So am I missing anything important?

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Lord_Vyper

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I'm in the midst of spec'ing out a new system, and wanted to let the masters here take a look, and see if I missed anything

Case: clear acrylic mid-tower
PSU: 500W Ultra X-Connect
Fans: 5x blue LED rifle bearing 80mm
Fan controller: Zalman ZM-MFC1 6-fan controller
Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI Premium
Processor: A64 3700+ San Diego
RAM: OCZ Performance Memory PC3200 2GB (2x 1GB) x2
Vid Card: HIS Hightech X850XT PE
HD: 36GB Raptor
200GB el generico SATA HDD (leftover from previous comp
Optical: Plextor SATA DL DVD burner
Cooling: KingWin Aquastar AS-3000 liquid cooling kit
(haven't found this for sale yet, but it's look/performance/probable price make me want it :) )

Already bought: case, PSU, fans/controller, 200gb HD

If you're wondering why liquid cooling and 5 fans, I've got the PSU intake ducted out to the back fan, and will have the water cooling system pulling from the front and vented out the top.
 
dandragonrage said:
You're missing a decent PSU, but looks ok (at quick glance) other than that.
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I agree. Gotta get a more reliable and proven PSU. Also, you might consider getting a graphics card. Everything else looks good. :)
 
I've heard the X-Connects are hit and miss, so I've got MBM5 going, set up to howl if any rails go +-5% out of spec, and I've never heard a peep from it.
 
Well, the real test is when you start putting crazy load on the rails. But hey, if you've got a winner, awesome. :) WTF, I guess I'm blind. I didn't even see the graphics card in there on my first glance through. Durh.
 
Lord_Vyper said:
I've got MBM5 going, set up to howl if any rails go +-5% out of spec, and I've never heard a peep from it.
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There's much more than that to a PSU. A couple of examples:

Ripple: In simple terms, this is how much AC is left in the DC. Too much ripple will kill capacitors that aren't good enough to deal with it. This usually means motherboard or graphics card.

Reliability: You don't want a PSU that's known to blow up, do you?
 
Hehe, put 6 old SCSI drives I had lying aorund in a while back, to see if I could get the 12v rails to die, set em up copying DVD rips back and forth endlessly, and it barely phased it... lucky me, I got one of the good ones!
 
Another question for everyone: I've spec'd out 4GB of RAM for this system... I know pre-rev.E processors had issues with it, but has that been fixed on the San Diego cores?
 
May I ask what your doing that requires 4GB of ram, but your fine with a 3700+ San Diego? lol

Running 4 GB sticks will hit you with a 2T limitation but that's it. Can't windows only use 3GB anyway? Or are you running Win64...
 
I tend to play with *large* textures (photoshop, maya, etc) And since 1gb sticks are dropping a bit in price, might as well take advantage.

And I'm going to be running Win64/FreeBSD 64
 
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