Looking for a good Socket939 system

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ElZorro

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For the first time ever, i am building myself a nice little system. So far, i have the following:
AMD FX-53 Socket 939, ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum, WD Raptor 74GB HD and 1GB OCZ Dual Channel DDR400 Rev.2. The rest is ordered but i can change, and i have to decide what to chose:
1) Thermaltake Tsunami Black with X-Windows
2) Thermaltake 480W Butterfly PSU
3) I am thinking to have also the Thermaltake Bigwater water cooling system. I heard though the board should have 4 holes around the chip socket in order to install, and i can't get any board manufacturer to answer that one correctly. I sent a request about this to Thermaltake

So, keeping all the above in mind, and also the fact that money is not an issue, what mobo should i get? My goal is, of course, to build a top performer...

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xclusivex

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Im not 100% positive but i dont think any of the socket 939 boards have 4 holes for the waterblock mounting, as for a recommendation id say the new Soltek board seems nice, and ive had very good luck with Chaintech in the past.. MSI is very feature packed but ive heard of alot of people having stability issues with them... as for your water cooling kit id suggest getting a different CPU waterblock like one from Dangerden or a complete Dangerden watercooling system if money is not an issue, also if you plan to do any type of overclocking I would suggest spending the extra 30 bux or so and getting the OCZ 520? watt PSU.. I heard it just kicks all kinds of a$$.. good luck with your system

P.S. im not sure if your video card is AGP or not.. but you could also wait to see if the new nForce 4 boards will have 4 mounting holes for your hardware, just a thought
 
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Gnoad

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What he said. Thermaltake psu isn't crap, but not too great. OCZ psu is awesome, and is only $86 at monarch. Again, dangerden will serve you much better for watercooling. I'm sure every new mobo has mounting holes for waterblocks, so no worries there.
 
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McArra

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TT Butterflt works great for me and it's very silent. I would buy an ASUS A8V Deluxe rev2 MoBo.
 
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ElZorro

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Originally posted by: xclusivex
Im not 100% positive but i dont think any of the socket 939 boards have 4 holes for the waterblock mounting, as for a recommendation id say the new Soltek board seems nice, and ive had very good luck with Chaintech in the past.. MSI is very feature packed but ive heard of alot of people having stability issues with them... as for your water cooling kit id suggest getting a different CPU waterblock like one from Dangerden or a complete Dangerden watercooling system if money is not an issue, also if you plan to do any type of overclocking I would suggest spending the extra 30 bux or so and getting the OCZ 520? watt PSU.. I heard it just kicks all kinds of a$$.. good luck with your system

P.S. im not sure if your video card is AGP or not.. but you could also wait to see if the new nForce 4 boards will have 4 mounting holes for your hardware, just a thought
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Well, it seems the two finalist boards ( Gibabyte and MSI ) have 4 mounting holes around the cpu...
As for the PSU, the OCZ was my prefered choice in the first place, but it will take a zillion years for me to receive it here ( Israel ), and i heard there were some problems with the MSI board and the Antec PSU, so i finally opted for the TT Butterfly, which is not bad, looks like a million $, and it will be eventually easy for me to sell later if i can get my hands on the OCZ.
For the watercooling, same $hit, i can't get a Dangerden without waiting long weeks, so i went with the Bigwater. Is it really bad? Should i look for something complete different , i.e Thermalright XP-120 or the like?
Thanks!
 
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ElZorro

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Originally posted by: McArra
TT Butterflt works great for me and it's very silent. I would buy an ASUS A8V Deluxe rev2 MoBo.
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I checked the benchmarks here @ Anandtech, and the MSI kicks a$$. The Asus was most of the time in the lower end...
 
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drifter106

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would be interested in knowing the sites of those other benches, as you seem to have already read them.....
 
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drifter106

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point well taken... as the author stated "couldn't determine a real winner or loser" and
"differences aren't very big" indicators for me showed that MSI was lagging in benches....
my take is this.... a true scientific investigation has only 1 variable... its clear that this is not the case when interrupting data from both tests.

i am not jumping on any one wagon but.... indicators are that there are quite a few people utilizing the MSI board and the .09 cpu and realizing some substantial gains.... thats what its all about isn't it? price + performance

regardless of the facts from these tests....if a product is GOOD or BAD it will leave a trail....

later

jd
 
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ElZorro

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Nov 6, 2004
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Originally posted by: DangerMouse
There are indeed no OCZ PSUs in Israel but i was able to found at least 3 DangerDen
CPU Watercooling models at www.pandas.co.il:
http://www.pandas.co.il/defaul...cPath=55_141_1311_1312
Just need to make some effort to search ;)
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Well, i managed to order the OCZ PSU from a friend in the US, should be here in 2 days or so.
As for the DangerDen stuff @ Pandas, they sell the waterblock without the kit, so unless i bring water from the Water Cooler i have in my kitchen, i'll have a problem using it :)
 
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