 OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | reply to kpross
Re: Build review please An SSD or perhaps two or more will likely improve load times if that is a concern for you. I don’t think you can do better then that. For backup, a Windows Home Server or NAS should serve you well.
Overall I think you have a very nice system there. Given you mentioned your previous system and its 4 yr run I will point out though that if you had built a Core i7 system a year ago you might have gotten an extra year of use out of it. If people were building similar systems a year ago it should sound the alarm to look for a more recent video card at the least.
The resultant system I built from the parts the day the Core i7 first went on sale looked something like this (almost identical to the one you posted above):
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ASUS P6T Deluxe (V1 naturally)
G.Skill 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Triple Channel Kit
Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield
Corsair 750TX
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB + 750GB HDD
ChiefTek Server case
MSI GeForce GTX 260
NEC CD/DVD+/-R/RW SATA Burner
Initially I used less DDR3 RAM (1333), an OCZ 600W PSU and a 8800 GTS since they were on the shelf unused but they were quickly replaced. I only needed motherboard and CPU initially so at the time I completed the build for ~$630 USD. Now it would have cost about ~$400.
If I were doing it again, a year later, and I wanted to go with an LGA1366 platform over an LGA1156 platform I think I would probably substitute an HD 5870 or possibly HD 5850. Barring that I would probably just wait on the build pending GT300 release and availability. |
