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El_Roberto

Sat Jan 24 2009, 04:54AM

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It is extremely unlikely (I've never seen it happen) he would get a pc as good from HP than if he built it himself (Plus building it is half the fun).

Chris Cristini

Sun Jan 25 2009, 01:45AM

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This will take me more than 3 times more to save but I think this is more worth it.

I did not know AMD was so bad I actually thout they were good.

El_Roberto

Sun Jan 25 2009, 03:11AM

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Its good your coming over to Intel, but DON'T get skulltrail. It was designed by Intel as a way of showing off, It is not very good at all. I would reccomend that you buy the Intel Core I7 965, as it is currently the fastest processor. Then you will need a good motherboard such as the Asustek Rampage-II-Extreme. Then some nice fast ddr3 RAM. This will get you more bang for your buck. Also since you would be only getting one processor you could buy another GTX295 and run them in SLI for even better performance

. And lastly you would need a better cpu cooler, such as the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme (might need extra mounting brackets to suit Core I7).

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Actually Ive found that DDR2 with tighter timings is much faster than DDR3. The timings make a bigger difference than the actual clock speed. I think it's best wait till the DDR3 timings come down a bit. Lijke for example DDR2 1066 with 5-5-5-5 is much better than DDR3 with 9-9-9-9. I sold my DDR3 and bought some ddr2 because of this. I get better memory bandwidth now.

Ultra7

Wed Feb 18 2009, 09:15PM

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I use Alienware.

I used to build my own rigs, but after so many builds, it became easier to just get one built.

El_Roberto

Thu Feb 19 2009, 02:52AM

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Tom, But if hes spendiong as much as he is i'm sure he could afford to get some nice ddr3 2000mhz which IS faster than ddr2. But either way I wouldnt reccomend spending that much money on a pc, I just dropped $800 on a new graphics card and I was pretty dissapointed, it cost $500 more than my mates and I can play at max settings... my mate plays at almost max anyway. I wish I could send it back now.

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Zenador wrote ...

I've not had good experiences with Asus boards. I've gone to Gigabyte boards with on-board RAID, made the switch years ago.

As for PSU, I'll only buy Ultra. Little more $ but have a lifetime warranty, and are completely modular. I only plug in the cables I need. In a hot-running box (SLI, quad-core, 4+ harddrives, the less cables restricting airflow the better IMO.

Asus boards DO have on board raid controllers. pretty much anything with a sata controller has a raid controller these days. im using the M2N-e (an older board than he is getting) and im running a Raid -0 w/4 250 gigs. 229 MB/s read rate xD

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Mon Mar 02 2009, 08:46PM

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El_Roberto wrote ...

Tom, But if hes spendiong as much as he is i'm sure he could afford to get some nice ddr3 2000mhz which IS faster than ddr2. But either way I wouldnt reccomend spending that much money on a pc, I just dropped $800 on a new graphics card and I was pretty dissapointed, it cost $500 more than my mates and I can play at max settings... my mate plays at almost max anyway. I wish I could send it back now.

Yeah but why not get something almost as good for much cheaper? In my experience it's always a bad Idea to get the newest technology. Either because its not perfected yet or because theirs always a huge price drop shortly after. Unless of course its a CPU or video card price drop still applies but cpus usually are fine. When it comes to RAM and sometimes new chip sets that aren't intel Ive gotten burned. Lately every single dvd drive Ive gotten has given me problems.

Chris Cristini

Mon Mar 02 2009, 10:56PM

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How would these 2 drives work in raid 0 for vista ultimate 64bit.

I did some reading just thought id see if I could get some more advice from you verry helpfull people.

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