My nForce4 build!

Richard Dower

Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 nForce4 Ultra, revision 1.0, F4 BIOS
AMD FX-53 o/c to 2.57GHz
Corsair 1GB, TwinX PC3200XLPT @ 2-2-2-5 DDR400 @ DDR428
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 4.5ms, x2 - RAID 0 Array 64k stripe
Leadtek 6800GT PCI-E, 256MB GDDR3 @ 358/1020MHz
AOpen H700a full size tower
Plextor PX-716A 16x DVD+R, 1.04u firmware, TLA# 0304
Plextor PX-130A 16x DVD-ROM, 1.01 firmware
Digital Doc 5+ controlling eight 80mm Vantec Stealth fans
Cooler Master Hyper48, incl. an additonal 8 Vantec copper ramsinks affixed to the cooler
Panasonic PanoFlo 92mm
Arctic Silver 5
Sony 3.5" floppy drive
Eircom Cayman Netopia 3341, latest 7.4.2r0 firmware
Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite
Creative I-Trigue L3450 speakers
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB
Coolermaster rounded floppy and IDE cables
Antec TruePower 550W PSU, incl. total cable sleeving
Hewlet Packard monitor cooler
HP Deskjet 5650
Windows XP Professional - SP2 slipstreamed

Not quite finished as yet, no doubt other new toys will come on the market soon, but i'm kinda preped and ready to spend bug bucks on the the latest and greatest.

Azza

Not bad....not bad at all.

Be a month or two before I get a rig to match that.

jessy

very nice, what kind of benchmarks are ya getting out of the fx-53?

Pinhead

That is indeed a lovely build My plan is to get two Raptors during the summer and RAID 0 'em. How is the FX-53 performing? And how much overall is this system costing you?

Richard Dower wrote:

Coolermaster rounded floppy and IDE cables

I've never understood why people go into such unnecessary detail..

aaf

Plextor PX-716A 16x DVD+R, 1.04u firmware, TLA# 0304
Plextor PX-130A 16x DVD-ROM, 1.01 firmware

Why the need for 2 drives when one will suffice? Could save yourself a bit of money and put it towards another bigger HD. You'll fill those 2 raptors in no time

halenger

Can't say I like the case. I'd have gone Antec personally. Maybe something else but Antec would be a definate contender. AOpen have the odd one or two nice ones but I don't like that one myself. Antec have much better build quality too, in my opinion. (I own two AOpen's and have sold a number of others. I've only sold 2 Antec and I was incredibly impressed (same price pretty much also)).

feylya

Have you that machine built or have you just ordered everything? Cos the nForce4 board is dreadful for overclocking.

Mr. Presentable

Sweet.

I'd be interested to know your spend, though.

Richard Dower

jessy wrote:

very nice, what kind of benchmarks are ya getting out of the fx-53?

Not benchmarked that much, but Aquamark gave me some 75,000.

Richard Dower

aaf wrote:

Why the need for 2 drives when one will suffice? Could save yourself a bit of money and put it towards another bigger HD. You'll fill those 2 raptors in no time

I use the DVD-ROM for ripping and playing and the 716A for burning. I don't find myself filling my drives too much with data, but at least i have the option of putting another two Raptors in for a four drive RAID 0 if nesscary.

Richard Dower

halenger wrote:

Can't say I like the case. I'd have gone Antec personally. Maybe something else but Antec would be a definate contender. AOpen have the odd one or two nice ones but I don't like that one myself. Antec have much better build quality too, in my opinion. (I own two AOpen's and have sold a number of others. I've only sold 2 Antec and I was incredibly impressed (same price pretty much also)).

I love that Aopen case, it support seven 80mm fans and is very big and roomey, i find the build quality excellent and removable motherboard tray/HDD/Floppy etc.

Richard Dower

feylya wrote:

Have you that machine built or have you just ordered everything? Cos the nForce4 board is dreadful for overclocking.

It's built, the nForce4 boards do overclock well, at least 250FSB. Mine is at 214 right now but will go higher.

Richard Dower

spannerhead wrote:

Sweet.

I'd be interested to know your spend, though.

Alot, though most of the parts were from a previous build. I bought a new mobo/CPU/heatsink and graphics card for this build. The Leadtek alone was some €500.

feylya

Richard Dower wrote:

It's built, the nForce4 boards do overclock well, at least 250FSB. Mine is at 214 right now but will go higher.

Do a search for overclocking the first nForce 4 boards. They're limited to 240. Mine won't post past 233.

jessy

Richard Dower wrote:

Not benchmarked that much, but Aquamark gave me some 75,000.

would be very interested to know what kind of scores you would get in sandra.