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Acidburning

05-09-2011, 10:48 PM

MiRai

05-09-2011, 11:40 PM

stopped by a local place here in Mountain View

i7-2600k 3.4 Ghz 8MB Cache
Asus P8P67 B3 P67 DDR3
Video Card: EVGA GeForce FTX570 1280MB GDDR5
Ram: Corsair 1600C9B 8GB (2x4GB) DDR
SSD: OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SATA II

about $1600 with some other stuff.

Thoughts on this setup? Solid? Ok? Things to change?

Compared to your current setup it's going to be night and day.

I like that you went with EVGA for a video card since if you wanted to get a GTX 580 within 90 days of purchasing it you are
able to "step-up" and just pay the price difference between the two for the upgrade; and, of course, EVGA has an amazing
reputation.

Asus boards are obviously good. I tried both an Asus and a Gigabyte P67 board this time around and I opted for the Asus in
the end.

Depending on what you do besides multiboxing 16GB may benefit you more but you can definitely wait on the upgrade for
that since you're going 2x4GB instead of 4x2GB... which is good.

Slightly puzzled by your choice of an old SATAII SSD when the P67 boards have a minimum of 2 SATAIII ports and if you
can dish out the extra $100 for one, I'd say go for it. Also, I decided to go with two Intel 510's as my choice of SSD and I
will easily recommend them. If you can't swap out the SATAII drive for a SATAIII for whatever reason you're still going to
see lightning speed none-the-less if you're coming from a mechanical drive.

Acidburning

05-10-2011, 01:15 AM

Compared to your current setup it's going to be night and day.

well, it should be :D, right now, I can't even play. I tried again to login 5 accounts, nothing appears to be working. I have upgrade the wow client. I have updated innerspace & isboxer. One window just freezes/ locks, disconnects after a few minutes. I don't really know how to trouble shoot it back. Just kinda fed up with it. I have been wanting to get a new rig,

Asus boards are obviously good. I tried both an Asus and a Gigabyte P67 board this time around and I opted for the Asus in
the end.

the gigabyte I recall being a bit more expensive, but didn't seem worth it when talking to store guy.

Depending on what you do besides multiboxing 16GB may benefit you more but you can definitely wait on the upgrade for
that since you're going 2x4GB instead of 4x2GB... which is good.

that was kinda what I was thinking. I discussed this with the guy. I want to see how my Adobe CS5 handles everything. It sounds like it should be cool, but like you said, I can easily just dump another 2x4GB in if needed.

Slightly puzzled by your choice of an old SATAII SSD when the P67 boards have a minimum of 2 SATAIII ports and if you
can dish out the extra $100 for one, I'd say go for it. Also, I decided to go with two Intel 510's as my choice of SSD and I
will easily recommend them. If you can't swap out the SATAII drive for a SATAIII for whatever reason you're still going to
see lightning speed none-the-less if you're coming from a mechanical drive.

well, glad you question this. After talking with the guy, I wasn't really sold on the SATAIII. I did explain I was going to use it for wow and multiboxing. It seemed like I would see little difference in the SATAII vs SATAIII. Is there really going to be that big of a difference?

much thanks for your comments. I am going to hit up another store near my office, just to kinda double check pricing and compare.

acid

MiRai

05-10-2011, 01:51 AM

Asus boards are obviously good. I tried both an Asus and a Gigabyte P67 board this time around and I opted for the Asus in
the end. the gigabyte I recall being a bit more expensive, but didn't seem worth it when talking to store guy.
I originally purchased the Gigabyte UD7 board and then sold it to my roommate so I could get the Asus Maximus IV. You might
think I'm crazy or it was a complete waste but I wanted a board that I could find a chipset watercooling block for and both the
UD7 and Maximus IV have full board water cooling blocks. I am happier with the Maximus IV, though.

Depending on what you do besides multiboxing 16GB may benefit you more but you can definitely wait on the upgrade for
that since you're going 2x4GB instead of 4x2GB... which is good.
that was kinda what I was thinking. I discussed this with the guy. I want to see how my Adobe CS5 handles everything. It sounds like it should be cool, but like you said, I can easily just dump another 2x4GB in if needed.
I use CS5 as well and I like to be able to cram more into my memory for preview for programs such as After Effects. You'll
have to see for yourself if you'll want more RAM after playing around with the new system. Again, easy upgrade.

Slightly puzzled by your choice of an old SATAII SSD when the P67 boards have a minimum of 2 SATAIII ports and if you
can dish out the extra $100 for one, I'd say go for it. Also, I decided to go with two Intel 510's as my choice of SSD and I
will easily recommend them. If you can't swap out the SATAII drive for a SATAIII for whatever reason you're still going to
see lightning speed none-the-less if you're coming from a mechanical drive.well, glad you question this. After talking with the guy, I wasn't really sold on the SATAIII. I did explain I was going to use it for wow and multiboxing. It seemed like I would see little difference in the SATAII vs SATAIII. Is there really going to be that big of a difference?

Unfortunately, I cannot give you a direct or real life comparison as I only jumped on the SSD bandwagon with this last build
and I just went all out with SATAIII seeing as I used my SATAII ports up on other mechanical and optical drives. As for what
speeds are being reported at I'm guessing you're missing out on about 200MB/sec read and 100-150MB/sec write at most?

To be honest... I think I might agree with the guy at the store about the comparison of the two for what you're doing with it.