give your opinion on my new comp i ordered

[srawal]

CoolerMaster Praetorian 730 RC-730 Aluminum Tower 420W Case
SONY DWQ-28A DUAL FORMAT 16X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER
COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW)
AMD ATHLON64 X2 4400 CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology
ASUS A8N-SLI nForce4 SLI Chipset SATA RAID Dual PCIE MB
w/Gb-LAN,USB2.0,IEEE-1394,&7.1Audio
2048 MB (1GBx2) PC3200 400MHz Dual Channel DDR MEMORY (Corsair Value Select)
Round Cable Upgrade for Hard Drive, Optical Drive & Floppy Drive
1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE
Free "Half-Life 2 Bronze" Download Coupon
FREEGAME2: NEW !!! Free "Nero 7 Ultra Edition" with any AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Based PC or up
CoolerMaster Liquid CPU Cooling Fan System Kit + 2 EXTRA CASE FANS
INTERNAL 6in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 8MB Cache WD740GD
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 8MB Cache WD740GD
RAID 0 on those 2
Hitachi 500GB SATA 300 Hard Drive
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech G5 Mouse
Dell 2405 FPW 24" monitor (already have)
Windows XP MCE 2005 w/ ATI TV Wonder Elite
Professional Wiring for All WIRINGs Inside The System Chasis with High Performance Thermal Compound on CPU
Antec TPII-550 550Watt ATX 12V Power Supply
3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT
LAN Party Case Strap
New! Creative Labs X-FI XtremeMusic 24-BIT PCI Sound Card (i wanted the elite b/c of the xram, but its 2 much money)
Logitech Z5500 5.1 Speakers (already had this)
COOLERMASTER Musketeer System Dynamics Detector
NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GT 256MB 16X PCI Express Video Card
NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GT 256MB 16X PCI Express Video Card
PCI Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Interface Card

# _PRICE: (+2712)
I bought it from cyberpowerpc, and I added some of the listed components.

It was the free lan party case strap that won me over!!!
i didn't build myself b/c I am too busy with college and med school apps, and this was a gift for me

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Looks nice.

I probably would have done the harddrives and optical drives differently, but that's going to be a nice system.

 

[fire400]

RAID 0 sucks

 

[fishstickz]

Uh, my opinion is this- it should be very fast, you lucky dog. A gift?

EDIT: Raid 0 gives me the fear.

 

[srawal]

yeah from my parents....for doing good in college i guess and christmas combined.

 

[srawal]

is the RAID 0 not going to be reliable? I intend on putting hd coolers on both of em and venting them both to the exterior of the case

 

[srawal]

i kinda feel like an idiot for not waiting for the new amd socket m2 products, new intel stuff, new ati and nvidia stuff but I just couldnt wait any longer.

 

[fishstickz]

Well, it is as reliable as the HDs are.

The problem is, because you are running 2HDs to share the same data, if one dies, you'll lose everything, even if the other is okay. So you are doubling your chances of something bad happening.

Keeping them cool should help.

Backup often is my main advice to you. I'm serious... consider an external HD for this purpose.

And "not waiting for the latest" is impossible. You'll always wait for the latest if you do that. Gotta make the plunge at some point.

And that computer will give you more than enough to do most anything.

 

[srawal]

well the 500 gb hd is going to be used for most everything, i am going to boot windows and load games on the raptors

 

[fishstickz]

Haha, missed that 500GB thing. Make a partition for backups on that then =P.

Have fun with it.

 

[srawal]

Thanks. As of this moment, I intend on running Black and White 2, Call of Duty 2, F.E.A.R., CS Source, DOD Source, and other new games on it. I also will use it for video encoding, protein folding, and standard office apps.

That and benching against my friend's new Quad G5 with a 7800GT and watching him mutilate me in research and creative/productivity apps while I run circles around him in games!

 

[fishstickz]

If you guys make your own folding team, you'll be in the top 100 very quickly with those machines. Yipes.

I use an old P3 600 MHz to fold with. It takes a few days just to get through 1 unit...

 

[Wentelteefje]

That and benching against my friend's new Quad G5 with a 7800GT and watching him mutilate me in research and creative/productivity apps while I run circles around him in games!

Will be a nice fight... The aforementioned games should be no problem... hehe

 

[srawal]

I will give credit to Apple for having a real slick case organization in the G5. You pretty much see no wires anywhere!