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Tannosuke:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on March 28, 2012, 10:05:55 AM ---SAS drives? ouch,  i don't think theres much boards that support those these days.

well anyway, if you have a SATA based harddrive then you could slash of some of the price, the example rig i gave as a whole is exactly €300, excluding the shipping fees.

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With my mates already thought of that. I asked them about changing these SAS to a powerful one 1TB Internal HD, which could be supported in all boards.

kitamesume:
wouldn't it be a wiser decision to just sell those SAS drives and buy a WD black drive, pair it up with an SSD of enough size in SRT mode to cache the WD black, plus use another SSD to dedicate an OS for it? the sum of it might be expensive indeed but the speed you'd get is much more faster than an ordinary raid array composing of mechanical HDDs.

but we're getting derailed from the topic, since you got a ton of drives, you could just switch the example's HDD for an SSD, the rest can be externally connected, no problem with that.

it'll look like this: (note: currency is in US dollars, and shipping costs excluded.)
[$124.99 - $15(promo until 4/2)] Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz LGA 1155 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor
[$104.99] ASRock Z68 PRO3 GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
[$44.99] Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop
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TOTAL : $259.97

[$128.99] Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR120GB 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
[$19.99] APEX SK-393-C Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case (note! careful with cheap cases, some of them are cheap enough to be called a junk.)
[$44.99 - $8(promo until 3/29)] CORSAIR Builder Series CX430 V2 (CMPSU-430CXV2) 430W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
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GRAND TOTAL : $445.94 or €334.14

Edit: though since you're making a bigger upgrade with this plan, i might just suggest that you both bump your budget and wait for ivy bridge.

the main reason for these is that with ivy bridge, you get to build a much more energy efficient rig, which means a quieter rig since less cooling would be needed. i might also suggest you swap your current GPU for the next in line GTX 650 Ti when it comes out for the same reason as the Ivy Bridge.
and also to mention that there seems to be quad core ivy bridges at 77W TDP in intel's charts, that would mean a very cool and efficient quad core, vastly more powerful than the i3-2100 at that.

and the budget bump would be to effectively pick which components will you want, like a better case than the junk i just suggested, and maybe a much more efficient PSU. sadly corsair VX series aren't in newegg, its vastly more efficient than the CX series at almost the same price.

plus, SSDs doesn't have any moving parts, hence its practically a noiseless drive, unless by some reason it does make some noise, you'll need to replace it at once.


to give you a rough idea of why i've kept mentioning efficiency:
1) higher efficiency = less heat generated.
2) less heat generated = less cooling required.
3) less cooling required = less noise generated.

Edit2: sorry for posting a long, boring post.

Lupin:

--- Quote from: Tannosuke on March 28, 2012, 12:36:56 AM ---1) AMD PHENOM II X6 1100T 3.3GHZ SIX-CORE BLACK EDITION.

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Get that  one. Then spend the rest of your money on better video card, more storage and/or a good cpu cooler.

I wouldn't recommend anything below 4 real cores. From what you have posted, I can conclude that you're one of those users who wants to make the most out of their hardware, trying to keep it around for as long as possible. The i3 suggested in the earlier post doesn't really fit that in my opinion. It lacks the core count to keep up in the future.

If you go AMD, get the X6. If you go intel, get a real 4 core SB or wait for IB. Either way, it's a pretty big upgrade for you.

vuzedome:
As much as you're trying to push Tanno to go SSD, I just don't see a need for it, YET.

kitamesume:
the i3 was pointed for it's little heat generation, that would mean the HSF's fan could run under 40% of it's max RPM, making it silent most of the time. but in comparision with the athlon option, i3 > athlon.
so the option is either i3 vs phenom X6, but the phenom X6 is quite a hot chip. so its more like i3 vs i5? meh.

but if you plan to push the budget higher then go for the intel's quad since they run cooler than any other processors in the same performance department as of now, though recommending to wait for intel's ivy, should be out by june. the SSD are just extra, well he does wants silence and SSDs are silent, literally.

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