New System, my rig

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cooter

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Well it is time for a new rig and I decided to post what I am going to be getting just for grins. I was originally going to wait for the crossfire chipset but I now have run out of patience and will be going with a DFI board. Anyway here it is:

What i just ordered from newegg:

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
CM Stacker
2x1 GB Crucial Ballistix

What i have in my room waiting now:

AMD Athlon X2 4800+
OCZ Powerstream 520 watt PSU

And then some parts from my old rig (HD's and stuff). So here is the final result of all this:

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
CM Stacker
2x1 GB Crucial Ballistix :)
AMD Athlon X2 4800+ :p
OCZ Powerstream 520 watt PSU
Fujitsu 15k RPM 73 GB U320 SCSI drive (MAS3735NP) :D
Adaptec 39320-R SCSI card
300 GB 16 mb cache Maxtor Drive SATA
200 GB WD IDE HD
160 GB WD IDE HD
NEC 3520A DVD Burner
Lite-On 52x CD Burner
Floppy Drive (Cuz you never know)

Anyone think of any changes they would make?

Also you will notice there is no graphics card in it. I may have a X850 XT PE on the way, if it is not here tomorrow I will pry get getting a 7800 GTX.

So far if you include the X850 XT PE which may not come I have spent a total of $1533.00 for the CPU, MOBO, Case, RAM, and the PSU. If I have to buy the GTX it will cost a total of $1912 or so.

I wanted to go with ATI but dont have the patience anymore. I am also planning on watercooling this rig in the near future after I get it running, get my graphics card deal straightened out and recover from the financial SHOCK.

Cooter
 
That is a lot of power. Did you include the Operating System? Aside from that it seems to be a good machine to encode Finding Nemo II :)
 
Uh I see the internet being completely downloaded on his computer. Why so many hard drives man.....?
 
computerdude said:
Uh I see the internet being completely downloaded on his computer. Why so many hard drives man.....?
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Lol, Umm, well those drives are all in my current computer. I was actually about 1 minute from ordering another 300 GB maxtor drive. (i will pry end up getting another one in a month or so)

On the 73 GB drive is my OS and programs.
On the 160 GB drive i have 8.15 GB Free
On the 200 GB drive i have 741 MB free
and on the 300 GB drive i have 38.9 GB free.

I have a ton of Stuff on my computer.

I am going ot use my windows xp from school, we get it for free where i go, but they pay alot for that stuff (although my tuition more then pays for it). Although I am still debating weather or not to get XP 64 bit edition.

What do you all think about the 64 bit version.
 
At the moment I would say to hold off on that because the drive support (even though is large) could be better. It is great if you are an early adopter but you really don't want to screw yourself (while in school) because the printer/scanner/Orbital Satelite doesn't work. :)

It would be great to run on a separate partition and help Microsoft with some of the bugs that they have left but, School is a bit more important than writing a printer driver from scratch.

Good Luck with whatever you are doing (3D Animation, being the school's server....)
 
I have decided to go with an X850 XT PE for the build. I wanted the R520 so this will do until that time comes, and i can pick one up for $335.
 
Ok, now be relatively honest here...

You've filled about 600GB of space. With what, and approximately what percentage of it shouldn't be there?

If you're not comfortable giving that information out, I suppose you can plead the Fifth Amendment here, but I'm curious.
 
CellBlock said:
Ok, now be relatively honest here...

You've filled about 600GB of space. With what, and approximately what percentage of it shouldn't be there?

If you're not comfortable giving that information out, I suppose you can plead the Fifth Amendment here, but I'm curious.
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Well I will try my best to answer this.

160 GB drive: 80 GB of MP3's, 10 GB Porn (in my opinion this is a small collection compared to some i have seen), I also save all freeware programs (20 GB) in case i do not have internet for some unheard of reason, and i do keep many older versions for when i may need it, drivers and hardware tools 2 GB (i have all old versions of omega and ati drivers and all other drivers for all my computers), pics, Patches for all my games and programs (20 GB), this drive is also where all my unfinished downloads go before moving the download to its rightful folder/drive. THere is also a few GB worth of movies on here cuz the 200 is full.

200 GB drive: 80 GB of my large applications, 120 GB of movies (some of the movies are spilling on to the 160 GB drive cuz this one is full)

300 GB drive: Nothing but games. all 260 GB of them.

I am a packrat. i never know when I may need something old that I have not used for a while. I Image all my Programs and Games, and CD's cuz it is much safer, faster, and easier to get to.

One example is when I did not know what game i wanted to play, i was browing through my Games drive and i seen Dune 2000. It is from when I was on my old 200 MHZ ibm, but it was fun, so i installed it in like 1 minute and played that for a few hours.

I plea the 5th on the amount that should be there. :(
 
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