I'm wanting a new desktop. Money doesn't matter all that much. I've already got a X1800XT video card on the way and need a motherboard/CPU + RAM to mate with it. I was thinking something like this...

http://cgi.ebay.com/4-0-GHZ-PENT-4-CPU-and-ASUS-MOBO-COMBO-3-0-3-2-3-4_W0QQitemZ6838095678QQcategoryZ80143QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

and I dunno for RAM, help please!

Also, what should I do for hard drives? Seems the normal s-ata would be too slow for that but I'm not all that sure, what do you guys suggest?

2/18/2006 6:58:55 PM

raid 0 with 2 10,000 RPM raptors for the os and programs and a 300 GB drive for storage

edit: well if money doesnt matter all that much get another video card and do SLI

and get another 300 GB drive so you can ghost the raid array for backup

[Edited on February 18, 2006 at 7:16 PM. Reason : .]

2/18/2006 7:15:34 PM

why not RAID1?

2/18/2006 7:30:12 PM

raid 0 = teh speed

raid 1 = teh redundancy

2/18/2006 7:36:06 PM

cool

2/18/2006 11:18:41 PM

thats what i did to my computer....

raid0 74gb 10,000rpm WD Raptors and i noticed a huge different in performance.

also got two 300gb Seagate external drives for storage and back-ups. (mp3's, work files, photos, etc)

its definitly worth the money.

i wouldn't spend any more money on a 2nd vid card until they get all this crap with vista and playing 1080p DVD's figured out (HDCP etc)

[Edited on February 19, 2006 at 2:11 AM. Reason : fda]

2/19/2006 2:10:21 AM

i didnt really read this thread,

but i'd suggest a mac

good stuff

-ZiP!-

2/19/2006 2:27:43 AM

^^ could have sworn the benchmarks for 3gb/s SATA II drives outperformed the raptors by a good deal. unfortnately I can't seem to access anandtech at this time to check it out.

[Edited on February 19, 2006 at 3:00 AM. Reason : ]

2/19/2006 3:00:02 AM