Upgrade? Nah NEW BUILD!!!

[TheRandomPhotographer]

So i wanted to upgrade my old ASUS M-3N72D running a AMD 9550 X4...right!

Searching for a new MB i came across the MSI 870A Fuzion. $134 later and i had it home. I soon realized that i was behind the times on my hardware knowledge and learned that i needed new RAM and CPU. So i went back to Frys and got the AMD 1100T X6 and 8Gb of Patriot Sector 5 9-9-9-24 then i decided that i may as well get a new GPU since im already gutting my old tower. But wait! since nothing is in my old tower i should upgrade that too, so i got the Thermaltake V9BlacX Edition and while im at it i should go liquid cooling...So to make a head spinning story even more confusing this is what i ended up getting into:

Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edtion
MSI 870A Fuzion
AMD 1100T X6
8Gb Patriot Sector 5 Kit
Corsair H50 Liquid cooler all-in-one CPU cooler
XFX Raedon HD 5750 (very soon to be Crossfire'd)
Thermaltake TR2 RX 750W modular PSU
Logitech G110 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech C910 HD Webcam
Logitech G700 Wireless Laser Gaming mouse
Thermaltake 120mm 97cfm fan (upgrade for the H50 i wanted a higher flow fan)

Im running all of this on two Dell 1908FP w/Windows 7 Ult.

I will be going Raid 0 on two 500Gb but i havent decided on what model i will be using. Currently im running everything on a 640Gb WD and a 500Gb Seagate and Storing my photos and other media on a 2Tb that plugs into an external Slot on the tower.


Here are some shots:

[Jake]

No SSD drive?

[sbfuller]

I've thought about building my own computer but i just don't know enough about it. I'm looking at getting the dell 2711 monitor so i need a video card that can do that and i'd like to have something that will blaze through photoshop pretty quickly. what would a setup like that run to build?

[TheRandomPhotographer]

Originally Posted by thejakestir

No SSD drive?

not yet..my board has Sata 6 but i want a 320Gb+ and thats too expensive for my tastes

Originally Posted by sbfuller

I've thought about building my own computer but i just don't know enough about it. I'm looking at getting the dell 2711 monitor so i need a video card that can do that and i'd like to have something that will blaze through photoshop pretty quickly. what would a setup like that run to build?

well if you want to i could help you build one...BTW i took the internal fans out and re-organized the wires.

as far as a bad ass system goes you could spend 1k-3k easy. just depends on what you want it to do. In your case photoshop. I would say multi-core cpu and lots of ram like 8gigs or better and a nice graphics card; like something that can support multiple monitors.

HDD can be a touchy subject you want fast platter speeds for random access like gaming and you want low speed for larger files like movies and photos and the such...in my case i have 7200 rpm drives and they are all SATA3 not that Sata3 is better than 6 or 1.5 cause HDD's top out at 150 MB/s anyways.

but yea i can help you build one if you want...you got my number

[Rson]

Originally Posted by sbfuller

I've thought about building my own computer but i just don't know enough about it. I'm looking at getting the dell 2711 monitor so i need a video card that can do that and i'd like to have something that will blaze through photoshop pretty quickly. what would a setup like that run to build?

Depends....if you don't know ha ve someone build it.

[Rson]

All the fast components in the world don't help if you have slow data transfer. SSD has almost instantaious transfer (about 4 times faster) than SATA. With photoshop, the speed is the sum of the parts and the weakest link sinks the ship.

[TheRandomPhotographer]

Originally Posted by Rson

All the fast components in the world don't help if you have slow data transfer. SSD has almost instantaious transfer (about 4 times faster) than SATA. With photoshop, the speed is the sum of the parts and the weakest link sinks the ship.

true....but its way too expensive for large data storage setups. almost 1k for a 1TB array. On HD Tach i hit 2Gb/s data burst and avg 180 Mb/s data transfer. im happy with my new rig....once SSD's come down of replace spinners altogetther then ill dive into that pool. but til then :)


BTW...i cooked my 870a and replaced it with the 890FXA-UD5 Gigabyte.