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After 3 years I am finally close to building a new system!
For Christmas I got my Coolermaster Cosmos which I am really thrilled about as I am going for silence and power over pure power this time around. My current system has been getting noisier and noiser, so close to my bed its sometimes annoying (having said that I now have a fish tank thats closer and noisier - woo!)
The day before yesterday I ordered two 150gig Raptor-X drives (why the X? I am not sure they were 7 quid more expensive and I thought I may as well even though they won't be visible)
Now I am stuck waiting for technology to catch up and confused about what direction to go in.
Graphics card will be easy, once the 9800 GTX is announced I will either go with that or the fastest single GPU solution. Whether thats an 8800 Ultra or otherwise. I told a friend at NVIDIA of my intent to buy at the start of April and he said it was a good time to buy but wouldn't say why. Meh.
Power supply is dependant on other choices but will have to be quiet and suitable. I am also really digging modular power supplies these days.
Do I need more HDDs? Whats the best configuration. The Raptors will be raid 0 but I may well get another 2 drives for a bit of storage. My old system will do most the archiving tho (with 2008 and exchange 2007 for giggles)
RAM depends on the motherboard, 4 gig tho - most likely 4x 1 gig dimms?
Motherboard... AIIEEE Intel or NVIDIA? And then DDR2 or DD3 ?
Any suggestions welcome 😀
For Christmas I got my Coolermaster Cosmos which I am really thrilled about as I am going for silence and power over pure power this time around. My current system has been getting noisier and noiser, so close to my bed its sometimes annoying (having said that I now have a fish tank thats closer and noisier - woo!)
The day before yesterday I ordered two 150gig Raptor-X drives (why the X? I am not sure they were 7 quid more expensive and I thought I may as well even though they won't be visible)
Now I am stuck waiting for technology to catch up and confused about what direction to go in.
Graphics card will be easy, once the 9800 GTX is announced I will either go with that or the fastest single GPU solution. Whether thats an 8800 Ultra or otherwise. I told a friend at NVIDIA of my intent to buy at the start of April and he said it was a good time to buy but wouldn't say why. Meh.
Power supply is dependant on other choices but will have to be quiet and suitable. I am also really digging modular power supplies these days.
Do I need more HDDs? Whats the best configuration. The Raptors will be raid 0 but I may well get another 2 drives for a bit of storage. My old system will do most the archiving tho (with 2008 and exchange 2007 for giggles)
RAM depends on the motherboard, 4 gig tho - most likely 4x 1 gig dimms?
Motherboard... AIIEEE Intel or NVIDIA? And then DDR2 or DD3 ?
Any suggestions welcome 😀