My New Rig

YouTube · Post by **NightReaver[CotC]** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:40 am

Well I finally wore my wife down and talked her into letting me spend $1000 on a new computer (Only took about 3 years.) Well anyhow here it is.

MOBO = MSI K8N Neo4-F
CPU = AMD64 3500
RAM = Kingston 512Mb x2 Match Set (for a total of 1Gb)
Video = Nvidia GeForce 6600 256MB PCIx 16x
BootDrive = 80Gb ATA100 IDE
Storage = 200Gb x2 SATA7200RPM (striped of course)

Half of my software is installed

I do have the three important bits of software installed:
CoD-UO
Ventrillo
xFire

Post by **KrAzYdAvE** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:01 am

You should watch out for those "stripped" hard drives, that can cause problems! I prefer mine to be striped!

Nice specs BTW!

Post by **warf** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:06 pm

Nice, where you get the stuff?

YouTube · Post by **NightReaver[CotC]** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:54 pm

warf wrote:Nice, where you get the stuff?

at the store..... he he

more further down

http://www.startechsandiego.com

It's a little shop near me and well my wife said you have UP TO $1000 so I spent $999.81 got all that and a case with a WORKS 400Watt PS (I'll edit the PS info later can't exactly remember now.) A link to my original parts list is here http://www.kdinc.net/computer.html and the only thing that changed on that was the vid card and I added a PS links to the part descriptions are there too.

I'm happy. Built it so it was upgradable later. My MOBO can handle the AMD FX5800 CPU too and upto another 7Gb of RAM and with the PCIx 16x I think I'm good for a bit (till they change something)

Reaver out

SLIDER · Post by **SLIDER** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:09 am

STRIPED??????

YouTube · Post by **NightReaver[CotC]** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:10 pm

SLIDER wrote:STRIPED??????

It means you take 2 drives and make them act as one.......
the advantage is this....
say you have a 2Gb file and you want to say it to your stiped drives here is what happens
that files is written half to one drive half to the other.
while one drive is reading the other is writing and vise versa
double the data rate essentially

Post by **KrAzYdAvE** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:42 pm

Double read at least, write isn't improved much...
Striped is referred to as RAID 0
Mirrored is RAID 1
I currently have 1 RAID 0 and 1 RAID 1 in my PC, I use the RAID 0 for programs, games etc, and the RAID 0 for my critical data...

Post by **Aide-de-Camp** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:08 pm

What no oversized picture? Geeez!

Post by **Akira** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:07 pm

I'm familiar with using RAID 5

Post by **KrAzYdAvE** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:22 pm

RAID 5 is great... for servers
don't really need it for your home pc though!

YouTube · Post by **NightReaver[CotC]** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:18 am

Aide-de-Camp wrote:What no oversized picture? Geeez!

Lemme bring the camera in from the truck tomorrow and I will post pics....but I warn you now I am not the best at cable management.....

and Im still not finished tinkering inside

Long dstory short I have an 80Gb the needs to take the place of a 20Gb for my boot drive and well I havent taken the time to ghost it.

GHOST
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/