Quote Originally Posted by Avrsion
All looks lovely.
Your only going to use 2gb of RAM though i presume? using 3gb would be a bad decision.

Also maybe use 250gb HDDs in RAID 0? Would turn out faster. :wink:
Thanks Avrsion,

For research what I’ve done is looked up the CPU and Mother board to see if any systems out there exist out there now with that motherboard combo setup. They do. Only possible problem noted was if the BIOS has an old version on it (old stock) which would require a quick flash to update it.

As for Raid 0. I had that before, with the old system. I'll need to research how much of a performance increase I could expect running that. You suggested it, so it must have a worth wild advantage I’ll take a look =)

The down side to that I had with raid 0 so far. When the old PC went bad. I had no way to take the data off because it was a Raid 0 config. I figured, least this way if I didn’t backup that day I could get the data off. Also I’m a bit worried because double the hardware, double the chance of something going down. I have really really bad luck, lol I laugh but it’s the honest truth.

I didnt go SLI this time for that reason and just selected a nice single card.

As for running 3g, that’s what I did with the old system. The reason I only did 3g was at the time there was a problem between Microsoft and my motherboard not recognizing over 3g, the company suggested I only order 1 extra gig instead to bring it up to 3g. I did, and while the computer worked, it seemed to be ok.

Perhaps there are some problems only running 3g that I’m not aware of; could you go a little more in-depth? 2 (512) so I do get the duel channel functionality out of it.

DDR2 800 I figure I have the 1g of it allready, I think DDR3 costs an arm and leg. Further research required. But if you don't like the 3g idea anyway it might be in my best interest just to saw off a limb or two and hand it over :lol: