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[w3tw1lly]

Tommorow is boxing day in Canada and...

Well, I have been reading about how the next gen 45 nm Intel chip seem to be running into problems and how they probably won't be ready so unless I am wrong I think I will be buying a PC tommorow...
* denotes MIR


Q6600 - $274.99
2 x OCZ DDR2 800MHz 2GB (2 x 1024) Platinum Rev. 2 - $39.98
Antec Nine Hundred Chassis + Antec TruePower Trio 650W PSU Bundle - $119.99*
LG GSA-H22L 18X DVD-Writer, Black, Internal, LightScribe - $30
BFG GeForce 8800 GT 512MB PCIe Video Card - $249 (was gonna get GTX but there are new nvidia cards coming)
Seagate Barracuda (ST3250410AS) 7200.10 250GB SATA2 8.5MS 7200RPM 16MB - $74.99 (will prob do raid0 later)
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Socket 775 Intel P35 + ICH9R Dual-Channel DDR2 1066/800/667/533Mhz GigaLAN 8-Channel Audio Support 1333Mhz FSB - $161.99


Total: $951.94
+ 14% Tax: 1,085.21

Any problems with the build or addition? I'm a little worried about the 8800GT getting too hot. Another mobo I was looking at was the ASUS P5K-E Wifi/AP

 

[w3tw1lly]

Edited: Also looking at the asus p5k-e wifi/ap

 

[DSF]

Why the P35C? DDR3 doesn't offer any benefit over DDR2 right now, and by the time it would really matter, you'd probably be ready to upgrade CPU, mobo and RAM all together. You should be able to find a 500GB HDD for a little over $100 - that'd be much preferable to 2 250GB HDDs in RAID0 @ $75 a pop.

 

[w3tw1lly]

I like the performance benefit of RAID0 though.

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R Socket 775 Intel P35 + ICH9R Dual-Channel DDR2 1066/800/667/533Mhz GigaLAN 8-Channel Audio Support 1333Mhz FSB

or

Asus P5K-E WiFi-AP Socket 775 Intel P35 ICH9R Chipset Dual-Channel DDR2 1066/800/667Mhz GigaLAN 2x PCIe x16 eSATA/SATA 3.0Gb/s Firewire 10x USB 2.0


The GA-P35 DS3R isn't in stock at the store I will be going to though so I would prefer the ASUS P5K-E WIFI-AP but if you have any other suggestions I would gladly take them. So instead of a P35C or a P35 I will be getting the P5K-E WIFI-AP so far.

 

[DSF]

Originally posted by: w3tw1lly
I like the performance benefit of RAID0 though.

Have you run RAID before and measured a benefit in the applications you use? Generally speaking, the real-world performance isn't there.

But hey, it's your computer.

 

[w3tw1lly]

No I havn't but the numbers look good . I guess I won't go raid 0 then I guess. Prob I will pickup a bigger HD. What about the asus mobo I mentioned? Should I buy it there or should I go to an online retailer to get the GA P35? Also, are there any stability problems with running 4 sticks of 1 gig ram?

 

[w3tw1lly]

I looked in the manual of the P5k-e wifi/ap board and it says that they do not recommend installing 4 gig in winvista 32 or xp 32 because it will only show 3 gig because of PAE or soemthing like that. I kinda wanna put 4 gig in my board but do I need winxp 64 or vista 64 to do that?

 

[jkresh]

you can run 4gigs in vista/xp 32 but you wont see all 4 (somewhere between 3 and 3.5 will show up) 64 will let you use all the memory (and vista 64 is pretty good), if you intend to go 64 (and don't care as much about overclocking memory) go with 2x2gig sticks instead of 4 1 gig (as with 64 you may find that you want to go more then 4gigs at some point, as depending on how much multitasking you do and what programs you use vista 64 likes a lot of memory).

 

[w3tw1lly]

Vista 64 vs. Vista 32 uses more memory? If so how much? I'm looking for some more headroom. I won't be doing extreme multi-tasking but I want quick loadtimes and I don't want programs to be sluggish.

 

[jkresh]

vista 64 does not use more memory then 32, but vista uses memory differently then xp. With xp in general for most uses going above 2gigs did not give a significant boost, as vista has a lot more precaching it will use as much memory as you give it (but its good at freeing memory if a new program needs it). From what I have seen, vista runs ok with 1 gig, fine for most with 1.5, but even going from 4 to 6 (my laptop has 4 in vista 32, workstation has 6 in 64) I can see a difference (though my workload is far from average).