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« on: September 02, 2009, 11:02:44 AM » |
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« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2009, 02:37:55 PM » |
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Very nice set up. I was thinking about building something similar with a Phenom mobo and the i7-975 Extreme Edition, 3.33ghz. And Vista? You should try out windows 7, imo it's a wayyyy better OS.
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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2009, 09:00:29 PM » |
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Read t3h fine printz. Comes with a free upgrade to Windows 7.
And the i7's overclock like a beast. No need to get anything higher than what I'm getting, because you can easily overclock up to the level of the 975 Extreme.
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« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2009, 09:10:12 PM » |
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Yeah but I want to beastmode my i7 even more. My friend is using the 975 overclocked to 4.1 with no problems... I may do the same.
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« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2009, 09:27:12 PM » |
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What in God's name are you going to be needing that kind of processing power for?
Are you going to be animating a movie in Adobe Flash, editing photos, faxing important documents, and playing Crysis at the same time?
Quadcore 2.66 overclocked to 3.33GHz is more than enough to satisfy even me. And I'm a complete WHORE for graphics and performance.
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« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2009, 11:10:58 PM » |
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I am going to be taking classes on video game and graphic design. So I -will- be running a 3d imaging program, photoshop, maybe flash, quest and starcraft, all on my three 30' LCDs... * Nitemare dreams of his supercomputer. Its a long way off... but I'll get it someday. |
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« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2009, 11:30:29 PM » |
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The 3 screens don't take much more processing power, they're basically just extensions of your desktop. You'll still only have 1 active window at a time, it's mostly just for looks/convenience. I have 3 screens wired into my current laptop and do fine with a Core Duo 1.6GHz processor running Firefox on one, a game on another, and iTunes and/or photoshop in the other.
Current rig:
Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop
Core Duo 1.6GHz processor
60GB Harddrive (laughably small, I have a 60GB iPod... Grandparents bought it for me, so meh.)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 GPU
1GB DDR2 RAM
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« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2009, 11:57:21 PM » |
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Ha. I am using a crappy dell laptop with windows 2000... its an Intel Celeron 2.60ghz, 2GB ram... its pretty terrible. We have a desktop which I rarely use and its an AMD Athalon 2800+ 2.28ghz, 2gb ram and a Radion 512mb video card... its better than nothing though.
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« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2009, 12:48:17 AM » |
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As far as processor's go, it's best to upgrade just a little and see where that puts you. Overkill on processor = overkill on bank account.
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« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2009, 12:58:14 AM » |
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But thats the point of building it slowly. I don't expect to see this come to fruition for a serious amount of time, and overkill is the goal here, I want it to be running every program I have at and watch 30 movies at the same timeeee!
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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2009, 01:16:53 AM » |
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But you should also be realistic... Are you really EVER going to do so many things at the same time? Why would you put so much stress on your system like that? Playing games and having all those other things open at the same time is just.. well.. no offense, but stupid.
By the time you're doing enough processes to actually make having the Core i7-975 Extreme have a point, Intel will be coming out with a bigger and better processor, and you'll be needing to buy a whole new rig to support it.
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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2009, 01:28:05 AM » |
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MAN, quit hatin' my dreams. I never intend to actually do all of that processing. But I want it to be more than capable of anything I would ever want it to do. Man you lurk late at night.
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« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2009, 12:35:44 PM » |
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Just saying. Unless you (or your parents) are obscenely rich, don't get bother getting the best of the best, because in 2 years or less, the best of the best will be nigh on obsolete.
And I just realized I get a free copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum with the purchase of that video card. n_n
And a 4GB Flash Drive...
Free stuff. <3
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« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2009, 12:38:41 PM » |
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* Nitemare orders all your parts. Thanks for the setup! |
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« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2009, 03:46:34 PM » |
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Cheers! I still got it first.  * Magical Trevor admires, being careful not to drool on the GPU. |
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« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2009, 10:58:09 PM » |
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Heh, I wish I had 1800$ to throw at a new computer, I am saving for my trip to USA. You should get a hyper heatsink, they are super good for keeping a system cool. If you're not sure what they are: http://www.ninjalane.com/reviews/cooling/hyper212plus |
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« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2009, 07:02:47 PM » |
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For that amount of money I can buy a complete dual XEON 2 GHz INTEL thingy that blows your PC away  *tip* buy 2 hdd's and mirror them disks are cheap prevent data loss is unpriced |
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« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2009, 11:14:35 PM » |
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I have a 2.4ghz Xeon intel duo core mobo... with 2 gbs of RAM.... it just... has no case... or... anything else... >.> And the mobo was only 60$.
I want to get two raptor gaming HDD's and mirror them, they have a higher rpm for improved load times!
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« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2009, 03:01:44 AM » |
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Better idea:
Get a Solid State Drive to run your games and such off of that.
The Raptor has very little real advantage over any other good Western Digital HDD.
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« Reply #19 on: September 13, 2009, 06:39:09 PM » |
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OOOOH samsung just released a 256GB SOLID STATE DRIVE! They are super expensive though... |
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