Just another rate my build thread...

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ManicMachine

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AMD X2 4800+
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
2 BFG 7800GTX
2gb G.skill ram
1 74gb Raptor (for the timebeing)
1 BenQ burner w/ lightscribe
MountainMods Twice7 case
Seasonic S12-600 PSU
case fans: 2x 80mm arctic cooling 3TC exhaust fans, 1x 120mm Aerocool turbine exhaust, 2x 120mm Aerocool turbine intake
Arctic Cooling Freezer64 cpu heatsink/fan
Samsung 204T 20" LCD w/ overdrive (1600x1200 16ms)


Looking for a top of the line build that is quiet, no plans of overclocking. Just want to feel spoiled with a feature filled rig.
Only future additions would be hard drives and the gigabyte ram drives (ultimately: 1 Raptor to hold the OS and game executables, 3 ram drives in raid0 as a swap/scratch/temp drive, and 4 Raptor in raid5 to hold music, videos, and game maps) plus a PCIe sound card.

Thanks for looking
 
you might wanna check out another brand of mobo... and the RAM, you can prolly get better, cheaper from pdp systems / patriot memory. its lifetime warranted too.

Also, that raptor is so expensive its not worth it. in my experience you can get faster access by getting a few smaller drives and spreading the load across them. ive got a 20gb, 40gb, and 200gb WD 2MB cache 7200rpm... os on the 20, tempfiles and games on the 40, and all my backups AND alcohol images on the 200. putting a bit of windows swapfile on each drive, and also setting up each drive as a solitary master of its own channel... and ive got more perf then a raptor ever could, with 2MB cache drives. its interesting to watch the hard drives with the load spread like this, and its very much faster then I thought it would be. Im doing this on a dual 600 P3, and im just amazed.

oh - go to the psu section and search for the thread "watts don't mean jack". read up, and you will see something you totally missed considering.
 
The Asus mb was chosen specifically for the PCIe x16 slot spacing, along with the passive cooling of the chipset. The onboard raid support for 8 sata drives (4 and 4, specifically) and the number of additional slots (the legacy 3 PCI for powering the gigabyte ram drives I intent to purchase, the PCIe slots for future addon cards such as sound) were also features preferable to this build.



The price of the raptor is not an issue, and as you can see I do plan to distribute the load over multiple drives at a future time.


The PSU was chosen specifically for efficiency and quiet operating, and exceeds Nvidia's SLI requirements. I'm not sure what you feel I overlooked in selecting this PSU. I'm not well versed in these matters, but I felt I did enough reading for this to be a wise choice.
 
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