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16-January-06, 09:44 PM
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| Apex Techie Lite  Join Date: Nov 2005
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 |  Think this configuration will work? Well, after doing some research I think I'm going to be purchasing the following from http://www.VelocityMicro.com Think this will do? __________________________________________ Case LXe Black - Velocity Micro Signature Case - Pure Aluminum for maximum cooling, with easily removable front door, extended depth Power Supply 600 Watt Enermax NoiseTaker Quiet Power Supply with Dual Smart Fans, user adjustable speed control knob Motherboard Asus A8N SLI Premium - NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI MCP, PCI Express Motherboard with DDR AMD Processor AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 with Dual Core Technology, 2.6GHz x2, 939-pin CPU Cooling Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Heatsink with Ultra Quiet Fan and Copper Heat Pipes, plus Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound DDR Memory 2048MB Mushkin PC3200 DDR400 CL2.5 Low Latency Enhanced Memory with Heat Spreader(I'll add 2 more gigs of RAM later...) PCX Video 512MB ATI Radeon X1800 XT, 2 x DVI out, 1 x S-Video out Video Cooling VideoCool Positive Pressure Airflow System - Speed adjustable, with light Video Tuning Moderate 3D Video Performance Tuning & Optimization (Requires VideoCool system) Audio On-Board Integrated Realtek Audio, 7.1 Channel Support Hard Drive 74GB Western Digital Raptor 10,000rpm SATA, 8MB Cache Optical Drive 1 16x Lite On DVD+/-RW/CD-RW Dual Layer, Black Bezel Optical Drive 2 52x/32x/52x Lite On CD-RW, Black Bezel Floppy Drive & Media Reader 1.44MB Floppy Drive, Black Bezel (may chg to Floppy/Media Reader combo) Network Adapter Integrated 10/100/1000MBps Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter FireWire 2 Integrated IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports, 1 front & 1 rear USB 2.0 Ports 8 USB 2.0 Ports, 2 front & 6 rear Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional w/Service Pack 2 on original CD, Installed & Performance Tuned Productivity Software Microsoft Office 2003 Pro with SP1 - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher Benchmark Software FutureMark 3DMark05 Velocity Micro Edition - gaming performance benchmark software Keyboard Genuine Microsoft Internet Keyboard - Black Mouse Genuine Microsoft® USB Optical Wheel Mouse - Black Monitor ViewSonic - VP2030b 20.1-inch Professional Series ThinEdge Black LCD Monitor Last edited by Rockrz; 17-January-06 at 12:38 PM. |
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17-January-06, 12:30 AM
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| Sir Knight of Spamalot  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Water-hoe-Bury, CT
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     | If you bought all that yourself, and built it, not only would it be cheaper, but you would have the satisfaction of building it yourself and gaining knowledge Anyway if you do need help, thats why we are here! EDIT: Yea it looks good so far.
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17-January-06, 12:54 AM
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| At-Whore  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The ends of the earth
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| I would swap out the dual 6800GS's for a single 7800GTX. It will be just as fast, if not faster. Then, when you save up some extra $$$, you could pick up another GTX and have a wicked SLI setup. I also agree that you should build it yourself.
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17-January-06, 06:37 AM
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| When I add up the price of all the components, it doesn't appear that I would save that much money... I don't know if I'm cormfortable putting all this together myself. Yes, I was thinking of switching the two video cards to one 512 ATI Radeon X 1800 XT |
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17-January-06, 06:48 AM
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| Apex Tech Maniac Supreme  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Newington, CT
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| I agree with Ator - the 7800GTX is a better choice and it's actually cheaper (~$380 from what I remember vs. $400 (for 2x6800GS) at places like the egg). I would stick with nVidia cards - that way you can go SLI if you decide you need more power.
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17-January-06, 07:28 AM
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| Ator's sig says he's running Radeon X 1800 XT. I thought Radeon was a competitor of nVidia and both were good cards? The 512 ATI Radeon X 1800 XT will be plenty powerful...I'm using my machine for business, not for gaming. |
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17-January-06, 09:19 AM
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| Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Casal Di Principe, Italy
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| I also think that building yourself Could be a great learning Process and Quite a bit of fun!, but if you want to order a pre-built Go for it, After all its all about you!
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17-January-06, 09:31 AM
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If your not going to play any games on it then you might as well get onboard graphics and save a sh1tload of money. It would be a waste to get a card like that and then not use it to its full potential.  Is this all for show... I didnt look at the components list carefully at first but wow, If your not using it for games then why would you need all this awesome hardware????
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17-January-06, 09:39 AM
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I do some graphics work, and I do alot of multi-tasking...and I have the money. The whole idea here is to have a system that is way better (mo powerful) than what I actually need so I can run 10 or 12 programs at a time without taxing the system. I don't care about the money...I'm budgeting about $5,000, which is what all this is gonna run once I get my monitor. Besides, it's all a 100% tax write-off anyway. When I do my taxes for 2006, I'll pay about $5,000 less in taxes...so, I'm actually lowering my tax bill by investing in this system, which will last me at least 5 or 6 years! Last edited by Rockrz; 17-January-06 at 09:51 AM. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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17-January-06, 10:26 AM
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| Apex Tech Maniac Supreme Join Date: May 2003 Location: Newington, CT
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| 2x150GB Raptors RAID would serve you better than a top of the line video card. BTW you will probably need to upgrade the videocard anyway when Vista comes out, so forget about a system lasting 5 years... If you care about multi-tasking get 2 dual core opterons... 
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17-January-06, 11:09 AM
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| Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Casal Di Principe, Italy
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| If I were you and wanting to be more productive I would invest in more than one Monitor, I run Four Monitors but i am a Geek, but I do find that they increase Productivity.
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17-January-06, 12:31 PM
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| Apex Techie II Join Date: Nov 2005
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| I'm also a huge fan of the Dual Core Opteron setup, if you have $5000 budgeted for the system, you could go with a Asus K8N series motherboard, and have room for two Opteron 270 processors, and a professional chipset with nForce4 Pro. Your system looks awsome, but it seems very geared at playing some wicked games at high res. Just a thought anyways. |
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17-January-06, 12:47 PM
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if you plan on using it for business, why bother using mainstream hardware ..... if you are serious about running multiple apps. get a quad dual-core CPU motherboard ( a tyan would fit well ) for graphics ( cad, gis) .... 3dlabs wildcat or a matrox millenium .... audio ... anything from spectral, m-audio, to XLogic .... because so far .... from your setup ..... you're way off on getting the right stuff for true business applications. Last edited by the _klamper; 17-January-06 at 12:55 PM. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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17-January-06, 12:53 PM
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Why? The selections I've made won't perform well when muti-tasking with business apps? The whole idea here is to build it better than it has to be...and the way I've figured that out is to build something that would be powerful enough to run all the top games. If it will do that, then it should muti-task wonderfully. Besides, I make my living (I make money!) with my PC so I should use the best components available! I'm not interested in using lesser components just because I could get by with lower rated equipment. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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17-January-06, 01:01 PM
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| Sir Knight of Spamalot Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Water-hoe-Bury, CT
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I dont see why it wouldnt, your using a Dual core, which is basically what the X2s are for, but your also using the best gaming Processor, So It would be good for Multitasking. On One Core you could run Buisness app, and on the other you can run games.
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