Going to order today! w00t!

Thats allot of lunch money ya got saved up there, dont break it now :D

AWESOME rig, have fun with it.
 
Thanks, I hope it will last a while. I am in a predicament (sp) because I want to overclock the cards and possibly the processor right away but I dont want to risk anything at all. Eventually it will be watercooled too, because having a dual core and 2 video cards in the thing will probably be pretty hot, at first it will be air cooled in a lian li with 4 tornadoes on a fan controller of course :)


edit: How good is BFG about replacing busted cards?
 
BFG is great, you wont have any problems. Lifetime 24/7 tech support, cant beat it. Ive dealt with them numerous times.

To tell you to truth, you wont NEED to overclock for awhile, but you'll WANT to the second you get it running :)
 
Hehehe, thats the thing. How good is the stock cooling on the A64 X2 and 7800 gtx's? Good enough to get a little more out of it? How is BFG with replacing cards that are fried from overclocking them?
 
I would not even bother with RAID-0. it offers no real-world performance gain while reducing reliability. Also you are spending a lot on memory. I would much rather get 2GB of Value RAM. The more RAM would be better and the difference in speed between lower latency RAM would only be noticable in benchmarks.
 
KoolDrew said:
I would not even bother with RAID-0. it offers no real-world performance gain while reducing reliability. Also you are spending a lot on memory. I would much rather get 2GB of Value RAM. The more RAM would be better and the difference in speed between lower latency RAM would only be noticable in benchmarks.
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Yea I agree. Other than the :cool: factor of being able to say you have a raid array, its not realy worth it when you can spend money on something else that will help out more.
 
So I shouldnt run the drives in any raid? Just set them up as single drives? Will the 10,000 rpm sata drives be alot faster than the regular old 7,200 rpm ide? And why not spend that much on ram? I like the looks of the mushkin because it will run at pc-4000 speeds, but keep the 2-2-2-5 latencies.
 
One Raptor fast, two Raptors (generally) waste of money.

My CH-5 will run at speeds well above that stuff while keeping 2-2-2 or for that matter lower (not that running CAS 1.5 really does anything for ya, it's the other two numbers that matter much, and the -5 means diddlysquat). Crucial is also generally a good buy, even their value line stuff.

EVGA is 10MHz below the BFG OC, and I saw something to the effect that the BFG uses a normal core rated at 420 or 430 & overclocks that vs the EVGA core apparently actually being rated at 450 to start with. No clue how accurate this is since it was on an EVGA forum by someone that seemed rather biased to start with, but I'd look in to it before spending that much on a card.

Also supposedly 7800GTX > 2x6800U in SLI, so 2x7800GTX while definately bleeding edge, may not be the most effective expendature for your system. Vapochill LS if you don't have something like that yet is probably going to make a bigger impact since it'll let you get 3.0-3.5GHz with that chip, vs 2.5-2.7GHz without. Depends what res you're running at and so forth I suppose, and how much non-gaming stuff you do. But worth considering.
 
Thanks for the great advice ash. I guess I'll save the money and get one raptor and use that for windows, and other installs, such as games, and use my 250gb slower drive for storage. With the ram, what and how much should I get? And, I would go with a prometia or something like that and only get one 7800 but the problem is one 7800 = 600 while one vapo = 1000...



edit: My bad, now looking at it getting the vapo wouldnt be out of my reach because they run around 800, not much more than one card, and I could always get the other card later. How reliable are the coolers, and whats better the prometeia mach II gt or the vapochill lightspeed?
 
Yup that's what I was thinking. I think the LS is supposed to be better, but I've never used phase...

As far as the memory, 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix should be pretty good...Robberbaron's expecting a stick of that stuff in soon if he hasn't got it already, and we should be getting some nice test data after he has time to play with it a bit. (cf)Eclipse recently posted results for the Value line of the same stuff, did 3-3-3 at a substantial overclock or I believe 2.5-2-2 closer to DDR400 speeds. The Ballistix line should do even better as it's basically a highly binned version of the same stuff.
 
crucial ballistx pc4000 you mean? How high do the 4400s go on phase change anyways? Is it really worth 800 bucks or would I be better off water cooling or getting the second card?
 
From what I've seen, water doesn't do much for a Rev. E A64 (Venice, X2, buncha others). Water or air should get you to 2.7ish, whereas phase will do 3.0-3.5GHz if ya tweak it good. As to if it's worth it...*shrug* up to you, but that's roughly the results you can expect.

Here is the thread I mentioned. It's PC3200 stuff, overclocked. So it's not pretested at that speed or anything, it's just some really good memory that has quite a bit of potential if you know to look for it. The Ballistix stuff I think is rated at PC4000 or something, I'd hold off on buying until RB's results are posted as it should be any day now.
 
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