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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:31 pm
by Troy
Ordered another 4g of ram and a 22inch monitor during the Blackfriday sale!!
Couldn't help myself. I kind of want some high quality 2.1 speakers.. anyone got any recommendations?
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:23 pm
by GORDON
Yeah, my recommendation is to get 5.1's.
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 4:39 am
by Cakedaddy
I've got 5.1's, and only use 2.1 of them. Depending on your PC setup, you may not have anywhere to put the rear speakers.
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:15 am
by GORDON
Ilove my5.1's. I love hearing people try to creep up behind me in TF2.
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:52 pm
by Troy
Tonight felt like the night, and I figured I gave the CPU a good few weeks to settle.
Overclock time.
Luckily, I have the G0 revision on the Q6600.
Running it at 3.005 right now, and gonna leave prime95 running all night. Seems to be doing well, full load of around 55 C for the past hour. Hopefully it will remain stable overnight.
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:07 am
by GORDON
I'm waiting for my new mobo and RAM to arrive.
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:20 am
by Troy
Will it arrive in time for some SUP:FA this weekend?
I feel I'm at least ready to test the water and get my butt kicked a few times.
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:37 am
by GORDON
No, I'll be lucky if it arrives by NEXT weekend.
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:06 pm
by GORDON
Yahoo, installed the replacement mobo this afternoon, and the third set of RAM just arrived.
Here's hoping.
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:28 pm
by GORDON
Greetings from my new/rebuilt system.
Everything is working flawlessly out of the gate.
I mentioned before that I thought this particular mobo might be geared more toward "enthusiasts," as I had to manually go in and set memory timings just to get the thing to boot... now I think I had a flaky mobo from the beginning, and only my mad skillz got it to work for the 5 months that it did before kicking the bucket.
My Windows Vista experience still only gives my RAM a rating of 5.3, though, which is still somewhat of a boggle, to me. I'd half expected it to jump to 5.9 wiith everything else, especially since it is rated and set at 1066 mHz.
But still, everything is working flawlessly post-rebuild, it even still recognized my existing RAID 0 array (I was careful to plug in the same drives to the same SATA ports, though).
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:18 pm
by TheCatt
Troy wrote:Tonight felt like the night, and I figured I gave the CPU a good few weeks to settle.
Overclock time.
Luckily, I have the G0 revision on the Q6600.
Running it at 3.005 right now, and gonna leave prime95 running all night. Seems to be doing well, full load of around 55 C for the past hour. Hopefully it will remain stable overnight.
I think they are all G0 now... that was introduced 1.5 years+ ago.
How is it running at 3.0Ghz? I am thinking of building a new PC, and was looking at doing the 6600 at 3.0 as well.
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:17 pm
by Troy
No complaints so far.
Haven't met a game yet where the CPU was holding me back.
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:34 am
by TheCatt
Cool, I was considering the 3.16Ghz dual core, then figured if I could OC the quad to 3.0Ghz, I'd prolly be happier in the long run cuz of the server stuff I do.
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:56 pm
by TheCatt
I ended up buying similar parts to Troy. Few differences (much larger case/PS, different RAM). Am going to try for the 3.0GHz OC as well.
The key thing is I'll finally be able to put all my parts in one box. I've got a Dell XPS 420 right now, but it can only fit 3 HDs. So I've got 8 HDs in a separate box, with SATA cables going b/w the two. So I'm selling the 420, which will almost pay for all of the parts, then rebuilding with a massive tower system.
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:29 pm
by Troy
Two thinks dawned on my while reading this thread.
1) My newegg rebate isn't in yet (OCZ one is though)
2) I got nice speakers, Logitech Z2300s, very nice, good sound, loud as fuck if they need to be, recommended.
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:08 pm
by Cakedaddy
Well, Microcenter had the Core i7 920 on sale for $200+tax. $212 out the door. They had better than Newegg prices on the Asus P6T motherboard and 6GB OCZ tripple channel RAM as well. So, I picked those up too. The 300GB Velociraptor drive was also priced at $229 at Microcenter, but I had to pay tax, so higher than Newegg. I'm not sure I'm going to keep that though. Most people on Newegg say it's super fast and awesome. A handfull say "Here's the test scores. It's not that much faster than a good 7200 drive. RAID0 some good 7200 drives and get more storage for $100 less". So, I'm probably going to do that. Thinking about when the drive is used. Starting games. Booting. Ummm. That's about it. So, spend all that extra money to save some seconds at the beginning? What does the panel here think? Am I missing something and the 10000 rpm drive is worth it?
Anyway, I haven't built it yet, but the above hardware added to my previously purchased GTX260s, and I should be doing ok. My current 3+ year old setup REALLY held back my cards. Things looked AWESOME, but ran like shit. Still had to scale things back. Actually considering getting Vista as well. What's the point of having 6GB RAM with Vista?
If the admin wants, he can move this to a New PC 2009 thread. But since I'm adding to other stuff I bought, I kept it here.
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:08 pm
by GORDON
Vista really slows shit down, but is it still feasible to stay with XP as a gamer? I honestly don't know; been out of touch with the pc gaming community since the new year. Attention focused elsewhere.
As for RAID 0 with 7200 RPM drives, I dig mine. I've never used a 10k RPM drive, though, so maybe I'd dig my RAID 0 less if I knew the difference. Last time I checked, though, 2 7200 SATA3 drives were still less expensive than a 10k drive, and I didn't need a 1TB drive for my gaming machine, so that kept storage costs WAY low. A couple 150GB, 7200RPM, SATA3 drives in RAID0 is more than enough for any serious gamer, IMO.... AS LONG AS THERE IS ANOTHER FILE SERVER ELSEWHERE ON THE LAN. If I had to keep my mp3's and digital images on my gaming machine, I'd need more storage. But I don't. So I don't.
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:54 pm
by Cakedaddy
Most people say the 10k drives are the fastest ever. But, how many of them really know? New drive, new system load, new CPU memory in some cases = faster everything. How many really know that it's the drive? The reviews on Newegg are good to know if something is shit, but are they good enough to base performance decisions on? I dunno. There were a few people that actually posted test results. In all cases, the 10k was faster than the 7200s, of course. But many people said their RAID 0 7200s were faster than the 10k. Some people were RAID 0ing two 10k drives and RAID 0 7200s for mass storage. So, hard to say. But even if the 10ks are always faster, is it worth the extra $100+. If the only real difference is how quick the game loads and how fast the system boots, I'll save the money. How often is game PLAY affected by the drive?
Granted, there are LOTS of applications where drive speed is important. FRAPS, ripping, etc. But I don't FRAPS, and I rip while afk. So, don't care about that stuff right now.
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:20 am
by GORDON
Plus, I heard the 10k drives are often noisy.
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:46 am
by TheCatt
I used to use a 10k RPM boot drive, it was a little noisy, but nice and fast.
I currently use a RAID 1 boot, 2x7200 RPM SATAs, cuz I dont want to deal with a drive failure.