New rig - comments and suggestions are welcome!

urk10

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Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R LGA 775 (CHANGED from ->S775 ASUS P5K Dx WIFI P35 PCIE)
Processor Intel Q6600 (UPDATED from ->Intel Core 2 Duo E6600)
Memory CORSAIR 800MHZ DDR2 NO-ECC 2048MB TWINX C4
Video card BFG PCIE GF8 8800GTX OC 768M (CHANGED from->ASUS PCIE GF8 EN8800GTX 768M)
Hard drive SATA2 320.0 SEAGATE 7200 16M
Mouse Logitech G7
Keyboard Logitech G15
Power supply Antec TruePower Trio 650W
Case Antec Nine Hundred
DVD drive DVD+/-RW LG
Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB (CHANGED from ->SCSI 36.7 SG 15K 8M)


I would use it for games,some video editing,music.
I'm thinking about getting the Q6600 if there is a price drop in the next 2 weeks



 

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Q6600 @ 266 BUCKS on Sunday!

Just curious, why do you need a scsi drive? They are fast, but they won't be any better than the WD raptor for what you're doing. Scsi is more for multi user environments.
 

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Well,I wanted a SCSI for their reliability and performance,mainly for video editing.I always thought they were the best for that.Kinda old school,I know! :D
I'll check the WD raptor,
thanks for your advice!


About July22, I'll believe it when I see it!;)
 

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The raptor has a 5 year warranty. I haven't seen too many complains about them to be honest. You can't max out a sata 1 cable, even w/ a raptor, and you won't be able to utilize the bandwidth of a SAS scsi drive from one user only (to my knowledge).

Don't get me wrong, scsi is great. I have about 5 OLD scsi drives sitting around (circa 1992) and they still run. Only problem is that they are about 1 gig each or so.

How much is the scsi drive? I'd figure its not much more expensive than the 74 or 150 gig drives (160 - 200 bucks respectively for the raptors). I would have thought that you needed more than 36 gigs (something like 33 when formatted). If not and you would feel much safer with the scsi reliability, then go for it.

I seriously considered buying a sas scsi for my build, but after doing research, realized I could never effectively max out the drive, nor did I want to add a scsi raid card to run it (I would probably need a 700 watt psu instead of 650, and thats a 50 dollar price difference for my current build). I'm going w/ the 150 gig raptor instead adding in maybe a 750 gig drive for media later.

The cheapest one on newegg is this 36 gig fujitsu:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822116032

If you're not comfortable with recertified the same one that is ultra320 runs 150 instead of 80 bucks

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822116002

The reviewer stated that the fujitsu is quieter than the raptor, but I'd like to hear it to believe it. Who knows?

About the price drop:

http://www.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=4976

google "intel july 22" something should come up. :kaola:
 
I'd definitely get a Q6600 after the price cut. Video editing is one of the best reasons for quad CPus.

SCSI and Raptors are nice but frankly I'd rather get one or two big SATA drives for the same money. It won't be that much slower and you'd have more room.

I'd get a Gigabyte P35-DS3R mobo and a Gigabyte or BFG 8800 GTX. Asus has a bad reputation for quality and customer support these days.
 

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Last night on newegg, 7/19/2007, they had the q6600 for $266 and some change. Don't think it was a special or maybe I just hit the website at the right time to catch an update we are not supposed to see till Monday..

Doesn't matter, end of the month I am going to look at the parts I need to upgrade my 939 system and the q6600 is top of the list at this moment.
 
Don't forget, you will need a scsi controller card, and they are not cheap. Go to www.storagereview.com to see some single user benchmarks of scsi vs raptor. Bottom line: 150gb raptor is the best performing real world drive.