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My New Gaming Rig

Posted by sinjin Monday April 28 2008 at 1:30PM

Hi all, Just wanted to start a blog to show my setup. Im choosing the setup I have as I was looking at building a Spider compliant system.

 

Mobo: DFI LP UT 790FX-M2R AMD790FX ATX AM2+ DDR2 2PCI-E CrossFire SATA2 RAID Sound GBLAN 1394 Motherboard

CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition Quad Core Processor Socket AM2 2.5GHZ 4MB Cache 125W Retail Box

PwrSupply: Tagan TG900-BZ 900W High Performance LED Modular Power Supply

Video Card: 2x His Radeon HD 3870 ICEQ3 775MHZ 512MB 256BIT GDDR4 PCI-E 2XDVI HDTV Out Video Card

Memory: OCZ Reaper Hpc Edition PC2-8500 DDR2 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1066 CL5-5-5-15 Dual Channel EPP

HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB SATA2 8.5MS 7200RPM 32MB Cache Hard Drive

Case: Tagan EL-DIABLO Black ATX Case 5X5.25 1X3.5 7X3.5INT No PS W/ Mesh Side Windows Front Blue LED Fan

Cooloing: Liquid Cooling

I will be putting up videos/pictures of the build...

Stay Tuned! Coming soon!

Regarding the comments thus far:

Thanks for all the feedback, some of you people make me wonder though, this is in a bad way.

First off, power supply might be a bit much but later on down the road I won't have to buy a new one.

Second, this is to Goldenr1, Im not debating Intel's chips over AMD's. Im a IT consultant and know my shit, thanks for your feedback though.

Third, directed to Smikis, serious did you look at the mobo? WTF, Nforce! Dude! It is a AMD 790FX chipset and is AMD/ATI Crossfire ready mobo. There is nothing Nforce about this fucking setup. People don't do drugs, this is what happens to your children once they a grown up.

4th and last, this ones for you Nddesh, I could do all sort's of raid/multiple HD setups, but im going for gaming performance not redundancy or data loss. Serious! All that raid 0 crap you see them guys doing on all the overclocker forums...well...simply put is just stupid. That degrades performance not boost it.  Im not sure where they work, or if they work in IT but I would like to chat to their boss becuase that is the funniest bullshit I ever read.

Also what are you talking about a Nvidia Fan for?  Once again parent's lay of the wacky tabacky.

Also, no! The 8800 GT would not be better for my setup, I went for a Spider compliant gaming system.  Spider Compliant machines need to be: 790FX Chipset, ATI HD 3800 series video cards and last but least a Phenom processor.

I swear people don't fucking read.

 

User Comments

  • Sorin_mae- Mon Apr 28 2008 2:06PM
    • Looks good except for the power supply.

  • bluealien1- Mon Apr 28 2008 2:26PM
    • Tagan makes pretty good PSU's, what are you talking about?

       

      Nice build though, you lucky guy :D

  • daylight01- Mon Apr 28 2008 2:42PM
    • Why do you need a 900watt psu again?

      Though if you have the cash for this system then you have the cash to pay for power you will never need everytime you switch it on.

  • Sorin_mae- Mon Apr 28 2008 7:25PM
    • Wattage is way too high imo. you don't need nearly that much if the psu has good amperage on the right lines.

  • goldenr1- Mon Apr 28 2008 8:54PM
    • All wrong.  Intel + Nvidia FTW.  Faster updates, newer products, and better support.  Not to mention compatibility due to market share.  Also, snag a 10k RPM HD and a 24" EHDTV monitor.  And why not go 64bit with 8GB ram, doesn't hurt anything.  About the "too much watts" theory.  Most GFX cards use about 400watts w/ load.  If anything, he should get 1k PSU.

  • Crose- Mon Apr 28 2008 9:31PM
    • Getting a 10K RPM HD isn't going to improve performance much.  Also, only someone who has no idea what he's talking about would think he needs a 1K PSU.

  • Smikis- Tue Apr 29 2008 1:04AM
    • before buying nvidia nforce 7 motherboad google for video coruption there is mass ppl with that issue which is caused by any nfore 7.. aka 750 780 790.. any manufaturer.

  • Nddesh- Tue Apr 29 2008 9:05AM
    • i would change the HD to a 250gb and buy an additionnal 500gb HD.. just in the case the HD fail... and for the Nvidia fan.. i saved more than $200 by choosing AMD and ATI.. because i thought 5 extra FPS isn't worth... better to be neutral.. 2x more product for you... and sinjin... the Nvidia 8800gt is a bit better than the hd3870 for the same price.. but i don't know if dual on them which one is better ...

  • HisButterfly- Wed May 21 2008 8:07AM
    • I'm curious as to what kind of keyboard you're using in the photo? Middle of the picture, silverish looking?

      I am looking for a keyboard that allows me to play from the right side of the keyboard. Know of one? If so, love to know about it!

       

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