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Well there are few questions I can answer, as I have never owned a SSD, or have ran two monitors. BUT here we go.

your raid won't help with seektime so ssd is always faster, for read and write the intel will keep up if not beat.

yes raid 0 combines the drive's size.

very easy to remove fan kit.

you have to pick 5 years at the time of purchase.

this would be better:

here you go Ticket# 287621 --- Price: $3994 (To see this build click here) Price after current promotion $3819

Copy of Specifications:
Chassis Model: Cooler Master HAF 932
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Interior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz (Quad Core)
Motherboard: EVGA X58 3X SLI (Intel X58 Chipset) (Supports Triple SLI or CrossFire)
System Memory: 6GB DDR3 1333MHz Mushkin (Highly Recommended) (Digital Storm Certified)
Power Supply: 1000W Corsair HX (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible) (Silent Edition)
Card Reader: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (160GB Solid State (By: Intel) (Extreme Performance) (Model: SDSA2MH160G1C5)
Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (500GB Western Digital (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: 1x (500GB Western Digital (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)
Optical Drive 1: Blu-Ray Player/DVD Writer (Play Blu-Ray and Burn DVDs)
Optical Drive 2: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 20x / CD-Writer 48x) (LightScribe Edition)
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card: 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 896MB (Includes PhysX Technology)
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 3: High-Performance Liquid Chilled FrostBite System For CPU
Liquid Color:UV Blue: Medium Glowing Non-conductive Fluid (Requires H20: Stage 3 & UV Lighting)
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (UV) (Creates Glowing Effect For H20: Stage 3 UV Fluid)
Enhancements: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Boost Processor: Stage 2: Overclock the processor between 4.0GHz to 4.2GHz (Requires H20 Cooling Upgrade)
Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Boost Memory: Memory Fan Kit Only (Does not include memory overclocking service)
Tweak Windows: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64-Bit Edition)
Restore Kit: Digital Storm Specialized Recovery System (DVD Image Based)
Virus Protection: - No Thanks
Office: - No Thanks
Benchmarking: - No Thanks
Install/Test Game: - No Thanks
LCD Display: - No Thanks
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
External Storage: - No Thanks
Exclusive T-Shirt: - No Thanks
Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 5-10 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed
Warranty: 3 Year Platinum Care Extended Parts & Labor Warranty

the x58 supports raid itself, but I believe its more software like.

Edited by DST4ME - 27 May 2009 at 5:54pm

not sure about monitor support, but you still run both of one card.

all SSDs are not the same, right now the Intel x25 E is kings the one you have is the x25 M which is still faster then other SSDs. you can't beat Intel in IOPS even with raid. now if you raid 2 x intel 80GB x25 M, that will be twice as fast as a single 160GB intel x25 M

psu is to make sure you got what you need and have room to spare for future.

Edited by DST4ME - 27 May 2009 at 8:09pm

after looking at more charts and data, it clear that in iops vertex won't match intel. but yes 3 x 80GB vertex will give some great speeds.

a 1000w will support 2 x 295 or tri sli but it all depends what you have in your case, after the oc and all you might come short or be borderline, to be honest I would call DS and ask them for tri sli 275 what they recommend, cause I would suggest the 1200w for tri sli and the system I posted.

at iops write in 4K, nothing can touch intel, but in other kinds the corsair hangs with intel x25 M. however intel x25 E is king and nothing can mess with it.

as for recommending which, honestly its upto you.

I am using 4 Samsung 256 SSD's Raid 0 . I am using a rocket raid and get a transfer rate of 720 MB/sec and access time of .1 ms. Anywho that gives you an idea of what 4 SSD's do in raid 0.

iops is Input/Output Operations Per Second.

ssds already have a .1ms seektime, as I mentioned raid does not do anything for that.

ocz atto iops:



2 x ocz raid 0:



single intel x25 M:

I can't vouch for corsair but if you search Samsung SSD on Newegg the Corsairs come up because they use the same parts or is Samsung drives. I am using the Samsung drives and they are all in the $650  range for 256GB. I suspect that if you raid 0 2 samsung drives you would be around 400 /sec. and of course the seek time will be .1. I have.

Originally posted by [email protected] I can't vouch for corsair but if you search Samsung SSD on Newegg the Corsairs come up because they use the same parts or is Samsung drives. I am using the Samsung drives and they are all in the $650  range for 256GB. I suspect that if you raid 0 2 samsung drives you would be around 400 /sec. and of course the seek time will be .1. I have.

Thanks, i was just curious why Corsair seemed to be soo much cheaper, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something like inferior quality lol

Originally posted by inferno23 Just saying you have the UV blue lighting but are u replacing the stock red LED fan that comes with the HAF?

Yup, i pan on doing that ^^

On the subject of UV lighting, does anyone have any pictures of it?  It doesn't seem to be that popular :(

Awesome, that would be greatly appreciated!

I think i was more asking if anyone on here as the UV lighting and what are their opinions of it. *pictures of their systems would be cool too *

I'm attracted to it because it's still "cool" but more subdued then the other internal lighting.


Edited by NullForce - 28 May 2009 at 1:19pm

It should be in my member's profile, if not i'll post it 

o, sorry...

you can email me here: [email protected]

just please let me know when you've sent it ^^


Edited by NullForce - 28 May 2009 at 3:18pm

Also it might be worth your while to just go ahead and get the 1000 watt silverstone i thought about the 910 2 and i decided it just might be worth waht the extra 30$

Originally posted by Sarah Why don't you give me a call, lets make your build happen at the best price, with the most power, that we can get for you!

I'm busy till early next week so i'll probably call you then...

What timezone are you?

=D

congrats, let the torture begin