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Just thought I'd share the spec of my new computer... Hope you like.
Ok, I have been wanting to build my own awesome rig for a while... I've just never had the money. Now I'm in full time employment (at last!), I think I can.
I started off with the case... I wanted something smooth... and it had to be big, for air flow reasons...
I bought the Cosmos S case by Coolermaster... I like :P
Ok, onto the real specs:
Asus P6T motherboard
6 GB DDR3 ram (heatsinks, in sticks of 2 gb's)
2 * 1TB 10,000 rpm sata HD's (stuck in RAID 0)
2 * GTX 295's (EVGA) in SLI
coolermaster V8 CPU cooler
Intel i7 (3.06 GHz) overclocked to 3.12
2 DVD-RW... as standard lol..
oh it also has a couple of hot-swapable drives, but they are empty at the moment... Am running this on 4 screens merged as one, in a box formation thing.
Yea... Anyone with any thoughts or critisim? lol
- Ross
Comments
Well, harddrives in raid 0 is something youll regret later.
My reccomendation would be to only use a single GTX 295 and instead buy a 80GB Intel X-25 SSD. Then add a 1,5TB drive as a media storage, it will be a lot faster than 2 raided regular drives and it will generate less heat.
If youll get the a single 295 hydro copper it will perform about the same as 2 regular for a lot less money, electricity and heat. Check this benchmark test
Your original idea will take too much power and generate ridicolus amount of heat. with this simple tuning it will cost less, use less power and less heat while actually increase you performance and lesser the risk of data loss.
If you must raid regular harddrives (they will soon disapear, SSDs are so much faster) you should get 4 smaller and use raid 5 instead.
This is my computer BTW:
4 raided SSD (240 gb together in raid 5 fast as h*ll)
GTX 295
2.66 Intel quad
4Gb ram.
Forget raid with traditional hdd's. Get a good ssd (ocz vertex for example) and normal hdd for larger storage.
Ati is releasing new cards very soon, wait for them. $300-400 priced 5870 will be about as fast as 295.