New Build - Aug 19 2011, 18:06

Building my new pc... here's some pics so far.

No striped SSDs, I am disappoint. Judging by the uneven number of disks, it suggests Raid 0, 5 or none of the above. In my opinion those are all bad.

Acquire one more disk and run a Raid 0 + 1 (3+3). Not quite enough to fill your SATA bus, but at least you get both performance and reliability.

Given disk speed is the bottleneck in most common-day tasks, giving the extra bit of love to your disk setup usually pays off.

Which CPU (and how much OC) requires such gigantic cooling?

Which graphics card are you planning on acquiring?

Christ.

But with that kind of budget getting a couple of SSDs makes even more sense.

SSD's, 2 Crucial 4m 128GB

The ram fans not plugged in yet, still to hook up the other drives and the fans to the other PSU I have.

The other drives are 2x 36gb raptors, 2x 250gb Hitachi sata 2 and a 250gb Maxtor.  These are my old drives but still good for storage.  I have the Hitachi drives in a mirror, the raptors were stripped but will be used in my other system probably.  going to build a NAS possibly... we'll see!

Yeah,

I have a i980 cpu, Asus rampage extreme 3 motherboard, 590GTX Asus GFX, 24GB Corsair 2000MHZ ram, total of 1750 watts of power from 2 PSUs.

I have 3 ASUS 24" monitors coming tomorrow to be on my new triple monitor stand.

You need to put some NSFW tags up if you are going to post up pr0n like that, mate.

can i be on your Christmas cast off list

please

Some pics of my other case..

this now has my old PC in it... Lian Li aluminium case with perspex window.  Asus p6x58de Motherboard, Zotac 470 GFX, i7 920 CPU, 6gb Corsair Dominator GTX, 750w OCZ PSU... Not hooked it all up as I dono if I will ever use it.  Good backup PC if the big boy dies.

I threw out loads of old stuff too.  Manage to build a PC using my old Striker Extreme Mobo, dual core CPU, 4gb Ballistix ram, Enermax 550w PSU, 7800gtx GFX.  Giving that to my buddy with my old viewsonic 19" LCD.

Watty got some older stuff to do some practise work on for his course.  MSI AMD Mobo, 2 64 AMD CPUS, 3GB ram, 8800GTX GFX, some other bits and pieces.

Good to clear your cupboards out of old gear!