Hello All,
Would you guys/gals please let me know if my choices below are good ones and that there are no compatibility issues? I've had them in the past with a previous build and ASUS confirmed that their mobo was "glitchy" with windows 7 Pro and SLI ... so this time I would like to be free of "Glithcy" issues and would rather not write to all the manufacturers prior....
I have spent a lot of time on a list of components but I'm wondering if I should wait another week or so as Newegg's "Black November" sale trickels in or if I should just get it all now while it is in stock... I know, my call on that one
Core Components Only are:
ASUS Rampage III mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131666
Corsair Dominator 6gb
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145224
i7 950
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211
Arctic Freezer pro 7
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134
Corsair Pro Series AX850, 850W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139015
2 X EVGA gtx 460 @ 850MHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130575
Windows 7 Home
My choice of the 850mhz 460 card has been on again off again for many reasons as has the 850W PSU. As for the GPU, 850mhz pre-clocked cards are appeliing but I'm not sure I will see a big difference from lesser clocked cards.... is it worth $30 more/card? Will a card with an 850mhz clock burn out faster??
As for the PSU I thought the 850W AX model was best??... Well it has phenominal reviews and while I know 750W is plenty of juice for 2, 460's I figured it wouldn 't hurt to have extra and possibly be slightly more future proof. I was going to go with watercooling but the Corsair Freezer seems to work just fine for 1700+ reviewers many with Overclocked i7 950's...
Would someone please let me know if it is necessary to run 2 Velociraptors in RAID 0 to see the benefits of a 10,000 RPM hard drive? Would ONE Velociraptor be a dramatic improvement over a 7200RPM card? Seems to me I have read dissagrement on this
One more question, How seriously should one take the reviews on Newegg? If they are to be taken seriously, is it safe to assume that 40 - 70% of all merchandise is defecive? I am always shocked to see such abominal reviews of products yet the company stays in business. Also it seems that some reviewers copy and paste a review and use it more than one product ... maybe I'm imagining things, maybe I'm too sceptical, but your opinions would be appreciated. When let's say an item like a motherboard has a review with 3 out of the 5 stars ... Does it really mean that there's 40% chance the board will arrive DOA, or explode in 3 weeks time?
I am basically looking for parts that are Very solid, require the least amount of tweeking and TLC, and that will last a good long time... i.e until an Intel hexacore processor is more justifiable.
Thanks! .... Jack
Would you guys/gals please let me know if my choices below are good ones and that there are no compatibility issues? I've had them in the past with a previous build and ASUS confirmed that their mobo was "glitchy" with windows 7 Pro and SLI ... so this time I would like to be free of "Glithcy" issues and would rather not write to all the manufacturers prior....
I have spent a lot of time on a list of components but I'm wondering if I should wait another week or so as Newegg's "Black November" sale trickels in or if I should just get it all now while it is in stock... I know, my call on that one
Core Components Only are:
ASUS Rampage III mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131666
Corsair Dominator 6gb
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145224
i7 950
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211
Arctic Freezer pro 7
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134
Corsair Pro Series AX850, 850W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139015
2 X EVGA gtx 460 @ 850MHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130575
Windows 7 Home
My choice of the 850mhz 460 card has been on again off again for many reasons as has the 850W PSU. As for the GPU, 850mhz pre-clocked cards are appeliing but I'm not sure I will see a big difference from lesser clocked cards.... is it worth $30 more/card? Will a card with an 850mhz clock burn out faster??
As for the PSU I thought the 850W AX model was best??... Well it has phenominal reviews and while I know 750W is plenty of juice for 2, 460's I figured it wouldn 't hurt to have extra and possibly be slightly more future proof. I was going to go with watercooling but the Corsair Freezer seems to work just fine for 1700+ reviewers many with Overclocked i7 950's...
Would someone please let me know if it is necessary to run 2 Velociraptors in RAID 0 to see the benefits of a 10,000 RPM hard drive? Would ONE Velociraptor be a dramatic improvement over a 7200RPM card? Seems to me I have read dissagrement on this
One more question, How seriously should one take the reviews on Newegg? If they are to be taken seriously, is it safe to assume that 40 - 70% of all merchandise is defecive? I am always shocked to see such abominal reviews of products yet the company stays in business. Also it seems that some reviewers copy and paste a review and use it more than one product ... maybe I'm imagining things, maybe I'm too sceptical, but your opinions would be appreciated. When let's say an item like a motherboard has a review with 3 out of the 5 stars ... Does it really mean that there's 40% chance the board will arrive DOA, or explode in 3 weeks time?
I am basically looking for parts that are Very solid, require the least amount of tweeking and TLC, and that will last a good long time... i.e until an Intel hexacore processor is more justifiable.
Thanks! .... Jack