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:





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/...roductId=33741 http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=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.