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So what do you guys think?

-LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA
-LIAN LI Lancool PC-K7B
-2 x Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
-XFX GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
-CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX 520W ATX12V v2.2
-CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
-GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS3R
-Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.00GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core
-XIGMATEK HDT-S1284EE 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler

Should I get quad instead of the e8400? I do Webdesign, dslr stuff, photoshop, batch processing, basically all around multimedia guy. I also play games like crysis. What do you guys think? Of cousre I'm waiting until the new chips get announced in nov to dive into this..

John
 
You should get the Q6600 if you do heavy multitasking.

Btw, why would you want to get an old card like 8800GTS G80? There are a lot of better cards for the same or even lower price.
I'd get a Radeon HD4850 or Nvidia 9800GT/GTX instead.
 
I think you wanted this in general hardware but anyway. Good looking specs all the way. If you play crysis at 1920x1200 on that 22" your gpu is going to be your weakest link. As for the Quad versus a nice Dual core. Those E8x00's are hitting over 4Ghz frequently. I'd all but expect yours to do the same especially with that HSF. There are certain apps where a 4Ghz DC is going to best a 3Ghz QC. More and more things are being optimized for quad but we're not quite there yet.
Also don't forget the new quads are about to hit. But that could mean changing out some of your other components you selected above
 
GonzoP said:
I think you wanted this in general hardware but anyway. Good looking specs all the way. If you play crysis at 1920x1200 on that 22" your gpu is going to be your weakest link. As for the Quad versus a nice Dual core. Those E8x00's are hitting over 4Ghz frequently. I'd all but expect yours to do the same especially with that HSF. There are certain apps where a 4Ghz DC is going to best a 3Ghz QC. More and more things are being optimized for quad but we're not quite there yet.
Also don't forget the new quads are about to hit. But that could mean changing out some of your other components you selected above
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He never mentioned that he is going to overclock though.
 
I haven't seen the numbers for the 500GB Black, but I know that the 640GB was faster than the 500GB for AAKS's, so you may want to switch those out. Are you running them RAID0? If so, I would assume you want faster drives. Shouldn't really be more than $5-10/drive difference. Otherwise, maybe up the video card to HD 4850 if you can, and I thought I read the Xigmatek HDT-S1283 was better than the 1284EE (link).
 
I'm just looking at the 500gb cause it was cheap haha. Any good recs? I'm planning to use one 500 as main and other as secondary backup
 
The WD6400AAKS are solid drives, and cost as much as the 500s you listed from the egg. They did release a newer WD6401AALS Black version of the 640GB that are $10 more. It gives you a 5 yr warrantee over 3, and offers dual processors on the drive (read it reduces cpu use). Whether or not it worth the $10 is up to you, but both are very fast.
 
hiodie said:
The WD6400AAKS are solid drives, and cost as much as the 500s you listed from the egg. They did release a newer WD6401AALS Black version of the 640GB that are $10 more. It gives you a 5 yr warrantee over 3, and offers dual processors on the drive (read it reduces cpu use). Whether or not it worth the $10 is up to you, but both are very fast.
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Umm, where did you read that it had dual-processors? Did you mean dual-platters? And no, lower nor higher number of platters do not reduce CPU usage.

But I definitely second the recommendation for the WD6400AAKS. Also, I recommend ditching the Corsair RAM and getting this significantly cheaper but not that much slower RAM:
G.Skill F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ 2 x 2GB DDR2 800 RAM - $50

Also, drop the XFX 8800GT and go with the faster HD4850 for just $10 more:
Sapphire 100245L Radeon HD 4850 512MB PCI-E Video Card - $160
 
Danny Bui said:
Umm, where did you read that it had dual-processors? Did you mean dual-platters? And no, lower nor higher number of platters do not reduce CPU usage...
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Check out this link and look about half way down the page...

And I forgot that the AALS has a 32MB cache instead of the 16MB on the AAKS
 
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