summer's here emminna build a new box. here is what i have already purchased:
case: Thermaltake Armor VA8003SWA
psu: Silverstone Zeus ST65ZF
watercool: Swiftech Apex Ultra with MCW30 chipset waterblock
gpu: eVGA 8800GTX 768MB 768-P2-N831-AR
sound: Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
ups: APC BX-1500 (865watts)
hd: western digital raptor 150 WD1500ADFD
what's missing is the cpu, mobo and ram.
the target oc is 3.8ghz(desired level), but it has to be at least 3.6ghz (minimum level)
I'm leaning toward e6700 and ds3 at this time, i'm using an asus p5b right now, one of the first revisions, and it doesn't oc very well.
i don't believe in sli, and i don't believe in ram lantencies.
sli entails too much money, too much work, and things could go wrong at too many places, its concept should stay with distributed computing efforts and not personal computer graphics rendering.
ram latencies.. i'm so tired of people talking bout 4445ms mumbojumbo as if couple ms will make salient differences. the bottleneck in pc's lies with the hd, and not ram, gimme a hd that can rival the speed of memory, and then we'll talk about ram latencies. until then, ddr2 is just as good as ddr3.
speaking of hd, i will upgrade to like a raid 0 or raid 5 config when i find a good lsi logic card.
so what do you guys think? should i go with e6700 and ds3? what kind of ram should i buy? (i've heard that ds3's doesn't work well with certain ram sticks?)
case: Thermaltake Armor VA8003SWA
psu: Silverstone Zeus ST65ZF
watercool: Swiftech Apex Ultra with MCW30 chipset waterblock
gpu: eVGA 8800GTX 768MB 768-P2-N831-AR
sound: Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
ups: APC BX-1500 (865watts)
hd: western digital raptor 150 WD1500ADFD
what's missing is the cpu, mobo and ram.
the target oc is 3.8ghz(desired level), but it has to be at least 3.6ghz (minimum level)
I'm leaning toward e6700 and ds3 at this time, i'm using an asus p5b right now, one of the first revisions, and it doesn't oc very well.
i don't believe in sli, and i don't believe in ram lantencies.
sli entails too much money, too much work, and things could go wrong at too many places, its concept should stay with distributed computing efforts and not personal computer graphics rendering.
ram latencies.. i'm so tired of people talking bout 4445ms mumbojumbo as if couple ms will make salient differences. the bottleneck in pc's lies with the hd, and not ram, gimme a hd that can rival the speed of memory, and then we'll talk about ram latencies. until then, ddr2 is just as good as ddr3.
speaking of hd, i will upgrade to like a raid 0 or raid 5 config when i find a good lsi logic card.
so what do you guys think? should i go with e6700 and ds3? what kind of ram should i buy? (i've heard that ds3's doesn't work well with certain ram sticks?)