Next week pc order ( no Fanboi opinion please )

Burli

Hello all , i would like to have your opinions on this build . Please keep in mind that ... behind every part of it , there is 2-20 review and benchmark read , so ... please no fanboi opinion . Thanks in Advance for your time and comments .

P.s For most of these part i am not willing to pay more ... But if you can make me save go for it . hehe

P.s these are Canadian prices , i am from Vancouver.

There is two part i already bought

Silverstone Strider ST1000 1000W - $232

Thermaltake Armor ( with the huge Video card of the side ) - $185

These are the incoming parts.

Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard - $62 ( blue led is my reason )

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 - $198

Western Digital Raptor 150GB - $230

Intel DX48BT2 BONETRAIL2 - ( yes yes DDR3 ... but i want pcie 2.0 ? ) - $310

2GB OCZ Platinum OCZ3P13332GK  ( come with the mobo as a bundle ) - $80

Zalman CNPS9700 LED - $73

Radeon 4850 or 4870 in crossfire ( soon on the market , so i am gonna have to wait for this ).

Thanks all .

Burli

Oooh and i forgot i the LCD honestly i have no clue yet ..but i am not into huge screen . Around 240-250$ is my budget . For now 19 inch or 20 inch Samsung SyncMaster is my choice .

7earitup

Great choices for the parts, however, I would go with NVidia over top of the AMD/ATI card. However, I am a partial fanboy of Nivida now. I have owned 3 high end ATI cards in the past, only to be let down by the drivers. Alot of people have luck with them, so it must just be me. I can say 100% that I have never had similar issues with Nvidia hardware nor the software.

darianle

Western Digital Raptor 150GB - $230

 

For that price, the HD better tuck you in at night and read you a bed-time sorry. 

The Maxtor SATA II 500GB for $99.99 has always been my choice.

7earitup

For a main drive, the Raptor is extremely nice to have if you have the money and are willing to shell out the premium to have fast access times, which in turn means extremely fast load times and fast caching when using the page file.

CleffyII

Get a VelociRaptor Drive.  It uses SATA 3.0, is smaller, and has 300GB for around the same price.

Did you get the new Armor Case with the removable Motherboard Tray?

DeadlyMage

dd3 is not worth it. go with ddr2. hell get 8gb of ddr2. it will be cheaper and faster than 4gb of ddr3

 

great choice by the way,

Varlok91

Originally posted by Burli


Hello all , i would like to have your opinions on this build . Please keep in mind that ... behind every part of it , there is 2-20 review and benchmark read , so ... please no fanboi opinion . Thanks in Advance for your time and comments .
P.s For most of these part i am not willing to pay more ... But if you can make me save go for it . hehe
P.s these are Canadian prices , i am from Vancouver.
There is two part i already bought
Silverstone Strider ST1000 1000W - $232
Thermaltake Armor ( with the huge Video card of the side ) - $185
These are the incoming parts.
Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard - $62 ( blue led is my reason )
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 - $198
Western Digital Raptor 150GB - $230
Intel DX48BT2 BONETRAIL2 - ( yes yes DDR3 ... but i want pcie 2.0 ? ) - $310
2GB OCZ Platinum OCZ3P13332GK  ( come with the mobo as a bundle ) - $80
Zalman CNPS9700 LED - $73
Radeon 4850 or 4870 in crossfire ( soon on the market , so i am gonna have to wait for this ).
Thanks all .

I know you already bought the power supply, but 1000 watts is WAY overkill.

If you want PCI-E 2.0 and DDR2 look at the x38 boards instead of the x48.

To be honest, I wouldn't recommend getting any raptor because the WD 640 gb 7200RPMs are pretty much just as fast, cheaper, and have way more storage.

Also, what operating system do you plan on using?

Bluezeer

For the operating system i already bought windows vista premium 64bit last year (before Ultimate got out).

For the motherboard i will look more at the x38 series and comeback with what i have tonight .

And last and not the least , never add a raptor before , i dont mind the size of it but i do mind the price , i will look at more benchmark , you realy think they are close in speed ? eeer i hate buying HD hehe .

P.s Bluezeer = Burli hehe .

Rayx0r

everything looks good except your ram

I see theyre giving you a great deal on 2 gigs, but yer gonna want more for that OS.  You're going to bottleneck.