Hey guys, this is my first post here at Anandtech. I've been coming here for a while, but I never felt worthy enough to start posting till now.
I'm in the middle of some serious decisions as far as building a rig goes and I just had a few questions from experts because I'm trying to build a very high end PC, but the problem is I don't know what the high end products are. This is important because I'm going to base my whole rig off the comments I get here ^_^
First I'll start off with what I had in mind.
CASE: ATX 1200 (already have)
CPU: i7 975 (4.6Ghz) (already have)
MEM: 12GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000mHz 7-8-7-20
HardDrive: This one is hard because I never research much about the fastest harddrives available. I never use to think how important a harddrive was until I found out about SSD's. I was going to get the 15000rpm Cheetah HD because I thought that was the best, untill I found out about SSD's(thankfully I didn't do it!). So my question for SSD is...
Q1. Is there anything faster than the Intel X25-E Extreme SSD? I've checked goodle and all I get is mixed answers. I ask because it's a year old now! I would presume there is something out there faster now on every bench. I was waiting for the Crucial RealSSD c300 but that doesn't come out till Febuary which is fine. I just don't want to wait past March when I get dual fermi's. I also heard the OCZ Vertex Pro 2 SSD's were going to be top notch, but thats not coming out till March I hear. I'm wondering what there is now.
Q2: What is the fastest available on newegg? (Besides the $4,000 SSD's lol) and has it been benched against the Intel X25-E Extreme?
MOBO: Here's another one I'm having issues deciding on. I'm trying to decide between the eVGA Classied 141-BL-E760-A1 or the E762 becase as some may know me, I OC in a very xtreme way
and I hear these boards are phenomenal for that purpose. So my questions about these 2 boards are...
Q1. Is there any performance difference between the 4-way sli classified and the E760 classified OC's edition at newegg? Performance is my primary concern and I always figured that 7 PCIE slots would actually hinder performance. They just look so crammed on the board! However, I want to get a TV Tuner, Dual GPU Fermi's (yes, even dual GF104's if they exist anyday) and a PCIE 1x Sound Blaster Card. I can't do that If they don't all fit on the E760.
Q2. A serious question I was thinking about. If I use a PCIE 1x sound card, in a 16x slot, along with 2 dual GPU fermi's in the first two 16x slots, using all 3 16x express lanes, would I still get 16x16 for the cards? Or would the EVGA mobo consider the sound card pcie 1x as a 16x just because it's using that slot? If getting full speed out of my PCIE slots will be a problem with the E760, then the 4-way SLI board is definitely a nobrainer for me, if thats the case. Serious question because this will determine ultimately which board I get.
SOUND CARD: SoundBlaster Fatal!ty Champion Series PCIE 1x (already have)
VIDEO CARD: I was thinking about waiting for the Dual Fermi GF104's (assuming they'll be $749.99 each) but I'm trying to think about that logic. Is that neccessary? It may not be, but i'm extreme unless it would actually hinder my performance. I just want something better than a 5970 (not happy with its performance in a few titles) and please don't flame me for that, its my humble opinion and with the good news about fermi coming, I was thinking if it would be wise to go for dual fermi's? maybe nobody can answer, but hopefully those cards can scale good in SLI, maybe better than our old gen.
COOLING: This might be laughable, but I have a gigantic ultra high velocity propeller fan with an attached air conditioner on the back rushing cold air directly into my PC. Sounds bad doesn't it? I have it modified in a way to prevent condensation and It's been cooling my rigs to freezing levels for years now and I don't think ive ever had a better cooling solution! (You're probably thinking "noisy!", well , the truth is, my case is actually embedded inside a wall! The wall in turn gives me near complete noise cancellation. Nothing feels better than seeing low temps and ultra high clocks comfortably in my living room in total silence :twisted:.
I'm in the middle of some serious decisions as far as building a rig goes and I just had a few questions from experts because I'm trying to build a very high end PC, but the problem is I don't know what the high end products are. This is important because I'm going to base my whole rig off the comments I get here ^_^
First I'll start off with what I had in mind.
CASE: ATX 1200 (already have)
CPU: i7 975 (4.6Ghz) (already have)
MEM: 12GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000mHz 7-8-7-20
HardDrive: This one is hard because I never research much about the fastest harddrives available. I never use to think how important a harddrive was until I found out about SSD's. I was going to get the 15000rpm Cheetah HD because I thought that was the best, untill I found out about SSD's(thankfully I didn't do it!). So my question for SSD is...
Q1. Is there anything faster than the Intel X25-E Extreme SSD? I've checked goodle and all I get is mixed answers. I ask because it's a year old now! I would presume there is something out there faster now on every bench. I was waiting for the Crucial RealSSD c300 but that doesn't come out till Febuary which is fine. I just don't want to wait past March when I get dual fermi's. I also heard the OCZ Vertex Pro 2 SSD's were going to be top notch, but thats not coming out till March I hear. I'm wondering what there is now.
Q2: What is the fastest available on newegg? (Besides the $4,000 SSD's lol) and has it been benched against the Intel X25-E Extreme?
MOBO: Here's another one I'm having issues deciding on. I'm trying to decide between the eVGA Classied 141-BL-E760-A1 or the E762 becase as some may know me, I OC in a very xtreme way
and I hear these boards are phenomenal for that purpose. So my questions about these 2 boards are...Q1. Is there any performance difference between the 4-way sli classified and the E760 classified OC's edition at newegg? Performance is my primary concern and I always figured that 7 PCIE slots would actually hinder performance. They just look so crammed on the board! However, I want to get a TV Tuner, Dual GPU Fermi's (yes, even dual GF104's if they exist anyday) and a PCIE 1x Sound Blaster Card. I can't do that If they don't all fit on the E760.
Q2. A serious question I was thinking about. If I use a PCIE 1x sound card, in a 16x slot, along with 2 dual GPU fermi's in the first two 16x slots, using all 3 16x express lanes, would I still get 16x16 for the cards? Or would the EVGA mobo consider the sound card pcie 1x as a 16x just because it's using that slot? If getting full speed out of my PCIE slots will be a problem with the E760, then the 4-way SLI board is definitely a nobrainer for me, if thats the case. Serious question because this will determine ultimately which board I get.
SOUND CARD: SoundBlaster Fatal!ty Champion Series PCIE 1x (already have)
VIDEO CARD: I was thinking about waiting for the Dual Fermi GF104's (assuming they'll be $749.99 each) but I'm trying to think about that logic. Is that neccessary? It may not be, but i'm extreme unless it would actually hinder my performance. I just want something better than a 5970 (not happy with its performance in a few titles) and please don't flame me for that, its my humble opinion and with the good news about fermi coming, I was thinking if it would be wise to go for dual fermi's? maybe nobody can answer, but hopefully those cards can scale good in SLI, maybe better than our old gen.
COOLING: This might be laughable, but I have a gigantic ultra high velocity propeller fan with an attached air conditioner on the back rushing cold air directly into my PC. Sounds bad doesn't it? I have it modified in a way to prevent condensation and It's been cooling my rigs to freezing levels for years now and I don't think ive ever had a better cooling solution! (You're probably thinking "noisy!", well , the truth is, my case is actually embedded inside a wall! The wall in turn gives me near complete noise cancellation. Nothing feels better than seeing low temps and ultra high clocks comfortably in my living room in total silence :twisted:.
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