Building a new PC!

[jimgeagea]

well, the first question u'll ask me, what u will use it for? and how much are u willing to spend!
the answer is: i will use for multithreading and gaming, i want it to be super fast!
i have no money limit!
i want the most powerful and fastest pc available now

what i am sure of, till now, i will get the 4800, and the new creative x-fi fatal1ty...
as for the vga i will be getting the 7800 GTX

i need memory, mobo, and storage...
lets start by picking a mobo..

what do u advice guys? do i get a dfi? or get the sapphire PI-A9RX480 already reviewed in anandtech and show some real advantages over the DFI..

i wont be ocing, i dont need to
as for the rams: i am thinking of getting 2*1gb PC4000 crucial ballistixs
http://www.crucial.com/ballistix/store/...Specs.asp?imodule=BL2KIT12864L503&cat=
are they best and fatest ones? or are there any faster ones, like ocz gold pc4000? is it better to get 4*512mb or 2*1gb??

as for the storage, i need speed and capacity..
i was thinking of a 75gb raptor and a 500gb tk500, or it better to get 2*t7k250 or 2*DM10??

as you see i have a lot of options..
i need your opinions, and any better choices are welcomed!

 

[stevty2889]

I'd go with the DFI board and the fastest OCZ ram you can find, definatly want 2x1gb sticks over 4x512mb sticks, as 4 sticks have to run at 2T timings. I'd get a WD 16mb cache SATA II drive over a raptor, or 2 in raid 0 if you do anything thats I/O intesive.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

...You're an idiot?

 

[Matt2]

wasnt this thread locked about 20 minutes ago?

EDIT: Yep

 

[jimgeagea]

who is the idiot?? i really wonder how can someone prefer the wd 16 mb over the raptor??

please guys, dont tell me get the fastest OCZ rams for example, please give me their links or they full names

 

[Matt2]

Your options are really limited on the "fastest RAM" when going 2x1GB sticks. There is some MUshkin HP PC3700 available that OCs like a beast, but expensive.

You said you werent going to OC anyways, so I dont think you need the "fastest". Get some OCZ PLatinum 2-3-2-5 or Patriot 2-3-2-5. Be weary of the Patriot though, I had a lot of problems with that RAM

 

[wenRei]

Oh,
that's fine!

 

[jimgeagea]

i want to get something cleared, i dont care for the price! as for the rams, i want the fastest ones..
is it better to get 2*1gb PC3200 with latency 2.2 - 2.3 then to get 2*1gb PC 4000 with latency 3.3 - 3.4 ??

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

I meant jimgeagea was the idiot... Don't blow all your money on the best of everything, especially since you're a noob... Do you even know what PC4000 is? You can't run at PC4000 speeds without overclocking...

 

[jimgeagea]

all right, i wont be ocing, so i guess i will go with the PC3200 rams, what will u recommend?
i want the fastest PC3200 available in the market!

 

[LiquidIce1337]

you disgust me you spoiled brat!

j/k



no but seriously... no money limit?

 

[suicidalpigeon]

im pretty sure his mirrored thread was locked for a reason

 

[jimgeagea]

it was locked because i double posted the same topic, without paying attention...
what do think dudes? what are the fastest PC3200 RAMS?

 

[superfly27]

Sites like Corsair and Crucial have support forums. They're cool. By the way, watch out for those RAM sticks advertised as CAS2. You'll often see a * or whatever and read at the bottom that on AMD platforms, they run at CAS2.5.
Me, I ordered 512 MB of OCZ Platinum. I want to get 2x1 GB next year. (I'll re-sell the 512 MB.)

 

[yosuke188]

Don't get DFI, that's an overclocker's mobo. Get Epox or something in that area.

 

[Crescent13]

You want fast? I'll give you fast!!!

Motherboard

CPU's

Two of theese

Hard drives

That's just the beginning :evil:

EDIT: Forgot to tell you to get a liquid nitrogen cooling system

That should be around 300,000+ dollars, and that's not including the electrostatic sound systm which should run around 200,000+ dollars. Oh yeah, I also forgot the 2 apple cinema displays equipped with 3d filters.

Oh what the heck, why don't you just buy bluegene since you have no money limit. That should be around $1,000,000.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

EPoX is also an overclocker's motherboard...
Since you have no money limit:

A Dual Socket 940 Motherboard with SLI
2 Dualcore Opterons
2 7800GTX's in SLI
32GB RAM
SCSI Raid Controller Card
4 15k RPM Seagate Hard Drives in RAID 5
4 7200 RPM 500GB Hard Drives
A gigantic case that can hold 8 hard drives
Watercooling Kit

Right, that should run you about ~$10,000+, but since you have no limit...

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

If you truly don't care about the price, you should probably get a multi-CPU Linux workstation, not a 4800-based PC. I hear IBM makes some nice systems.

 

[suicidalpigeon]

to fix a little bit of l337's rig: tyan thunder k8we, 2x 275 italy's, 8x 1gig corsair ecc rams, raid 5, lian li pc-b1200b, vapochill cooling.

i made a 20k system on newegg a while ago.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Originally posted by: wafflesandsyrup
to fix a little bit of l337's rig: tyan thunder k8we, 2x 275 italy's, 8x 1gig corsair ecc rams, raid 5, lian li pc-b1200b, vapochill cooling.

i made a 20k system on newegg a while ago.

:thumbsup:

 

[suicidalpigeon]

maybe 2x 4400 quadro's instead?

 

[ShadowBlade]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
You want fast? I'll give you fast!!!

Motherboard

CPU's

Two of theese

Hard drives

That's just the beginning :evil:

EDIT: Forgot to tell you to get a liquid nitrogen cooling system

That should be around 300,000+ dollars, and that's not including the electrostatic sound systm which should run around 200,000+ dollars. Oh yeah, I also forgot the 2 apple cinema displays equipped with 3d filters.

Oh what the heck, why don't you just buy bluegene since you have no money limit. That should be around $1,000,000.

and if you have no money limit, why not get 2000 of them and cluster them together!
and make sure you get windows server 2003 ENTERPRISE for that, because its the most expensive and therefore better

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

I think the point is that there is always a money limit. Even governments have money liimits--and I doubt you're some rich Bush child. So, be it five million or five thousand, you need to detail what exactly you're looking for.

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: wafflesandsyrup
maybe 2x 4400 quadro's instead?

No, for workstation apps, two 4500 quadros would be better, but since it is for gaming, 7800GTX is better. quadro's push pixels, not polygons.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Save yourself a lot of wasted money, and get something like this and mildly overclock it. It will be so close to bleeding edge performance you will never know the difference.

Asus A8N-E or the Epox NF4 ultra ($110-125)
X2 4400+ ($550-600)
7800 GT ($370-400)
2gb OCZ 2-3-2-5 ($237-260)