sdat1333 Posted August 27, 2005 Posted August 27, 2005 hey im sorry i kno this is probly in the wrong section but since my plan uses a DFI NF4 SLI board i thought it might belong here. looks like ill most likely (like 90% chance) be ordering my parts for my new system next week. Heres waht I was thinking, if anyone has suggestions please speak up: AMD A64 Dual Core 3800 ~$400 DFI NF4 UT SLI-DR ~ $180 evga 7800GTX w/ battlefield 2 ~$550 1 gb of OCZ VX Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS (already own) Win PVR 250 (already own) 250 gb maxline iii w/ 16mb cache, ~$130 NEC DVD burner (already own) PC P&C Turbocool 510 watt SLI Windows XP professional. And of course watercooling which consists of the following: custom modded dual heatercore with matching shroud, cooled with 2 120mm deltas with a max airflow of 129 cfm, but i will run them at 5v each wich is 26dBA and 54cfm. Eheim 1250 Swiftech Storm waterblock DD maze 4 Some BGA ramsinks (and another delta exhausting right over the vid card) All in my new custom case. Thoughts? Suggestions? Room for improvement? Thanks Sean Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidhammock200 Posted August 27, 2005 Posted August 27, 2005 PC P&C Turbocool 510 watt SLIPerfect or save 1/2 & get the OCZ PowerStream 520W. :nod: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zer0X Posted August 27, 2005 Posted August 27, 2005 hey im sorry i kno this is probly in the wrong section but since my plan uses a DFI NF4 SLI board i thought it might belong here. looks like ill most likely (like 90% chance) be ordering my parts for my new system next week. Heres waht I was thinking, if anyone has suggestions please speak up: AMD A64 Dual Core 3800 ~$400 DFI NF4 UT SLI-DR ~ $180 evga 7800GTX w/ battlefield 2 ~$550 1 gb of OCZ VX Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS (already own) Win PVR 250 (already own) 250 gb maxline iii w/ 16mb cache, ~$130 NEC DVD burner (already own) PC P&C Turbocool 510 watt SLI Windows XP professional. And of course watercooling which consists of the following: custom modded dual heatercore with matching shroud, cooled with 2 120mm deltas with a max airflow of 129 cfm, but i will run them at 5v each wich is 26dBA and 54cfm. Eheim 1250 Swiftech Storm waterblock DD maze 4 Some BGA ramsinks (and another delta exhausting right over the vid card) All in my new custom case. Thoughts? Suggestions? Room for improvement? Thanks Sean I guess we are having a EOCF convention over here Looks great sdat1333. Only suggestion would be a dedicated fan controller to better control the fans since the 5V mod locks you to one setting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdat1333 Posted August 27, 2005 Posted August 27, 2005 Im using a 3 way switch to switch between 5v 12v and off. http://www.virtual-hideout.net/guides/5v_1...bus/index.shtml that minus the LEDs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaFrOuT Posted August 27, 2005 Posted August 27, 2005 i think getting a 2GB of ram will be much better either get a 2GB kit or get 4x1GB kit of the Gold this is just to be sure that ram won't bottleneck either ur cpu or vga Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdat1333 Posted August 28, 2005 Posted August 28, 2005 anoyone have any benches of 1gb versus 2gb? I mean if i can get up to lik 2.7ghz at 1:1 with 1gb and only get 2.4ghz 1:1 with 2gb, wont the one gb get better performance in the end? Im not planning to do really heavy multitasking with this, ie not going to encode dvds and play games most of the time, I mostly just want this for if/when multithreaded progies come out and stuff Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcstrike Posted August 28, 2005 Posted August 28, 2005 personally i would rather have 2.4 ghz with 2GB. you would have a lot more memory to run more programs/run smoother. if youre not gonna do heavy multitasking or playing too many games aka BF2 1gb should be fine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdat1333 Posted August 28, 2005 Posted August 28, 2005 yah i mean right now it seems that other than BF2 nothing really uses that much ram. i know future games might use more and that concerns me tho EDIT: alright doin some reading and it seems like 2gb really overclocks like crap Can i get by wiht really good performance for a while on 1 gig? EDIT AGAIN: It looks like all of anandtechs tests use 1 gig and its very playable even at resolutions i could never dream of (my max res on my monitor is 1280x1024) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zer0X Posted August 28, 2005 Posted August 28, 2005 yah i mean right now it seems that other than BF2 nothing really uses that much ram. i know future games might use more and that concerns me tho EDIT: alright doin some reading and it seems like 2gb really overclocks like crap Can i get by wiht really good performance for a while on 1 gig? EDIT AGAIN: It looks like all of anandtechs tests use 1 gig and its very playable even at resolutions i could never dream of (my max res on my monitor is 1280x1024) depends on what you buy. Crucial has ballistix at PC4000 for example. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaFrOuT Posted August 28, 2005 Posted August 28, 2005 forget about the ballastix for the insane price and get the Blue Mushkin from newegg for 290$ which can get as high as FSB 265 @ 2.5-3-3- Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts