Get the Rampage Formula. If you are going to go all out, get the Rampage or Wi-Fi X48 from ASUS.
Best boards ever. End of story [least from my experience anyway].
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Get the Rampage Formula. If you are going to go all out, get the Rampage or Wi-Fi X48 from ASUS.
Best boards ever. End of story [least from my experience anyway].
for ssd get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227344 for half price. i think they are faster too, except for access time
DO NOT BUY A GIGABYTE BOARD for the love of $5k builds dont. Rampage Extreme or DFI x48 T3RS or Foxconn Blackops ONLY
otherwise this looks great, sounds like an awesome build. word has it that swiftech is releasing a new WC kit with the apogee GTZ and an MCR320 so i would definitely wait for that kit for best cooling :up:
Where's the Western Digital Velociraptor? It's a good drive. A couple in mirrored RAID would be a good idea. Stable.
Must have been an old one. I'm talking about the new Western Digital Velociraptor VR150.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/4/velociraptor.jpg
BTW. SSDs cannot be defragmented. Reduces life. Don't know how it affects performance.
Interesting, I didn't know that. I'm a defrag nut, I run VoptXP on a fairly regular basis and I will on the SSD once everything's loaded. But... I intend to use the SSD for my system drive for the OS only. I don't run a swap (uh why would I?) and my desktop will actually be on my e:\ drive, RAID-5.
You are lucky in not running a swap/page file that some programs dont FAK up. Some applications NEED a pagefile defined.
I run a 2GB size on a different HDD than my OS. Works out like a champ!
You guys rock, really. Thanks for confusing the hell outta me lol
Now I'm back on NewEgg and playing with 3 different wish lists and swapping out everything again. *sigh*
Thanks for the input. Really, some great suggestions here. ;)
I PMMED you the system you should get
also get this monitor instead
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/DeepSearc...400w&ALL=y&TP=
Mobo:
ASUS Rampage Extreme LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Yorkfield 3.0GHz LGA 775 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569QX9650 - Retail
GPU: 2X
SAPPHIRE 100251SR Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB 512-bit (256-bit x 2) GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail
RAM: 2x (8GB)
CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TW3X4G1600C9DHX - Retail
Display: 1X
DELL UltraSharp 2408WFP
PSU:
KINGWIN Mach 1 ABT-1000MA1S 1000W ATX / BTX Power Supply - Retail
SSD:
RiDATA NSSD-S25-32-C04MPN 2.5" 32GB SATA II 3.0Gb Internal Solid state disk (SSD) - Retail
And a pile of other stuff. This is going to be the final build, since I already have a pile of stuff RMA'd, lord love newegg. Thanks for all the help, everyone!