New toys on the way

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:09 am

I finally ordered my the parts for my new build. They should be here today or tomorrow as they coming from the Memphis Newegg warehouse. Here they are

<a href=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 15202>Core I7 920</a>

<a href=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 31365>Asus P6T Deluxe V2</a>

<a href=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 0145236>12 gigs Corsair XMS</a>

<a href=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 36319>2-WD Black 640gb for RAID 0</a>

<a href=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 2136284>2- WD Black 1 TB for storage</a>

<a href=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 007>Noctua CPU cooler</a>

Plus the XFX 260 Core edition, the Thermaltake 700w PSU and Antec 900 case that Ive already bought. Man I cant wait to get this rig put together. I figure it should scream!! I will probably tackle it this weekend since I have my kids this week and I dont want to take time away from them to tinker with this. I will post a complete build log with tons of pics.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Mon May 11, 2009 12:00 pm

Looks like a good build. More than I can afford.

d_b · Post by **d_b** » Mon May 11, 2009 6:56 pm

12 gigs of the XMS? is that a typo?

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Mon May 11, 2009 9:57 pm

No sir. 12 gigs it is. Im in school so I do alot of stuff running multiple VM's so the ram will help with that. Plus this is first new build in like 4 years so I decided to go big

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Mon May 11, 2009 11:28 pm

I'm hoping you are running a 64-bit OS

Can't blame you in the Western Digitals. Seagate has been somewhat of a letdown as of late, with them reducing warranty, they seem to show they have no confidence in their products either.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Tue May 12, 2009 12:28 am

I thought I was doing good with 8gigs. Actually, even with 4gigs in Vista I hadn't ever felt the need for an upgrade. But ram's so cheap, why chance it.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:36 am

great system. as far as ultimate benchmark performance, the reviews i've seen comparing various RAM configs showed anything over 4GB = slower. the system has to manage the memory space, which takes up resources, etc. of course, this was just for gaming. things like VMs eat it up...who cares about the 1% or less loss of performance.

congrats!

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Wed May 13, 2009 2:37 am

b-man1 wrote:great system. as far as ultimate benchmark performance, the reviews i've seen comparing various RAM configs showed anything over 4GB = slower. the system has to manage the memory space, which takes up resources, etc. of course, this was just for gaming. things like VMs eat it up...who cares about the 1% or less loss of performance.

congrats!

1% loss of performance today would have been more than 100% 15 years ago