x Fans)
POWER SUPPLY Upgrade: 900 Watts Power Supplies (Apevia Warlock Series)
CPU: Intel? Core? i7-965 Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366
COOLING FAN : CoolerMaster V10 Gaming CPU Cooling Fan w/ Hybrid Tec Cooling
MOTHERBOARD: (3-Way SLI Support) EVGA X58 3X SLI Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Mainboard Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID w/ eSATA, Dual GbLAN, USB2.0, Dual IEEE1394& 7.1Audio
MEMORY: 12GB (2GBx6) PC1333 DDR3 PC3 10666 Triple Channel Memory (Corsair Dominator)
FREEBIES: None
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX295 X2 1.7GB 16X PCIe Video Card (EVGA Powered by NVIDIA)
VIDEO CARD 2: NONE
VIDEO CARD 3: NONE
MULTIPLE VIDEO CARD SETTINGS: Non-SLI/CrossFireX Mode Supports Multiple Monitors
LCD Monitor: 24& quot; TFT Active Matrix LCD Display (Black)
2nd Monitor: NONE
HARD DRIVE: Extreme Performance (RAID-0) with 2 Identical Hard Drives (500GB (250GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Data Hard Drive: 64 GB Ritek RiDATA 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Nearly Instant Data Access Technology)
HARD DRIVE COOLING FAN : Vigor iSURF II Hard Disk Drive Cooling System (2 x Systems)
USB PORTABLE DRIVE: NONE
Optical Drive: (Special Price) LG 22X DVD?R/?RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (Black Color)
Optical Drive 2: NONE
SOUND: Creative Labs SB Audigy SE
SPEAKERS: Logitech X-240 2.1 Configuration Subwoofer Speakers System
NETWORK: Intel Pro Gigabite 10/100/1000 Network Card
MODEM: NONE
KEYBOARD: (Keyboard & Mouse Combo) Logitech Cordless Desktop EX 110 Keyboard & Mouse
MOUSE: XtremeGear Optical USB 3 Buttons Gaming Mouse
Extra Thermal Display : Xion XON-MTR002B Color LCD
Thermal Control Panel Display
Wireless 802.11B/G Network Card: NONE
Flash Media Reader/Writer: None
IEEE CARD: NONE
USB PORT: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
OS: Microsoft? Windows Vista? Ultimate w/ Service Pack 1 (64-bit Edition)
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I would have bought Firewire, an external firewire 800 drive, and used for games. 2nd, a DFI LanParty i7 board instead of an eVGA board, and XFX instead of eVGA for the video card. That's me though. Should work great.
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Been looking at my own 2000 dollar rig for a bit. I'll try to recreate my setup from memory for your ridicule.
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Holy jesus-mary-and-jospeh...
one, get rid of the damn 64 bit edition of windows. If you look at benchmarks it shows that the 64bit os deal only benefits real crunching applications like encoding/decoding/editing video. It can actually decrease performance on games and other standard things. Drivers are a bitch, and no one has really bought into it.. they were supposed to around 4 years ago and it never took.
I personally recommend Windows 7 the day it comes out. I've only found benefits to having it compared to Vista. Win XP is probably the best option at this point.. but things will run better on Win 7 and look better. I've had no stability issues with DFO until the new patch with the "Virtual Space" error.
two, I'd rip out the red lights.. you'll feel cool for like 3 months and then you'll be pissed off trying to sleep with the damn night-light of a computer going.
three, if you're going for raid 0, it makes NO sense to have 2x 500gb drives unless you buy a 3rd 1 terabyte external. Having 1000gb of info on a raid 0 is asking to lose your shit eventually. IMO, it's better to have 2 small drives on raid 0, running just your OS and programs while the 2 large drives spin independent with dual backups of the really important shit (pictures, records, papers, legal documents etc.)
That's minor.
I'd say you're probably paying a premium for being at the edge of the curve, but if you're ok with the money there's no way that rig won't kick ass.
Yah, firewire would be nice, but I'm not convinced yet that firewire will really stick around and it's easy enough to buy a cheap-o firewire card and install it later if you need to. E-Sata is my new favorite thing.
In short, you throw that much money at a rig, and you're going to get performance. Some things won't really give you a real benefit until perhaps much later in the life of the computer, but you're going to scream through games now.
Hope that helps a little.
Last edited by DurandalX; 04/03/09 06:33 PM.
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thx guys this is what i went with... dont ask how much and the fucking CA tax raped me LET ME KNOW HOW THIS LOOKS YOU CAN CONSIDER ME A FUCKIN NOOB TO VISTA AND COMPUTERS these days my p3 800 was my last rig back in the day iraq 3 times in a row got in the way and moving around this is my gettin out of the marines present... it was this or a motorcycle.. let me know what yall think
CASE:Apevia X-SniperG Mid-Tower 420W Case (Black Color)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-965 Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366
FA_HDD: Vigor iSURF II Hard Disk Drive Cooling System
HDD: Single Hard Drive (500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
HDD2: 64 GB Ritek RiDATA 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Nearly Instant Data Access Technology)
MONITOR: 20" TFT Active Matrix LCD Display
MOTHERBOARD: (3-Way SLI Support) Asus P6T Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Mainboard Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID w/ eSATA,GbLAN,USB2.0,IEEE1394a,&7.1Audio
FAN: Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System (Extreme Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA)
MEMORY: 12GB (2GBx6) DDR3/1600MHz Triple Channel Memory Module
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX295 X2 1.7GB 16X PCIe Video Card EVGA Powered by NVIDIA
NETWORK: (Free Upgrade from Killer K1) Killer M1 10/100/1000 Gigabit High Speed Online Gaming PCI Network Interface Card
OS: Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) Home Basic w/ Service Pack 1 64-bit
POWERSUPPLY: 700 Watts Power Supplies (Thermaltake Toughpower 700W Power Supply - Quad SLI Ready)
SOUND: Creative Labs SB Audigy SE
SPEAKERS: 600Watts PMPO Subwoofer Stereo Speakers
probably coulda done better but this is my first comp since i had a fucking p3 800 back when that was fast... and i hate vista too and ill probably change OS thanks agian
Last edited by G-Fist; 04/04/09 12:50 AM.
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Quote:
one, get rid of the damn 64 bit edition of windows.
^ this,
64 bit is complete trash. I had it on my 2nd hd so I could use 8gb of ram, but i had so many bloody problems with the OS and drivers not being recognized that the minor performance boost i got from 8gb was just not worth it... and anything higher than 4gb probably aint gonna affect games that much anyway, unless you want the 12gb for editting movies, cad .etc?
just keep it simple. 32 bit os, quad core, 4gb ram and a badass GPU is all you need man
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That water cooling system is shit. If you want real water cooling, get a swiftech setup, or just put the money into a phase changer. Really, those all-in-one systems have too thin of piping to cool better than a stock fan. 1/2" OD tubing is what you want, if you really want to deal with water cooling. If you decide to get a swiftech, grab dangerzone pelters.
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That is an insane comp  . But DONT get rid of 64bit. 32bit can only use 3.2gb of ram. It will not read the rest. Personally I think u went way over board . U could make a comp for half the price and it will preform the same in darkfall. Then when it's reaching it's eol u can take the half u saved and use it to buy the same comp ur buying now . That's just my 2 cents
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With recent motherboard BIOS updates, and Vista updates, 32-bit does see all 4GB. Not sure exactly how that's done, since in the equation for 32-bit, 3.25GB is the max. /shrug.
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