My New Rig

[Jon855]

I've ordered my new rig and it should come in tomorrow from newegg

Not included in order are: keyboard, and mouse as I already have them

Parts:
*SAPPHIRE 100150 Radeon X1900XTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - OEM
*SAMSUNG Black E-IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner Model SH-W162Z / BEBN - OEM
*AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA3800BVBOX - Retail
*2 x Crucial Ballistix 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model BL2KIT6464Z402 - Retail
*Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
*ASUS A8N-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
*ENERMAX Liberty ELT500AWT ATX12V 500W Power Supply - Retail
*SAMSUNG 740B Black 17" 8ms LCD Monitor - Retail
*COOLER MASTER Praetorian PAC-T01-E1 Silver All Aluminium Alloy ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

I think I'll be able to break the 11k in 3dmark05 What do you think of this specs? Anything I should do beforehand? I'll add pictures of the build as it gets here.

 

[BlackTigers91]

SOMEONE'S spending their taxes wisely......

Nice PC. Why on god's green earth would you pair that up with just 1GB of RAM??? Not making much sense to me :/

Oops....you have 4 x 512, 2T. Badddd.

 

[Jasonx82]

wow looks good congrats! I see an awesome weekend coming ur way

 

[seniorpaul]

*2 x Crucial Ballistix 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model BL2KIT6464Z402 - Retail

So you went with 4x512? Why not 2 x 1GB?

 

[Jon855]

So you went with 4x512? Why not 2 x 1GB?

I think it doesn;t matters at the moment or does it? Because i could always return it and obtain the 2x 1gig sticks. Any performance differences?

 

[BlackTigers91]

with 4x512, you run in 2T Command. This is NOT good. Get two of the 1GB Ballistix sticks if you are that set on Ballistix.

 

[Jon855]

with 4x512, you run in 2T Command. This is NOT good. Get two of the 1GB Ballistix sticks if you are that set on Ballistix.

Could you explain a little more about of this issue? I'll see what I can do to replace it as soon as possible. This must have been an issue that I wasn't aware about. Thanks for the word of warning.

 

[BlackTigers91]

I reall don't know how to explain it. It's just not good. Slows Stuff down. (Post in Memory Forum, the poeple there will help ya!) PLUS, 2x1GB always leaves room for more

 

[RavenD]

I reall don't know how to explain it. It's just not good. Slows Stuff down. (Post in Memory Forum, the poeple there will help ya!) PLUS, 2x1GB always leaves room for more

2T vs 1T results in approximately a 3% real world performance difference. If the 512mb sticks have tighter timings than 1gb sticks, it'll make up for it.

 

[BlackTigers91]

2T vs 1T results in approximately a 3% real world performance difference. If the 512mb sticks have tighter timings than 1gb sticks, it'll make up for it.

Hmmm....read different other places.

I'm taking your word though.

BUT....it still would be smarter to get 1GB Sticks. Leaves more room for expansion.

 

[Jon855]

2T vs 1T results in approximately a 3% real world performance difference. If the 512mb sticks have tighter timings than 1gb sticks, it'll make up for it.

The timings of the ram I'm getting is "Timing 2-2-2-6" I reckon this is good and it apparently is the fastest bunch than any 2x1 sticks for under 200 bucks.

 

[pj-schmidt]

4 x 512MB will work fine, just slightly slower.

For myself, I'd prefer 2 x 1GB