[Serious]PC Spec Sound good to you?

Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-152-AS)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-113-SP)
Antec Super LANBOY Aluminum Super Mini Tower Case - No PSU (CA-012-AN)
Thermaltake Sonic Tower 4-in-1 Noiseless Heatpipe (Socket 939/754/775/478) CPU Cooler (CL-P0071) (HS-009-TT)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-127-IN)
Antec NeoHE 500W Modular ATX2.0 PSU
74GB Raptor 10,000 RPM
Viewsonic VX2025wm 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Silver/Black


Thought I would just check what everyone thought about the above items for a PC.

The Raptor will be joined to my existing one to create an extended drive.

Anyone had bad experiance with any of these items? :)

NB. I found all these on www.overclockers.co.uk which I have found to be a very reliable dealer. All items are listed on their website :)

If you're going all out, get a larger hard drive, don't worry about RPMs.
And if you can afford it, a slightly higher GHz on your processor.

The alienware PCs are pretty good, check those out :thumb:

I already have 200GB hard disk and a 74 gig in my current rig. These will be moved over to the new one. It would take too long to transfer over 'certain special video's and other files :afrog:

The reason for the new Raptor is because I want to joint raid it to the existing one. Seems pointless raiding a slower drive to it :)

It will be a total of 340+GB of storage when its complete.

Alienware PC's are very expensive. Its so much cheaper to build your own these days. Its also quicker as I can have this rig up and running by the end of Saturday =P


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Youch just saw the prices of alienware stuff too. Painful :afrog:

Alienware are the Adidas of computers. You pay for the ghastly case design and the Alienware logo.

I recently built a computer at work using the core 2 duo. The motherboard I selected has some quirky issues with raiding. I know it was an asus, but I don't know if it was the p5w. I'll post again about what board it is and the issues it has when I get to work.

ok thanks. I was also looking at the newer Gigabyte GA_965P_DQ6 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-058-GI)

This supports some new fangled QuadE-Sata so it might be a better option for future advances

Ok, the board i have is an asus p5b. So i'm not sure if this problem would also apply to the p5w or not. The issue is that the board claims it supports raid in the specs, but it actually contains 2 sata controllers. There are a total of 6 sata ports on the board. 4 of them are associated with one controller, the other 2 are associated with the second controller. The second controller is the one that supports raid. The first controller doesn't even support NCQ. You MUST configure it to emulate as an IDE drive for it to function. I did tons of research and googleing to try to get the controller to work with NCQ(becuase in the bios, you can set it to native instead of emulate ide). I know all about F6 driver disks and stuff. I tried everything and couldn't get it to work. There were also reports of the same issue as I was having with this board. Because of this, I am quite sure that it is not a defective board issue. Anyways, the other issue with this board is that the controller that does support raiding only has one of the sata ports actually for use internally. That is, the second sata port for this controller is an external sata port. So if you want to raid your drives, you have to have one of the drives sitting outside the computer and one of the drives inside the computer

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Originally Posted by mendhak

If you're going all out, get a larger hard drive, don't worry about RPMs.
And if you can afford it, a slightly higher GHz on your processor.

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Crazy man...

If he wanted more Ghz he would simply push that FSb up... The Conroes can take an immense amount even on stock voltages.

If you want to overclock your processor, make sure you get a different cooling solution than the stock fan. Even though the conroe is cooler than the p4 and pentium d series, you'll still want something other than the stock cooler if you want to overclock it.

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Originally Posted by BodwadUK

I already have 200GB hard disk and a 74 gig in my current rig. These will be moved over to the new one. It would take too long to transfer over 'certain special video's and other files :afrog:

The reason for the new Raptor is because I want to joint raid it to the existing one. Seems pointless raiding a slower drive to it :)

It will be a total of 340+GB of storage when its complete.

Alienware PC's are very expensive. Its so much cheaper to build your own these days. Its also quicker as I can have this rig up and running by the end of Saturday =P


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Youch just saw the prices of alienware stuff too. Painful :afrog:

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Could always use them as a basis for ideas though :thumb:

I changed to the Gigabyte board and upped the processor slightly. Should have it all by tommorrow

YAY :)

I'd use the raptor as your OS drive for quick bootup and a quicker pagefile.
I'd purchase a second raptor, and use that for games etc.
I'd put images and documents and music onto the 200GB

More or less done

I currently use a Raptor for the OS and games, while using the 200GB for files. I now intend to RAID the two raptors for extra speed and install the OS and software onto those while keeping the 200GB for files etc

What OS are you putting on?

MAN - I've just added more mammary to my already awesome works laptop.... its eating stuff alive now. Especially Battlefield 2 ;o)

Its this monster with upgraded disk and mem. I was not expecting the boss to respond seriously when I said I was struggling with performance on my old machine, 2 weeks later I get this. :thumb:

HD - SeagateST910021AS 100GB 7200rpm SATA1.5GB
Proc - Intel Core Duo Processor T2600+ (2.16-GHz, 667 FSB, 2MB-L2 cache)
Mammary - 4GB DDR2 SDRAM 667
Screen - 17.0-inch WUXGA (1920x1200 resolution and 16M colors)

And for the love of god don't run Windows on it.

lol Windows XP of course

[show off]Mine will have better graphics and a bigger screen[\show off]

Must admit I am looking forward to this new core duo as I have heard so much about it :)

It lets you crash twice as often and twice as fast.

Well in fairness I built a machine for home about 2 years ago.
It's got 2GB of DDR2, 2x250GB HDDs, an X1800 w/512MB, XP Pro, 3GHz Intel P4

It's not a bad machine, especially for something that's getting on in years.
Oh yeah and I've got 2x19" TFTs :D

All that is for nothing if you haven't got a real OS on it.

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MAN - I've just added more mammary to my already awesome works laptop.... its eating stuff alive now

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where do you put mammaries on a laptop?

Just in front of the touchpad, they make an excellent wrist-rest. ;)

Unfortunately I have to make do with an artifical pair, as I couldn't find a willing volunteer to be a mouse mat. :(