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Drives
LG Lightscribe HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Super Multi Drive
LG Lightscribe DVD Burner
Seagate Barracuda 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Here's what the setup looks like:
I don't have all three monitors hooked up yet. Right now there's a conflict of drivers that I'm trying to figure out. The onboard is Nvidia but the video card is ATI.
LightScribe is a really cool thing. So much better than printing labels. You have to use a very high contrast for your labels though - but if you do, it looks superb!
Maturion wrote:Nice machine! I really like the case.
Danke. Ja, es ist sehr toll. To me, it has the right balance of style without being too tacky. It comes with 2x 120mm fans and is super quiet and very sturdy. It also came with braces for screwless drive installation, which I appreciate.
On the minus side, it's very heavy and a little bit cramped inside. The HDD bays have a unique sideway design which is great for installing drives but takes up extra space. Also, anything with a glossy plastic face can scratch, scuff, and attract fingerprints easily, so I have to be a little more careful.
hearld500 wrote:Mighty nice sir.
How do you have that dreamcast hooked up btw?
In setting my new computer up I discovered I seem to have misplaced my DC VGA cable, so I need to look for it. I've also got a devver's serial cable running to the PC (via USB > serial adapter) but haven't tried it out yet to see if it works.
I have black DC hooked up to my living room HDTV via VGA box. This is the seldom used homebrew/devtest unit. (To be honest, I haven't used it in a couple years).
So you bought a 750a SLI (nVidia) motherboard, and then you bought an ATI card...... riiiiiiigghhhhttttt.
Personally, I wouldn't have gone with AMD either. The Phenom is a 65nm chip, which is going to draw more voltage, and run hotter. The bus speed is pretty quick, but in comparison tests it seems AMD is still WAY behind, and four cores aren't exactly necessary. I would have just gone with an 45nm, 1333mhz FB, E8400 and overclocked it to about 4Ghz on air.
But hey, different strokes for different folks. The rest of the setup looks great!
Code-Red wrote:So you bought a 750a SLI (nVidia) motherboard, and then you bought an ATI card...... riiiiiiigghhhhttttt.
It was a combo deal on NewEgg; about $50 cheaper than any other comparable board/card configuration would've been. But you're still right, I should have noticed.
Code-Red wrote:So you bought a 750a SLI (nVidia) motherboard, and then you bought an ATI card...... riiiiiiigghhhhttttt.
I have the same, an nVidia SLI board and ATI card. The nVidia chipsets just tend to have great amounts of features. For me the only alternative was an AMD chipset (my board is already half/half) but that doesn't mean I should stick to nVidia graphics. There are no specific conflicts.
"When you post fewer lines of text than your signature, consider not posting at all." - A Wise Man
Yeah, I went the opposite route on the last computer I built and bought an ATI board with a Nvidia card. As long as I don't plan to SLI them, then there's no problem.
|darc| wrote:I, too, have a nVidia mobo and an ATI card. why the big deal?
It's not really a big deal, if you don't plan on upgrading your graphics via a second card. However, it limits you're ability to do just that. Instead, he's going to have to buy a much better ATI card (or splurge on two nVidia's), which two cheaper cards in Crossfire probably would have matched.
Until developers even start utilizing 4 cores, it's a moot technology. I'll take an E8400 dual which overclocks and outperforms a Q6600 quad any day. More money saved for better things like videos cards, cooling, and memory.
Nico0020 wrote:what is the point of a quad core anyways? I never really understood that.
By my understanding, unless you're doing heavy video editing, extreme multitasking (i.e. playing Crysis and Half Life 2 at the same time), or running Folding@Home it's completely pointless for the time being.
Code-Red wrote:By my understanding, unless you're doing heavy video editing, extreme multitasking (i.e. playing Crysis and Half Life 2 at the same time), or running Folding@Home it's completely pointless for the time being.
HD video editing, Adobe Creative Suite, ripping DVD's to Divx and running a home media server. Quad FTW.
Code-Red wrote:Until developers even start utilizing 4 cores, it's a moot technology. I'll take an E8400 dual which overclocks and outperforms a Q6600 quad any day. More money saved for better things like videos cards, cooling, and memory.
impetus wrote:HD video editing, Adobe Creative Suite, ripping DVD's to Divx and running a home media server. Quad FTW.
May I ask which programs you use actually take full advantage of 4 cores?
darc wrote:it's called "multitasking"
Code-Red wrote:By my understanding, unless you're doing heavy video editing, extreme multitasking (i.e. playing Crysis and Half Life 2 at the same time), or running Folding@Home it's completely pointless for the time being.
Thanks for re-affirming what I've already said. Two cores is plenty enough, unless your a spider with 4 mice, 4 keyboards, many monitors, and tons of programs open pointlessly.
