New Comp

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:08 am

Shared this with the guys over there at Leetforum, thought I'd share with you guys as well, this is my new baby:

Case: Chenming Black Aluminum
H/d: 2 Western Digital Caviar 7200 RPM SATA 3.0gb/s
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+
Video: evga GeForce 8800GTS 320MB PCI-E x16
Mobo: MSI Neo-F AM2 nVidia nForce 550 MCP ATX
Memory: A-Data 2gb SDRAM DDR2 800
PSU: SeaSonic ATX12v 500W

Also, who here plays WoW and on what realm? I've a 64 Horde Undead Mage.

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:18 am

I plan on having maybe a few LEDs on the inside, but no need to go crazy, IMO.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:24 am

I play WoW.. 70 UD Mage, 60 Orc hunter, 53 orc rogue, and some others..

Was hacked a few days ago. So only toon with gear is my rogue atm.

Whisperwind, with the carebear pve noobs.

Post by **Cory** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:40 am

Its good if that's all you can afford.

Pussy don't even have SLI

Post by JB » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:49 am

so long as it runs Quake and CnC 3 its all good

Post by **stocktroll** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:19 am

intel currently has the best multi cores so use them

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:24 am

stocktroll wrote:intel currently has the best multi cores so use them

I prefer not to use Intel products, at the moment.

Post by **Nightshade** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:24 am

What he means is that he works at Wal-Mart and can't afford them.

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:34 am

People are attracted to things that look horrid by default? Dunno man

Post by **Zerofactor** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:43 am

lol I'm not Peter Griffin

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:52 am

Post by **bitWISE** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:14 am

Those hard drives seem a bit lame considering how badass the rest is. Nice machine though.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:28 am

Post by **Sanction** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:45 am

That would make a great sig

Post by **Denz** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:20 am

bitWISE wrote:Those hard drives seem a bit lame considering how badass the rest is. Nice machine though.

Correct, more like this:

WD Caviar® SE16 7200 RPM next-generation SATA hard drives feature 16 MB cache for lightning-fast performance, cool and quiet operation and up to 500 GB of storage

Post by **DiscoDave** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:23 am

Sweet machine, i know its already been said but I would go for Intel core 2 duo as its leading the dual core market at the moment

Post by **Denz** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:28 am

You have inspired me, but I did change a few things.

Case: Black
http://www.xoxide.com/aspire-x-cruiser-case-black.html

H/d: Western Digital
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products ... anguage=en

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... TC-Froogle

Video: evga GeForce 8800GTS 320MB PCI-E x16
http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cf ... TC-fr00g13

Mobo: MSI Neo-F AM2 nVidia nForce 550 MCP ATX
http://www.infotechnow.com/shop/shoppin ... pr_no=4397

Memory: A-Data 2gb SDRAM DDR2 800
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... TC-Froogle

PSU: SeaSonic ATX12v 500W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... TC-Froogle

Post by **X-R-Cist** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 9:25 am

if you really wanted fast hard drives you would scrap SATA because its a piece of crap and go with this option...

Seagate Barracuda 10K.4 (ST 3146807LW), 147 GB, 10,000
rpm Hardrive with a Ultra320 SCSI host adapter

obviously not the best in storage so you would buy 4 or 6 and raid them.

Post by **Foo** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:15 am

X-R-Cist wrote:if you really wanted fast hard drives you would scrap SATA because its a piece of crap and go with this option...

Seagate Barracuda 10K.4 (ST 3146807LW), 147 GB, 10,000
rpm Hardrive with a Ultra320 SCSI host adapter

obviously not the best in storage so you would buy 4 or 6 and raid them.

You need to move with the times. SCSI used to be the king but it's only holding its own in the server market now due to inertia, vendor lock-in, and all the usual corporate nonsense that keeps smart companies buying less-than-optimum products.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=19

http://www.barefeats.com/hard35.html
This one does side with you in speed terms, but the cost vs benefit scale is truly ridiculous. For the same price, you just add more SATA drives to the stripe and it'll be faster.

Also, much of the speed boost from SCSI is down to not hogging CPU cycles. For the price you'd have to drop on a SCSI controller, you could spend an equivalent amount on a SATA controller and reap the same if not greater benefits, on cheaper and/or a greater number of drives: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Products ... bnails=yes

Post by **MKJ** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:21 am

zeromoney

Post by **Sanction** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:36 am

Denz wrote:You have inspired me, but I did change a few things.

Case: Black
http://www.xoxide.com/aspire-x-cruiser-case-black.html

Post by **X-R-Cist** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:49 am

Foo wrote:
X-R-Cist wrote:if you really wanted fast hard drives you would scrap SATA because its a piece of crap and go with this option...

Seagate Barracuda 10K.4 (ST 3146807LW), 147 GB, 10,000
rpm Hardrive with a Ultra320 SCSI host adapter

obviously not the best in storage so you would buy 4 or 6 and raid them.
You need to move with the times. SCSI used to be the king but it's only holding its own in the server market now due to inertia, vendor lock-in, and all the usual corporate nonsense that keeps smart companies buying less-than-optimum products.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=19

http://www.barefeats.com/hard35.html
This one does side with you in speed terms, but the cost vs benefit scale is truly ridiculous. For the same price, you just add more SATA drives to the stripe and it'll be faster.

Also, much of the speed boost from SCSI is down to not hogging CPU cycles. For the price you'd have to drop on a SCSI controller, you could spend an equivalent amount on a SATA controller and reap the same if not greater benefits, on cheaper and/or a greater number of drives: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Products ... bnails=yes

yeah, i see where you are coming from with this, im stuck in a debate at work about the same thing. im a die hard SCSI freak and i will die with a SCSI controller in my coffin...

and yes you could get 2 sata drives for the cost of 1 SCSI one, but its hard to find a reliable manufacturer who provides high capacity, high speed and NCQ availability with SATA.
in saying that, these drives mentioned above dont even have NCQ and they have tiny 80gb platters, which most of the times smaller platters and bigger size = slower seek speeds.

However in saying that i dont do a whole lot of shopping for SATA or IDE drives, so maybe they are easy to find, i just havent been able to.

Post by **busetibi** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:20 am

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:

sushi?

Post by **Denz** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:41 am

Sanction wrote:
Denz wrote:You have inspired me, but I did change a few things.

Case: Black
http://www.xoxide.com/aspire-x-cruiser-case-black.html

Cases are a personal preference, I'm sure you would like something pink with a unicorn on the side or something like that.

Post by **Denz** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:50 am

found a better hdd, this has 16mb cache

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822144701

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive