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Building a new system - your thoughts?

I plan to build a new system and here is the hardware I am looking at.

EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor

2X CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) TWIN2X4096-6400C5

ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU

2X BFG Tech BFGEGTX2801024OCXE GeForce GTX 280 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 - SLI

2X Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS 300GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s

3X SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s - Storage in Raid 5

SILVERSTONE ST1200 1200W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply

LIAN LI PC-P80 Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Microsoft Windows Vista 64-Bit Ultimate for System Builders DVD - OEM

I have always used XP Pro and this will be my first Visa System. I still plan to dual boot Vista/XP anyway, at least for my old printer and scanner that do not have Vista drivers.

Any suggestion?
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permalink · 2008-07-27 09:48:51 · Print ·

sixstring join:2002-09-16 Pasadena, CA	Re: Building a new system - your thoughts? looks like an insane system. Whats the total estimated cost? One suggestion though, if you plan to go RAID 5 you may want to look into true hardware raid. (like an adaptec mini-PCI card) I've read the raid performance on the nvidia chipsets are abysmal at raid 5, because it takes so much processing time from the CPU.
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Re: Building a new system - your thoughts?

From Newegg, it is around 3600$ with the two video cards in SLI.
I may buy one video card only and add the second one later so I'd save $500.
Good point with the raid. I will test the system with the mobo raid and if it is too slow I will go for a card, but I have no idea what card to get.
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permalink · 2008-07-27 15:17:13 ·

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