Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: RedTop on October 18, 2005, 08:26:46 PM
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Ordered new system. Should be in by Friday. Looking forward to trying a few new racing Games along with Aces High. Full tilt boogie on those Eye Candy things to.
CAS: ALUMINUM X-Navigator Server 420W W/ Window & Temp Dis,Fan Control w/Liquid Cooling (SILVER w/ Blue, Black, & Silver Face Plate)
POWERSUPPLY: Enermax EG565P 535 Watt Power Supply (SLI-Ready)
FAN: CoolerMaster Liquid CPU Cooling Fan System Kit + 2 EXTRA CASE FANS
CASUPGRADE: 12" COLD CATHODE NEON LIGHT (RED COLOR)
OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 2
SOFT: Microsoft® Works 7.0
CPU: (939-pin) AMD ATHLON64 FX 57 CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology
MOTHERBOARD: (Sckt939)ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe nForce4 SLI Chipset SATA RAID Dual PCIE MB w/Gb-LAN,USB2.0,IEEE-1394,&7.1Audio
MEMORY: 2048 MB (1GBx2) PC3200 400MHz Dual Channel DDR MEMORY (Corsair XMS High Performance Memory w/ Heat Spreader
HDD: Gaming Hard Drive (10,000RPM SATA150) (SATA150 - Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 8MB Cache WD740GD)
HDD2: Gaming Hard Drive (10,000RPM SATA150) (SATA150 - Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 8MB Cache WD740GD)
HDD3: (SATA150) Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Hard Drive
RAID: RAID-0 (DATA STRIPING)
VIDEO: NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB 16X PCI Express Video Card
VIDEO2: NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB 16X PCI Express Video Card
SOUND: Creative Labs SB Audigy-2 ZS PLATINUM 7.1
SPEAKERS: (MULTI-COLORS) Creative Labs Inspire P7800 7.1 Surround Subwoofer Speaker System (BLACK COLOR)
CD: 16X DVD ROM (SILVER COLOR)
CD2: SONY DWQ-28A DUAL FORMAT 16X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)
FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 6in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (SILVER COLOR)
FLOPPY: 1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE (SILVER COLOR)
KEYBOARD: Microsoft® Wireless Desktop w/ Wireless Internet Keyboard & Mouse
NETWORK: ONBOARD 10/1000 NETWORK CARD
PRO_WIRING: Professional Wiring for All WIRINGs Inside The System Chasis with High Performance Thermal Compound on CPU
CABLE: Round Cable Upgrade for Hard Drive, Optical Drive & Floppy Drive
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY PLUS TWO-YEAR ONSITE SERVICE
USB: Build-in USB 2.0 Ports
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Yeah, I think you'll be fine.
:D
New system is great. I remember when I got mine and couldn't believe how much of an improvement it was. Enjoy!
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How much that damn thing cost ya?? The nVidia cards alone cost $800 a piece if i remember right. Darn MILLIONARES!! lol! Have fun, every penny is worth it!
Egle31
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is that an ibuypower.com system?
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your game will improve dramatically...everything becomes clearer and more stable...u can also see tracers easier without choppyness etc..wtg and gl. I will still pwn u though..muwahahaa
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nice system, surprised you didn't go the SATA II - ( 3 GB sec ) route though, still you having it built or buying individual pieces and building yourself?
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LOL @ Jaxxo......tell me something I don't already know.:p
Tequila...Having it built...that wasnt an option to tell you the truth. I didn't even know about sataII.
It should be here Thursday...Im hoping anyway.
Im excited about it for sure.:D
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Dude that's just sick.
Want to tell us how much that cost?
Also, what kind of monitor are you going to be using?
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Eagl....
Cost was 3725.00. Base it was 2999.00. I made a few upgrades and a ruch and over night. They called today and it probably wont be in til next week. So I will get a bit off that price. Prolly about 100.00.
Monitor I'll be using will be a Samsung 930B 19 inch LCD. I have a 21 inch NEC Multisync. If the Flat screen doesnt work so wiell Ill pull out the 21" and use it.
http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/highendsystem/ultraxlc.asp?v=d#configurator_top
Anyway.....I gave my 1.8 with a 9800 pro to my wife. :) SHe like to play Casino games and thats about it.
I'm looking into Racing games as well as AH and a couple other flying games I have.
WORK IS PROHIBITED ON MY COMPUTER. IT IS ONLY FOR PLAYING GAMES.:lol
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Holy overkill Batman ... wow. Hope that power supply will run all that , you might have to tap into the power grid for that monster lol .... 38
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RedTop whats your address Im ganna have to go to you house and uhh borrow your computer:D
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Uhh.. XP Home and MS Works.. I'd go for XP Pro and OpenOffice 2.0 which actually have some functinality.
Uhh.. Nvidia SLI, the most expensive generally non-functioning marketing ploy known to man. SLI is not supported on many games at all, one of them AH2. One 7800 is enough for any modern game - if you want to waste money just for the sake of wasting it get ATI Crossfire which works on all games.
No separate soundcard - so you'll be probably using AC97 and taking 10-15% hit in CPU cycles while saving $50.
Uhh.. raid 0 with no backup.. recipe for a disaster. You're more than doubling your chances of losing all your data unless you take a full backup frequently.
Ok your system both rocks and sucks in several ways. I'd save a load of bucks and change the setup though. You're paying for basically nothing.
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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
Uhh.. XP Home and MS Works.. I'd go for XP Pro and OpenOffice 2.0 which actually have some functinality.
Uhh.. Nvidia SLI, the most expensive generally non-functioning marketing ploy known to man. SLI is not supported on many games at all, one of them AH2. One 7800 is enough for any modern game - if you want to waste money just for the sake of wasting it get ATI Crossfire which works on all games.
No separate soundcard - so you'll be probably using AC97 and taking 10-15% hit in CPU cycles while saving $50.
Uhh.. raid 0 with no backup.. recipe for a disaster. You're more than doubling your chances of losing all your data unless you take a full backup frequently.
Ok your system both rocks and sucks in several ways. I'd save a load of bucks and change the setup though. You're paying for basically nothing.
I did get a separte sound card. Audigy 2 ZS Platinum.
SLI will be coming in the future:) So ill be ahead.
Backups of the raid drives? ALL that will be there is a game or 2 or 3. No work is done on this puter. IT IS strictly a toy. Wifes puter is where any work is done.
Overkill? Yes More than I probably should have bought? Yes
But after going through the last 2 years of taking care of my Mom who died of cancer , I owe my self a BIG gift and this is it.;)
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Overkill? Yes More than I probably should have bought? Yes
No, i dont think its more than you should have bought , If you can afford it man DO IT lol. I in no way was impliying anything bad in my post. Sorry about you mom .... 38
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Don't listen to these boring old farts. Enjoy:aok
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Originally posted by 38ruk
No, i dont think its more than you should have bought , If you can afford it man DO IT lol. I in no way was impliying anything bad in my post. Sorry about you mom .... 38
Meant that more for Ripley. No problem at all Bud:D
Thanks for the words about Mom. Appreciated:)
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Redtop I have a feeling that SLI will be a short life implementation which will never gain full support. But that's just my feeling.
Believe me, even if you have only 2-3 games on your hd when it crashes it's a world of hurt. You'll go through all the driver installations, game installations etc. lose all your saved games and the works.
Raid0 will benefit you only if you do something really intensive such as editing raw video footage. Even for that I'd go for raid 4 or 5 instead.