Did I make the right decision? what more/less do i need to do?

[alan671]

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.

Some Animation/Blu-ray/heavy gaming

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread

I already got a monitor and speakers casing, the end budget is around $2600

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.

USA and Asia pacific

4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.

What ever suits the budget and max performance

5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.

please read question number 2

6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads?

yes, but need one to one opinions from people

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.

heavy overclock if need be, if not then no. Better to be safe than sorry

8. WHEN do you plan to build it?

I have already 3 parts that just came in, awaiting on the arrival of my Pioneer Blu-ray reader/burner and my OS, which is Vista premium 64, sometime during this week.
Will build this ASAP, but will hold out the video card till ATI and Nvidia releases the new cards this month, for now will use my 9600GT

I am solid with going Quad, mainly Intel, not sure what i could get though

CPU: Quad?
MB: ? Leaning towards DFI maybe
HD: planning on getting one 300GB Raptor and two 500GB slave drives in raid zero
Mem: DDR2?
VC: depends what ATI and Nvidia have to offer, will still be using a 9600GT (used) in the meantime
Optical Drive: Pioneer Blu-ray reader/DVD burner
Casing: I will be using a Thermaltake Mozart TX Cube, customed painted black with either green or red LED case fans, depending on what brand videocard I get
PSU: Was going to get a Thermaltake to match the case, but Corsair is kind of interesting
Monitor: Will be using SAMSUNG SyncMaster 305T Black 30" inch Widescreen LCD
Speakers: Will be using Logitech Z-55000. Got this sucker on sale at our local computer store
OS: just had ordered Vista Premium 64-bit
Aftermarket cooling: a fellow gamer friend of mine the new Thermalright IFX-14 is the real deal, saw some reviews of it, really considering to get this.

1)Did I make a good decision on this monitor?: Samsung 305T 30" inch
2)How about the Tower? Thermaltake Mozart TX Cube
3)Speakers? Did i spend to much for these speakers, have not yet opened the box, waiting till this computer is built
4)OS? Vista premium 64bit over Ultimate. Was this a wise decision?
5)Optical Drive: Pioneer BDC-220B Blu-ray


Pretty much sums up everthing. open for any advice and suggestions

 

[DSF]

Considering your budget and the fact that you want to do heavy gaming on a 30" monitor, you're one person for whom SLI actually makes sense.

As far as hard drives I don't see any reason to put two 500GB drives in RAID 0 when a 1 TB drive will give you the same or better performance with less chance of data loss.

 

[jgigz]

http://accessories.us.dell.com...dhs&cs=19&sku=222-7175

I bought a dell monitor not too long ago (24") and I have yet to see anything that I personally think has a better picture quality, little bit cheaper too.

just a suggestion

Edit: nvm, just noticed you already have and are using the samsung.

 

[alan671]

Yea I read that the 30" inch Samsung was good so I just had to have it. I'm just a little nervous about what performance this monitor will have because after a few days of using the monitor (last week), a pixel started to appear on the lower left corner, hopefully that will be the last. Other than that i love this monitor. As far as 500GB drives in RAID 0, what 1TB hard-rive would you recommend?

 

[alan671]

Originally posted by: DSF
Considering your budget and the fact that you want to do heavy gaming on a 30" monitor, you're one person for whom SLI actually makes sense.

As far as hard drives I don't see any reason to put two 500GB drives in RAID 0 when a 1 TB drive will give you the same or better performance with less chance of data loss.

How about Crossfire? I have seen how Crossfire 3-way has better performance than Quad SLI like the 9800GX2, which i have found to be a waist of money, but seeing that both ATI and Nvidia are coming out with a new card this month (will wait till next month to see reviews on both cards before i end up buying) I am holding out till then but need to buy the rest of my parts for my computer asap, cant really wait that long. Basically its the videocards that I will be waiting for and the rest now.

 

[alan671]

hmmm 70+ views but hardly any help from here.... Thanks though, DSF and jgigz for your input