Originally posted by: SLCentral
Thanks for the comments everyone, huge help . Now I have a huge problem though. I was in love with that CoolerMaster 710, but because it is being phased back, no one has it in stock! Does anyone have any reccomendations on a nice, SLEEK, sexy, $100ish case?
Originally posted by: billyjak
Looks good, I have the 3.0 and it oc/3.20 very easy and with pure stability.
You'll love those Raptors, they're fast.
You should have a kick ass setup there.
I would get the Max 3 though if it were me.
Originally posted by: 440BX
Before you rush out for the raptors you should read the harddrive review and tests on this site,it dosent look good for the raptor,better to get a regular sata hardrive.
Originally posted by: Hasse
Howsa... Just thought I'ld pop in a few things...
1. Why go with IDE raid if you want max performance.. I know SCSI is expensive, but hey when it comes to raid nothing beats scsi raid.
2. I've had a lot of bad experience with WD disks, even though they replace the disks it's a friggin hassle, especially if you run Raid 0. SCSI disks have way more MTBF than IDE disks, but well the bad thing about scsi disks is that they're pretty noisy, though not more than a raptor.
3. What kind of cooler are you planning on? The boxed one? They're not bad, but if you want a cooler one go for TT SLK900U, a huge thing, but cools good, and you can fit a 92x92mm fan on it.
4. There is a special Gainward 5900U card out there, with the CoolFX cooling. Here in Norway it's allmost $1000 for the thing, but it's water cooled and run silent, and fast .
5. The Geil memory I have myself, and it's a bit tricky to get to run smooth, but I found that cranking the Volt on the memory to 2.9V fixed it nicely. And they don't even run hot due to the WLCSP memory, besides they're rated to run fine at 3.1V. Anyway, just thought I'ld mention it.
1. I am going with SATA RAID. SCSI is just too expensive for my budget.
2. I'll have to take my chances .
3. The boxed one should be fine for me because I am not planning on overclocking.
4. Hehe, $1000 for a graphics card. Besides the fact I don't have water cooling, pretty cool .
5. Do you reccomend Corsair or OCZ over Geil, or is the Geil memory fine?
Hepp I think that's it...
Originally posted by: SLCentral
Originally posted by: Hasse
Howsa... Just thought I'ld pop in a few things...
1. Why go with IDE raid if you want max performance.. I know SCSI is expensive, but hey when it comes to raid nothing beats scsi raid.
2. I've had a lot of bad experience with WD disks, even though they replace the disks it's a friggin hassle, especially if you run Raid 0. SCSI disks have way more MTBF than IDE disks, but well the bad thing about scsi disks is that they're pretty noisy, though not more than a raptor.
3. What kind of cooler are you planning on? The boxed one? They're not bad, but if you want a cooler one go for TT SLK900U, a huge thing, but cools good, and you can fit a 92x92mm fan on it.
4. There is a special Gainward 5900U card out there, with the CoolFX cooling. Here in Norway it's allmost $1000 for the thing, but it's water cooled and run silent, and fast .
5. The Geil memory I have myself, and it's a bit tricky to get to run smooth, but I found that cranking the Volt on the memory to 2.9V fixed it nicely. And they don't even run hot due to the WLCSP memory, besides they're rated to run fine at 3.1V. Anyway, just thought I'ld mention it.
1. I am going with SATA RAID. SCSI is just too expensive for my budget.
2. I'll have to take my chances .
3. The boxed one should be fine for me because I am not planning on overclocking.
4. Hehe, $1000 for a graphics card. Besides the fact I don't have water cooling, pretty cool .
5. Do you reccomend Corsair or OCZ over Geil, or is the Geil memory fine?
Hepp I think that's it...