ThomasLDS2005
05-07-2005, 06:38 PM
Hey everyone,
First time posting. Looking for some advice on how to proceed from those with more experience than myself.
Lil background about me, my cutrrent PC is a 3 year old eMachines P4 Northwood 2.4Ghz with 1Gb PC2700 and a 7200rpm Ultra 133 drive with an ATI Sapphire 9250. Memory, graphics card and hard drive are updates.
Not the best of machines power supply has about had it and case is hideous and scuffed up. Time to replace it, this time around decided to research it more rather than just opting for, the fastest processor and most memory the local PC shop has as I did first time around.
Much reading around later, I wask hooked. Decided to build my own PC from ground up and decided to make it look as good as it performed. I more or less have the component list sorted, the mod list is another story. Will detail spec list then ask for help regarding mods.
Case: Not sure yet thinking Lian Li V1200B
Power Supply: Power PC Cooling 850W SLi ATX 2.2
Processor: AMD FX 55
Motherboard: Asus A8N SLi Premium
Graphics: 2 x nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB Cards Core speed 430MHz
Sound: Creative Audigy Pro 4
HD Drives: 4 x WD Raptor 74GB Raid 0+1
Optical Drives: 2 x Plextor Sata DVD Drives one DVD R/W
20 in one Card Reader/ Floppy Drive
No ideas on water cooling yet more research required.
Ok pretty high end system want ultimate gamining performance, for DOOM £ Far cry Brothers in Arms etc. Downside is lots of pwer and heat.
Could do basic sort of mods. I.e windowed side panel blowhole, paint interior blue, blue cold cathode, blue wires dye water in watercooling, blue sleeving on psu etc. Just doesnt seem original enough for me, so I am thinking about building my own case from scratch, need help coming up with an idea, and implementing it. I've NEVER done a full system build or mod in my life before, but am thoroughly looking forward to the challenge, any and all comments appreciated.
Basically am after a system that will give best possible gaming performance, be smooth at heavy multitasking for work during daytime, quietish to not distract me from work, gaming doesnt matter so much use headphones most of the time. Must be original and stylish and as futureproof as possible investing £5,000+ in this rig time I purchase all components and 30" TFT and 7.1 channel surround sound system. So not looking to upgrade anything for at least a year lol give my bank balance time to recover.
*Apologies for verbose post lol :-)*
First time posting. Looking for some advice on how to proceed from those with more experience than myself.
Lil background about me, my cutrrent PC is a 3 year old eMachines P4 Northwood 2.4Ghz with 1Gb PC2700 and a 7200rpm Ultra 133 drive with an ATI Sapphire 9250. Memory, graphics card and hard drive are updates.
Not the best of machines power supply has about had it and case is hideous and scuffed up. Time to replace it, this time around decided to research it more rather than just opting for, the fastest processor and most memory the local PC shop has as I did first time around.
Much reading around later, I wask hooked. Decided to build my own PC from ground up and decided to make it look as good as it performed. I more or less have the component list sorted, the mod list is another story. Will detail spec list then ask for help regarding mods.
Case: Not sure yet thinking Lian Li V1200B
Power Supply: Power PC Cooling 850W SLi ATX 2.2
Processor: AMD FX 55
Motherboard: Asus A8N SLi Premium
Graphics: 2 x nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB Cards Core speed 430MHz
Sound: Creative Audigy Pro 4
HD Drives: 4 x WD Raptor 74GB Raid 0+1
Optical Drives: 2 x Plextor Sata DVD Drives one DVD R/W
20 in one Card Reader/ Floppy Drive
No ideas on water cooling yet more research required.
Ok pretty high end system want ultimate gamining performance, for DOOM £ Far cry Brothers in Arms etc. Downside is lots of pwer and heat.
Could do basic sort of mods. I.e windowed side panel blowhole, paint interior blue, blue cold cathode, blue wires dye water in watercooling, blue sleeving on psu etc. Just doesnt seem original enough for me, so I am thinking about building my own case from scratch, need help coming up with an idea, and implementing it. I've NEVER done a full system build or mod in my life before, but am thoroughly looking forward to the challenge, any and all comments appreciated.
Basically am after a system that will give best possible gaming performance, be smooth at heavy multitasking for work during daytime, quietish to not distract me from work, gaming doesnt matter so much use headphones most of the time. Must be original and stylish and as futureproof as possible investing £5,000+ in this rig time I purchase all components and 30" TFT and 7.1 channel surround sound system. So not looking to upgrade anything for at least a year lol give my bank balance time to recover.
*Apologies for verbose post lol :-)*