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Going the almost full monty.


Quad core, as much RAM as possible, water cooling, either 4870X2 or 4870 under water, or even 4850 X 2 under water. Vista Ultimate X64/ Xp dual boot. 750Gb Perp drive for media and file storeage, and a 300Gb SAS drive for OS/gaming.

I see the new Q8200's in stock with free shipping, how far can they go with water and a board to support them. Or should I wait a few weeks for the rest of the new CPU's to come out? What about the new 7XX AMD chipset, are they actually pushing the 9950's to compete?



Suggestions on hardware? I have a shiny new preferred account at the egg and have my system pending sold.
 
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Yeah, multimedia.


I am going to rip all my movies and keep all my music and pics on the 750 and or RAID a few to gain extra storage. Then use the DVI port on my projector and fiber for audio. Plus file sharing to a couple other PC's in the house.
 
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In that case a E8600 would probly be better. I would get a P5Q PRO for your motherboard. 4 GB of RAM (I would sugest eather ddr2 800 or ddr2 1000) because the gains past 1000 are minimal. If air cooling is not good enough then I would sugest a kit from www.pertastechshop.com. (which ever on eyou think fits your needs. If you can live with air the Xigamtek S1283 is amazing for the price. I would get a 4850 crossfire or a 4870 X2, that would be your choice, I see no reason for anything more then 2 4850's or a 4870. for the harddrives I would go with one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218. They are faster, cheaper, and quiter then a 750GB. For the second harddrive I would recomend a velociraptor. (This is the fastest harddrive for SATA2, but I DO NOT recomend it because you will probly not see enough of a diference to justify the price.
 
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I think the velocaraptors are a rip, a SAS is insanely fast compared and not much more plus more reliable, Perp drives are fast with huge storage for the money and free shipping plus a five year warranty. I can get a 300GB for $400 and a cheap PCI-E card.


I dislike WD drives due to my experiance with failure rate.
 

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Avoid the P5Q-Pro like the plague if you are going for a low multiplier chip and loads of memory. They have issues with high FSB's and they nearly all have memory issues. Go with an X38, or X48 board.
 
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How much better is a Q9550 than a 6600?
 
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I think a Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe and a black box 9950 $179.99 with 4 gigs of RAM is the way I am going.
 
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Anyone know if a Swiftech MCW60-R will fit a 4850?
 
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I will get my X-Fire card and the rest after I sell my current rig.



Custom radiator, going to cut as much out of the side of the case as I can and use a copper tube in aluminum fin, cut it for two loops.


Pump to CPU to a few coils of the radiator to GPU to a few more coils of radiator to resovior.
 
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It has been ordered, I will add another radiator and 4850 when my current system is sold.


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They ran out of 9950's when I went to actually order.
 
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