9thAF_Angel Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 I haven't been on these forums for awhile but i know that you guys are trustworthy so i would just like some advice on a new computer that im building for university. I want to keep the price at around $3000.00CDN ($2700.00USD) just for the record. Heres what i have so far: Case: Thermaltake Tsunami PSU: Untra X-Finity 600-watt Moniter: Samsung 19" LCD 8ms 1280x1024 CPU: Intel Conroe E6700 Motherboard: no clue becasue i havent seen too many models for the conroe yet GFX Card: BFG Nvidia 7900GTX OC Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy SE RAM: OCZ Duel Channel Gold DDR2 PC-5400 (2x1024mb) Hard Drive: Western Digital Raptor 150GB @ 10,000RPM Optical Drive 1: LiteOn 16x Dual Layer DVD+/- RW Optical Drive 2: LiteOn 52x CD-ROM Floppy Drive: Panasonic 3.5 Floppy Drive Speakers: Logitech X230 2.1 32Watt Mouse: Logitech G5 Corded Keyboard: Logitech BX1 OS: Windows 64bit (please let me know if there are any known issues with this OS please) If i forgot anything please tell me (minus the printer casue im just gonna take mine from home) and if you have any suggestions please let me know. Also if anyone can contrast nVidia and ATI cards that would be great becasue im not sure what to look for exactly but my friend told me the the 7900 is a good card. Thanks in advance. Virtual 9th Airforce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walternowi Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Looks good. I would suggest you get a better power supply, such as an Enermax or a Seasonic. Hope this helps. Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 ASUS Sabertooth X79 4 x 4GB Crucial Ballistix VLP PC3-12800 ASUS Cerberus GTX 1070 Ti 8 Gb Seasonic Platinum 860W Thrustmaster Cougar Uber II Nxt CH Products PT/TQ/MFP Slaw Pedals TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33rd_bratpfanne. Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Does not sound to me too much like a Computer for work:music_whistling: :joystick: :megalol: But anyway you might think about building a RAID with two raptors, will increase Speed as Raid 0 or Safety as Raid 1 (or was it the other way around?) S! Brati BTW: Win 64 has plenty of known issues, guess why it has never been officialy released by M$. I would suggest going with the XP Pro, it is fairly well working, Drivers are widely available and performance Gain of Win 64 is hardly noticable in 32bit Applications (only game i know is FAR CRY that supports Win 64) "Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them." (THX Rich :thumbup: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thAF_Angel Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 Thanks for the quick replies. I was just looking at other PSUs and the enermax ones seem to be more expensive than most. Obviously this is becasue of quality and name but would i be able to cut down price a little bit by getting a 535WATT PSU instead of 600? This is the first computer ive built so im not sure about how much power different components wll suck up and whatnot. Also, i was toying around with the idea of putting 2 74gig raptors in RAID0 but the problem is that i dunno if RAID0 need a special mobo, what kind of conenctors it uses, if it needs a controller, other software and all the other stuff. If anyone knows what need to be done to put the RAID0 in i would appritiate it becasue if it isnt too much of hassle for me then i may consider putting the RAID0 in (btw it is the RIAD0 i want becasue thats the one which effectively doubles your harddrive speed by slpitting the files and putting half on one HD and half on the other). Thanks. Virtual 9th Airforce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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