ultimate build

awhir

post what you think would be the "ULTIMATE BUILD"

heres mine



AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core FX60 (Socket 939)
£614.95 £614.95
Western Digital Raptor 150GB WD1500ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-069-WD) 2
£314.95 £314.95
DFI LanParty UT CFX3200-DR RD580 Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
£144.95 £144.95
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-059-PC) 1
ATI Radeon X1900 ***Crossfire Edition*** 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-045-CO) 1
£579.90 £579.90
Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR PC4000 Ballistix Dual Channel Kit
£159.95 £159.95
Logitech Z-5450 THX® Certified 5.1 315 Watts Wireless Speakers - Retail
£199.95 £199.95
NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
£22.95 £45.90
Dell Ultrasharp 2405FPW 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey
£559.95 £559.95
CoolerMaster Stacker 830 RC-830 - Silver Trim (No PSU)
£139.95 £139.95
Swiftech H20-220 Apex "Ultra" Watercooling Kit (Socket 462/478/LGA775/754/939/940)
£128.95 £128.95
Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
£84.95 £84.95
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Edition - Retail
£115.95 £115.95
Coolermaster Musketeer 3 System Dynamics Detector - Silver
£29.95 £29.95
Raptor K1 Professional Gaming-Grade Keyboard - Retail (KB-016-RA)
£71.95 £71.95
Razor Viper 1000 mouse(KB-002-RA)
£55.00 £55.00


Subtotal £3,247.20
VAT £568.26
Total £3,815.46

5,569.81 EURO

Cuddlesworth

This has been done a few times, and in the end it always comes down to the fact you can spend upwards of 15,000 on server parts and huge lcd monitors.

WizZard

It's been done before. You can go all out and as krazy said, spend upwards of 15k for the "Ultimate" build.
It's very subjective too - my "ultimate" build might be much different to yours.

CSSource God

I happen to have 6 items off that list hehe.

1*Raptor 150g.
Enermax.
X1900's.
DEll 24''.
Keyboard.
NEC rewriter.
Im half way there so:rolleyes:

awhir

CSSource God wrote:

I happen to have 6 items off that list hehe.

1*Raptor 150g.
Enermax.
X1900's.
DEll 24''.
Keyboard.
NEC rewriter.
Im half way there so:rolleyes:

rich boy

magick

ha thats nothing

mine is Celeron 1.8 gig
with 256 value ram
40 gig hd
+ gforce mmx 440 including colour blue
featuring beige box *to prevent fall apart* thats now yellow from sunlight great mod!

g5hn710m4xpdwy

when i did this i didnt get so much nice replys

Optikus

I think ditch the Watercooling and go for Phase, that would certainly add more uberness to it.

riptide

This thread in a few months will be started off with Conroe... the rest is incidental

Cuddlesworth

The apex kit is good, but you can get better for watercooling.

conzy

Speaking of the ultimate build....

A brand new MESH Pc came into the shop today to be repaired, The guy spent €3500 on it and it got dropped in the post, the case is all bent and the graphics cards brackets are also bent, And im still trying to get the X-Fi Working..

Its a fairly modest setup

FX-60
2 7900GTXs
ASUS A8N 32 SLI DELUXE

But, It has a cheapo 550watt psu, and 2 gigs of OCZ value ram. Ewwwww:D

awhir

what do you do cozzy??(repair pcs?)

WizZard

conzymaher wrote:

Its a fairly modest setup

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

conzy

WizZard wrote:

Its a fairly modest setup
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

^Sarcasm:D

what do you do cozzy??(repair pcs?)

Yup, I build and repair PCs in a PC shop in Kilkenny after school and at weekends...

awhir

hu kilkenny suprised they even heard of COMPUTERS out there.LOL

conzy

Ouch^



Bogger:D

maxpower

fair play @ 16 and holding down a job in kilkenny.... Why r u, not into de auld hurling?:D lol

i shoot someone if they droped my pc in the post.... come on 3 & 1/2 grand... fooksake... U'd go postal...

conzy

maxpower wrote:

fair play @ 16 and holding down a job in kilkenny.... Why r u, not into de auld hurling?:D lol

i shoot someone if they droped my pc in the post.... come on 3 & 1/2 grand... fooksake... U'd go postal...

He he, I got lucky, I went to the shop for work experience, the second day he trusted me to build a PC, and I have been there ever since........:D

He has been trying to contact MESH since Monday....

I think either the X-Fi or the PCI slot is fooked, I will have to try again on Monday, The graphics cards are ok, but they wont work in SLI??

awhir

tell the guy its ****ed and i will take it for 200e

conzy

He he:D

Doc_Savage

small business opertunity for you there..;)

conzy

What? Selling stolen PCs:D

I was thinking of building gaming PCs for people.....

Maybe I will advertise it, cost of Parts plus €100 or something.

Optikus

conzymaher wrote:

He he, I got lucky, I went to the shop for work experience, the second day he trusted me to build a PC, and I have been there ever since........:D

He has been trying to contact MESH since Monday....

I think either the X-Fi or the PCI slot is fooked, I will have to try again on Monday, The graphics cards are ok, but they wont work in SLI??

Conzy there is an issue with the earlier X-fi Music edition cards and nForce4 chipsets. AFAIK its only on the music editions, something to do with IRQ sharing and conflicts, i think there is a firmware update to solve it. If the sound card your having problems with is Music you should look into this, could be the reason SLi isn't working too.

Drapper

awhir wrote:

hu kilkenny suprised they even heard of COMPUTERS out there.LOL

Killkenney is a city man !

conzy

Optikus wrote:

Conzy there is an issue with the earlier X-fi Music edition cards and nForce4 chipsets. AFAIK its only on the music editions, something to do with IRQ sharing and conflicts, i think there is a firmware update to solve it. If the sound card your having problems with is Music you should look into this, could be the reason SLi isn't working too.

Thanks, But MESH took the PC back, there was something seriously wrong...

awhir

#pc arrives back to mesh emptey#

can see that happing

Alkers

Take the first rig in my sig.
Add Amd Fx60,
2x Plextor PX-755SA2x Sata DVD burners,
4Gb Corsair Pc4400 Ram,
2 Raptor X ,
2 750Gb drives
2 7900 GTX 512Mb,
21" Syncmaster LCD
Logitech Bluetooth Keyb and Mouse
2 ArticCooling Coolers for the GFx
Low profile Heatsink for the chipset
Creative X-fi fatality
Seasonic S12 Powersupply 600W
Comes in at over €6,200 on top of what I have from komplett.ie

Matt Simis

Optikus wrote:

I think ditch the Watercooling and go for Phase, that would certainly add more uberness to it.

Agreed, otherwise it just a high end stock system. My opinion isnt warped because Im considering selling my R507 Modded Mach II Phase cooler.. at all.

Also, throw in some really hardcore drives, like 15K Atlas II SCSI drives connected to a PCI-E 128MB Cache U320 SCSI controller.


Matt

conzy

Just throw eight 2.6ghz Dual core opterons in a Tyan board, throw in X1900XTX crossfire or Quad SLI, and that is the ultimate build

16cores:eek: :eek:

Cuddlesworth

Simona1986 wrote:

Take the first rig in my sig.
Add Amd Fx60,
2x Plextor PX-755SA2x Sata DVD burners,
4Gb Corsair Pc4400 Ram,
2 Raptor X ,
2 750Gb drives
2 7900 GTX 512Mb,
21" Syncmaster LCD
Logitech Bluetooth Keyb and Mouse
2 ArticCooling Coolers for the GFx
Low profile Heatsink for the chipset
Creative X-fi fatality
Seasonic S12 Powersupply 600W
Comes in at over €6,200 on top of what I have from komplett.ie

I thought xp could not adresss more than 3.1gigs.

conzy

It can with some tweaking:D

But it cannot support more than 4gb at-all at-all

KamiKazi

how hard is it to get it to address 4 gigs of ram?

conzy

KamiKazi wrote:

how hard is it to get it to address 4 gigs of ram?

Its impossible.

You need a 64bit Processer and a 64bit Operating system to address more than 4gb of ram....

KamiKazi

so an AMD x2 and windows xp 64 edition would work?

conzy

Yes, but why would you need more than 4gbs of ram?

512mb isnt enough

1gig is perfect

2gigs help some programs out a bit more

4gig is just silly

riptide

conzymaher wrote:

Yes, but why would you need more than 4gbs of ram?

512mb isnt enough

1gig is perfect

2gigs help some programs out a bit more

4gig is just silly

Unless he was working a lot with VMware!

conzy

But seen as he has a XPS laptop and is a frequenter of the CSS forum, I assumed that gaming would be the primary purpose of this rig:D

KamiKazi

conzymaher wrote:

I assumed that gaming would be the primary purpose of this rig:D

u damn rite

but id have a gig of video ram, so id have to keep it in proportion rite??:D

i.e. 4 gigs of ram

conzy

Ah..............NO:D

2gb is loads

And if you use all the DIMMs on a S939 board the Command rate drope to 2T which is a performance hit.

WizZard

Plus some, so-called "Premium" boards have... "issues" with 4Gb RAM.

KamiKazi

in fairness theres no point gettin 4 gigs of ram.
games atm wont use it all, and u would have to buy xp64.

might as well wait for vista

conzy

KamiKazi wrote:

in fairness theres no point gettin 4 gigs of ram.
games atm wont use it all, and u would have to buy xp64.

might as well wait for vista

Are you talking to yourself?

KamiKazi

i was yeah, but i forgot to put
*start think*


*end think*

conzy

Ok:D

I thought you were going crazy after the untimely death of your XPS:p

KamiKazi

i did go crazy for a little while, then realised what sort of machine i could build for the price of the xps:D

NutJob

KamiKazi wrote:

in fairness theres no point gettin 4 gigs of ram.
games atm wont use it all, and u would have to buy xp64.

might as well wait for vista

Wait for vista thats a bad idea.


4gig of ram is excessive 2 gig matched corsayer low latentancy ram a better buy.

Mabe 2 serial ata 2 drives in raid 0 (if a hard drive dies it dies but so does 1 big drive)


after that its down to what you want intel or x64


For the price of an xps ur better off building ur own. XPS are for gamers who arnt willing to do some research. Hell Komplett tell you what parts go together!

gline

for an ultimate build i think you would be looking at 8way or more dual core opterons, all phase change cooled and oc'd, as much ram that will fit on the board, as much hdds that fit on the board, sli if available (gfx phase cooled too) and an aircooler in the case. all volt mods done and everything ocd to max

but thats just a dream build and probably wouldnt even be possible

Cuddlesworth

gline wrote:

for an ultimate build i think you would be looking at 8way or more dual core opterons, all phase change cooled and oc'd, as much ram that will fit on the board, as much hdds that fit on the board, sli if available (gfx phase cooled too) and an aircooler in the case. all volt mods done and everything ocd to max

but thats just a dream build and probably wouldnt even be possible

I'v heard from oc forums that trying to oc quad core systems and keep them stable is like trying to ram your head ino a brick wall.

gline

krazy_8s wrote:

I'v heard from oc forums that trying to oc quad core systems and keep them stable is like trying to ram your head ino a brick wall.

ah yeh id say so, multi chips to oc and ram would be ecc ram and not mad preformace ram so kinda hard to oc that, plus the mobos arent designed to be oc'd

po0k

riptide wrote:

Unless he was working a lot with VMware!

Xen ftw!

...why would you overclock an enterprise system? This is completely against the grain and roots of overclocking.

This makes my belly glow.

conzy

gline wrote:

ah yeh id say so, multi chips to oc and ram would be ecc ram and not mad preformace ram so kinda hard to oc that, plus the mobos arent designed to be oc'd

And its 4 times more likely that you will end up with a brick.......