Hello,
This computer will be used for some 3d modeling (zbrush, maya), some 3d game playing (jedi academy, FEAR, Rome: Total War), a lot of game programming, and some computationally intensive tasks (training neural networks and evolutionary algorithm iteration).
Please tell me if you think I should trade out any of these components or if you think anything's wrongheaded.
case: antec p180 -- like how it looks and it seems that it gets good temperatures, would prefer lian li because it's all aluminum, but didn't want to spend the money
CPU: Opteron 165 -- intend to overclock as much as possible with stock, hoping for around 2.5
PSU: Silverstone Zeus 650w -- needed something with a lot of wattage, and a lot of the 600w's had too many DOA and PSU exploding stories for me not to hesistate
MB: Asus A8N32Sli -- was trying to decide between this and the expert, decided on this because of the Asus name
Graphics: 2 xfx 7800 gts -- perform better than GTX 512 mb
ram: Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (PC 4000) -- getting it for the tight timings at higher speeds
hd: WD 1500 150gb 10k rpm sata150 -- plan on getting another and using raid 0 (was between this and getting another later or getting 2 74gb raptors in raid 0)
cd burner: nec nd-3550a
This computer will be used for some 3d modeling (zbrush, maya), some 3d game playing (jedi academy, FEAR, Rome: Total War), a lot of game programming, and some computationally intensive tasks (training neural networks and evolutionary algorithm iteration).
Please tell me if you think I should trade out any of these components or if you think anything's wrongheaded.
case: antec p180 -- like how it looks and it seems that it gets good temperatures, would prefer lian li because it's all aluminum, but didn't want to spend the money
CPU: Opteron 165 -- intend to overclock as much as possible with stock, hoping for around 2.5
PSU: Silverstone Zeus 650w -- needed something with a lot of wattage, and a lot of the 600w's had too many DOA and PSU exploding stories for me not to hesistate
MB: Asus A8N32Sli -- was trying to decide between this and the expert, decided on this because of the Asus name
Graphics: 2 xfx 7800 gts -- perform better than GTX 512 mb
ram: Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (PC 4000) -- getting it for the tight timings at higher speeds
hd: WD 1500 150gb 10k rpm sata150 -- plan on getting another and using raid 0 (was between this and getting another later or getting 2 74gb raptors in raid 0)
cd burner: nec nd-3550a