http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Av-SyFGjIhdtdHRfSWg2dXc0NlZnN1g1bDFDUjM2MWc&hl=en
Here were some guiding thoughts:
- Originally I wanted to keep it under $1500, but I want something that will last well.
- I wanted a SSD for my main boot drive, and a RAID-5 setup for the rest of my hard disk space.
- Yes, I really want to get a new, wired set of mouse and keyboard. I'm very unhappy with my wireless KB, and having to recharge my wireless mouse is kinda broken (hard to position the mouse just right).
- I don't really care about the case as long as it gets me by, reviews were positive.
Thoughts?
Buy me one too? And 12gb of RAM? What are you gonna be doing? Calculating pi to it's final digit?
Quote from: rabbit on March 26, 2010, 06:01:01 PM
Buy me one too? And 12gb of RAM? What are you gonna be doing? Calculating pi to it's final digit?
QuoteDon't ask me why I need six cores and 24GB. To paraphrase a Zen master, if you have to ask, you do not know.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/building-a-pc-part-vi-rebuilding.html
EDIT: I looked up your processor and saw that it's a quad core. Nevermind that.
I'm definitely not up to date on the latest and greatest hardware. But it looks like a fine machine to me that should last a good while. I agree with buying an SSD for your OS, but I'm curious if you've ever run a RAID-5 setup using a mobo's onboard RAID controller before. I've read that RAID-5 performance using many mobo's onboard RAID doesn't turn out that great.
I myself am going to bite the bullet in the next year and finally build myself a new kickass rig or buy a laptop. I think I would have already bought a MacBook Pro if the price tag wasn't so big. I'm so damn cheap sometimes, I probably won't build my new computer or buy a new laptop until this 5 year old laptop with 512mb RAM dies on me and I'm without a working computer. My 7 year old desktop's motherboard fries any videocard I put in it and the box has been sitting in my office collecting dust for almost a year. I've just been too lazy and cheap to take a risk on trying to find a replacement mobo compatible with my old P4 2.8GHz 800FSB.
So yeah...if not buy me one....can I at least have your old one?
Quote from: rabbit on March 27, 2010, 01:42:43 PM
So yeah...if not buy me one....can I at least have your old one?
Minus the harddrives, yeah, most likely I'd be willing to give it to you whenever I get around to building my new rig.