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My new computer parts, are they any good?

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sinitry23

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All items will be purchased from Newegg

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 - 2x Raid 0
EVGA 320-P2-N811-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
HIPER HPU-4K580-MS ATX12V v2.2 580W Power Supply
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 - Micron D9
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler

This is around my budget. Should I change anything? I will be using my floppy and dvd burners from my current system.
 
welcome to the forums.

it would help to know your intended uses.

personally i have never heard of hiper psus, but maybe others have. don't worry so much about the W but rather the quality. any decent 450W will give you plent of overhead in the power dept.

also, since you are going with the micron ram, why not go a 6300-6400 and save some $$$ there as the extra cache can easily be made up for by a bit of o/cing, which i assume you are going to do since the ram selection.

personally not a big fan of raid0....unless you either don't value your data or backup daily or use it strictly for certain purposes, but since it is the only hdds listed i am assuming this will be your main drive. if you need 500GB, just get a single 500GB drive.
 
I will be using this computer for light gaming and mostly photoshop and graphic design programs. I've heard about the risks of raid 0 but how much more performance do you get with Raid 0? What is raid 5?
 
Originally posted by: sinitry23
I will be using this computer for light gaming and mostly photoshop and graphic design programs. I've heard about the risks of raid 0 but how much more performance do you get with Raid 0? What is raid 5?
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in theory you get 2x the sustained transfer rate, but this really only helps in ps when dealing with large files. what size files are you dealing with?

for raid info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
 
I shoot raw with a Digital SLR camera at 10.1 mp. Each file transfered to PS is about 40-50mb. After add a few layers the file can easily go upto 150-200 mb.

 
I will be installing Windows XP on this setup. Does Winxp reconize driver larger than 160gb? If not what do I need to do to format my two 320 gb hard drives?
 
yes xp recognizes drives larger then 160gb. Yes you can ghost images that large (you just need somewhere to put them (either another internal or a large external drive)). You wont likely get much/any performance boost for Raid 0 with your setup, major benefits are with dv editing, still images don't need the sustained transfer rate of raid 0 so it probably is not worth it for you.
 
I probably don't really have to tell you this, but if you aren't planning a RAID array, a single 500GB drive will be easier to work with (you can partition it if you really want multiple "drives") than two separate 250GB drives. So, you'll probably want to go to a single 500GB drive. I've long been a fan of Seagate's drives for their reliability. If you need an external drive to go with your internal drives, I highly recommend Seagate's new FreeAgent Pro series -- they're absolute hotness. Get a motherboard with an eSATA port so you can have fast access to a big external drive like the 750GB FreeAgent.
 
For the power supply I'd go for something with a lower peak wattage rating but from a better manufacturer. Hiper may be OK in general, I dunno, but I've seen posts about random reboots and exploding capacitors...

I'd go for around 480 or 500 watts from Enermax, Seasonic, OCZ, Corsair, or better still PCP&C.

I also think you should drop the RAID-0 and go for a singe drive with backup or maybe a RAID-1 setup.

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What is raid 5?
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Overkill.
 
lol indeed. unless he works for some secret business and must not ever loss his data ever 😀 or if you paranoid or have the money🙂
 
I've got a HiPer 580W PSU and it's pretty good, have had no trouble with it so far and decent amps on the 12V rail.
Don't run RAID-0. Get a single 500GB drive. If you're really worried about data backup, get another 500GB drive run a RAID-1. And backup on DVD and external drives.
 
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