Purchasing this system 11-28-08

[alanwest09872]

I know i'm wasting my money I dont care I have always wanted a killer pc and I told my self I would do it at least once in my life. I plan on investing about 150k the remaining amount will be my fun money. I have went through 3 years of hell with these people. I am goin to have a bit of fun. I am not spending 12k on a computer its goin to be closer to 6 which isnt horribly bad. Can we please get off this subject and get back on helping me setup my pc. I need a good cooling system and I need to make a final choice on the motherboard I want. Thanks for your advice but I am the type of guy when I wanna do something i am goin to do it weather or nots not a good idea.

So thank you for your comments I really appreciate it


about the velo drive comment. I have the 300 g veloraptor drive selected. Im not sure where you are getting the 150gb version. Theres alot of post so it might be somewhere in there but on the first page first comment I had the 300 gb selected

 

[vailr]

check your sig: "2 veloraptor 150gig raid "

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i heard jeep is going bankrupt. lol good for them

 

[eddiebravo]

if you are set on wasting $100k, why dont you at least buy something worth all that money like a porsche or tesla roadster? lol @ pissing it away on a computer and jeep.

 

[MarcVenice]

Come on guys, lets keep it friendly and on topic. He said he knows hes pissing away money, but he can't be bothered. Let him be. He went through a pretty rough period, and you should cut him some slack.

 

[Blain]

If he just wants to waste cash, I don't understand why he's asking for suggestions.
He should just buy a pimped out rig from Falcon Northwest, VoodooPC or Alienware. :roll:

 

[MarcVenice]

There is always the satisfaction of building yourself. Really, if you don't want to give advice, stay out of the thread, but questioning his reasons and/or his motives isn't what this thread is for.

 

[Blain]

Good advice...
Buy a pimped out rig from Falcon Northwest, VoodooPC or Alienware.

The VoodooPC Omen design is Super-Mega-Killer wrapped in bacon! :thumbsup::laugh:

 

[jae]

We're cuttin slack and good advice. Were tryin to tell him building a computer for 6k isnt worth it, not in price or performance. Why not build an i7 for 2k and put the 4k up for whenever u want to upgrade you can, just click add to cart. "ohh the new quad-cores are out and hell faster, BUY!; Nvidia G380's are out, BUY!" thats a better idea instead of spending 6 grand now when something faster and better will come out in months. Then you would always have a killer system, instead of just at the moment.

 

[vailr]

I did a "top of the line" system configuration at Alienware, with similar specs (except for using: "Dual 2GB GDDR5 ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 with CrossFireX? and Quad GPU Technology" instead of: "2x 280gtx xfx"):

ALX X58

Processor: Intel® Core? i7-965 Extreme 3.2 GHz 8MB Cache
Alienware P2 Chassis: Alienware® P2 ALX Chassis with AlienIce? 3.0 Video Cooling - Space Black
System Lighting: Alienware® Standard System Lighting - Astral Blue
System Cooling: Alienware® High-Performance Liquid Cooling
Acoustic Dampening: Alienware® Acoustic Dampening
Power Supply: Alienware® 1200 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
Graphics Processor: Dual 2GB GDDR5 ATI® Radeon® HD 4870 X2 with CrossFireX? and Quad GPU Technology
PC GAMER Editors' Choice Award Winner!
Video Optimizer: AlienAdrenaline v1.0: Video Performance Optimizer - More Info
Memory: 12GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 2048MB
Motherboard: Alienware® Approved Intel® X-58 Motherboard- Socket 1366 Core i7 Ready, Dual Triple Channel DDR3 Memory
Operating System (Office software not included): Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate (64-bit Edition) with Service Pack 1
System Drive: Extreme Performance (RAID 0) - 600GB (2 x 300GB) Velociraptor SATA 3.0Gb/s 10,000RPM 2 x 16MB Cache
Optical Drives : Dual Drive Configuration - Drive 1: 20X Dual Layer Burner (DVD±RW) w/ LightScribe
Drive 2: 4x Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner (BD-RE, DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Enthusiast Essentials: Dual High Performance Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi? XtremeGamer High Definition 7.1 Audio
Monitor: 24" 2408WFP
1920 x 1200p (6ms)
Speakers: Logitech® Z-5500 5.1 505-Watt Speakers
Keyboard: Standard Keyboard - Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
Mouse: Standard Mouse - Standard Optical 3-Button Mouse with Scroll Wheel
Warranty: 1-Year AlienCare Onsite Service and 24/7 Toll-Free Phone Support
External Storage: 1.5TB 3.5" Seagate FreeAgent? XTreme External Hard Drive

Price: $8,172.00.

 

[eddiebravo]

^only problem is that alienware is COMPLETE shite. if you are going to spend a boatload of cash on a high end pre-built rig, voodoopc is the way to go. ive heard good things about falcon-nw also, but for the love of god, stay far far away from alienware.

 

[Slappy00]

anybody mention watercooling?

had a koolance exos a while back and loved it

 

[alanwest09872]

sorry I couldnt respond yesterday to busy


Thanks alot MarcVenice I really appreciate what you said. and blain Thanks for teh suggestion but I really wanna build it myself theres not fun in having someone else build it for ya. plus alienware is really overpriced.

As for vailr wow thats one heck of a system grats man. I'm not knocking you for goin through alienware but they really are very expensive. Putting togeather a system is fairly easy (not the buying part for me lol) and would save you around 2-4k. Plus the pure satisfaction of knowing that you built your own computer really puts a smile on my face and any other computer dorks face lol.

As for everyone else with there "advice about wasting money" I thank you for it but when someone ask you to not say or mention that hes not goin to listen and would appreciate it not to be brang up then you bring it up anyways. then again the person asked that it gets droped then you bring it up yet again then others ask you to stop and yet you still continue. You need to reliaze what your stating is an opinion not a fact. Dont forget that you dont know my financial status where I stand with money or where my family stands with cash. Yes this check is a huge some of money but its not my only income. From working at my old job I still have around 65k in my savings. In my 401k I have around 100k (havent checked in a week) My parents bought me stocks when I was born in 1982. Just because I was hurt for a while doesnt mean I dont have cash. All togeather after I get this check I will have over 500k. I'm not really over concerned about spending 40-50k of it. I wasnt able to do anything fun when I was going through the lawsuit. Now thats its done I can and I will have fun again and if that requires me to spend a bit of cash then fine so be it. I also plan on touring eorope with my 4 year old daughter who i have custody of and Disney land. I have laser eye surgery set up for myself on the 4th.

Fyi the stock my parents purchased for me back in 1982 was walmart stock. They didnt buy much but they did invest it.

and sorry eddiebravo that I didnt respond to your question the 250k Isnt taxable It will be the full 250k. Well almost 250 its like 246,000

 

[vailr]

Have you considered waiting until January's Mac Expo, when the new i7 Mac Pro is
going to (probably) be released? Dual boot Windows and OSX.
And: what's the plan for water cooling?
Get an air cooled system working first, then add water cooling afterwards?
CPU only, or video card cooling too? and/or Chipset?
Any prior experience with water cooling?
Plans for prevention of leaks, algae growth, periodic pump maintenance, etc.?

 

[alanwest09872]

ewww did someone just say mac. I feel violated lol sorry jk. I have never been a fan of mac there great machines but I am more of an intel fan. and I am currently working with aigo to get a good liquid cooling system. I have had to change around my system a bit based on what everyone has told me.

the way its goin I will probably get air cooled first then liquid next then liquid nitrogen (maybe)

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: alanwest09872
I have never been a fan of mac there great machines but I am more of an intel fan.

Macs are Intel based now.

 

[alanwest09872]

really wow I didint know that. I still am not a fan of the operating system though.

 

[vailr]

Mac Pro current model (due for update to Intel i7 CPU's and DDR3 memory in January?):
http://store.apple.com/us/brow...hop_mac/family/mac_pro
Uses 2x quad-core Intel Xeon CPU's.
If you prefer Windows ONLY, instead of dual-booting, then that's an easy option. Just: purchase a copy of Vista 64 and do a fresh install on the hard drive.

 

[citan x]

Its not a killer rig unless you have a 30" LCD monitor. Also, get a 1080p projector. You will just regret the 720p down the road. Sanyo has a new model, the PLV-Z700, out that is about $1600. However, I would prefer the new Panasonic AE3000 for about $2500. There is nothing like a 120 inch screen for movies or gaming.

Also, I would consider a raid 0 with 2 Intel SSDs and forgo the velociraptors. I heard that raids for SSDs using a quality controller does make a difference.

 

[alanwest09872]

lol I dont have a 30 inch lcd I do how ever have a 42 lcd tv with a dvi and hdmi input. I may use that one.

Ok when I go to hook up my hardrives would it be bettter to purchaser after market sata cables or will i get the same performance from the one that it comes with

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: alanwest09872
lol I dont have a 30 inch lcd I do how ever have a 42 lcd tv with a dvi and hdmi input. I may use that one.

Ok when I go to hook up my hardrives would it be bettter to purchaser after market sata cables or will i get the same performance from the one that it comes with

Get Monster SATA cables. They have gold plated connections and provide 300% better data throughput.

 

[alanwest09872]

k thanks

 

[HumbleDan]

Wow I wish I had that kind of budget to build my rig.

With that kind of budget I would seriously wait till early next year (January?) when Intel releases their dual Gainestown mobo, so you can get dual i7 Gainestown with like 48+ GB of DDR3 Ram. (16 threads with enough memory) I think that would be a more worth while investment compare to tri-SLI config with 280s (You are not getting any good performance out of it). With that kind of config you won't need a new PC for at least 5 years. And you can always keep getting high end GPU everytime one is out, so your PC is always the cutting edge for 5 years, you know DX11, DX12. Tri SLI won't help you with that.

Also I wouldn't bother with SSD OS drive. If you have that kind of system it has to be 24/7 stable all around always doing work, encoding, transcoding, rendering, gaming etc ALL AT ONCE (Multi-tasking) to justify the cost.

For gaming Tri-SLI 280 still struggles to play some games at 1600p. Speaking of which I think you'll want a 30" monitors capable of 1600p to compliment your 25" monitors for tri SLI setup.

Lastly checked your mobo see if it can take 12 GB DDR3 at 1600, if not you might have to use lower clock, might as well get only 6 GB or get 12GB of lower grade. I know with DDR2 mobo you have to use lower clock when installing say 8 GB or 16 GB worth of memory.

Anyway keep us up to date with the progress of your rig.

 

[VI3L]

Man Alan's new system is gonna make mine look like a little bitc*

 

[alanwest09872]

Originally posted by: VI3L
Man Alan's new system is gonna make mine look like a little bitc*

lol thanks alot man. I order everything today off of newegg. I purchased my jeep wrangler and I have my laser eye surgery tommarow. so besides my europe trip im dont spending money