Building a computer

[superman217]

Take a loan out and update your budget to $3500. and get the fastest internal parts you can find with the latest technology, because tomorrow your computer will be outdated.

I really wish I could haha moving out fixing my truck and trying to get a loan for an older car for work stretches the budget thin lol.

As for hardrives, SATA's are faster than the IDE's and running RAID_0 array will speed up loading times during games, BUT, if you chose to go that route, you have to understand, first, you have to use 2 indentical hardrives to do this, secondly, if one of the 2 harddrives fail, you lose everything on both

I was wanting to do Raid 0 but I wanted to do more research on it, like just how much more perfomance am I going to get out of it? In other words is it worth it in the end. But I also figured I could always just constantly back up my hard drives couldnt I? So if my raid drives fail I could posiblly still have another drive rdy to go right?

Budreaux,
you might want to see this, I used to agree with what you said, however

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.ht...=464&chart=165

Thxs for the website i'm not an amd man anyways though! Thxs for the continued opionions and support everyone.!

[Budreaux]

Thxs for the website i'm not an amd man anyways though! Thxs for the continued opionions and support everyone.!

I have nothing more to add.

[superman217]

Updated List

Ok here's the updated list, pretty much the parts you picked out chewy just finished it up.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115004 – Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Custra...82E16813128323 – Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-965P-DQ6 Socket T (LGA 775) Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820220144 - Memory: Patriot 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit System Memory I might drop down to

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820220095 - Patriot 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit System Memory because some of the reviews say the mobo has trouble at higher voltage mem.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148140 – Hard Drive: (2x) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130033 – Vid Card: eVGA 256-P2-N584-AR Geforce 7900GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817152026 – PowSup: RAIDMAX RX-630A ATX12V/ EPS12V 630W Power Supply 115/230 V CB, IEC, TUV, UL, CSA

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118003 – HS:
ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink. Needed for oc'ing correct?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827152058 – Drive: NEC Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner
If i’m going to be using my old computer for all burning projects is there a reason for housing two drives?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829102178 – Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS SB0350 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Sound Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811166004 – Case: Sunbeam Transformer IC-TR-BA Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case Should I upgrade the stock fan on this?

If I missed anything or anyone has some improvment suggestions please let me know thx's for all the help.

Total cost is $1,440.16 minus tax/deliv I believe

[Chewy]

that Power Supply is way overrated and not a good brand, check out the seasonic and antec truepower or fortron

look at the 12volt values

don't go for exaggerated total watts

you might be burning a lot more than you think when you see what that computer will do

you are getting your feet wet very well

[superman217]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817103931 - Power supply: Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply 115/230 V UL, TUV, CB, FCC CLASS B, CUL

High 12v rates/ high rated hours/ 550w/ 12% neg feedbak }:> I was looking at a couple 3x 12v but they were rated at lower (a) and didnt have best feedback, I think I feel good with this one. What's Master Chewy think?

And I do need to upgrade my heatsink if I plan on overclocking correct? Most of the research i've read says stock heat sinks are sh^! ?

[Chewy]

stock hsf are fine for running stock settings, spend around 50$ on an overclocking one. that could wait till later

the antec ps is a winner. a lot of overclockers and dvd burning gurus use them

see there's a ton of information at newegg, you just have to study it

[superman217]

I found 2 other great sites that have helped me alot, there on my gf's laptop so ill post them up later. Thxs for the help Chewy i'll post up the final list if I change it, if not you can look for the new thread building my computer eventually lol!

[superman217]

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/c/computer.html <-- not the base website but you can type in pretty much anything in the search function towards the top of the page to do with computers and it will give you a def on it and some usuefull info. I also liked howstuffworks.com that was nice