I've looked at dell, they are about 400 dollars more for a computer that's worse off. check out digitalstormonline.com Cheaper prices and better warranty to boot
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I've looked at dell, they are about 400 dollars more for a computer that's worse off. check out digitalstormonline.com Cheaper prices and better warranty to boot
After looking at resellerratings.com I guess digitalstormonline.com would be ok. But I would choose a cheaper computer than the one you had in your original post, its just not worth it having all that, complete overkill. Especially when you consider having 4 GPUs scales horribly.
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I'm 90% sure I will only be getting a single 9800gx2 instead of the dual. I will be saving roughly 700 bucks so yeah that's a good deal, plus everyone so far has said there's no point on getting two, and if I want it's true I could jsut add in anothe rone later, I've put together computers before so I'd be okay, plus there's a good instructional manual on how to do it on the Nvidia site.
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I personally would go with an AMD processor as it adds more to the punch when gaming comes around, if you are more of a multi-purpose user stick with the intel for faster multi-tasking, AMD really doesn't pull through on performance for multi-tasking many applications.
Secondly since you are doing away with the Physics card, I would get a KillerNIC, for MMO gaming it is the sweetest thing you'll ever own you improve your network performance by ten folds, it truly is an astonishing piece of equipment.
Other than that your pretty much set to go, I'd say add more RAM at a later time to really improve MMO performance but with 4GB you are in a good zone, also the raid0 comments defiantly do it, your access time to files on the HD will be much faster and perform better.
EDIT: Your update looks good, if you can do more RAM I'd go for it Vista is a hog.
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Ok it looks better but there is a few more changes i would make, personally the phenom's blow right now even AMD has made annoucements about how they aren't upto par, i would seriously wait till the gen2 Phenom's release before i would use one.
Better choice on everything else,
If you don't need Ultimate for business use there is no need in it really as stated before it has the domain controller and a lot of other random crap not needed for home use.
Overall i would say this system would rock Let me know if this is what you order and how fast it is and what the vista score is, and the benchmarks on it if you order it
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you got it Yaedin. And ongoes the debate between amd and intell. I think that's the only thing now that will be my main confusion point now; however tomorrow is ordering day.
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First off the build looks great but teh q9450 may bottleneck 2 9800gx2, which by the way i have heard have terrible drivers.
Next, amd is in no way the way to go for gaming, their processors lack far behind intels and whoever said that the intel ones run warm is crazy. Intel has 45nm out which mean lower power consumption and that mean less heat. AMD is just starting 45nm i do believe and are lagging so far behind. AMD is better at benchmarking but once you get to a game. It goes to crap. Now i must say intel and nvidia have lately been realsing junk, but they are much > AMD/ATI, just how it is.
As for raid, personally i dont use it. Raid does take a a huge chunck of mem and CPU % because it basically mirroring the other drive so really it has to do 2 time the work.
Another major note, any 32 bit os only will show and use 4gb of memory total, IE Video cards and ram, also, quad sli is only supported in vista, so really, you have to go vista 64 bit if you want 4gb and quad sli.
Make sure your power supply has 2 pcie 6 pins and 2 8 pins for graphics.
The only things I'll be using the computer for are Games, music composition and uhm...more games.
With all the advice I've gotten I"ll probably be saving about 500 bucks save if I have a weak moment, break down and get the dual graphix card. LOL
They do have the killer connect card. So I will go for that. Anything to make games prettier and go faster.
Thanks for everyones help. I think I've made a decision on the build. But there's still 24 hour left to make changes. Then it's ordering time, and then the 2 and a half week waiting game. Uhg. the torture.
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Originally posted by belladauna The only things I'll be using the computer for are Games, music composition and uhm...more games. With all the advice I've gotten I"ll probably be saving about 500 bucks save if I have a weak moment, break down and get the dual graphix card. LOL They do have the killer connect card. So I will go for that. Anything to make games prettier and go faster. Thanks for everyones help. I think I've made a decision on the build. But there's still 24 hour left to make changes. Then it's ordering time, and then the 2 and a half week waiting game. Uhg. the torture.
You'll have a nice system and once the nVidia drivers get more polish for the 9800s you'll get even better performance, shouldn't be much longer then been out quite some time now. Ouch 2 and 1/2 weeks that is torture.
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well I think it takes ten days to build it, and then 72 hours of stress testing, but I"m sure I could speed that up if I put some extra cash down.
Well, the game I'm really waiting for is WAR. and that won't be out for awhile. But this was just a more popular forum, so I posted here as well. And well 50 responses since this morning, prooved my point, but since it is such a popular forum, I hoenstly haven't even looked at the AoC website.
And now I'm going to get verbally bashed for that in this forum I know. But since everyones been so good I'll give it a look see.
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HAHA that is priceless, honestly i've been watching AoC for over a year, but personally i'm more interested in Stargate Worlds but i'll sure be playing AoC till i get in SGW beta or release lol
Intel is the superior processor, PERIOD. More compatible and currently the fastest speeds available.
You may want to go for 2x9800 GTX instead, as they are more compatible with most games ATM, and much more cost friendly.
After years of electrical and software engineering, it is funny to see people talk about Raid0 and performance gains. It alternates drives, minimal speed increase. Go for flash hard drives instead, they are tremendously faster than even 10k RPM hard drives, but much more expensive.
I didn't see if you had liquid cooling, if you do, great, if you don't, get it. Otherwise you will have one noisy ass rig (like mine) to chill all that crap.
Originally posted by goldenr1 Intel is the superior processor, PERIOD. More compatible and currently the fastest speeds available.You may want to go for 2x9800 GTX instead, as they are more compatible with most games ATM, and much more cost friendly.After years of electrical and software engineering, it is funny to see people talk about Raid0 and performance gains. It alternates drives, minimal speed increase. Go for flash hard drives instead, they are tremendously faster than even 10k RPM hard drives, but much more expensive. I didn't see if you had liquid cooling, if you do, great, if you don't, get it. Otherwise you will have one noisy ass rig (like mine) to chill all that crap. GL
As a software engineer myself, I can't believe you just said "superior". There is a reason AMD gets the highest benchmarks towards graphical applications. But I am not here to argue, that is your opinion. There will always be a dispute against AMD and Intel and which is better. This is not the place for it, so I'll let it be.
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Yea thats why i don't get into the AMD vs Intel flame war's, "I" Prefer AMD over Intel for games, now if it is a pure server like we have thousands of here at work, "I" Prefer Intel.
Its just Preference but he said games, games and games, so "I" preferred him to AMD now if he said i have 500 websites i want to host on this server i would have "preferred" him to Intel
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The operating system will be on the 80 gig hard drive. So I won't have anything bogging down my performance.
Single Video cards, and it's the amd processor now.
How does this one look? just updating see get feedback on this one now.
Drop the Quad SLI. It doesn't scale well enough to justify the cost. And to be honest, even being an AMD fan, I cannot recommend them in a high end rig over intel.
Edit - After looking at what your paying for this, unless you really want that 3 year warranty. I say build it yourself (individual parts come with warrantys anyway). You commented earlier on how you didn't want the parts arriving one at a time. Well, if you order from newegg you will likely be able to have the machine put together before digitalstormonline.com would get it to you.
I just think your better off building your own, those prices are pretty high and not only will you save by building it yourself, but it will be a learning experience.
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So yeah, I am going to go with intel. Some people won't be happy about that decision, but after weighing advice I think the intels won overall. I just feel personally safer with the intell, Im used to it,'and change scares me despite the fact that if I was American I would vote for Obama.
Oh God I got political. Forget what I said there, and just focus on the computer.
I'm going to go with the killer connectivity card too. One person mentioned that and it seems like it'll improve overall gameplay in the mmo's.
I'm sticking with the 9800Gx2 single card now. and have gone and upgraded the fan so it's more silent hopefully.
I think those are all the current changes.
Sound good?
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I've looked at dell, they are about 400 dollars more for a computer that's worse off. check out digitalstormonline.com Cheaper prices and better warranty to boot
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After looking at resellerratings.com I guess digitalstormonline.com would be ok. But I would choose a cheaper computer than the one you had in your original post, its just not worth it having all that, complete overkill. Especially when you consider having 4 GPUs scales horribly.
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I'm 90% sure I will only be getting a single 9800gx2 instead of the dual. I will be saving roughly 700 bucks so yeah that's a good deal, plus everyone so far has said there's no point on getting two, and if I want it's true I could jsut add in anothe rone later, I've put together computers before so I'd be okay, plus there's a good instructional manual on how to do it on the Nvidia site.
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The operating system will be on the 80 gig hard drive. So I won't have anything bogging down my performance.
Single Video cards, and it's the amd processor now.
How does this one look? just updating see get feedback on this one now.
"Shhhhh Shhhh, that's right calm down, stop crying, you'll stop breathing and go to sleep very soon. That's right. ..Goodnight"
I personally would go with an AMD processor as it adds more to the punch when gaming comes around, if you are more of a multi-purpose user stick with the intel for faster multi-tasking, AMD really doesn't pull through on performance for multi-tasking many applications.
Secondly since you are doing away with the Physics card, I would get a KillerNIC, for MMO gaming it is the sweetest thing you'll ever own you improve your network performance by ten folds, it truly is an astonishing piece of equipment.
Other than that your pretty much set to go, I'd say add more RAM at a later time to really improve MMO performance but with 4GB you are in a good zone, also the raid0 comments defiantly do it, your access time to files on the HD will be much faster and perform better.
EDIT: Your update looks good, if you can do more RAM I'd go for it Vista is a hog.
What is a killerNIC, what does it do?
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Ok it looks better but there is a few more changes i would make, personally the phenom's blow right now even AMD has made annoucements about how they aren't upto par, i would seriously wait till the gen2 Phenom's release before i would use one.
Better choice on everything else,
If you don't need Ultimate for business use there is no need in it really as stated before it has the domain controller and a lot of other random crap not needed for home use.
Overall i would say this system would rock
Let me know if this is what you order and how fast it is and what the vista score is, and the benchmarks on it if you order it 
It's a network card that kills all standard cards, heres a section in newegg so you can see what it does etc.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=KillerNIC&x=0&y=0
you got it Yaedin. And ongoes the debate between amd and intell. I think that's the only thing now that will be my main confusion point now; however tomorrow is ordering day.
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well here goes my ideas
First off the build looks great but teh q9450 may bottleneck 2 9800gx2, which by the way i have heard have terrible drivers.
Next, amd is in no way the way to go for gaming, their processors lack far behind intels and whoever said that the intel ones run warm is crazy. Intel has 45nm out which mean lower power consumption and that mean less heat. AMD is just starting 45nm i do believe and are lagging so far behind. AMD is better at benchmarking but once you get to a game. It goes to crap. Now i must say intel and nvidia have lately been realsing junk, but they are much > AMD/ATI, just how it is.
As for raid, personally i dont use it. Raid does take a a huge chunck of mem and CPU % because it basically mirroring the other drive so really it has to do 2 time the work.
Another major note, any 32 bit os only will show and use 4gb of memory total, IE Video cards and ram, also, quad sli is only supported in vista, so really, you have to go vista 64 bit if you want 4gb and quad sli.
Make sure your power supply has 2 pcie 6 pins and 2 8 pins for graphics.
Over all it looks great id say.
The only things I'll be using the computer for are Games, music composition and uhm...more games.
With all the advice I've gotten I"ll probably be saving about 500 bucks save if I have a weak moment, break down and get the dual graphix card. LOL
They do have the killer connect card. So I will go for that. Anything to make games prettier and go faster.
Thanks for everyones help. I think I've made a decision on the build. But there's still 24 hour left to make changes. Then it's ordering time, and then the 2 and a half week waiting game. Uhg. the torture.
"Shhhhh Shhhh, that's right calm down, stop crying, you'll stop breathing and go to sleep very soon. That's right. ..Goodnight"
PSSST, used the saved cash to add RUSH ORDER and 2 day shipping
You'll have a nice system and once the nVidia drivers get more polish for the 9800s you'll get even better performance, shouldn't be much longer then been out quite some time now. Ouch 2 and 1/2 weeks that is torture.
Ouch 2-2 and half weeks, well least you will have it by the time AoC releases
GL with the build and let me know how it all works out
well I think it takes ten days to build it, and then 72 hours of stress testing, but I"m sure I could speed that up if I put some extra cash down.
Well, the game I'm really waiting for is WAR. and that won't be out for awhile. But this was just a more popular forum, so I posted here as well. And well 50 responses since this morning, prooved my point, but since it is such a popular forum, I hoenstly haven't even looked at the AoC website.
And now I'm going to get verbally bashed for that in this forum I know. But since everyones been so good I'll give it a look see.
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HAHA that is priceless, honestly i've been watching AoC for over a year, but personally i'm more interested in Stargate Worlds but i'll sure be playing AoC till i get in SGW beta or release lol
okay I'm looking at the site, but where does it say which races and classes you can play? I need my meat and potatoes.
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nvm, I've found it. Just had to go to the community site.
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Intel is the superior processor, PERIOD. More compatible and currently the fastest speeds available.
You may want to go for 2x9800 GTX instead, as they are more compatible with most games ATM, and much more cost friendly.
After years of electrical and software engineering, it is funny to see people talk about Raid0 and performance gains. It alternates drives, minimal speed increase. Go for flash hard drives instead, they are tremendously faster than even 10k RPM hard drives, but much more expensive.
I didn't see if you had liquid cooling, if you do, great, if you don't, get it. Otherwise you will have one noisy ass rig (like mine) to chill all that crap.
GL
A dyslexic man walked into a bra.
As a software engineer myself, I can't believe you just said "superior". There is a reason AMD gets the highest benchmarks towards graphical applications. But I am not here to argue, that is your opinion. There will always be a dispute against AMD and Intel and which is better. This is not the place for it, so I'll let it be.
Yea thats why i don't get into the AMD vs Intel flame war's, "I" Prefer AMD over Intel for games, now if it is a pure server like we have thousands of here at work, "I" Prefer Intel.
Its just Preference but he said games, games and games, so "I" preferred him to AMD
now if he said i have 500 websites i want to host on this server i would have "preferred" him to Intel 
Drop the Quad SLI. It doesn't scale well enough to justify the cost. And to be honest, even being an AMD fan, I cannot recommend them in a high end rig over intel.
Edit - After looking at what your paying for this, unless you really want that 3 year warranty. I say build it yourself (individual parts come with warrantys anyway). You commented earlier on how you didn't want the parts arriving one at a time. Well, if you order from newegg you will likely be able to have the machine put together before digitalstormonline.com would get it to you.
I just think your better off building your own, those prices are pretty high and not only will you save by building it yourself, but it will be a learning experience.
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Excellent, thanks for the help
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Okay, this I think is the final incarnation of the rig build. Last chance to help decide the fate of one mans gaming rig.
Power Supply: 1000W SilverStone Strider (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible) (Model: ST1000) (Silent)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz (1333MHz FSB) (12MB Cache)
Motherboard: nVidia 780i Core 2 Quad (nForce 780i SLI)
Memory: 4GB DDR2 Corsair at 1066MHz Dominator DHX (Extreme-Performance)
Floppy / Card: - No Thanks
Hard Drive 1: 320GB Western Digital (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)
Hard Drive 2: 80GB Western Digital (8MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)
Raid Option: - No Thanks
Hard Drive 3: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 20x / CD-Writer 48x) (LightScribe Edition)
Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks
Network Card: Bigfoot Killer Network Card (Features MaxFPS and UltimatePing Technology)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 9800GX2 1GB
TV Tuner: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer (Recommended)
Physics Card: - No Thanks
Cooling: Air Cooled Stage 2 (Silent Artic Cooling Heat-sink Upgrade (Copper Heatpipes)
Case Lighting: Blizzard Internal Lighting (Green Edition) (Cold Cathode Tubes)
Round Cables: - No Thanks
User Manual: Personalized Platinum Digital Storm Binder (Includes Paperwork/Benchmarks/CDs/Manuals)
Overclock Processor: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my processor
Overclock Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Overclock Memory: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory
Tweak Windows: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64-Bit Edition) (For Enthusiasts)
Restore Kit: Digital Storm Specialized Recovery System (DVD Image Based)
Protection: McAfee Internet Security (Includes: AntiVirus, FireWall and AntiSpyware)
Office: Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student (Word Excel PowerPoint OneNote)
Benchmarking: - No Thanks
Pre-Install Game: - No Thanks
LCD Display: - No Thanks
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
Warranty: 3 Year Platinum Care Extended Parts & Labor Warranty
Support: Lifetime Toll-Free Platinum Care Technical Support
So yeah, I am going to go with intel. Some people won't be happy about that decision, but after weighing advice I think the intels won overall. I just feel personally safer with the intell, Im used to it,'and change scares me despite the fact that if I was American I would vote for Obama.
Oh God I got political. Forget what I said there, and just focus on the computer.
I'm going to go with the killer connectivity card too. One person mentioned that and it seems like it'll improve overall gameplay in the mmo's.
I'm sticking with the 9800Gx2 single card now. and have gone and upgraded the fan so it's more silent hopefully.
I think those are all the current changes.
Sound good?
"Shhhhh Shhhh, that's right calm down, stop crying, you'll stop breathing and go to sleep very soon. That's right. ..Goodnight"
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