Finally pulled the trigger

[skittles15]

For those interested

ASUS P5K PRO LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 2.5GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80580Q9300 - Retail

Western Digital Raptor WD360ADFD 36GB 10000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM


G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK - Retail


SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Sony NEC Optiarc 20X DVD±R Burner Black SATA Model AD-7200S-0B - OEM

EVGA 256-P2-N761-AR GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail

 

[leSLIe]

EVGA 256-P2-N761-AR GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail

why ???

 

[Private_Ops]

depending on what he gave for it it may have been a good deal.

Otherwise he either doesn't need anything powerful and found that adequate or... well... Iunno.

 

[skittles15]

3dsmax...no real gaming besides a little bit of CS. That card i snagged for 80 bucks, can't go wrong.

 

[leSLIe]

3dsmax...no real gaming besides a little bit of CS. That card i snagged for 80 bucks, can't go wrong.

hmm... well then, that's not too shabby

 

[Private_Ops]

3dsmax...no real gaming besides a little bit of CS. That card i snagged for 80 bucks, can't go wrong.

Newegg has a Foxconn version for $65

 

[Dan_D]

I would have gone with the 74GB Raptor and the 8800GT 512MB personally. Otherwise not too bad.

 

[engiNURD]

I would have gone for a WD6400AAKS, which transfers files faster than my WD1500ADFD (raptor). Not a bad build, though. Thanks for the pic!

 

[Dan_D]

I would have gone for a WD6400AAKS, which transfers files faster than my WD1500ADFD (raptor). Not a bad build, though. Thanks for the pic!

I haven't done any research on that but I find that hard to believe.

 

[Zinn]

I haven't done any research on that but I find that hard to believe.

Raptors own synthetic benchmarks, but my experience with a 74gb Raptor was that it was expensive and hard to tell apart in terms of actual performance from my Seagate drives. Meh.

 

[engiNURD]

I haven't done any research on that but I find that hard to believe.

The Raptor finds the files faster, which doesnt do much for overall performance, apparently. My KS loads windows faster, and can transfer a single 4.7GB file faster -- to and from my RAID0 array. If its a bunch of files, the performance difference is less noticeable.

Raptors own synthetic benchmarks, but my experience with a 74gb Raptor was that it was expensive and hard to tell apart in terms of actual performance from my Seagate drives. Meh.

Synthetic? I got synthetic... but I was making my statement based off of my personal experiences with both drives...

Those were posted in the HDTune score thread, too. So if you're interested in others: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1284410

 

[Dan_D]

Raptors own synthetic benchmarks, but my experience with a 74gb Raptor was that it was expensive and hard to tell apart in terms of actual performance from my Seagate drives. Meh.

I thought we were talking about the 150GB model? I know the 74GB drive is long in the tooth at this point and its' behind the curve compared to newer conventional SATA drives.