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CPU:Phenom II X4 955BE

Motherboard:Crosshair IV Formula

Bios:1902

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Graphics Card:crossfired MSI HD6870 1GB Twin Frozr II

Memory:G.Skill Ripjaws F3-16000CL9D-4GBRHD (2x2GB) DDR3

Hard Drive:Caviar Black 1TB + Caviar Green 2TB

Optical Drive:ASUS DRW-24B3LT 24X DVDRW LightScribe

Power Supply:Corsair AX1200

Display:LG, 1920x1080

Case:Lian Li Armoursuit PC-P50R

Speakers:Logitech X530

Mouse:R.A.T.3

Keyboard:Saitek Eclipse II

Operating System:Windows 7 64bit

Cooling

CPU:Noctua NH-D14

Graphics Card (GPU):Twin Frozr II

Case:plenty of case fans standard pixel.gif

Speeds

CPU

Stock:3.2GHz

OC'd to 4.0GHz

Graphics Card - Core

Stock:920 Graphics Card - Memory

Stock:1050

Benchmarks

3DMark06:21805

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let me know what you think, excuse the phone quality photos :(

Sam

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All that and a small monitor? :O

I know...maybe hes saving up for one..lol

all that and one 7200rpm OS drive?!

yeah agreed, would've a smaller faster OS drive..

But you all missed the main thing wrong with it

ITS PINK!!

must be a shirtlifter.. :P

lol!

It's not pink in real life.. just blame that on my shitty phone camera :( it's anodised red.

The monitor is only half of the monitor-ness available, the other half is a 42" LCD TV.

HDD: waiting on SSDs to come down in price and up in size to a point where they become cost effective.

Does the difference between a 7,200rpm and 10,000rpm make a huge difference?

Yeah it's quite a lot faster, but no point buying a 10k Raptor drive these days. SSD's have come down a lot since they came out and destroy them in performance. 10k drives are just too expensive and nowadays are pretty much useless.

Yeah it's quite a lot faster, but no point buying a 10k Raptor drive these days. SSD's have come down a lot since they came out and destroy them in performance. 10k drives are just too expensive and nowadays are pretty much useless.

There still pretty expensive though hey, like $350 for a fairly decent 120GB one. I guess if you're really into gaming and the like then I guess it's worth it.

I'll just stick with my noisy 7200rpm one :nyaanyaa:

SSD is one of those things you won't 'get it' unless you have used it.

Then once you do you will never want to go back to regular HDDs for the OS boot drive again (unless you got some uber RAID setup with 10k rpm drives).

I just bought my 2nd SSD (120Gb Cruical M4) for my next computer build.

well I got my Raptors at a really good price, which is why I bought them, but TBH, if I were to do it over again I would have saved my pennies up for a Crucial M4 128 gig (have seen too many firmware issues with OCZ ATM). Would not buy one new though.

Velociraptors in RAID 0 are comparable in some ways to a Vertex 2, and when we installed Windows 7 x64 on both setups to compare, took around the same amount of time to install. That said, after using a Vertex 3 in my workstation, I'm sold on the SSD thing even if it's not cost effective; I used to be a big naysayer about the whole SSD + storage drive thing, but they are that much faster it's incredible.

well I got my Raptors at a really good price, which is why I bought them, but TBH, if I were to do it over again I would have saved my pennies up for a Crucial M4 128 gig (have seen too many firmware issues with OCZ ATM). Would not buy one new though.

Yeah, that was the reason I went M4 instead of vertex 3.

Now I got 2 SSDs to play around with I'm not sure if I should even bother with setting up that intel smart response storage thingy on my Z68 mobo since I will probably just dump my most played games on my 2nd SSD instead.

Edited by Mayuri Krab

Thanks for the ideas and feedback guys, the RAM I wasn't sure of exactly what spec to get etc and I was really tired of power-researching all the other parts at 3AM so I just threw that on the order to get myself by.

Anyone got any ideas on a set that would work well on this board? I'm running Windows 7 64bit so the more the better, but I don't know enough about timings and latencies and what will fit under my enormous NH-D14! :)

Yeah it's quite a lot faster, but no point buying a 10k Raptor drive these days. SSD's have come down a lot since they came out and destroy them in performance. 10k drives are just too expensive and nowadays are pretty much useless.

Raptors have been going cheap as fk lately, given people are clearing them out :D

Very affordable next to a SSD IMO. RAID0 them and you are laughing.

I'm still not convined of SSD's very on a $ vs performance scale. Even with GEN3 drives outs now.

I keep reading there are a lot of underlying issues, corruption etc etc. I really CBFd with it until its fixed.

Never quite understood the whole bling-your-case thing with clear side-panels, neons, and glowing fans - basically stuff that serves no purpose besides appearance (not that it even looks good..) I guess it just reminds me of the whole Fast'n'Furious ricer thing. Can anyone explain it? I honestly don't get it :(

All my PCs are flat black, no clear-side panels, basically all that show are a glowing power LED and maybe some USB ports. Simple, functional:

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