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ollax
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 Posted: Wed, 4th May 2005 22:28 Post subject: O building new rig! |
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I'm building myself a new rig! Gotta spoil myself at least once a year:-)
This is whats going in it so far. Anybody got any suggestions please post them here;-)
Cooling:
Asetek WaterChill KT12A-L30 1200l
Memorys:
OCZ Platinum rev2 4x512Mb KIT (tot. 2048Mb/2Gb) DDR PC3200 CAS2 400Mhz with Heatsink
Cpu:
AMD Athlon64 FX-55 2600MHz/2.6GHz bulk/tray Socket939
Mobo:
MSI K8N Diamond nForce4 Ultra 4DDR-DIMM 3PCI 2xPCIe SATA Raid Audio 2xGB-LAN Firewire Socket939 ATX
Grafx-cards:
2x (SLI) Leadtek WinFast PX6800 Ultra GeForce 6800Ultra 256Mb DDR3 TV-out DVI HDTV RETAIL PCI Express
Sys-drive:
Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74Gb 10000rpm 8Mb cache S-ATA
Storage-drives:
4x Hitachi Deskstar 14R9337 7K400 400Gb 7200rpm 8Mb cache 8.5ms S-ATA 1.6 Tb
Thermaltake Kandalf VA9000SWA Super MidiTower Aluminium Silver Window ATX without PSU
Its gonna cost a shitload but i'm worth it!
Of all the things i've lost, i miss my mind the most!
"Ozzy Osbourne"
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| Posted: Wed, 4th May 2005 23:49 Post subject: |
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I would buy a athlon 64 with venice core instead of a FX, I don't think the FX is worth the money plus the performance difference is not big. The venice should do at least 3ghz with decent cooling.
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| Posted: Thu, 5th May 2005 00:02 Post subject: |
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can you say geek?  why do u need a 10000rpm drive? also what's 4st?
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fisk
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| Posted: Thu, 5th May 2005 00:31 Post subject: |
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I think you should donate that money to your poor friend who lost his car instead ^.^
Yes, yes I'm back.
Somewhat.
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ollax
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| Posted: Thu, 5th May 2005 10:42 Post subject: |
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| Sublime wrote: | | can you say geek? why do u need a 10000rpm drive? also what's 4st? |
4 st means the amount, so there will be 4 big hdd's for storage and such and the small fast one is for the os!
Of all the things i've lost, i miss my mind the most!
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| Posted: Thu, 5th May 2005 12:25 Post subject: |
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Why don't you go for scsi if money is no concern for you?
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ollax
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| Posted: Thu, 5th May 2005 13:02 Post subject: |
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| whoKnows wrote: | | Why don't you go for scsi if money is no concern for you? |
"Frankly, I was surprised by the results! They show that SATA has a performance advantage! 10K RPM Raptor SATA drives appear to be on par with the performance of even a 15K RPM SCSI drive, and with NCQ, SATA even holds a very significant lead!"
http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=19
Scsi is not all that it used to be 
Of all the things i've lost, i miss my mind the most!
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| Posted: Thu, 5th May 2005 13:17 Post subject: |
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try to beat an (maybe raid of) ultra-320 scsi! If you compare...compare "best of" with "best of".
If you compare older (data center) SCSI to SATA, SCSI will be inferior...but that's where it ends for SATA.
Recent SCSI drives rock.
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| Posted: Thu, 5th May 2005 13:25 Post subject: |
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Well scsi owns two areas, first the access times, it is still the number one choice for servers with lots of access, and the second area is cpu utilization, good scsi adapters have their own cpu so the general cpu utilization is very low. An the performance on striped volumes or raid systems is higher too, but scsi also has some disadvantages: it is very expensive, still very loud and the hd's get very hot.
Btw, these new 400gb hitachi drives get VERY HOT, make sure you build in some extra fans, we have a couple of these running at office and they get considerably hotter than other recent drives i could get my hand on 
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ollax
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| Posted: Thu, 5th May 2005 13:27 Post subject: |
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| DeepRed wrote: | try to beat an (maybe raid of) ultra-320 scsi! If you compare...compare "best of" with "best of".
If you compare older (data center) SCSI to SATA, SCSI will be inferior...but that's where it ends for SATA.
Recent SCSI drives rock. |
Oh i dont disagre, it's just that the cost for such a sytem is 3-4 times higher than a sata based one and thats pretty hard to motivate when the gain in performance for a home computer is negligible.
Of all the things i've lost, i miss my mind the most!
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