Need some advice on my new rigPost Date: 2010-07-27 |
Post Reply
|
Author | ||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply
Topic: Need some advice on my new rig Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 7:04pm |
|
Hey, guy ;D
I just heard about DS from my friend last week. I love it so far ;D I really need some opinion about my spec (this my first time putting thing together lol) I will be using it for mostly gaming, Watching Movie, and Downloading lot of stuff. i usually turn my PC on for about 3-4 week before turn it off for a night. Ticket Number: 425871******************************** I have a few concern about this spec, I'm not really sure how much cooling i need for this one so i pick all the cooling option. regarding Video card: 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB (PhysX Tech.) (EVGA SuperClocked 015-P3-1482-AR) |
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 7:06pm | |
Btw the way, if you guy have any suggestion please feel free to reply ;D
|
||
dustymanhp
Newbie Joined: 27 Jun 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 46 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 9:38pm | |
this is a mess.
overkill
dragon can take this one, i know how much he likescleaning up messes
|
||
Section9
Newbie Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 33 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 9:55pm | |
For gaming and movies, there is no need for a 6-core proc like the 980
-- you'll save a ton of money by dropping to a 920/930 and the free DS
overclock (mild overclock and covered under your warranty).
12GB is also overkill if you aren't doing huge Photoshop file or video editing. 6GB is plenty for most needs. You have no hard drives selected at all, so I presume you are supplying your own (or you like really expensive paperweights). 2x480 GPUs is great, but just one is fine for most games at 1920x1200 and below, even with max effects. If you have a higher res screen or play GPU-killers like Metro 2033, you may need 2, though. Plus you'll have headroom for a couple of years. Your call. If you want to overclock the GPU at all, yeah, let DS overclock the stock card. You can always dial it back later if you don't like it. Many people think the minor performance gain isn't worth the life-shortening extra heat. I'll let the liquid cooling crowd chime in, but they generally recommend starting at Stage 3 at least for better performance. For what you have here, though, I don't even see a need for water cooling. The 942 you selected has good airflow, and either of the two Noctua air coolers for the CPU should be fine. The 942 has good enough airflow you shouldn't need the performance LED fans, unless you're adding them for the bling factor. The additions will likely make more difference in the noise factor (louder) than the temps. Again, a style choice. And your chassis mod applies to other cases, not the 942 you selected. The 942 already has a side-mounted fan and grille/window. |
||
Ch3ssplay3r
Groupie Joined: 23 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 164 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:07pm | |
I would use This as a baseline.
The 2 480's might be overkill, depending on your monitor resolution. Im not sure what you're doing for HDD's, but i would recommend a solid state for the OS. Liquid cooling is nice, add it if you want, but i'd recommend only for the cpu. LED fans look cool, but they do add quite a bit of noise with minimal temp improvement. Edited by Ch3ssplay3r - 27 Jul 2010 at 10:24pm |
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:08pm | |
Sorry, i forgot to mention,
I already have WD Velociraptor 10k RPM (i will prolly use this one) as for my monitor, i have Samsung (23") LED Syncmaster PX2370 about GPU overclock, if i use 2x480(normal one not the superclock version) and let DS overclock it. i should get the same result, right? ;D Thank for the help guy |
||
Dragoonseal
DS Veteran Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2247 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:12pm | |
Never never never bother with VelociRaptor HDDs. A 1TB 7200RPM 32MB drive has quite literately 90% of the speed of the fastest VelociRaptors, while also having way more space and being way less expensive. You'll never notice the difference between the two and they both pale so much compared to SSDs it is silly.
An Intel SSD has 80-100 times faster small file read/write performance and at least twice the sequential (large) file read performance of any conventional HDD available. Once you've had one you'll never go back to conventional HDDs for anything other than media storage. So if you already have a VelociRaptor.. oh well, use it for music/movie/media storage I guess, but select an Intel SSD for OS/apps. |
||
Lilim
Intel Core i7 920 @4.2GHz HAF 932 - Dual SLI Nvidia GTX 480s 3x Intel X25-M G2 (80GB) SSD RAID0 |
||
Section9
Newbie Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 33 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:23pm | |
I think you'd get the same result, yeah. The 480 is new enough that vendors haven't had much time to differentiate from the stock config yet, so let DS boost the stock. IIRC, Dragoonseal doesn't recommend the raptors under almost any circumstances, but since you're not talking about buying it - you've already got it - I suppose you could use it. You might want to consider having DS put a nice new Win7 64-bit build on an Intel SSD and using the raptor for secondary storage, but that might be overkill as well. |
||
Section9
Newbie Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 33 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:28pm | |
Looks like Dragoonseal beat me to it. lol
|
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:37pm | |
I c, then i will let DS do the overclock on my GPU then. (and save about $80) ;D
as for the Hard drive, I just check the price for 160GB SSD intel it about $500, it a bit expensive for me atm lol. plus i have WD 2TB (5600- 7200 RMP as my storage atm. i just brought both of em a few month ago. >< I will definitely consider SSD when i make an upgrade to this PC ;D |
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:43pm | |
about CPU, i'm think about drop it from 980X to either 975(the promotion one or 960
and let DS do stage 2 overclock instead. is that a good idea? Thank you, Rem |
||
Mr.
Senior Member Joined: 17 May 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 510 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:46pm | |
you dont need the 160g ssd, all you need is 40 for just OS/apps, if you got the money bump it up to the 80 for a few main games to be put there, then when you get enugh money to upgrade again, the G3 would prolly b out by then n G2 prices should b lowered
|
||
Mr.
|
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:48pm | |
for Cooling i think i will change it to either Stage 3 Frostchill or Stage 4 Sub-zero LCS.
which do you guy think better? Thank you, Rem |
||
Dragoonseal
DS Veteran Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2247 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:51pm | |
Like Mr. mentioned, the 40GB or 80GB Intel SSDs are plenty for OS/apps. More space for games is nice but a luxury, first and foremost you want want for OS/apps and that doesn't take much room.
So you know a 930 and 960 are the exact same chip, the 960 is just factory overclocked a tiny bit and Intel charges hundreds of extra dollars for it, go figure. Seeing as they both overclock exactly the same and perform exactly the same at identical overclock settings, as they are indeed exactly identical chips, go with the 930 and save yourself exactly $305. And then pat yourself exactly on the back. Exactly. |
||
Lilim
Intel Core i7 920 @4.2GHz HAF 932 - Dual SLI Nvidia GTX 480s 3x Intel X25-M G2 (80GB) SSD RAID0 |
||
Ch3ssplay3r
Groupie Joined: 23 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 164 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 10:59pm | |
Same applies to the 975 i believe. except with $750. The 980X however is a different chip and is quite a bit better than the 920, but is not worth an additional 1000$ Edited by Ch3ssplay3r - 27 Jul 2010 at 11:00pm |
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 11:04pm | |
i though the different between 975 and 970 is 975 is Quad-core but 970 is six core.
and ya i agree with 980x, it a bit expensive atm and when i wanna upgrade hit pc (prolly 1-2year) the beeter Cpu willalready be out. |
||
Section9
Newbie Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 33 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 11:07pm | |
In another post, Dragoonseal mentioned that the 975 (and 965, I think)
are close to the other chips, but as "Extreme Edition" chips they are
slightly different in bandwidth, so they are not identical like the
920/930/960. But the differences mostly show up only in benchmarks and
high overclocks. If you don't already know you need the Extreme stuff, stick with the 920/930 and let DS o/c it.
The 980X is a different beast altogether, since it is a 6-core chip, not a quad-core. When more software is optimized for 6 cores it'll be worth it, but not for most people at this point. |
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 11:07pm | |
Thank for all the reply & suggestion guy, ;D
Here is my new spec: Ticket Number: 425966*-*-*-*- have a bit concern about Cooling i pcik stage 4 Sub-zero. is it a good choice? or should i go back to stage 3 Frostchill. Thank you, Rem |
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 11:13pm | |
oh, i got some question about SSD harddrive.
well, I kindda got a habit of format my PC every 4-6 month or so. regarding SSD, will that be any problem? Thank you, Rem |
||
Dragoonseal
DS Veteran Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2247 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 11:30pm | |
The 12GB of RAM will be of no benefit to either you or any games, may as well drop it down to 6GB. Only very select few heavy media editing/rendering applications can benefit from more, and you didn't mention using the PC for anything like that.
The only thing Windows 7 Ultimate offers that Professional doesn't is encryption software and multilingual support. The only thing Professional offers that Home Premium doesn't is access to the optional download and install of XP Mode. If you don't need multilingual support drop down to Professional, if you don't need XP Mode either drop down to Home Premium. Drop the expensive Stage 2 overclock, stick with the free one. DS will OC a 930 to 3.9GHz even with just decent air coolers, 4 to 4.2GHz is easy enough to get on your own from there. Post in the OC section of the forums if you want help bumping up an overclock some. The Stage 4 LCing is.. unnecessary. I'd call it downright overpriced but I'm not really sure what parts they use to build it. The Stage 3 LC should perform pretty similarly for much cheaper, but is also unnecessary, because like I mentioned before 4 to 4.2GHz on a decent air cooler (Noctua) is not hard at all, and it is really hard to get much higher than that even with LCing. Keep in mind all the extra things add up darn fast. For example this baseline build will give you basically the same results (minus the sound card) for almost $1000 cheaper: Ticket #425975, Price: $2913 Sound cards are subjective. I've never liked them, but some people swear by them. Either way I wouldn't recommend one unless you have a good pair of speakers or headphones to go with one. |
||
Lilim
Intel Core i7 920 @4.2GHz HAF 932 - Dual SLI Nvidia GTX 480s 3x Intel X25-M G2 (80GB) SSD RAID0 |
||
Dragoonseal
DS Veteran Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2247 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 11:33pm | |
You mean reinstalling Windows via CD/DVD? No not at all, it's very quick and easy with a SSD, takes about 15 minutes tops. |
||
Lilim
Intel Core i7 920 @4.2GHz HAF 932 - Dual SLI Nvidia GTX 480s 3x Intel X25-M G2 (80GB) SSD RAID0 |
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 11:52pm | |
ahh, i c ;D
SSD sound like a deal then as for sound card , i plan to buy Bose 2.1 speaker for, Ram I have drop em to 6GB, shoyld i go w/ 2000Mhz or 1600Mhx) Thank you, Rem |
||
Dragoonseal
DS Veteran Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2247 |
Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 11:55pm | |
Go with standard 1600MHz. Not much benefit to 2000MHz, especially for the price.
|
||
Lilim
Intel Core i7 920 @4.2GHz HAF 932 - Dual SLI Nvidia GTX 480s 3x Intel X25-M G2 (80GB) SSD RAID0 |
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 28 Jul 2010 at 12:35am | |
Including every suggestion and consideration
here my update spec: (hopefully, I can finalize it and put my order in. Edited by Rem - 28 Jul 2010 at 1:12am |
||
Rem
Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Quote Reply Posted: 28 Jul 2010 at 1:12am | |
Edited by Rem - 28 Jul 2010 at 8:53am |
||
Post Reply |
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You can vote in polls in this forum |