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Grimlaking

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The other day... ok yesterday late morning... I put in an order to refresh my system in my sig... so now I will be running...

q6600 processor... oh yea quad core!!
new 680i evga mobo. (EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI ATX Intel Motherboard )
corsaid HX620 power supply
new segate barracuda 7200.10 or whatever... 32meg cache 500 gig hdd to replace the dead raid zero. (dead due to bad power supply I think but I will see if segate will RMA them for me regardless.)

Video card will remain the 8800 GTS 640 meg.. but now.. I have room to SLI!!! Should I so choose. ;)
Also will maintain the 2 gigs of ram... I will go 8 gigs before too long just will wait for a local frys deal as they have some smoking deals on 4 gig ram kits.


I placed the order at 1/2/2008 8:12:34 AM. And it still has not shipped... I guess I am part of the 1% that doesn't get there orders shipped the same day!! Really I have no right to cry on that part as I didn't order expedited shipping. But still... waaaaaaa....


Wheee....

Oh and any reccomendations?
 
Grimlaking said:
new segate barracuda 7200.10 or whatever... 32meg cache 500 gig hdd to replace the dead raid zero. (dead due to bad power supply I think but I will see if segate will RMA them for me regardless.)
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Run Seatools to make sure the drive is actually bad. Dead RAID 0 != dead hard drive.
 
What I found on the drives was that after every formatting at the bios level.. (ok crappy onboard raid controller level.) the drives would format with less and less space. loosing 20 gig a round. When I get the system up and running again I will be sure to test them out. I blame the 450 watt power supply from the Antec Sonata II that I was running it all in. I have seen uneven power rails kill hdd's before. It was my own mistake that may have toasted them.

Does segate make a tool to low level format a drive and start over? Hrm... if so a raid 0 for the swap file and games could be a good thing. ;)
 
Seatools also does LLF. Sometimes this will fix issues with the drive if the hardware itself is not fubared, might as well give it a spin.
 
What size monitor do you have?
What resolution do you game at and at what settings?
 
I have a 22inch lcd. 1680*1050 and I generally run games maxed out for that. If I need to for future games I may go SLI. but as of right now I am happy with what I have. (Not runngin Crysis. Mostly used for MMO... and yea I know one 8800GTS is overkill for WOW. ;) )
 
SLI would not be very cost effective for a 22" LCD. You're better off selling your old card and picking up a newer gen card instead of going SLI. SLI is only worth it if you have a 24" monitor or larger and want to game at native resolution with high settings.
 
Bah... alright alright I'll try and remember to take one when I get home! I updated my sig though... that doesn't make you happy in your pants?!
 
I would have gone with a different motherboard. I'd also have stuck to a single video card solution if I were running less than a 24" monitor. Otherwise, looks good.
 
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