Starting the upgrades.

[Agnostic Bear]

I'm finally starting the upgrades I posted about a while ago, pretty much everything has changed since then, so here's what I'm getting:

http://imgbear.com/crap/upgrades.png

http://imgbear.com/crap/upgrades%202.png

I'm gonna start buying them as of next week, it will go like this:

1) Case & GFX Cooler (Next week)
2) New GFX Card
3) Raid Controller
4) 6 HDD's (maybe 3 at a time).

Then it should be done.

What I want from you:
Your opinions / what could be changed. (The case is non negotiable unless you can find a quiet full tower case with at least 7 hdd slots)

[Stephen!]

very good case choice. Lian Li are supreme.

I would be wary of Asus. Many people have had various issues with their boards and they say their support isn't much good either. I would recommend the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P over any other board. Great thing is it is crossfire capable which is perfect if you want to add another 4870 at some point. It has set a dozen overclocking records. It is described to be the "god" of overclocking. I recall you saying you were going to overclock (forgive me if I am mistaken) so this should be in your best interests.

[N!ck]

very good case choice. Lian Li are supreme.

I would be wary of Asus. Many people have had various issues with their boards and they say their support isn't much good either. I would recommend the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P over any other board. Great thing is it is crossfire capable which is perfect if you want to add another 4870 at some point. It has set a dozen overclocking records. It is described to be the "god" of overclocking. I recall you saying you were going to overclock (forgive me if I am mistaken) so this should be in your best interests.

Doesn't that only support DDR3 RAM though?

Everything else looks good. Aria have got 4870s on SuperSpecials at the moment. http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/Club+3D+ATI+Radeon+HD+4870+1024MB+PCI-E2.0+?productId=33741 http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/XFX+Radeon+HD4870+1GB+PCI-E+2.0+?productId=34717

[Stephen!]

Nope, it's a DDR2 board

[Tomm]

Ill repeat what I said before but you do not need a raid controller like that. The one you are planning on buying is designed for server solutions - not a desktop. To start with you're wasting your money completly on the SAS support since SCSI/Serial attached SCSI drives cost the earth (We are talking £500+ for a 450GB one with 15,000k speed) and are designed for high performance servers.

Since I assume you want raid, what configuration are you planning to put it in?

[Stephen!]

I think he is going to have more than one type of RAID running at the same time. In that case, an onboard controller just aint gonna cut it.

[Jordan,]

why do you need 6tb of file space

[Agnostic Bear]

Ill repeat what I said before but you do not need a raid controller like that. The one you are planning on buying is designed for server solutions - not a desktop. To start with you're wasting your money completly on the SAS support since SCSI/Serial attached SCSI drives cost the earth (We are talking £500+ for a 450GB one with 15,000k speed) and are designed for high performance servers.

Since I assume you want raid, what configuration are you planning to put it in?

It'll be going in RAID 50.

[Robbie]

Will you be keeping osx86 or using Vista again btw?

[Agnostic Bear]

Will you be keeping osx86 or using Vista again btw?

Vista.

[Recursion]

The first Gigabyte board I ever bought (last year) died in two weeks, I got an ASUS board and its been perfect, although ASUS' driver support is a bit ****** so you have to go round the companies getting the drivers.

[Agnostic Bear]

The first Gigabyte board I ever bought (last year) died in two weeks, I got an ASUS board and its been perfect, although ASUS' driver support is a bit ****** so you have to go round the companies getting the drivers.

Tell me about it, I have a P5Q at the moment, looks like I'm gonna be getting the WS as I've found a PCI-X RAID card which is a bit cheaper.

It's this one:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/99579

[Recursion]

I never knew RAID controllers could be that expensive, sheesh! :O

[Agnostic Bear]

I never knew RAID controllers could be that expensive, sheesh! :O

Decent RAID cards are usually £300+ anything under that and it's a bit "ooh should i get this i dunno" ...kind of like maxtor

[Agnostic Bear]

hohoho

http://imgbear.com/crap/order.png

[Agnostic Bear]

hohoho

http://imgbear.com/crap/order.png

Got it & it's setup, running very well :8 case is huge.

[Nick.]

Pics or it didn't happen. :P jks. But can we actually have pics?

[Recursion]

Pics or it didn't happen. :P jks. But can we actually have pics?

I second this <3

[Agnostic Bear]

Yes, not right now though, I will do a crapp webcam screenshot tomorrow, and I will probably buy a Mini SD reader to transfer images from my phone. I'll see about taking one now & emailing it to myself. Stay tuned.

[Agnostic Bear]

Yes, not right now though, I will do a crapp webcam screenshot tomorrow, and I will probably buy a Mini SD reader to transfer images from my phone. I'll see about taking one now & emailing it to myself. Stay tuned.

Crappotron:

http://imgbear.com/crap/Image003.jpg

[Recursion]

JESUS CHRIST :O

[lolwut]

World's Biggest Case Award...
Nice one though.
Why 6TB? You've gotta be mad...

[Agnostic Bear]

World's Biggest Case Award...
Nice one though.
Why 6TB? You've gotta be mad...

It wont be 6TB when it's finished.

[N!ck]

It wont be 6TB when it's finished.

Will be 4TB won't it?

And micro-ATX board :(.

[Agnostic Bear]

Will be 4TB won't it?

And micro-ATX board :(.

It should be about that, perhaps lower due to 1tb disks actually being 931gb. It was the only mobo I could find within 20 seconds.

[N!ck]

It should be about that, perhaps lower due to 1tb disks actually being 931gb. It was the only mobo I could find within 20 seconds.

It depends on how you define Tera. If you define it as 10^12 then it's right, which is what manufacturers do. If you define it as 2^40 then you get a lower amount and you could call it a tebibyte (TiB), but you probably already know this :P.