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I want to build a gaming rig with an Nvidia 8600 or above. I have 2 mobos that I really couldn't choose between because one I could do sli on and the other is just for a single card.
I'm going to go with a western digital raptor, but I was wondering if I should run the raptor as a slave drive just for games and what not. (Only getting the 74g raptor not the 150g)
It may be a little underpowered but I'm looking at this AMD cpu
and last corsair RAM
I'm open to suggestions. Just looking if anyone has any opinions or personal experiences (bad or good).
Thank you in advance, Fantom
It is sad that someone would cut off their ability to meet a good portion of the world because of their ignorance against other people - Fantom
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Theres a Hardware forum, you might get a better response there:
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/forum/851
Seagates 7200.11 drives perform better than the raptors, so buy a raptor if you want to waste a few $100 and get 400% less space. Anyways....
The Gigabtye mobo you linked is M-ATX, and the Asus is standard ATX, im assuming you know this but if not be aware of that. ASUS isnt what it used to be, their last 3-5 models of motherboard have been overpriced garbage, Gigabyte is a top dog now. But out of those 2 boards id still get the ASUS simply because its full size ATX, you dont need to be getting a M-ATX and limiting yourself if you have a mid-full tower case.
For the video card, for $50-$70 more you can get an ATI HD3850, which rapes and violates the meager 8600 series. I highly susgest this, you arent going to be playing any of these newer games at high settings with an 8600, but it will run older (2-3 years) games on high fine.
The RAM is fine, Corsair is about the best out there, but G.Skill is very good as well. Check the prices on them.
The Black Edition AMD proc's have unlocked multipliers on them, so the sky is the limit if you dare. You will be fine with this.
"There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
Boba Fett
I got a 74gb raptor 10k rpm but just had another installed. 74gb is like nothing today. Vanguard alone was like nearly 20gb!
My younger brother just built a gaming PC, and I am pretty sure the video card you selected is the one he has. It works great.
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I'd get the 150gb Raptor. If you're getting Vista, be warned it takes a lot of room. The Raptor used to be the fastest non-SCSI HD around, but I dunno if that's still the case.