yea #3 makes a good point, dont get a raptor, pretty much a waste of money. Just make your u get a SATA 3gb/s with 16mb cache and Raid it. Will be just as fast for cheaper.
Well, if you're going to dish out that much for a mobo, might as well go all out in the GPU and memory department. Unless you're constantly rendering video and Maya creations, you're spending $1700 for $800 game/desktop performance.
the E8400 is better for what im looking for: gaming.
That though setting up the 16mb in raid 0 may be better than a raptor, i heard that the raid 0 format is very prone to malfunctioning?
I've researched and read that the new 8800gts 512mb is fastest to buy now. lastly, ive been told getting 4 gigs of RAM will help everything run as smoothly as possible.
Therefore, basing my thoughts off of #19, I should set up the raid 0 in a total of 500 gigs I should go back to my quad core proc. I should down grade to 2 gigs Lastly, I should go for the new 9series card?
Keep in mind that I will not be using this for intensive video editing or any type of architectural or engineering software. At most I may make a frag movie at some point, but primarily a ton of documents, since I write a ton of papers, music, and gaming.
However, all in all, I can spend no more then 2,000 dollars. I got a scholarship so this is where that money is going towards for the most part. Advice on LCD monitors are welcome
here's some advice, you dont need a raptor for 'gaming', nor do you need RAID. That being said, today's regular 7200 RPM SATA drives are faster than the last generation Raptors. The new 640 GB Western Digital drives is one of the fastest hard drives you can get, and is also one of the best deals in the GB per $ category.
E8400 Gigabyte P35 G.Skill DDR800 2gigs ram for xp, 4 for vista 1 x 8800GTS 512 Zalman 9700 110mm LED WD 640 GB 7200RPM 16mb cache HDD CORSAIR 620HX PSU W/E Case you like
$1130 with monitor - not including case of your selection. $55 in MIR.
Why would you get a 8400 while the performance boost VS. the Q6600 is so small!
Of course! The 8400 is better RIGHT NOW, with only one program open! DUH! But what about when you have your firefox/steam/P2P/winrar applications running in the background?
What about the future?
The Q6600 is so much better yet you guys can't think outside the box. E8400 is NOT BETTER when you use it in real life, and not in benchmarks. Stick that in your head!
What do you think will happen once new games come out, most of them using quad-core technology.
Put it this way, "RIGHT NOW", the E8400 is 1 step ahead of the Q6600 (This is only while using 1-2 cores though!), every following months, the Q6600 will take 1 step further, unlike the E8400. In 10months, the E8400 will be 9 steps behind.
Some of you people need to stop dreaming.
If you're not planning to buy a new processor in 4-5months, don't bother getting a E8400. It's as ridiculous as becoming a Scientologist.
In your dreams, the a E8400 is better by a slight margin. In REAL LIFE, Q6600 is the better choice.
Just a few exemples, Alan Wake. Did you know GTA4 uses the same engine?
Supreme Commander... Crysis...Lost Planet...?
Far Cry 2? MGS4?
QUOTE: by the time new games come out that support 4 cores q6600 will be garbage
Yea because, of course, the E8400 won't be garbage? Makes a lot of sense.
Once you overclock a quad-core, you overclock the 4 cores, not only 2 of them. Think about it.
Well, I'm just going to reassure all of you. I'm not going to come to your house and murder you If you buy a dual-core.
I really couldn't care less about where people waste their money. If you really feel like wasting your money on your CPU, go for it. Don't expect me to do the same though.
Also consider my #19 post if you do decide to buy the build I made for you that a lot of those items come with rebates. So you save even more money that's if you're not lazy and actually print out and fill out the rebate forms which takes about 1-2 minutes really so I suggest you get the rebates as well. So the extra grand you have you can use for what ever else you want and you get a real good quality build computer for even less than what you were gonna pay for.
Advice on Computer Build
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp..
XFX SLi 780i MOBO
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp..
TWO (2) XFX 8800GT 512MB PCI 2.0 x16 (SLi)
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp..
Corsair 750 watt PSU
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp..
Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp..
Patriot 4 gig (2x 2gig) Memory
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp..
TWO (2) Western Digital SATA 3gb/s 16Mb 400 gig HDD (raid)
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp..
TWO (2) Pioneer SATA Optical Drives DVD/CD Burner
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp..
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp..
Zalman CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp..
Total Price: 1,600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
Corsair 520w PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
After market Zalman 9700 110mm LED
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
and i'll look into getting another 16mb hd and running raid. i didn't realize that 10k raptors weren't the way to go anymore?
Q6600
Arctic Freezer 7
2 X 8800GTS 512Mb (G92)
CORSAIR 620HX (or 650TX/750TX If you don't care about modular powersupplies)
Antec 900 or CoolerMaster 690
Do you REALLY need 900GB's of storage?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
$220
RAM: Patriot 2gb
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
$58
MotherBoard: GigaByte
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
$90
Video Card:EVGA 9600GT 512MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
$180
Power Supply: 600W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
$100
HardDrive: Seagate 250GB 3.0GB/s 16mb cache
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp.. -->$65
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp.. -->$65
(You can get 2 for raid or what not) $130
Case: Antec 900
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
$120
TOTAL: $898 + what ever shipping service you get.
Tell me if I forgot something or maybe something doesn't go. I looked it over, everything seemed fine. Maybe I missed something.
the E8400 is better for what im looking for: gaming.
That though setting up the 16mb in raid 0 may be better than a raptor, i heard that the raid 0 format is very prone to malfunctioning?
I've researched and read that the new 8800gts 512mb is fastest to buy now. lastly, ive been told getting 4 gigs of RAM will help everything run as smoothly as possible.
Therefore, basing my thoughts off of #19,
I should set up the raid 0 in a total of 500 gigs
I should go back to my quad core proc.
I should down grade to 2 gigs
Lastly, I should go for the new 9series card?
Keep in mind that I will not be using this for intensive video editing or any type of architectural or engineering software. At most I may make a frag movie at some point, but primarily a ton of documents, since I write a ton of papers, music, and gaming.
However, all in all, I can spend no more then 2,000 dollars. I got a scholarship so this is where that money is going towards for the most part. Advice on LCD monitors are welcome
Gigabyte P35
G.Skill DDR800 2gigs ram for xp, 4 for vista
1 x 8800GTS 512
Zalman 9700 110mm LED
WD 640 GB 7200RPM 16mb cache HDD
CORSAIR 620HX PSU
W/E Case you like
$1130 with monitor - not including case of your selection. $55 in MIR.
Monitor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
I hope your building this yourself to save some money.
Why would you get a 8400 while the performance boost VS. the Q6600 is so small!
Of course! The 8400 is better RIGHT NOW, with only one program open! DUH!
But what about when you have your firefox/steam/P2P/winrar applications running in the background?
What about the future?
The Q6600 is so much better yet you guys can't think outside the box.
E8400 is NOT BETTER when you use it in real life, and not in benchmarks.
Stick that in your head!
What do you think will happen once new games come out, most of them using quad-core technology.
Put it this way, "RIGHT NOW", the E8400 is 1 step ahead of the Q6600 (This is only while using 1-2 cores though!), every following months, the Q6600 will take 1 step further, unlike the E8400. In 10months, the E8400 will be 9 steps behind.
Some of you people need to stop dreaming.
If you're not planning to buy a new processor in 4-5months, don't bother getting a E8400.
It's as ridiculous as becoming a Scientologist.
In your dreams, the a E8400 is better by a slight margin.
In REAL LIFE, Q6600 is the better choice.
gigabyte mobo
8800gts
2gb patriot ram
500gb hdd
antec 900
corsair 520Hx psu
#24 by the time new games come out that support 4 cores q6600 will be garbage
Just a few exemples, Alan Wake.
Did you know GTA4 uses the same engine?
Supreme Commander... Crysis...Lost Planet...?
Far Cry 2?
MGS4?
Yea because, of course, the E8400 won't be garbage? Makes a lot of sense.
Once you overclock a quad-core, you overclock the 4 cores, not only 2 of them.
Think about it.
Well, I'm just going to reassure all of you. I'm not going to come to your house and murder you If you buy a dual-core.
I really couldn't care less about where people waste their money.
If you really feel like wasting your money on your CPU, go for it.
Don't expect me to do the same though.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
$220 (also rebate)
Or this monitor without any rebates but bigger screen.
Samsung 22"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..
$250
Also consider my #19 post if you do decide to buy the build I made for you that a lot of those items come with rebates. So you save even more money that's if you're not lazy and actually print out and fill out the rebate forms which takes about 1-2 minutes really so I suggest you get the rebates as well. So the extra grand you have you can use for what ever else you want and you get a real good quality build computer for even less than what you were gonna pay for.
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