Build Advice YAY another build advice thread.

well good luck with your searching. Hope you find something that will save you some money.

 

Thanks but I'm more looking for more power rather than saving money because I don't have anything better to spend it on.

 

fair enough. but theres no point in wasting a whole lot of money if you can find the exact same thing cheaper somewhere else. Save the extra money for watercooling gear or something.

 

Yer if I can find cheaper places to buy I can just buy better components.

 

Thanks is there any better parts I could use since I have another $455 to use and without the case?

 

Ok this is what I came up with even though some of it is overkill I still want it i.e. keyboard and motherboard. Anyway heres the list
Evga x58 classified (for 3x sli which i plan to use later on)
5870
Blu ray writer (overkill but I can afford it)
2 Samsung 2333sw (good price they are)
i7 920
wd green 2tb
g19 (looked at g15 but like the g19 better even for the price)
g9x
6g kingston hyperx 1600mhz (yay or nay?)
1050w enermax revolution
g.skill falcon II 64gb
Total: $3666
That setup good or bad?

 

I'd still strongly, strongly advise against going 3-way SLI at any point in the future. It may have been worth it a couple of years ago, but it really isn't any more, which is why you see very, very few people running tri-SLI these days. You'll thank me when you see how horrible the driver support is for it.

What is it you like so much about the G19 for it to be worth more than double the G15? You do realise the only difference between them is that the screen on the G19 is an LCD so you can watch YouTube videos on it, don't you? And would you really use that, considering you'll have 2 23" monitors in front of you. Honestly, the G15 does 99.9% what the G19 does, so is that 0.1% (which you'll probably never use) really worth an extra ~$100 to you?

 

I really don't like orange backlight and I want all my lights to match. Also not coloured screens annoy me a bit.

 

again, dont get the Green HD, get a Samsung F3 as SilverSilence posted or a WD Caviar.

yay on the 6gb kingston 1600mhz RAM btw

 

Is cavier black good? Also whats so bad about the green?

 

since everyone strongly recommends the samsung F3 1Tb, would it be better to have two of them, rather than a single WD 2Tb drive?

 

I dunno thats why I'm asking about black because I think there high perfomance ones.

 

I think its because its designed to be energy efficient, it must compromise some performance

 

The Samsung F3 1TB is faster than the WD Black 1TB, and it would be better to get 2 F3s if only because of the price, since the 2TB drive is almost double the cost per GB.

The WD Green isn't any good because it's so slow (it's a 5400RPM drive, not 7200RPM IIRC).

 

Oh ok so what should i get from pccasegear?

 

look here http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2009/10/06/samsung-spinpoint-f3-1tb-review/3
and the next few pages of the article to compare the different drives.
PCCG did have the F3's at one point (I bought one) but it seems they only have the F1s available at the moment. I think the F1s would still be better than the WD drive

 

So what should I get?

 

I recommend 2x Samsung F1s if you're buying from PCCG
otherwise, try to get an F3

 

RAID?

 

I honestly don't know enough about RAID to recommend it or not. Either way, with two drives you can choose to use RAID or just seperate drives depending on what others (with more knowledge and experience than myself) recommend