Out Of Curiosity... Rate My System

[hella-d]

Im Just Curious Of What Pepole Think Of My System Ill Give Full Hardware Details (Id Like To Remind You That Im A Die-Hard AMD Fan So No Core 2 Duo Remarks) If I Forgot Anything Just Ask

Chaintech Zenith VE, Socket 939, PCI-E, Nforce4 Ultra Motherboard
Opteron 175 (2.0GHz Stock) Peltier/Air @ 3.2GHz, 1.55V
2GB DDR 1T, 3-4-4-7@600MHz, 2.9v (4x512Mb Sticks)
Soundblaster Audigy SE 7.1, EAX3
Gigabyte iRAM w/2GB DDR (Used For A 1GB Swapfile And Temp Files)
36GB 15,000RPM Ultra-SCSI320 w/8MB Cache (2x18GB Partitions Virtual Raid-1) 18GB Highly Customized And Tweaked Windows XP x64 Edition Install And Personal Files Partition. 18GB Backup Mirror) On A PCI-E x4 U320 SCSI Controller
2x 80GB Western Digital Special Edition, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache, PATA/100 In RAID-0, Bulk/Application And Game Storage
Evga 8800GTS @600/1600
LG 16x DVD-ROM
HP DVD640 16x DL-DVD Burner w/Lightscribe
Xoxide Acrylic Case w/3x80mm, 3500RPM Blue-LED Fans And 1x 120mm, 3500RPM Blue-LED Fans
Modified\Customized Logitech X-530 5.1 w/Rewired Amp And Retrofitted With An 8" Compitetion Kicker Sub
Modified/Customized Compaq Keyboard (Keys "Edged" With Blue El-Wire, Logo Removed)
Customized/Modified A4Tech Wireless Batteryfree Mouse (Red LEDs Replaced w/Blue LEDs And Skinned Mousepad)
22" Scepter, 1680x1050, .27mm, 5ms. 16:9 Widescreen TFT-LCD Attached Via DVI (HDMI Capable) And 17.3" SiliconGraphics (SGI), 1600x1024, .23mm, 40ms. 16:9 Widescreen TFT-LCD Attached Via DVI-to-VGA Adapter (Due To An Incompatibility Between The Multilink Adapter And DVI Port)
450Watt Accessory + 550Watt System Power Supplys

 

[lordaardvark2]

i'd give it a 453425435215876.


but seriously, no offence, but what do you expect people to say?

 

[Gunlance]

how did you get your memory to run at 1T while having 4 sticks of ram?

 

[lordaardvark2]

wtf is 1T anyway?

you forgot your rating!!!!11!!!!!!1!!!!

 

[JMecc]

I think it sounds like a cool system + I like AMD too (some part of me didn't want to get a C2D due to the years of Intel screwing everyone while AMD was actually making good processors).

Jo

 

[moogles]

it's a pretty good system. I got the lg dvd drive! 😀 and 4 sticks of ram too 😛
musta cost alot, with all those fast hard drives.

 

[Assman]

6/10

 

[Heyyou27]

It's alright but I bet that CPU burns a ton of energy at 1.55v.

 

[TSIMonster]

You put a car audio sub (kicker at that) in place of a nice logitech home sub?

I think the system is pretty decent. I think the video card is nice, but overpriced atm, and some of the other stuff is pretty nice. Not a big fan of Chaintech though. C2D would easily out perform it in a similar build for less money i bet.

 

[boduke]

I'm a tad confused as why you would take a single 36GB drive, partition it, then do any type of raid on it? (I'm assuming by "virtual raid 1" you mean you've mirrored it at the OS level?) Granted if the OS partition is corrupt then you have a way out, but if the drive dies, you're screwed...

There aren't any performance benefits from doing this, as a matter of fact you'll take a perf hit because the same spindle has to write the data twice, not to mention that there is an OS perf hit for doing software mirroring...

Other than that good box tho!

 

[hella-d]

I Just Wanted Opinions, Number Ratings, Hell Even Improvments That Can Be Made, All My friends Seem To Love It Even Those Who Dont Even Know Much Boutem

 

[hella-d]

Ive Heard That I Dosent Work Ither, I Tried It An It Worked! How? I Have No Idea

 

[hella-d]

The 36GB SCSI Was Only $130.00 New, A Friend Of Mine Whos An IT At A Bank Bought Some New Servers And Replaced The Drives With Larger Ones And Sold Me One Of Them. One Of The WD800s Is From My Last (Athlon XP) System That I Built Late 2001 And The Other My Brother Swiped From Wal-Mart (Dont Ask) About 4 Months Ago.

 

[hella-d]

Yes Its Software Raid 1 But The Hit Is Negligable Since The Files That Are Written Often, (Like Things In My Documents, Such As Images From My Digital Camera, Short Video Clips, And Text Documents) Are Reletively Small And Due To The Fact That My Temp Folder And The Swapfile Are On The 2GB iRAM.

And Even If There Is A Drive Falure (Witch I Doubt Since Its A Brand New Fluid Bearing Drive Thats 2 Months Old From The Manufactuing Date) I Keep A
DL-DVD Backup Of My Utmost Important Files.

The Largest Files (Game Lavel Loads, All Other Apps, My "Keepable" Download Storage Folders And Encryped Volume Are All Read From And Written To The WD800s In The Hardware Raid-0 Bulk Storage Array.

 

[hella-d]

Yes I Installed The Kicker To Replace The 7" Cardboard Cone Speaker, And The Amp Was Rewired To Up The Wattage Another 50Watts, It Sounds Incredible, The Nieghbors Two Houses Down Complained About Being Able To Hear The Bass

 

[slim142]

Like some guy in the forums uses to say when this happens

Another "How big/hard/wide my e-pennis is?" thread

 

[boduke]

Yes Its Software Raid 1 But The Hit Is Negligable Since The Files That Are Written Often, (Like Things In My Documents, Such As Images From My Digital Camera, Short Video Clips, And Text Documents) Are Reletively Small And Due To The Fact That My Temp Folder And The Swapfile Are On The 2GB iRAM.

And Even If There Is A Drive Falure (Witch I Doubt Since Its A Brand New Fluid Bearing Drive Thats 2 Months Old From The Manufactuing Date) I Keep A
DL-DVD Backup Of My Utmost Important Files.

The Largest Files (Game Lavel Loads, All Other Apps, My "Keepable" Download Storage Folders And Encryped Volume Are All Read From And Written To The WD800s In The Hardware Raid-0 Bulk Storage Array.

Just tossing in my two cents man - my job is nothing but storage and its just not something I'd do or recommend....

 

[hella-d]

Nah, It Nothing Like That (Thats Funny Though) I Just Wanted Opinion And Suggestions, And Hell Just A General Discussion, I Wish Some Pepole Would Also Post Some Detailed Specifications Here As Well

I Know My System Is The Sh*t But Its Not The Best By A Long Shot, Ive Seen Faster And Better Looking, But Im Sure In My State That Im In The Top 10 Overall Rating... My Last System Was Officially

 

[hella-d]

Nah, Its Cool, Just What I Asked For

 

[akahuddy]

I give your system a 7 out of 10; unfortunately, your grammar is only worth approximately -2.

 

[CompuTronix]

Screamingly excellent 3.2Ghz OC on your Opty!!! 8O 8O 8O My previous rig was an Opty 170 OC'd to 3.0Ghz on a Zalman 9500, but we who are about to blue screen, salute you!!! 😀 😀 😀

 

[hella-d]

LOL, Grammer Shmammer Its My Typing That Sucks I End Up Hitting Keys That I Dont Want

 

[DrnknM0nkey]

LOL, Grammer Shmammer Its My Typing That Sucks I End Up Hitting Keys That I Dont Want

Cool rig. But if you struggle to use the keyboard; does the rest of the hardware just sit there and accumulate dust?

 

[ZozZoz]

Give yourself a pat on the back, you've reached the unreachable, you've managed the unmanageable, you've built a home computer. wow.

all hail the hella-d.

Ever heard the theory about how males see their cars as the extension of their manhood? I kinda believe it. Most of the time I see someone drive a big-ass SUV, its some small balding fella, whose head won't even reach above the roof of his car when he gets out.

Don't you think the same is happening in the world of hardware?
"Hey, look at me, I feel deficient deep inside, but that's ok, I'll just go brag about this cool PC that I have"

I'm sick of all of your "critique-my-build-how's-this-rig-what-do-you-think-of-my-system-is-my-8800gtx-any-good" posts

 

[hella-d]

Um, No, Typing Isnt EVERYTHING. And When I AM Typing Thats What Spell Check Is For.