i'd only spend 1000$ and save the rest to start paying off loans. take it from somone who has them
tech reports latest system guide might be a good springboard for you if you don't really know what you want, and aren't interested in doing the research yourself.
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- Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:39 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: new build help!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4189
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:10 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Adventures with building a home server
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10264
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:17 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: OCZ Vendetta 2 + Yate Loon D12SL-12?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3165
I'm using some of these in my gaming box, and find them pretty quiet, with zalman fanmates running them somewhere between 5-7V [about 600RPM] There is a light ticking, but in a P182 under a tabletop I can't pick it up. With the side off and my ear next to it, I can. If anything they are cheap, right...
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:13 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Quiet System build, new to all things quiet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2730
Re: Quiet System build, new to all things quiet
The big question for modding my P-182 case is if I can get away with blocking off the top vent without raising the temperature inside the case. You very likely fan, from a general consensus in my opinion, , a lot of people don't use the top fan mount. If you're really interested in being in a compe...
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:09 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New to building, please review Build.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5581
950W psu? sigh...that would be my first return... When bought in conjunction with the CPU, it was 170 dollars off (so it was 80 bucks). I was originally going to get a 650 or 700W but this one ended up being 20 dollars cheaper with that combo deal. I know it's a bit overkill but in the future if I ...
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:56 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Adventures with building a home server
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10264
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:08 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Post Your Workstation setup
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19145
Two years out of college, so, maybe something to look forward too! And yes, its very quiet. http://chrisrandel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/workstation-small.jpg big http://chrisrandel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/boxes-small.jpg big http://chrisrandel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/bigscreen-sm...
- Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:58 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: DDR2 RAM 800MHz+ 1.8V+ Overvolted, Overclocked, Overpriced?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2569
However, either way the difference in real world (non-benchmark) speed between 667, 800 and 1066 DDR2 is pretty insignificant and almost always the system is bottlenecked by something else (CPU, HDD, GPU). Id get the cheapest brand name RAM listed at 1.8v and not worry about all the overvolted stuf...
- Tue Nov 04, 2008 1:25 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Low Budget File Server
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5157
I'd get the least expensive antec earthwatts supply. I've seen the 330W for 30$ many times. It certainly may be overkill, and you might not get the best efficiency, but when you're dealing with such a low load, more efficiency doesn't help *that* much in the long run when you're spending a lot more ...
- Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:37 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Server @home ** UPDATED 19/12/2008 **
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9434
- Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:59 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Is this system cool enough?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4113
Well, you won't really know till you put the thing together. My gut says yes, it should be fine. If you're not overclocking, it should be sufficient. Your 4850 will put off a lot of heat, so I'd recommend mounting a 120mm blowing over the card on the back of the hard drive bay, and make sure to keep...
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:17 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 4 500g drives how to setup raid.....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7648
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:48 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Advice on AMD 4850e build for Home Office & Multimedia
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6759
Your new systems will stomp the old ones. They should be completely sufficient for the described purpose above. Heat may be a minor issue, but even a single 120mm case fan with the cpu fan and power supply fan should be adequate for cooling. The on-board components are designed to handle high temper...
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:52 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: building file server, need advice and help
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2380
For OS, Windows XP 32-bit won't cut it. You'll be limited to 2TB volumes (which will be very annoying) unless you move to WHS, Server 2003, Vista, or Server 2008 (which allow for the use of GPT disks). Don't forget linux :) I'd say get a full blown computer, you have a lot more options if you want ...
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:17 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Budget Music Computer built in NSK4480 (updated Oct 14)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9693
- Fri Oct 10, 2008 2:21 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Best RAM for Asus P5Q Pro and Q9450?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1926
I would try to get something that runs 5-5-5-18 at stock voltage. I find that I experience memory failures [at work] with memory at higher voltages. I just had a stick of crucial ballistix at work that failed running @ 2.0v, 4-4-4-12@ 800mhz which is the first memory stick i've had fail in a long ti...
- Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:45 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: on the lookout for a new motherboard
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2250
Your mobo supports a ton of CPU's. Q9450, E8400
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func ... incat_no=1
CPU upgrade would go a long way from a P4 based chip.
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func ... incat_no=1
CPU upgrade would go a long way from a P4 based chip.
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:54 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Stuck Reset switch on Antec P150
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2623
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:45 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Fanless solution..?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11480
at least one thing to consider is that you will decrease the lifetime of components and for no measurable or detectable improvement in noise level Would 50 C (full load, around 20 in the room) at the CPU decrease the life time of it? No. CPU life is generally pretty long [10+ years] assuming you're...
- Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:59 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Home file server
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3748
Ha, you're not really building a "Home" file server, you're building a workstation/work class file server. Have you had good luck pulling a raid controller from an existing machine and plopping it into a new one? I've had mixed luck with it. The whole system hardware-wise is totally overkill. You co...
- Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:40 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Upgrade quandry - AMD or Intel?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2228
- Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:55 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Quiet PC for around £300
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7765
- Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:54 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: System recommendation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4926
The Q6600 is priced the same as the E8400 where as the Q9550 is 100 eur more. Not too worried about the heat (should I be?). Seems like the Q6600 is better prepared for future programs. Motherboard? I would really appreciate your help. Planning to buy it all tonight (europe) or tomorrow. Any of the...
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:51 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: System recommendation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4926
Looks solid, and totally overkill for an HTPC. But for playing games, should be fine. I'd recommend any P35 chipset motherboard. You can browse through the ones the egg has here I've had really good luck with gigabyte boards running the P35 chipset, built 6 or 7 with no problems, all running quadcor...
- Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:36 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: looking for a raid6 controller
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4302
i know i wanted raid6 but what can you tell me about PERC 5/i? is in any good? for its price i have to think about it I've used these as well, they are actually LSI cards. Pretty much any dell server with SCSI or SAS has a card from this family. Performance isn't bad, but no web interface for the c...
- Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:31 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: looking for a raid6 controller
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4302
3ware 9650SE-8LPML is my choice right now but i want to know if there are other good controllers out there i know raid6 controllers ain't cheap, but i need storage space Agree, I love these, using several at work. The 12ML is also very good if you wanted to be able to expand. Pretty useful web inte...
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:39 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: 2bay NAS or VIA ITX fileserver?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1695
I don't trust many inexpensive RAID solutions, personally. I'd just make two separate drives, and use rsync to mirror them nightly, or something like that. If one shits the bed, then you have everything on the other disc there, you can plug it in anywhere without worrying about RAID stuff, etc. I'd ...
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:16 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Trying to find an appropriate case for lots of storage
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8501
Well.
If you wanted to plan ahead, and go big, I'd roll with Either an Antec 900 , or if you want more, this Lian-Li . With the Antec 900, add two of these for 10 hot-swappable bays. With the 12 5.25" bay Lian-Li, you could have 4 of them, totalling 20 hot-swappable disks. Replace the 120mm fan in the Sup...
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:47 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: KVM Switch to save energy and desk space?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3997
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:13 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Highest efficiency PSU available?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5912
Ha, the X1900 is a real energy hog :). After replying to this thread, I'm now doing some reading on the different 80 plus standards, no idea we had different levels of 80plus+ efficiency. It looks like its tough to find low wattage 80+ silver power supplies, and nearly impossible to find 80+ gold po...