Building A Comp, need help

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MethidParadox

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Hey guys, I have just moved to Oregon and my dad has my old computer, and since i'm now making a lot of money I was thinking I could just build my own computer.

But i havent done this in a while, SO if you guys could give me suggestions on the best Motherboard/CPU combos that would be sweet.

I want to build the computer for 3D Gaming and 3D modeling, So i'm primarily going for the gold here.

I -want- to keep the cost under $1,000, but i'm willing to go up to $2,000, maybe even a -little- more
 
First off you need some mother bitchen sweet HD's
Go Hitachi all the way. You can get two 300Gig 10K RPM drives and raid them together in a striped raid array. Ever since they bought out the bloated lying cheating, stealing IBM HD corp. they have found a ton of cool tech that they are spamming out into the market.

Video I personally go for ATI because they don't lie or have not been caught in a lie marketing bullshit to their customers. Check out the new ATI SLI "Crossfire"

Chip... I'd go for Intel’s new Dual-Core CPU think it runs 300 and does a pretty good job.

Mobo's I have not been following up on... And hell I have an Asus Rambuss mobo AKA no upgrades. SHOOT ME

Sound just stick with Sound Blaster and you will be just fine.

Then throw in a bitchen water cooler OC' that CPU and if you want to blow another 600$ check out Philips's new monitor that just hit the market 190P5 or something. That or go with the good old reliable ViewSonic (Optiquest)
 
Hey I live in Oregon also, look for a place called ENU. They are a pretty famous local place that sells any part you can think of, for very VERY competitive prices.

I built a blazing top of the line computer with all ENU parts about 3 years ago, and it only cost me about 1.2k, where if I would of tried to order the same thing from a brand-name company, could of ran me 3k-3.5k
 
Maphusio said:
You can get two 300Gig 10K RPM drives and raid them together in a striped raid array.
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One question ... Why do you need that much HD space?

I get by with an 80 gig and have done for the past three years.

Is there any logical reason other that e-penis size, to purchase 600 gigs?
 
aye, on occasion I wish I had more space (with 80 gigs I've occasionally got to uninstall games to make room for newer ones) but 600 gigs? Wowee, it'd take a lot of work to filler up.
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
Wait, if you RAID two 300Gb disks you don't get 600Gbs, you get one very fast 300Gb disk, right?
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Huh? Are you implying that the data is duplicated on the disks, so half can be accessed from each, thus doubling effective access time? Cool
 
Uuuuuh that's not what RAID is.

It's where you have multiple hard drives being written and read at the same time with the same data. You do it so if one hard drive fails, you don’t lose your data because it's on the good hard drive(s).
 
yep, as calculon says, RAID is a data fail-safe system, so to speak

Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks

It be redundant (Y) - good for business app and data storage and i guess it is nice for home if you have a lot sensitive data you want to keep safe on a regular basis. other than that, for home use, sounds like a waste of $$$
 
I haven't built a computer for about two years, so I don't know all the 'l33t' hardware to get. I do know some good companies, though. AMD, ATI and Seagate all make good stuff. And as far as sites go, I stuck almost exclusively to Newegg and I made myself a bitchin' rig for abour $650.

For assembly, just grab a screwdriver, find a place in your house without carpet, and follow the instructions. Your motherboard should have them.
 
and you can still make a bitchin' rig for *about* that price at newegg (unless you need top-of-the-line / most-recent everything)
 
It seems we were all right. There are several ways of RAIDing disks and one of them has the following effect:

When reading both disks can be accessed independently. Like RAID 0 the average seek time is reduced by half when randomly reading but because each disk has the exact same data the requested sectors can always be split evenly between the disks and the seek time remains low. The transfer rate would also be doubled. For three disks the seek time would be a third and the transfer rate would be tripled.
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Wiki on RAID
 
heh I should have set this strait a bit ago. I have two 120 Gig Hitachi’s at 20K rpm each in a striped raid array. I don’t need all that redundant crap. I hate redundancy. So anywho Striped 7,200 rpm yields 14,000 rpm drive. Just saves half of a file on each drive. Writes faster n what not.

More HD space is not just for bragging rights. I have a 100gig MP3 collection and growing. So you can understand I need space galore.

Ohh yes lucky post #200
 
Big T said:
Maphusio said:
You can get two 300Gig 10K RPM drives and raid them together in a striped raid array.
Click to expand...
One question ... Why do you need that much HD space?

I get by with an 80 gig and have done for the past three years.

Is there any logical reason other that e-penis size, to purchase 600 gigs?
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I could use up 600 gigs in under a year. I've been pushing the hell out of my 60 gig drive forever.. Having to remove things to add things.

I'm still not sure exactly what I want, i guess i'll just have to research it myself becuase you guys arent specific enough for me. I use to know -exactly- what was the best and why it was the best 2 years ago.. but since then a lot of shit has happened.

I think I'll just check out the best water cooling system out there and build a system around that. Water cooling is -leet-
 
Maphusio said:
heh I should have set this strait a bit ago. I have two 120 Gig Hitachi’s at 20K rpm each in a striped raid array. I don’t need all that redundant crap. I hate redundancy. So anywho Striped 7,200 rpm yields 14,000 rpm drive. Just saves half of a file on each drive. Writes faster n what not.

More HD space is not just for bragging rights. I have a 100gig MP3 collection and growing. So you can understand I need space galore.

Ohh yes lucky post #200
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100 gigs of music? The hell... what're you going to need that much for?
 
its like a hobby.. a collection, once you start you just happen to say to yourself "Well, i could get this too..." and blam

you have everything
 
a bit late probably, but why in the name of zeus' butthole would you tell someone to get 10k rpm hdd's & dual core processors? then even add crossfire? sjeez man, are you shitting money all day long or do you have a donkey doing it for you?

dual core processors are pretty much useless for desktop computing. you pay for nothing extra...
10k rpm drives? i can understand a raptor in a high end gaming rig, but DUAL 10k 300gb drives in stripe RAID? hah, nice way to waste money there.
crossfire? do you even know how that works?

anyhow, i'm not about to hold your hand and look the prices up for you, but this is what i would tell you to get in belgium...
(everything should be a lot cheaper for you boys in the states i think)

ANTEC Sonata II 450W Black (115 euro's)
OCZ 2X 512MB EL DDR PC-3500 Dual Channel Gold GX (2-2-2-5) (210 euro's)
HIS X800XL IceQ II Turbo 256MB PCI-E (340 euro's)
DFI LANPARTY UT SLI-D (155 euro's)
AMD Athlon 3500+, 64bit (Venice core) (270 euro's)
seagate or WD 200gb SATA HDD (100 euro's)

audigy 2 (if you are an audiophile), dvd writer,... & other extra crap that you can figure out yourself.

later on you can add extra's like more hdd's if you want.
 
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