New computer thoughts?

[MyndFyre]

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?

[rabbit]

Buy me one too?  And 12gb of RAM?  What are you gonna be doing?  Calculating pi to it's final digit?

[MyndFyre]

Buy me one too?  And 12gb of RAM?  What are you gonna be doing?  Calculating pi to it's final digit?

Don'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

[Ender]

EDIT: I looked up your processor and saw that it's a quad core. Nevermind that.

[while1]

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.

[rabbit]

So yeah...if not buy me one....can I at least have your old one?

[while1]

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.