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Daemach

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I made some extra money this month, and I need to spend it on hardware for tax reasons. Here's what I'm looking at now:

Quad-core QX6700 or X6800 Extreme (QX is hard to find and overpriced atm)
ASUS Striker Extreme 680i
2 BFG/DangerDen water cooled G8800GTX in SLI
2GB Corsair PC8500 RAM
4 320GB Western Digital 3gb SATA in RAID5
CM Stacker case with water cooling mods: (http://www.svc.com/svc-stc-t01-ubk.html)
HP or Dell 30" monitor

I'm hoping to OC to at least 3.5-4GHz - higher if possible.

Does anyone see any problems with this build other than availability?

The ads for the procs say they have a 1066 FSB. PC8500 RAM is 1066, and the striker extreme ads say the mobo supports 1333/1066/800 FSB. It also says DDR2 800 standard. ASUS's product page says "With the highest speed up to 800MHz..." What gives here? Am I going to get 1066 MHz bus with this config or not? Striker Extreme)

I would love to see the guys at Anand build this machine :)
 
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Duvie

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1066 fsb is not the ram speed...that is the FSB quad pumped...

Actual ram that runs stock with that is PC2-4200 or 533ddr2.....

X6800 has a 11x multi I believe and QX6700 has 10x multi.....If you hit 4ghz I dont see you needing any more then just PC2-6400 or 800ddr2

Edit if you want to run 1066ddr2 at stock you can change the ram multiplier to 4x and you will have it....However iti s not needed to run stock and the 1066fsb designation is not the ram speed...
 
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Ayah

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Go with the QX. Much more efficiency in the future.
I suggest you don't go with BFG cards for watercooling. I would personally pick eVGAs and then buy my own watersinks. I'd say Maze 4 or 5s.

The SVC link you provided is nice. Go with the Apogee and the dual Maze 4s. I wouldn't bother with watercooling the chipset.
eVGAs will warranty your card even if you watercool it. BFG won't unless you use their pre-watercooling fitted cards.
 
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alpha88

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Should be a pretty extreme machine.

Thank you for paying way too much for cutting edge parts. Your purchase here will subsidize the cheaper parts that I'll buy later!

I don't really know much about that motherboard, but it looks like it supports FSB of 1333/1066/800 and DDR 2 at 800. They're on different busses. I'd expect that it can run DDR 2 at 1066, but I'm confused why that isn't listed.
 
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Howard

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There might be an issue with the sound on a 680i board with 2 8800GTX cards, but that should be resolved by now.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - $310
ASUS Striker Extreme - $400
Super Talent 2x1GB DDR2-800 4-4-3-8 2.2V - $282, $20 MIR
2 * 8800GTX - $1250
Auzentech AZT-XM71 X-Meridian - $190
2 * Western Digital WD740ADFD - $320
4 * Western Digital WD5000KS - $720
BenQ DW1655 - $40

Swiftech Storm - $75
2 * Danger Den 8800GTX block - $270
2 * Laing D5 - $ 150
Swiftech MCR-320 - $55
5 * Scythe S-Flex SFF12E - $70
Reservoir - $20

Enermax Galaxy 1000W - $360
Gigabyte 3D Aurora - $130

Pioneer VSX-516 - $150
Axiom Audio M3Ti - $320
Hsu STF-1 - $300

Dell 3007WFP - ~$1500
 
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YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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Originally posted by: Howard
There might be an issue with the sound on a 680i board with 2 8800GTX cards, but that should be resolved by now.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - $310
ASUS Striker Extreme - $400
Super Talent 2x1GB DDR2-800 4-4-3-8 2.2V - $282, $20 MIR
2 * 8800GTX - $1250
Auzentech AZT-XM71 X-Meridian - $190
2 * Western Digital WD740ADFD - $320
4 * Western Digital WD5000KS - $720
BenQ DW1655 - $40

Water cooling isn't my thing, so let's allocate $400 for that

Enermax Galaxy 1000W - $360
Gigabyte 3D Aurora - $130

Pioneer VSX-516 - $150
Axiom Audio M3Ti - $320
Hsu STF-1 - $300

Dell 2405FPW - ~$800

How do you even spend $7500? :confused:
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Only $346 shipped for an STF-2 right now

http://www.hsustore.com/stf2.html
 
modestninja

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Get a nice 2-2.5K computer then spend the rest on a nice stereo. That way you'll have absolutely no problems spending that 7.5K.

If you want some nice speakers for the money check out both the rockets and the xl series from http://www.av123.com/

The Axioms are very nice too.
 
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Gannon

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Originally posted by: Daemach
I made some extra money this month, and I need to spend it on hardware for tax reasons. Here's what I'm looking at now:

Quad-core QX6700 or X6800 Extreme (QX is hard to find and overpriced atm)
ASUS Striker Extreme 680i
2 BFG/DangerDen water cooled G8800GTX in SLI
2GB Corsair PC8500 RAM
4 320GB Western Digital 3gb SATA in RAID5
CM Stacker case with water cooling mods: (http://www.svc.com/svc-stc-t01-ubk.html)
HP or Dell 30" monitor

I'm hoping to OC to at least 3.5-4GHz - higher if possible.

Does anyone see any problems with this build other than availability?

The ads for the procs say they have a 1066 FSB. PC8500 RAM is 1066, and the striker extreme ads say the mobo supports 1333/1066/800 FSB. It also says DDR2 800 standard. ASUS's product page says "With the highest speed up to 800MHz..." What gives here? Am I going to get 1066 MHz bus with this config or not? Striker Extreme)

I would love to see the guys at Anand build this machine :)
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Haha... maybe you can do some home-made benchmarks and send them into Anand, or better yet post a Youtube video for us! lol....
 
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prophet001

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that is a nice machine but i too would go for evga then water cool em with aftermarket blocks. also, if you can get 8888c4 ram then obviously that is better at 4.4.4.12 instead of 8550c5 at 5.5.5.15. 2 gigs is better than 4 for this point in time because the memory controller will not support 4 sticks of 1ghz+ ram according to corsair. also, i would go with raid 0+1 if you are getting 4 drives. this would bring you to 740gb instead of whatever raid 5 is -parity data space but it will be a faster setup as far as i understand raid 5. raid 5 requires parity data be written to each drive and takes some space as well as performance hits. raid 0+1 takes more drives to pull off but gives better performance. just saying if you want it maxed. maybe i am wrong and someone else can pipe up but i plan on running 4 raptors in raid 0+1. also good luck getting a striker board... i too am in that predicament :( hmm what else. that is a pretty sick setup (i am building the air cooled ver) so i hope it works out for you :) i have also done extensive research on thing surrounding this build setup. one more thing i can think of is that the swiftech apogee cpu water block is the best hands down. check it out. they also make vga and ram coolers but i dont' know much about them. anyway GL HF !!
 
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bob4432

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Originally posted by: Howard
There might be an issue with the sound on a 680i board with 2 8800GTX cards, but that should be resolved by now.
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from what i read people needed to d/l the very latest dx9 drivers (october release possiby) and that fixed the problem

 
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bendixG15

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You "made" all that extra money so you decided
to come here for your first post and let us in on your good fortune.

If wishes were horses............. ;)
 
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bendixG15

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You "made" all that extra money so you decided
to come here for your first post and let us in on your good fortune.

If wishes were horses............. ;)
 
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JargonGR

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Regarding the 30" Monitor bear in Mind that Dell has anounced the new model with which has a 92% colour gamut instead the 76% of the current one. This will compete with the HP model which is currently out so either wait or search for info on the HP model to get an idea of how the new Dell will perform. I am going for a 30" model too but honestly I am a bit dissappointed with the current state of the LCDs. Anyway check Hardforum at the Dispaly section for info on those 30" some users have got the new HP and there is discussion about it.


 
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ForumMaster

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for what though? gaming or workstation?

if you want a workstation, the get a Mac Pro like Baked said.

if you're into gaming:

Intel QX6700 - $1000
ASUS 680i Striker Mobo - $400
2GB DDR2 1066 RAM - $400
2 NVIDIA 8800GTX in SLI - $1200
Dual WD Raptors 150GB in RAID 0 for OS - $700
Seagate Barracuda 750GB for Storage - $500
PC Power and Cooling 850W PSU - $300
CM Stacker case - $500
Dell 30" 3007WFP-HC - $1700
Logitech Revolution Mouse - $100
Logitech G15 Keyboard - $80

Total: $6880
Change: $620

use it too buy a Wii360?
 
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JAG87

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Intel QX6700 - 1100
eVGA nForce 680i - 250
2GB Corsair XMS2 6400C3DF / 2GB Corsair XMS2 8888C4DF - 500 / 600
2x eVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX in SLI - 1200
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro - 250
2x WD Raptor WD1500AFDF - 450
Enermax Galaxy 1000W / Silverstone Olympia 1000W - 300
CoolerMaster Stacker 830 - 250
Dell 3007WFP-HC - $1700
Logitech G5 - 50
Logitech G15 - 50

Heatsink of your choice between Sunbeam Tuniq Tower, Thermalright Ultra 120, Thermaltake Big Typhoon, Zalman CNPS9700 NT. Lets say 100 just to exaggerate.

Total - 6200


Overclock and temperatures expected (QX6700 thermal spec ~ 69C)
3.2 to 3.4 within 1.4v (60C max load)
3.4 to 3.6 within 1.5v (70C max load)
3.6 to 3.8 within 1.6v (80C max load - not recommended for 24/7)



my 2c
 
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lamere

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Jul 22, 2006
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why not just get a powermac?

For security reasons, if you're using it for a business.......

With that much $$ to spend, that would be my first choice. :)
 
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ND40oz

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Originally posted by: ForumMaster
for what though? gaming or workstation?

if you want a workstation, the get a Mac Pro like Baked said.
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If you want a real workstation, get a Dell Precision 690, it's cheaper then the MacPro once you add options and it actually allows you to run dual 2 slot cards. Or build your own dual woodcrest or clovertown workstation.
 
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