Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forums and thought it'd be a good time to join, since I'm thinking of building a new desktop. Here are the components I have in mind. I'd really appreciate any comments and suggestions you may have regarding my choice in components. I'm mainly concerned about how much cooling will be necessary. The case I have in mind already comes with 8 fans, so I'm wondering if I need any more. this machine will have Vista on it and will be used primarily for gaming. I plan to have 2 7200 rpm SATA drives in RAID 0 as well as another drive non RAID that will house my Vista. the games would go on the RAID drives of course. Also, I will be doing SLI with the 2 8800GT(edited from GTS) cards.I went to an online calculator, and got out that I needed a 500 watt power supply. To be safe, I'm going with 650 Watts. Again, all comments are appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
CD Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106072
Hard drives:
2 x 160GB for RAID 0 SATA 7200RPM 3GB/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136075
1 x 250GB SATA 7200RPM 3GB/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262
RAM:
2 x (2pack) 1GB DDR2 1066MHz Memory( total 4 GB):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145173
Motherboard:
eVGA Motherboard GDDR2 RAID 0 support
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188024
Graphics card: EDIT: Changed from GTS to GT
2 x Nvidea 8800GT 512 MB graphics cards in SLI
http://www.buy.com/prod/evga-geforc...ress-x16-sli-capable/q/loc/101/206609495.html
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
Power Supply:
650W Power Supply SLI ATX ready
http://www.buy.com/prod/antec-truep...power-supply/q/loc/101/202902530.html#cRevSec
Computer Case:
Cooler Master stacker:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119039
I'm new to the forums and thought it'd be a good time to join, since I'm thinking of building a new desktop. Here are the components I have in mind. I'd really appreciate any comments and suggestions you may have regarding my choice in components. I'm mainly concerned about how much cooling will be necessary. The case I have in mind already comes with 8 fans, so I'm wondering if I need any more. this machine will have Vista on it and will be used primarily for gaming. I plan to have 2 7200 rpm SATA drives in RAID 0 as well as another drive non RAID that will house my Vista. the games would go on the RAID drives of course. Also, I will be doing SLI with the 2 8800GT(edited from GTS) cards.I went to an online calculator, and got out that I needed a 500 watt power supply. To be safe, I'm going with 650 Watts. Again, all comments are appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
CD Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106072
Hard drives:
2 x 160GB for RAID 0 SATA 7200RPM 3GB/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136075
1 x 250GB SATA 7200RPM 3GB/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262
RAM:
2 x (2pack) 1GB DDR2 1066MHz Memory( total 4 GB):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145173
Motherboard:
eVGA Motherboard GDDR2 RAID 0 support
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188024
Graphics card: EDIT: Changed from GTS to GT
2 x Nvidea 8800GT 512 MB graphics cards in SLI
http://www.buy.com/prod/evga-geforc...ress-x16-sli-capable/q/loc/101/206609495.html
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
Power Supply:
650W Power Supply SLI ATX ready
http://www.buy.com/prod/antec-truep...power-supply/q/loc/101/202902530.html#cRevSec
Computer Case:
Cooler Master stacker:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119039