lokoike Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 In case anyone was curious, I thought I'd post the specs for the new computer I built for myself last week. All parts were purchased from Newegg.com . Case: COOLER MASTER Stacker Specs: ATX/BTX full-tower, aluminum, silver, side panels, 1 x 120 mm fan, 25.2" D x 9.8" W, 21.1" H PSU: PC Power & Cooling TURBO-COOL 850 Specs: 850W continuous, 950W peak, dual PCI-E, 6 SATA, 24-pin main connector, NVIDIA SLI Certified, 85% efficiency, MTBF > 100000 hours Motherboard: ASUS A8R32-MVP Specs: ATX, dual PCI-E x16, socket 939, ATI XPRESS 3200 North Bridge, 6 SATA 3 GB/s, 4 GB mem. max, dual Gigabit ethernet CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Specs: 2.2 GHz clock, 2 GHz HT, 64-bit, 2x128k L1, 2x512k L2, socket 939, 90nm, 3-year warranty RAM: Corsair XMS Specs: 4 GB (4 x 1 GB), 184-pin DDR SDRAM @ 400Mhz, 2-3-3-6 timing, heat spreaders, lifetime warranty Video Adapter: ATI Radeon X1900XT Specs: 625 MHz core clock, 1450 MHz memory clock, 512 MB 256-bit GDDR3, 16 pixel pipelines, 48 pixel shader processors, VIVO, 2560 x 1600 max res., Shader Model 3, AvivoTM, CrossFireTM, DirectX 9, OpenGL 2, PCI-E x16 Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Specs: 640 GB (2 x 320 GB), 16 MB cache, 7200 rpm, SATA 3 GB/s, NCQ, Perpendicular Recording Technology, 5-year warranty Optical Drive: SAMSUNG DVD Burner Specs: DVD+R/-R 16x, DVD+RW/-RW 8x/6x, DVD+R DL/-R DL 8x/4x, DVD-RAM 5x, CD-R/-RW 48x/32x, ATA/ATAPI, 2 MB cache, LightScribe, black LCD: BenQ FP202W Specs: 20.1" widescreen, 1680 x 1050 max res., WSXGA+, 24-bit color, 300 cd/m2, 60W, 0.258 mm pixel pitch Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 OEM EDIT: Mouse: Logitech G5 Laser Specs: Right-handed, 2000 dpi laser, 6.4 megapixels / second, 500 reports / second, 6 buttons, 1x wheel scrolling, 38 grams of weight Keyboard: Microsoft B2M-00015 Specs: Ergonomic keyboard w/ integrated palm rest, 103 normal keys, 17 function keys, wired, USB, black Case Fans: ASPIRE CF12SL-UGN Specs: 4 x 120mm fans, 25 mm deep, 1800-2200 rpm, 77.26 cfm, 35.48 dBA, 4 pin power, clear green plastic, green LEDs CPU Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 Specs: 3.5 grams, conductance: >350000 W / m2 ?C, resistance: <0.0045 ?C in2 / W, 3-12 ?C temperature reduction CPU Cooler: COOLER MASTER RR-UMR-P9U1 Specs: 92mm fan, 25mm deep, copper heatsink, 1800-3200 rpm, 26-36 dBA, rifle bearings, socket A / 370 / 462 / 478 / 754 / 939 / 940 / LGA775, 3-4 pin power Video Adapter Cooler: ARCTIC COOLING Accelero X2 Specs: 2000 rpm, 9.82 cfm, 0.4 Sone, fluid dynamic bearings, aluminum heatsink, 6 copper heatpipes, 6-year warranty Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 w0w, how much did that one cost ya? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 w0w, how much did that one cost ya? Um... a lot. Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 around how much? $2000? $12000? $100000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 around how much? $2000? $12000? $100000? Heh, a little more than the first one, and a whole lot less than the last two. Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfenech Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Including rebates: Case: COOLER MASTER Stacker $209.99 PSU: PC Power & Cooling TURBO-COOL 850 $449.99 Motherboard: ASUS A8R32-MVP $139.99 CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ $358.99 RAM: Corsair XMS $134.99 (2 ea) Video Adapter: ATI Radeon X1900XT $379.99 Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 $409.99 (couldn't find a 7200.10 640GB - priced the 720GB) Optical Drive: SAMSUNG DVD Burner $37.99 LCD: BenQ FP202W $294.99 Total: $2551.90..........or $2361.89 if hard drive is 7200.10 320GB (2 ea) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 why not just buy a laptop with that kind of money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oli Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 how u can throiw away so much money on a pc is beyon Homer: I never apologise, im sorry Lisa. Thats just the way i am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted July 3, 2006 Moderators Share Posted July 3, 2006 3K to 5K. I always seem to end up spending that much because I max out a system. My new toy that I got last week: http://www.plextor.com/english/products/760A.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 My new toy that I got last week:http://www.plextor.com/english/products/760A.htm pretty cool! now if i only had 4K... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 why not just buy a laptop with that kind of money? lol, I've already got 2! Plus, when you buy a notebook, you spend more money for less power, and you can't do much about upgrading it in the future. My case will easily last me 10 years, because it supports both ATX and BTX motherboards. My PSU, assuming it doesn't die, will last me a long time as well, because it is 850 watts and supports up to 6 SATA hard drives and 2 video adapters. My hard drives both have 5 year warranties, the RAM has a lifetime warranty, the CPU is dual core, the video adapter has a fast core and half a gig of GDDR3... this was made with the future in mind. I don't plan on spending too much more on it for many years to come. I figure I'm better off spending a lot on a computer that will last me a long time than spending $800 on some piece of junk and then having to buy a new one 2 years later. @ oli: I will easily get $3k worth of utility out of it. How much you use it and what you use it for determines how much you spend on it. This computer isn't just my gamer; it is my multimedia powerhouse. I will use it for watching, storing, and editing video, music, images, documents, and anything else. It serves as my television, my stereo (and eventually my surround sound), my DVD player, my number cruncher, my video game console, my typerwriter, all in one box. What some people might spend on a motorcycle or landscaping, I spend on a new computer. Everyone has their passion, and this is mine. Sorry if you consider that a waste. @ Andavari: Nice optical drive! I was gonna go with Plextor, but at the last minute I cheaped out and got a solid, but slightly slower Samsung. Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted July 3, 2006 Moderators Share Posted July 3, 2006 What some people might spend on a motorcycle or landscaping, I spend on a new computer. Maybe not this motorbike a Ducati 999R, start drooling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpty Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 Hi lokoike, Really like your setup and will be upgrading to something similar in a year or two. Couple of things I would change though.I would have DDR2 ram and a couple of 10,000 rpm raptors. But a couple of years is a long time in pc tech. At the moment this p4,3ghz,1gig ddr is holding up just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted July 4, 2006 Moderators Share Posted July 4, 2006 At the moment this p4,3ghz,1gig ddr is holding up just fine. That config should hold up well for sometime, until someone releases something (OS, software, etc.) that requires a stupid amount of processing power and ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984 Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 I figure I'm better off spending a lot on a computer that will last me a long time than spending $800 on some piece of junk and then having to buy a new one 2 years later. @ oli: I will easily get $3k worth of utility out of it. How much you use it and what you use it for determines how much you spend on it. This computer isn't just my gamer; it is my multimedia powerhouse. I will use it for watching, storing, and editing video, music, images, documents, and anything else. It serves as my television, my stereo (and eventually my surround sound), my DVD player, my number cruncher, my video game console, my typerwriter, all in one box. What some people might spend on a motorcycle or landscaping, I spend on a new computer. Everyone has their passion, and this is mine. Sorry if you consider that a waste. EXACTLY! Ive been using this argument with my wife, but she aint buying it................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted July 4, 2006 Author Share Posted July 4, 2006 Hi lokoike,Really like your setup and will be upgrading to something similar in a year or two. Couple of things I would change though.I would have DDR2 ram and a couple of 10,000 rpm raptors. But a couple of years is a long time in pc tech. At the moment this p4,3ghz,1gig ddr is holding up just fine. Yeah, I was thinking about going the DDR2 route, but my processor and motherboard are both socket 939, which doesn't support DDR2. I could've gone with socket AM2 (which supports DDR2), but at the time I bought the parts, the AM2 socket had only been on the market for about 2 weeks, so there wasn't much variety in motherboards. That's the only problem with AMD: they took so long to adopt the DDR2 standard. Intel has been supporting it for many months now. I probably won't upgrade my RAM/CPU/mobo until DDR3 rolls around in desktops. I'll just skip over DDR2 so that I don't have to make two upgrade cycles. As far as hard drives go, I'm not all that big of a fan of 10,000 and 15,000 rpm drives in general, because of storage constraints. See, I plan on filling my 2 320 GB drives up in a matter of months, so obviously the smaller Raptors wouldn't work out too well for me. But for people who do mostly gaming, they offer plenty of speed! Out of curiousity (and slightly off topic), do you plan on using Intel or AMD? You'll have to post and/or email me your specs when you get them picked out. Oh, and I have a few more little parts (fans, CPU and GPU cooler, etc.) that I got for my computer too, so I'll add them to the original list when I get the chance. Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 The X1900XT =DDD A little loud, though, didn't want to go a little bit higher and go for the 7900GTX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted July 4, 2006 Author Share Posted July 4, 2006 The X1900XT =DDDA little loud, though, didn't want to go a little bit higher and go for the 7900GTX? The sound wasn't really an issue for me, because I replaced the stock VGA cooler with an Accelero X2 (see edited list). It runs very quiet, and cools better at 2k rpm than the stock fan. Kinda bulky, though! I was planning on going with NVIDIA for this rig, but I chose ATI for 2 reasons: 1. At the time I purchased my CPU, Newegg was offering a combo deal that knocked $80 off the x1900XT if you buy them together! Couldn't really pass that up... & 2. Maximum PC ran both cards against each other, and while the NVIDIA won most of the game tests, the ATI beat the living hell out of NVIDIA in the video tests. And since I plan on watching and editing a lot of video with this machine, I figured I could afford to give up a couple FPS in Obilvion... Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobrakommander56 Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 oooo i just loved dishing out money for my computer, today i finally fixed up my lockup problem ive been having forever with my sli, becuz i was stupid and forgot about cleaning them out and reinstalling the drivers. Which i did after.... reinstalling windows, but at least i didnt lose my music, cuz i hadd it on a partition. Oh and I realized how awesome foobar2000 is, makes my music sound awesome with my mega speaker system. YAY flaming lips and queen. ive been enjoying their music the most. yeah laptops suck, the only time I might buy one is for college. Insert random C4 joke here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted July 5, 2006 Moderators Share Posted July 5, 2006 Out of curiousity (and slightly off topic), do you plan on using Intel or AMD? Although this question wasn't asked to me I think I'll go with a powerful AMD next time (maybe top of the line, or 1 step down from the top processor) due to my Intel P4 @ 3.2Ghz taking so much juice, and when doing something which I consider simple like encoding music and then having to hear the processor heat buildup start making the fans go into a hyper-fast speed that's pretty noisy for my individual tastes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpty Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 Out of curiousity (and slightly off topic), do you plan on using Intel or AMD? At the moment I really don't know! The AMD is certainl looking good at this stage. Will post when I'm about to buy anew,be a while though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 Some people have too much money to spend... 850w ? You wont even use half that. 4 GB RAM ? XP afaik can only handle 2 gb or so. And you are not likely to even 1 gb of RAM most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted July 5, 2006 Author Share Posted July 5, 2006 Some people have too much money to spend... 850w ? You wont even use half that. 4 GB RAM ? XP afaik can only handle 2 gb or so. And you are not likely to even 1 gb of RAM most of the time. Silly Eldmannen... In fact, my Windows XP Professional 32-bit supports 3 out of the 4 GB, and I plan on getting 64 bit edition, which supports more than my motherboard can handle. And of course you would have no idea how much of that would be in use during my normal use, now would you? You see, unlike you, I don't freak when more than 200 MBs of my page file are in use, and start turning things off. I always have a dozen things going at once (P2P, audio, web browser, chat, console emulator, etc.), so I easily use up large amounts of RAM, which is why I bought that much. As far as the PSU, during normal use in normal temperatures, obviously I don't use 850 watts. But I do plan on getting another large hard drive in the future, an X-Fi soundcard, and possibly another x1900XT and optical drive. Like I stated before, I built this rig with the future in mind. Also, I'm building it with extreme conditions in mind. On a hot day during a LAN party, the room temperature can easily raise over 80 degrees, and I don't want my components fizzling out due to a wimpy PSU. To me, a PSU is one of the most important and fundamental parts, so I made sure to get an excellent one that won't let me down, even in extreme situations. Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpty Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 Yep have heard the 64 bit can handle up to 16 gig of ram but it may be a rumour. Anyone know for sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted July 5, 2006 Author Share Posted July 5, 2006 Yep have heard the 64 bit can handle up to 16 gig of ram but it may be a rumour. Anyone know for sure? Apparently WinXP 64 bit edition supports up to 128 GB of memory! Makes my 4 GBs seem kinda piddly, now doesn't it? But that is kind of strange, because I've heard that the 64 bit version of Vista only supports 16 GB... apparently one of my sources is wrong, or MS is just really stupid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Pr...nal_x64_Edition Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now