New Computer for 5 Boxing

[Duane]

I've been five boxing on a older PC and Laptop and want to consolidate it to one machine. This will be about my fourth solo build but I'd like the opinions of others. In particular will the Raptor drive make a big difference?

COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Aluminum Bezel , SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - $49.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119068

EVGA 512-P3-N802-AR GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card -$135.99 after rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130319

OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W ATX12V Power Supply 100 - 240 V - $79.99 after mail in rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341002

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor - OEM $184.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115018

2 -G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail $119.99 after rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122

ASUS P5N-D LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $149.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131232

Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $174.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136011

ASUS Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 14X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe - Retail $35.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135156

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit English 1pk DSP OEI DVD for System Builders - OEM $179.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116493

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM $5.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007

ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler - Retail $26.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134

Total build cost - $1,239.88












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[Darcla]

Looks good. Just curious though, why the extra cooler and compound? Planning to overclock? The quad core will come with a stock CPU cooler.

[Duane]

Looks good. Just curious though, why the extra cooler and compound? Planning to overclock? The quad core will come with a stock CPU cooler.I planned on buying the OEM processor that doesn't come with a cooler or compound. You save $10 from the retail version that way. And if I wanted to overclock the CPU I could do it without burning it up with the after market cooler.

[Tamu]

Looks like a great build. I would suggest going with a Zalman CPU cooler ('http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118003') , though. I have one and run my CPU overclocked with no problems.

[Bovidae]

Looks good. Just curious though, why the extra cooler and compound? Planning to overclock? The quad core will come with a stock CPU cooler.Overclocking the Q6600 is mandatory (and easy)

I use the Zalman CNPS9700 ('http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118019') running at 3.0 ghz, operating temp 48-50c

[Duane]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll replace the CPU cooler with one of the Zalman's.

It's been years since I've had a video card other than Nvidia. What are the thoughts on the new ATI 4800 series video cards? I've heard a lot about the very good price/performance on these cards.

[wowphreak]

if yeh gonna go with a 64bit operating system get like 8 gigs of memory. The only point in getting 64 bit os is so yeh can use over 4gigs of memory.

If yeh stick with 4 gigs , vista will eat 2gigs and each instance of wow will take any from 256 - 500 megs depending on setting and where yeh located.
if yeh hit a city yeh will lag with 5 chars.(assuming yer playing wow and have default install of vista...).

only time raptor might make a noticeable difference is loading into an instance

[Sloefke]

Hey,
I'm kinda bored with my 6lvl 70's. And thinking about Multiboxing (4-5 chars).
I also wanna play it on one pc. So I'm following this post with great interest.

Do you have your hardware allready and tested it?


Grtz Sloef

[Duane]

Hey,
I'm kinda bored with my 6lvl 70's. And thinking about Multiboxing (4-5 chars).
I also wanna play it on one pc. So I'm following this post with great interest.

Do you have your hardware allready and tested it?


Grtz SloefI'm probably going to order on Monday and try to have it set up for next weekend.

[Memn]

if yeh gonna go with a 64bit operating system get like 8 gigs of memory. The only point in getting 64 bit os is so yeh can use over 4gigs of memory.

If yeh stick with 4 gigs , vista will eat 2gigs and each instance of wow will take any from 256 - 500 megs depending on setting and where yeh located.
if yeh hit a city yeh will lag with 5 chars.(assuming yer playing wow and have default install of vista...).

only time raptor might make a noticeable difference is loading into an instance

Wowphreak is dead on. Skip the raptor, buy more RAM. You won't be sorry. My memory utiliization is usually around 5 GB when I'm 5 boxing using a very similar build. Resource manager puts most of my load on CPU and memory.

[Bovidae]

*cracks knuckles and presses hotkey*

64bit, Vista, 8gb ram and WoW: Don't bother, World of Warcraft is a 32 bit application and runs on a 32 bit emulator in Vist64 called Windows on Windows (Yes WoW-on-WoW) and is still limited to the same restrictions you are accustomed to. That said, ram is cheap, other games are 64bit compatible, hopefully Warcraft will be one day, but don't expect ANY performance increases due to using more than 4gb ram.

To test your theory about RAM utilization. Disable your pagefile.sys Since you have 8gb, and only use 5, there shouldn't be any problems... Don't worry, the bluescreen is not permanent, and re enabling paging is as easy as disabling it.