l337's Upgrade

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Looking into upgrading my current rig which in my sig... to this:

Athlon64 AM2 5000+

Asus M2N32-SLI Motherboard

4x1GB OCZ PC2-6400 Gold XTC Series

EVGA GeForce 7900 GTX

Enermax Liberty 620W SLI Power Supply

and

WD SE250GB w/ 16MB Cache..



Update - (More items to it)

2x WD 320GB IDE drives for adding to my raid array..

and a Lian Li V2100A case..


Any opinions?

Thanks in advance.. I want to order this within this week sometime... :)
 
If you can wait a little wait, wait til conroe but if you need it here are some changes i suggest.
1. You don't need the x2 5000 +, go for something cheaper like hte x2 4400 + because it has the same cache. or if you wanna shell out that much money just go with the fx-62.
2. You don't need 4 gb. Only if you are like a graphics artist and you need all of the memory you can get, but 32 bit only recognizes 3 gb of ram, so if you need 4 gb go with 64 bit.
3. Get a bigger hd, if are buying 4 gb of ram then i will assume that you will be using heavy rendering applications. I would go for like anywhere from a 400 gb-750 gb hd.

( i may be wrong about hte 32, 64 bit thingy)
 
boomheadshot45 said:
2. You don't need 4 gb. Only if you are like a graphics artist and you need all of the memory you can get, but 32 bit only recognizes 3 gb of ram, so if you need 4 gb go with 64 bit.

( i may be wrong about hte 32, 64 bit thingy)
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XP-32 can utilize 4GB
 
I am upgrading for more gaming performance and want to go dual core because I want to have more background processes running like rendering, audio conversions, and such while playing a game at the same time. I'm getting a 0% interest loan on it for 4 years.. but will have it paid off much sooner than that, so might as well go for some parts I would have normally neglected in the first place.

Memory - I use 1.5Gigs of ram, but I find that when I have this, a couple of games I play could stand to have some more, and also when I do background tasks, it will take even more memory.. so that is the reason behind 4GB. Also... I do a bit of work in photoshop on large RAW files.. which does tend to eat up some memory...

Hard Drives - Want to upgrade to get some more space for my current master drives which I run everything off of. Sure, the raptors are nice, but I find that the new 16MB buffer WD drives are pretty fast as well, and will also give me 100GB more physical space without having to buy 2 more raptors. The twin 320GB drives are for my already existing raid array. Just am going to feed it a bit more space. Also they are IDE because the raid controller card I have is an IDE based card. I dont plan on upgrading that beast either...
 
Update....

I decided to go with a coolermaster stacker 810 because the Lian-Li was rather spendy for what I need it for, and the cables would have to be long as hell to run from my raid controller to the drive bays... thus making a mess.
 
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