masterprometheus wrote:
Dale wrote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153116
Thermaltake TR2 TRX-650M 650W ATX 12V v2.3 / EPS 12V Power supply. I
like this brand and would like to stay with this but if the price is
right, I could be tempted to change my mind. My biggest question on
this, can this handle this mobo, CPU, video card and 3 to 4 drives
including a DVD burner?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103644
I saw that you already bought it. It's a below average product. Should
still work fine for this system.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371021
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151095
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207007
All of these are superior products with great prices. If one can get the
rebate the last one is a steal.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118056
ZALMAN CNPS10X FLEX CPU Cooler. This thing got good reviews and it is
not priced to high. According to the searches I have done this will
fit
the mobo/CPU and should fit in the case. Any disagreements on this?
Zalman's cooler is a good one but the one I listed in a prior thread is
cheaper. Performance is similar. This one of course doesn't need a fan
and will be silent.
I have always been skittish of a cooler with no fan. They just don't
sound right for some reason. I guess if I saw one in action, I may feel
a little different. I do like the large quiet fans tho. I do like to
keep the noise to a minimum. I actually checked Toms hardware for that
one too. It is highly rated. I have a ThermalTake Volcano 12+ on my
little AMD 2500+. It runs cool tho. I'm running folding and have been
for at least a week now and I'm running 87F for the CPU and the fans are
~3700 rpms. Not to bad I guess. I hope for something like that with
the new CPU but it may run a little hotter since it has more cores and
such.
Crucial Ballistix 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3
12800)
Desktop Memory. According to newegg this fits the mobo. Agree?
Yes a good one. If you don't need the fastest you can get a cheaper kit :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144478
However no objection to Crucial.
One reason I picked it is that it is 4Gb in one stick. I plan to max it
out over the next year and then put portage's compile directory on a
tmpfs in memory, or something to that effect. I read a while back that
it speeds up the compile a good bit. Of course, that SATA drive will
help to in the meantime.
I only plan to build one or the other not both. I would like to make
sure everything should fit fine but I would also like to get a opinion.
I would like a opinion on whether build #2 would be better in the long
run? It appears to be a bit faster although the price is not much
different. Build #1 is $611.92. Build #2 is $637.92. That doesn't
include shipping but a lot of the items have free shipping anyway.
Basically, I need this to last me several years since I can't afford to
rebuild every few years. Also, one reason for the HUGE CPU cooler, I
run folding in the winter. Helps heat the place up a bit. lol My
current rig with a Volcano 12 runs at about 90F at full load. I would
like to run pretty close to that since it just makes the CPU last
longer.
I'm open to ideas, discussion, problems and opinions. I mostly want to
make sure each build will work and which I should build.
Thanks for your time and replies. If you need more info, let me know.
The rest is good to great but that PSU is ....
Yea, the ones you listed above are good ones. I just start out with
what I have used before that worked well and go from there. I only
recall one P/S going bad on me tho. I blew the dust out and didn't know
that a rubber band came off and got hung in the fan. I found out a few
minutes later tho. It sort of had a bad smell. :-(
I hope to post some pics somewhere when I get it done. Going to test my
cable management skills a little bit. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
