The Ultimate Workstation - Critique please

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nytrackstar

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the first thing i need to explain is my reasoning for building a Pentium D machine 2 months prior to the release of conroe...

...here is how i rationalized the situation:

My computer right now is trash, absolute garbage using onboard graphics
....i really really want to play all the latest titles throughout the summer

Conroe is slated for release around July, fair to assume that widespread availibility will really happen around the end of july...this means that i probably wont finish my comlete my build till around early august, school start august 28th, i wont have as much time to play games as ied like...

...and then ~5 months after this, intel is releasing kentsfield quad core, vista will be out along with all the DX10 hardware, this means poor little me will feel like the biggest douchebag ever...


so instead i figure i will build a nasty 'puter now, once i have something that will play the latest titles i wont be itchin for an upgrade so fast...thus i will have somehting nice to hold me over until vista,kentsfield, and DX10 mature and i will then upgrade to that...

all that being said, heres my setup (final storage subsystem is still being debated HERE)

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Let me know!
 
nytrackstar she is perfect to you. a waste to some, and overkill in many ways. however it's not my$$$ so enjoy.
 
If I had $5000 to spend on the ultimate workstation that I was planning on using to be the ultimate gaming platform, I would get the FX60 or another high end AMD chip. But hey, it's your money.
 
MrFace said:
All those RAIDs...what a waste of money. Especially the Raid0
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what do you mean?

i have 2 harddrive in raid 0, making my system faster than all my friends computers.
 
blackrino9 said:
If I had $5000 to spend on the ultimate workstation that I was planning on using to be the ultimate gaming platform, I would get the FX60 or another high end AMD chip. But hey, it's your money.
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that was the original plan but was unable to find a suitable motherboard that allowed me overclocking and enthusiast features while having pci-x slots...and besides this will be more of a workstation (heavy multitasking)/ and media box than it will be a gaming machine and having 2 cores plus hyperthreading will help in that environment
 
Why do you need crossfire x1900's if its going to be mainly a "workstation" computer?
 
So wait let me get this right, You got all those RAID arrays and Fault Tolerance on 2 arrays.....

Yet you put your "BACKUPS" on a single drive? :confused: :(
Sorry i'm just constantly paranoid about my data. :p
 
wouldn't it to be good if you had atleast 2 harddrives in raid 1? Also if its a workstation why didn't you get like a quadro card or like an ati fire gl or whayever its called
 
Better yet stuff a 3DLabs card in it along with two dual core opterons, and not the intel if your going to have a [H] workstation.
 
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