Building a desktop PC

**Lemur** · 10-04-2010, 14:15

Yeah, I think it's a bit early in the game to jump to EFI. Likewise, I wouldn't wait for DisplayPort. New technologies are coming, sure, but when aren't they?

**naut** · 10-08-2010, 09:16

I really would urge you to revise your status as an nVidia fanboy. With the new AMD Radeon HD 6xxx coming out in October you'll be able to potentially get some very good bargains on the current range of ATI cards, such as the 5770 and 5870. Or, you could shell out for the 6870, which will quite frankly blow the GTX470 out of the water.

Or better yet, wait till early 2011 when AMD is bringing out the 7xxx series with new architecture.

**Crandaeolon** · 10-08-2010, 11:00

Re: hard drives, one possible option to consider is getting a couple of 500 GB Momentus XT hybrid SSD/platter drives and slapping them into a RAID 0 setup. Quote from overclockersclub:

Originally Posted by May 23, 2010

Right now, a 128GB SSD will run you an about $300, but the Seagate Momentus XT will have a MSRP of ~ $156 for the 500GB drive we tested here. So for the price of one 128GB SSD, you can purchase two Momentus XT drives, run them in a RAID 0 configuration, almost match the speed, and get eight times the storage. I don't know about you, but a terabyte of storage with speeds almost as fast an SSD, sure sounds great to me. When it comes to buying a hard drive, I look for price and for performance. On that note, I’m very impressed with Momentus XT. It’s been great testing this new device and I definitely recommend it.

Does anyone here have personal experience about such a setup?

**edyzmedieval** · 10-16-2010, 02:57

Here's more or less the final component list.

- case - Master Cooler HAF X
- motherboard - ASUS P6X Premium Edition
- processor - Intel Core i7 960, 3200MHZ, 8MB cache, LGA 1366
- HDD - Western Digital Black Caviar 1TB
- RAM - Corsair 6GB 2000MHZ Triple Channel
- video card - GIGABYTE nVIDIA GeForce GTX470 Windforce S.O.C. 1.2GB
- power supply - Corsair AX850W
- processor cooler - Master Cooler V6
- optical drive - LG DVD RW (don't need Blu Ray)

- monitor - Samsung PX2370

Any thoughts on this?

**Lemur** · 10-16-2010, 05:04

Looks good. I would consider moving up to a 2 terabyte drive, maybe, since they're out there and they're a good deal. But then, I like to have elbow room for a lot of installed stuff, and I tend to back up my machines to one another, so there's no such thing as a too-big drive for this lemur.

I would also weigh carefully the Nvidia/ATI (or is it AMD now?) thing, but I think you've expressed elsewhere that this is a non-negotiable thing for you, so nevermind.

**naut** · 10-16-2010, 05:14

The Cooler Master V6 is meant to be an absolute pain to mount and runs very loud for the actual amount of cooling it provides. Three alternatives you really should consider are:

Thermaltake FRIO
or
Noctua NH-D14
or
Scythe Mugen-2 Revision B

**Judge** · 11-06-2010, 12:43

nice build mate, tri channel great stuff, if you wish to overclock your processor to around 3.60ghz no problem at all as long as your after market cooler is adequate.

look here http://www.overclockers.co.uk/produc...id=1395&rows=0

good luck