Alright check out my new rig! (aw what the heck rate it if you want too)

[vertigofm]

Motherboard- DFI N4 Ultra-D
Processor- Dual Core Opteron 170 (going to Overclock)
Processor heatsink- Tuniq Tower 120
Heatsink Fan - Delta 120mm 190CFM
Optical Drive- Standard Lite on DVD drive
Case- Lian Li PC7077

Case specs:
- Floppy Drive: Silver Mitsumi 1.44 MB
- Drill Side Panel Holes: Drill 120 mm side panel/window fan intake
- Manufacturer Windowed Side Panel: Lian Li Clear Window Panel
- Second Top Blowhole: Drill 120mm Top Blowhole
- Bulgin LED Power Switch: Bulgin Green Ring Power Switch Installed and Wired
- Case Options: Fully sleeve all interior case wires
- Sleeve Color: UV Blue
- Heatshrink Color: UV Green
- Cold Cathode 12" Kit (Sleeved): UV Cold Cathode
- Extra 12" Cathode Tube (Sleeved): UV 12" Tube

Case Fans - 4X Silverstone FM121 110mm 130CFM
2X Vantec 80mm 84 CFM

Hard Drive- Western Digital Raptor 36.7gb 10,000RPM 8mb serial cache
Hard Drive two- Western Digital 120gb 7,200 RPM 8mb cache
Hard Drive three- Maxtor 80gb 7,200 RPM 8mb cache

RAM- Mushkin Redline PC4000 (2X1 gig sticks) Lowest Latency Version

Power Supply- PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 ASL

Video Card- ATI X1900XTX 512mb PCI-E

Fan Controller- Sunbeam Chromatic Windmill

Accessories:

Round UV sensitive IDE cables
Round PCI-E cable
Round Flopply Cable
Arctic Silver 5
Arctic Silver thermal material remover
Silver/Aluminum Mesh fan filters


Well I think that's everything! I'll be sure to post a picture once its built! And thank you to everyone on these forums who has helped me select parts and stuff!

Frank

 

[atybimf]

That will be a sick rig! You could probably get an Opteron 165 and save a little money, but seriously it looks like you've done your research.

 

[atybimf]

Oh yeah, you may want to see how the stock AMD HS/F that comes with the Opty does for you. It is really nice (has 4 copper heatpipes :Q), and works great for me. You can always get the Tuniq later on if the stock HS/F isn't up to your standards.

 

[robertk2012]

What he said an I would go with an NEC DVD Burner.
Your going to love that rig.

 

[vertigofm]

Originally posted by: atybimf
Oh yeah, you may want to see how the stock AMD HS/F that comes with the Opty does for you. It is really nice (has 4 copper heatpipes :Q), and works great for me. You can always get the Tuniq later on if the stock HS/F isn't up to your standards.

Oh yeah I've heard great things about the stock HSF- but I figured it cant hurt to go a notch up since I usually like to OC my rigs to the limit, my favorite was getting my 2.6 P4 up to 3.5Ghz on air- damn that was fun, I didn't have to go above 1.52 V either and it was usually about 55C on load

 

[vertigofm]

bump

 

[vertigofm]

bump.... again *sigh*

 

[atybimf]

One thing regarding the RAM. If you're getting the lowest latency XP4000 (3-3-2-8), you will have trouble getting them past the stock 250 (this according to recent reviews). I have the higher latency XP4000 (3-4-3-8), and have no trouble going to 265-270.

Edit: With A64, memory speed beats out timings. This isn't the case with Intel however I believe.

 

[vertigofm]

Originally posted by: atybimf
One thing regarding the RAM. If you're getting the lowest latency XP4000 (3-3-2-8), you will have trouble getting them past the stock 250 (this according to recent reviews). I have the higher latency XP4000 (3-4-3-8), and have no trouble going to 265-270.

Edit: With A64, memory speed beats out timings. This isn't the case with Intel however I believe.

Where did you read this? I read in a review that the lower latency has the same Ocability if not better... and couldn't I just relax the timings anyway?

 

[vertigofm]

http://www.ocprices.com/index.php?rev_id=294&page=3&action=reviews

These reviews show much different

 

[robertk2012]

Originally posted by: atybimf
One thing regarding the RAM. If you're getting the lowest latency XP4000 (3-3-2-8), you will have trouble getting them past the stock 250 (this according to recent reviews). I have the higher latency XP4000 (3-4-3-8), and have no trouble going to 265-270.

Edit: With A64, memory speed beats out timings. This isn't the case with Intel however I believe.

you have that backwards. Timings are more important with the A64.

 

[SpeedZealot369]

Originally posted by: robertk2012

Originally posted by: atybimf
One thing regarding the RAM. If you're getting the lowest latency XP4000 (3-3-2-8), you will have trouble getting them past the stock 250 (this according to recent reviews). I have the higher latency XP4000 (3-4-3-8), and have no trouble going to 265-270.

Edit: With A64, memory speed beats out timings. This isn't the case with Intel however I believe.

you have that backwards. Timings are more important with the A64.

I've always thought amd64 is better with speed and not timing since amd64 is bandwith oriented. Well that's what people always said anyway..

Probably wouldn't make a diffrence anyway which one you get, maybe %0.5-%1 in benchies.

 

[StrangerGuy]

"Heatsink Fan - Delta 120mm 190CFM"

You must hate your ears, don't you?

 

[vertigofm]

Why is everyone so prejiduce against the RAM I bought? Nothing but excellent reviews...

 

[robertk2012]

Originally posted by: vertigofm
Why is everyone so prejiduce against the RAM I bought? Nothing but excellent reviews...

It great ram. You have to take what I say with a grain of salt because I like to milk out as much performace for every dollar I put into my system. If you have the money to blow then more power to you. You will get a bit of a boost out of it and will have more flexibility for your system.

 

[l Thomas l]

So robert what kind of RAM would you recommend for an AMD dual-core system? You said timing is more important. What kind of RAM would you buy (1gbx2) and how much would you overclock it?

 

[DJSfurry]

I think you should go for the 74GB raptor, or even the 150Gb one. the 36GB raptor had problems, and isnt as fast as the other two. Also, overclocking the system, i would go with the 165 rather than the 170, to save costs yet still achieve the same results.

 

[vertigofm]

Originally posted by: DJSfurry
I think you should go for the 74GB raptor, or even the 150Gb one. the 36GB raptor had problems, and isnt as fast as the other two. Also, overclocking the system, i would go with the 165 rather than the 170, to save costs yet still achieve the same results.

The only reason I am picking such a small hard drive is because I am putting Windows and all my most commonly used applications on it. The rest can go on the other hard drives. As for problems I read the user reviews on New egg from both hard drives and everyone experienced the same problems- all hard drives have a few defects that ship

 

[SonicIce]

190 CFM!? It must sound like a rocket taking off...

 

[vertigofm]

Originally posted by: SonicIce
190 CFM!? It must sound like a rocket taking off...

A friend of mine with the Tuniq 120 and the same mobo/processor used the 210cfm delta and I ****** you not he reached 3 ghz!!! with an Opteron 170... Now he did use a divider and voltages were pretty high- but it didn't exceed 56 C on load, and I think thats pretty damn impressive despite some people might be concerned about its high temp

 

[Bobthelost]

After a certain point increasing the airflow will not help temperatures measuably, but if it works...

None of the options you've got there for HD are particulary good. I suppose the raptor 36gb would be the best of the bad bunch.

 

[Alexstarfire]

Am I the only one who thinks he has a poor choice in HDDs? Everything else is fine, but I don't understand what you are trying to do with the HDDs. Can't put any of them in RAID and they are all kind of small.

 

[vertigofm]

idk, im retarded with hard drives... I use the other 2 for back up, meaning I just store all my extra stuff on there so if one hd fails I have the other 2. As for the small Raptor- again its just for windows to load fast and for commonly used but small applications- the games can go on the other ones

 

[Bobthelost]

Thing is that the small (and older) raptors aren't very fast, good 7200 RPM drives are faster than the 36gb raptors. You might well see better performance with the OS on one drive and games on another, but i would much rather the 74gb raptor or a single WD4000KD.

 

[vertigofm]

true but honestly... This coming from the old 7200 WD drives... Like, the ones that came out 4 years ago... So for me this Raptor is exciting because anythings an improvement over that dinosaur of a hard drive I have... When I get more money I'll look into high performance hd's