New FX53 system arriving tommorow

[coolal]

New FX53 system arriving tomorrow

I?ve been very impressed with the knowledge in this board and while never a member I have used the expertise in here countless times :-D.

So here?s my new system. What a pain to coordinate all the orders and parts to make sure everything was coming and that everything worked together.

Let me know what you think!

Case: Cooler Master Praetorian
PS: Antec True480
Mobo: Asus SK8V
Cpu: AMD Athlon 64 FX-53
Memory: 1 GB (2 pcs 512) DDR (400) PC-3200 REG ECC Corsair (TwinX1024RE-3200LLPT)
Sound Card: Creative Audigy 2 ZS 24BIT
Hard Drive: Seagate 80 GB Barracuda 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA (Two in Raid 0 config)
CDR: Plextor 52X32X52 CD-RW
DVD-R: Plextor PX-712A DVD±R/RW 4X-DVD+-RW/12X-DVD+R/16X-DVD/48X24X48-CD-
Video Card: Visiontek Radeon X800 Pro 256MB
Heatsink: Swiftech MCX-6400V Heatsink
Speakers: Klipsch 4.2 ProMedia speakers

Thanks for the input. Anything recommended to add? (Besides keyboard/mouse/monitor)

Any tweaks for the mobo/cpu/memory combo? I heard the visiontek overclocks quite well.

Thanks!
-Alex

 

[Corporate Thug]

very nice system, i wouldnt change a thing

 

[Runner20]

Excellent system.

Your making me jealous, to be honest. Heh.

 

[n0cmonkey]

So jealous.

 

[Markfw]

I would trade the two seagate drives for two 74 gig raptors. Other than that, great system !!

 

[Runner20]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
I would trade the two seagate drives for two 74 gig raptors. Other than that, great system !!

Seriously, how much faster will his system get?? It's insanely fast and changing hard drives will not increase speeds so much that he actually notices. Hard drives matter very little when it comes to a systems speed.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Runner20

Originally posted by: Markfw900
I would trade the two seagate drives for two 74 gig raptors. Other than that, great system !!

Seriously, how much faster will his system get?? It's insanely fast and changing hard drives will not increase speeds so much that he actually notices. Hard drives matter very little when it comes to a systems speed.

Actually, increasing the HD speed is the most noticable thing you can do with a CPU over 1ghz (2 ghz depending on the app/game). I speak from experience.......

 

[Runner20]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: Runner20

Originally posted by: Markfw900
I would trade the two seagate drives for two 74 gig raptors. Other than that, great system !!

Seriously, how much faster will his system get?? It's insanely fast and changing hard drives will not increase speeds so much that he actually notices. Hard drives matter very little when it comes to a systems speed.

Actually, increasing the HD speed is the most noticable thing you can do with a CPU over 1ghz (2 ghz depending on the app/game). I speak from experience.......

Yes, from increasing speed from 5400 to 7200 will give you great performance benefits. But going from 7200 to 10,000 will give you very slight performance boost.

 

[Zebo]

I need a second job.

 

[TheBDB]

Originally posted by: Runner20

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: Runner20

Originally posted by: Markfw900
I would trade the two seagate drives for two 74 gig raptors. Other than that, great system !!

Seriously, how much faster will his system get?? It's insanely fast and changing hard drives will not increase speeds so much that he actually notices. Hard drives matter very little when it comes to a systems speed.

Actually, increasing the HD speed is the most noticable thing you can do with a CPU over 1ghz (2 ghz depending on the app/game). I speak from experience.......

Yes, from increasing speed from 5400 to 7200 will give you great performance benefits. But going from 7200 to 10,000 will give you very slight performance boost.

Depends on what you are doing. There won't be a performance boost while surfing the web, but it would be for other things. Look at the stats.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

I tend to agree. The HD is the slowest part of the system. I'd look into 10k SATA or SCSi.

 

[dudeman007]

Originally posted by: coolal
New FX53 system arriving tomorrow

I?ve been very impressed with the knowledge in this board and while never a member I have used the expertise in here countless times :-D.

So here?s my new system. What a pain to coordinate all the orders and parts to make sure everything was coming and that everything worked together.

Let me know what you think!

Case: Cooler Master Praetorian
PS: Antec True480
Mobo: Asus SK8V
Cpu: AMD Athlon 64 FX-53
Memory: 1 GB (2 pcs 512) DDR (400) PC-3200 REG ECC Corsair (TwinX1024RE-3200LLPT)
Sound Card: Creative Audigy 2 ZS 24BIT
Hard Drive: Seagate 80 GB Barracuda 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA (Two in Raid 0 config)
CDR: Plextor 52X32X52 CD-RW
DVD-R: Plextor PX-712A DVD±R/RW 4X-DVD+-RW/12X-DVD+R/16X-DVD/48X24X48-CD-
Video Card: Visiontek Radeon X800 Pro 256MB
Heatsink: Swiftech MCX-6400V Heatsink
Speakers: Klipsch 4.2 ProMedia speakers

Thanks for the input. Anything recommended to add? (Besides keyboard/mouse/monitor)

Any tweaks for the mobo/cpu/memory combo? I heard the visiontek overclocks quite well.

Thanks!
-Alex

Wow that's impressive. I wouldn't worry bout the raptors if i were you. They don't make that much of a difference unless youre an impatient whore

 

[TheBDB]

It doesn't look like price matters to you.....if you want the fastest get the Raptors.

 

[coolal]

Hey, it's great to hear the positive reviews. Quite honestly i see no point in spending 120 more per drive when 2 80gb 7200rpm drives in a raid 0 are fast as hell. Yea the system is pretty top dollar, but i've been able to rationalize the purchase of every component. The raptors don't seem worth it.

Ok here's my question now. WHat would you guys say about OC'ing this baby? This is a field where i am still quite new, and i want to overclock efficently. I know the FX53 and the Asus SK8V are unlocked, but how about the memory? This is air cooled with supposedly the best heatsink for the FX53 in terms of overclocking, and a nice sanyo denki fan on top. starting out at 2.4ghz, i'm thinking 2.6-2.8 would probably max it out for me. So what do i do with the memory? Thanks in advance
-Alex

 

[Chaotic42]

Heck, I'd go for the second gig of memory. Money doesn't seem like much of a problem, so why not?

 

[coolal]

I heard it takes away from performance to have TOO much memory. I don't know how to utilize 2gigs of ram. haha

 

[jdogg707]

Awesome system, put a Raptor in there as a boot drive someday and you'll have it all...even though you pretty much already do! Congrats!

 

[coolal]

hmm... a small raptor as a boot drive, and the 80gb raid 0's as the primary operational drives. interesting concept.... worth exploring.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: coolal
I heard it takes away from performance to have TOO much memory. I don't know how to utilize 2gigs of ram. haha

Well, what are you going to be doing with it? Any PS work?

 

[coolal]

haha right after i posted i realized i could. but 2ghz just sounds like too much. A scary spec, lol. I do alot of high end PS work, DV editing, and of course ultra high spec gaming.
-Alex

 

[coolal]

So you guys... i need the overclocking help. I trust you guys in this area

 

[SonicIce]

hehe maybe should have waited for X800XT

 

[LostHiWay]

System looks good...the only suggestion I can offer is to help you save a little money.

I'd get a lite-on CD-RW burner instead of the plextor...both are top notch and just about equal in every aspect...you're just paying for the plextor name.

Also I'd get rid of the plextor DVD recordable drive. I'd recommend an NEC 2500 or 2510 which I feel is the best drive on the market...and cheap to boot!!

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
I would trade the two seagate drives for two 74 gig raptors. Other than that, great system !!

Or one Raptor and one 120 GB Cuda.

 

[Runner20]

Originally posted by: coolal
Hey, it's great to hear the positive reviews. Quite honestly i see no point in spending 120 more per drive when 2 80gb 7200rpm drives in a raid 0 are fast as hell. Yea the system is pretty top dollar, but i've been able to rationalize the purchase of every component. The raptors don't seem worth it.

Ok here's my question now. WHat would you guys say about OC'ing this baby? This is a field where i am still quite new, and i want to overclock efficently. I know the FX53 and the Asus SK8V are unlocked, but how about the memory? This is air cooled with supposedly the best heatsink for the FX53 in terms of overclocking, and a nice sanyo denki fan on top. starting out at 2.4ghz, i'm thinking 2.6-2.8 would probably max it out for me. So what do i do with the memory? Thanks in advance
-Alex

Agreed on the Raptors.

There is no need to overclock at all unless your a numbers nut who wants to brag to everyone how much faster their rig is than theirs. It's sooooo dammnnnn fasttttttt.