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So I'm going to buy a new computer...
Freedom Kira:
You had $4k to spend and only grabbed 12GB of RAM for a triple-channel board? o.O
kitamesume:
fill up your ram slots with 4gbs imho thats a wooping 24gb of ram in total.
plus you havent listed any SSD yet.
btw, why the lvl10? thats seriously overpriced XD
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on June 22, 2011, 10:47:02 PM ---You had $4k to spend and only grabbed 12GB of RAM for a triple-channel board? o.O
--- End quote ---
What is this "triple-channel board" you speak of?
--- Quote from: kitamesume on June 23, 2011, 03:08:20 AM ---fill up your ram slots with 4gbs imho thats a wooping 24gb of ram in total.
plus you havent listed any SSD yet.
btw, why the lvl10? thats seriously overpriced XD
--- End quote ---
How many RAM slots does this have? My laptop only has 2, but I'm guessing this has more than two.
Not sure which SSDs I want. The OCZ ones look to be of good quality; I'm running one in my laptop ATM and it's doing well.
I kind of want SLC memory for my SSDs, because I heard that was better.
The level 10 looked cool on the pictures and 250 or so seemed pretty reasonable in comparison to the $1000 processor.
kitamesume:
X58 boards has 6slots of ram. ohh and i noticed you're getting a DDR3 1333mhz CL9, bad choice, aim for 1600 or higher.
not sure either on which brand for the SSD, only SSD i have used is OCZ Agility 1.
if i remember correctly, SLC and MLC hardly has any difference now a days in performance.
Lvl10 looks cool, but waaay overpriced, look at spoiler for more info.
(click to show/hide)[Prices are from newegg]
[1,000$]Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.46GHz 6 x 256KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Six-Core
[560$]ASUS Rampage III Black Edition LGA 1366 Intel X58
[450$](3x150$) G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 CL7
[1,200$](2x600$) MSI N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5
[300$](2x150$)[RAID-1 or RAID-0] Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM SATA III (HDD)
[540$](2x270$)[RAID-1 or RAID-0] OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III (SSD)
[220$] Antec TPQ-1200 1200W Continuous Power with PowerCache Technology
[270$] Thermaltake Level 10 GT (VN10001W2N) Black SECC / Plastic ATX Full Tower Case
SUM : 4540$ without rebates.
another Lvl10, for the Lulz.
[850$] Thermaltake Level 10 VL30001N1Z Black Aluminum ATX Super Full Tower Case
ohh yea, a true raid setup would cost about another 1,000$ or more, HDDs and SSDs alone would cost that much.
[540$](2x270$)[RAID-1 or RAID-0] OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III (SSD)
[900$](6x150$)[RAID-1+0 or RAID-0] Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM SATA III (HDD)
SUM : 1440$ without rebates.
xShadow:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but RAM clocks don't make that big of a difference compared to the rest of your components (most places I've read about it say it's quite insignificant). He should be quite fine with the 1333mhz RAM, if he desires. Of course, if you want to overspend, be my guest.
My problem is that you haven't even considered monitors or SSDs and you're currently $521.80 away from your budget limit. To me this is a pathetic waste of 4k.
Good monitors (note: good, not that shit you see advertising itself as good for like 1xx dollars) run you a decent chunk. Even if you're telling me you're mostly using it for folding, when you DO want to game, you want to game on a GOOD monitor (or monitors, in your case). It makes quite a big difference. I'm running on a decent monitor that cost me 210 dollars, but this thing was refurbished, and at this price it was somewhat of a steal (2-3 dead pixels, too, not that it makes much of a difference). However, the difference was instantly noticeable. I'm looking at it side by side with my previous monitor, and the color differences are obvious.
I think a bit of rethinking on whether some of the more expensive components are necessary is in order. Processor, fine. You want to futureproof it. Motherboard... maybe look for slightly cheaper alternatives; the question is whether you'll need some of the things more expensive boards offer. I also don't see why you're getting such an expensive CPU cooler... but that's not that big of a price. Your graphics solution... fine. Now, the case... I must wonder if you can get something that's cheaper than that. Even for a computer of your caliber, something 100 dollars cheaper should suffice, imo. I'm not asking you to get a 50 dollar solution like I did (which works perfectly fine, by the way; I have 5 hard drives in it and everything is working harmoniously), but consider something more reasonable. Your first priority should be things that directly affect your computer performance; you can MAKE almost any case work.
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