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Wanted: Very early opinions on a new rig :]

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mikeyikeey

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Hello old friends, its been awhile!

A friend of mine is interested in building a new rig, but is too overwhelmed by the excitement to take the time to research to the fullest extent. Enter, AT! 😀
I know you guys will overload me with valuable information that I could send his way. Luckily he's waiting until January (since I showed him the nvidia article on the front page) so there is time to wait.

Anyways, there are the parts he had picked out. Tell me what you think! Thanks!

Some things I noticed were the weird choice in PSU (in my opinion) and I'm wondering if the Raptor is worth it. By the way, he would be using this for gaming (duh, hahaha).

Motherboard: EVGA LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor

Memory: CORSAIR XMS2 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 280 SSC Edition 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

HD1: Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive

HD2: Western Digital Caviar 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

PSU: COOLMAX CUG-950B 950W ATX12V V.2.2 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Case: Thermaltake Armor Series Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case


 
Go P45, pwns the face of off nvidia chipsets.

Black Caviar is almost first gen raptor fast, so, just get a 1 TB black caviar?
 
You're right that it's an odd PSU choice, by the way.
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I thought so.. I was told to stick with Corsair for quality. And I was told not to go with a cheap PSU what-so-ever.

if he never does SLI than an Intel Chipset would be a far better choice, like a P45, P35 board...
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Thats good to know. I thought an nvidia would be best for going SLI, thats weird.

This is white I have at the moment: ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard

Does anyone know of some good P45 boards?
 
Originally posted by: mikeyikeey
You're right that it's an odd PSU choice, by the way.
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I thought so.. I was told to stick with Corsair for quality. And I was told not to go with a cheap PSU what-so-ever.

if he never does SLI than an Intel Chipset would be a far better choice, like a P45, P35 board...
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Thats good to know. I thought an nvidia would be best for going SLI, thats weird.

This is white I have at the moment: ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard

Does anyone know of some good P45 boards?
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ok listen very carefully IF YOU EVER PUT 2 NVIDIA CARDS IN THE MACHINE YOU WILL NEED A NVIDIA MOTHERBOARD CHIPSET< IF YOU NEVER DO AND ONLY USE 1 NVIDIA CARD, AN INTEL MOTHERBOARD CHIPSET WILL BE A BETTER MORE STABLE CHOICE
 
I think you misread. He said if he never does SLi then an Intel would be better.

In general I would just go with an Intel chipset and skip the SLi idea.
 
I apologize, I see what you're saying and that makes sense to me. I also think that it would be better to stick with an intel chipset because I haven't seen anything suggesting significant gains in performance from going SLI.
Does anyone suggest otherwise?
 
Reports of significant gains are more with the new i7 CPU using the X58 boards. And whats good about the X58 chipset is you can do both Crossfire AND OR SLI with one or the other where as the X48, X38, P45 and lower variations you could only run Crossfire
 
Originally posted by: mikeyikeey
I apologize, I see what you're saying and that makes sense to me. I also think that it would be better to stick with an intel chipset because I haven't seen anything suggesting significant gains in performance from going SLI.
Does anyone suggest otherwise?
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While there are many titles that would benefit, truth is that a 4870 1gb or a gtx 260 core 216 would be more than enough to play any game out there at 1920x1200 or less, higher resolutions start favoring cards with more memory/larger memory bus or occasionally a multi-gpu setup. Of course with multi-gpu you also get microstuttering along with a much larger power drain and sometimes, more often for Xfire than SLI, scaling that's somehow worse than a single card setup.

In short, stick to single card.
 
Originally posted by: mikeyikeey
Hello old friends, its been awhile!

A friend of mine is interested in building a new rig, but is too overwhelmed by the excitement to take the time to research to the fullest extent.
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1. Your friend wants to build.
2. He's like a new puppy peeing all over the house with excitement.
3. His excitement keeps him from focusing on the task at hand, so his reading comprehension is shot.

1. Why does he want to build?
2. I've got a friend that was very excited about building a gaming rig also.
He collected all the parts except a HD and CPU. Now the thrill is gone and the boxed parts are collecting dust.
3. If your friend is so excited about building that he can't bring himself to read some guides and reviews, he's going to spin out of control once he runs into a problem on the build.

* Let your friend get excited about picking his components when he configures a Dell XPS :thumbsup::laugh:

 
Agree with post above. Otherwise:
Gigabyte or Asus P45 mobo.
Cheaper ddr2-800 ram: G.Skill or Corsair (maybe even A-Data)
4870 1GB or GTX260 core216
Corsair or PC Power & Cooling (~600-700w) PSU
Single WD Black 640GB or 1TB
 
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