Skjalgs new pc

    I just pressed "order" on my new pc... I decided to go for one of the best gfx cards, since the fps was a lot better on high resoloutions.. I also figured it was a little cooler with quad cpu's rather than duo. (Source will support this in ep2, they say).

    Anyways, heres the specs:

    HDD:

    Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM

    RAM (bought 2x of these, so 4gb):

    Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 2048MB CL5 Kit w/two matched CM2X1024A-6400 Dimm's

    SOUND (pff?):

    Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer Low-profile PCI, Retail

    POWER:

    NorthQ 4775-500S, ATX 500W Silent, 140mm Fan, 12-17dBA, 4xSATA, SLI, 20/24pin

    GFX CARD:

    XFX GeForce 8800GTX 570M 768MB GDDR3, PCI-Express, 2xDVI/HDTV/HDCP, 384-bit

    PROCESSOR

    Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Socket LGA775, 8MB, BOXED w/fan

    MOTHERBOARD

    XFX nForce 680i LT SLI, Socket-775, GbLAN, DDR2, SATAII, ATX, 2xPCI-Ex16

    TOWER

    Chieftec Giga Miditower Sort, 2 Fans, USB/Firewire/Audio (No Power Supply)

    Total cash = 13222 NOK ~ 2200$

    Feel free to bash / comment on the setup all you like

    *bash mode on*

    mwa, raid0 (do 10.2k raptors in raid0 and you will be amazed how fast windows will start up + your level loading

    XP32 bit only supports upto 3 gigs of ram (so you need to use vista 64bit or XP64 bit to fully use it)

    is your power supply enough (don't know the brand, and with that rig you want AAA power supply trust me

    Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KS, 500GB (7200rpm, SATA II, 16MB)

    € 94,50

    Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C5DHX (2x 2gb CL5)

    € 126,-

    Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer

    € 59,95

    NorthQ NQ-4775-500S Silent PSU, 500W (ATX 2.0)

    € 92,-

    XFX GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB DDR3 (PCI-e, 2xDVI, HDCP)

    € 469,-

    Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (S775, 4x 2.4GHz, 8MB, 1066MHz FSB, Boxed)

    € 236,-

    XFX MB-N680-ILT9, nForce 680I LT SLI (ATX, PCI-e, Sound, LAN, SATA II, RAID, 1394)

    € 167,-


    total price: €1244,45


    *bash mode off*

    wow, nice rig! that will get you some high fps idd.

    Yeah, bit of a pain that whole 4GB in 32-bit Windows thing. I'd buy another 2GB right now if I didn't have to totally reinstall with 64-bit instead.

    Nice computer, though. Welcome to the world of superb frame rates.

    well ican tell you x64 is kind of a pain in the ass. all drivers and apps seem kind of fucked. i got so many crashes and instant reboots. hilarious! though my old USB TV device has no vista or x64 drivers i cant watch TV anymore.

    why 4GB? well did you ever paint a 4096x4096 texture in photoshop with around 100 layers? no? then try to with 2GB! saving the file takes like 1 minute and HDD is swapping all the time!

    Quote from hessi

    well ican tell you x64 is kind of a pain in the ass. all drivers and apps seem kind of fucked. i got so many crashes and instant reboots. hilarious! though my old USB TV device has no vista or x64 drivers i cant watch TV anymore.why 4GB? well did you ever paint a 4096x4096 texture in photoshop with around 100 layers? no? then try to with 2GB! saving the file takes like 1 minute and HDD is swapping all the time!

    I thought those problems were mainly just "oh its brand new" kind of bugs.. Most of that shit must've been straightened out by now?

    or?

    It's worth noting that Vista 64-bit has significantly better support than the XP iteration, which as far as I'm aware is still plagued with various things not having drivers released (since the manufacturers have to put out XP 64-bit specific drivers) and general oddities.

    If it's XP 64-bit you're talking about I'd advise just not bothering. It's become kind of a Windows ME of 64-bit operating systems.

    you could have gotten that system for about 50% of the price if you had gotten all the parts seperately and assembled it yourself...

    also keep in mind that a 500w psu with that system will only hold up for so long, so you might have to replace it in a year or 18 months. i'd have gone for a 650w to be on the safe side.

    I could never have just 1 HDD in my PC, not too keen on RAID either. I had 2 160Gb HDD's and they were fine till the main one started smoking, luckily it was the OS and programs HDD not the data one.

    Quote from Thrik

    [...]If it's XP 64-bit you're talking about I'd advise just not bothering. It's become kind of a Windows ME of 64-bit operating systems.

    haha, alright... But is there a significant increase in speed when using x64 (Im talking vista here) than the x86 ?

    Quote from Sentura

    you could have gotten that system for about 50% of the price if you had gotten all the parts seperately and assembled it yourself...also keep in mind that a 500w psu with that system will only hold up for so long, so you might have to replace it in a year or 18 months. i'd have gone for a 650w to be on the safe side.

    The items I am listing here are stuff I've bought myself on http://www.komplett.no). And I am assembling it myself.. Thanks for the tip on the psu though, you're not the first to mention it so I guess its something I should watch out for. I've never in my life bought a "already built computer" since I find them unreliable

    Quote from ginger_lord

    I could never have just 1 HDD in my PC, not too keen on RAID either. I had 2 160Gb HDD's and they were fine till the main one started smoking, luckily it was the OS and programs HDD not the data one.

    Haha yeah, I know what you mean... I am using 3 HDD's in my current setup where one is dedicated to windows and programs, one is dedicated to Steam and 3d stuff, and the third is the rest (various games / movies).

    I'm going to use my old System as a server now, it has 500gb, which is enough for movies and stuff for me, that way I wont fill my new pc with all that stuff... I'll also do backups ofc (I hope i'll remember atleast )

    Running in 64-bit doesn't really offer any gaming benefits whatsoever at the moment, both in XP and Vista. It is theoretically superior, but until software actually makes use of it there's little point.

    While 64-bit Windows can kind of emulate for 32-bit software (although it's not emulation in the sense of it being slower), or rather is backwards compatible, the same isn't true the other way around. So if games were 64-bit, people on 32-bit systems couldn't play them. As a result they all come as 32-bit so everyone can play them.

    The only hard incentive to use 64-bit Windows at the moment is the higher RAM handling, which in the case of Vista Ultimate 64-bit is a whopping 128GB. Much more then the 3.2GB or whatever that 32-bit XP/Vista support.

    I'd not expect any major performance improvement from 64 bits. In fact most test I've seen from Core2 architecture doesn't show any improvement at all, there is a part of CPU (MacroOps or MicroOps, not sure) which doesn't work in 64 bit mode. AMD showed a little bigger performance improvement.

    It's a matter about amount of memory RAM right now, if you have 4GB or more only 64-bit OS will be able to use them.

    Regarding PSU just a note, amperage is more important than watts. A regular high end system with a single graphic card doesn't consume much more than 300W on average. In fact barebone systems are able to work with such configurations and "tiny" 300 or 350W PSU's, but they are high quality of course.

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