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« on: July 01, 2010, 02:47:52 PM »
It is 4 years since I have built my own personal computer and I see it is about time to treat myself to a new machine ...

Here are the specifications ....

Motherboard .... Asus M4A89GTD-Pro AM3 890GX 4DDR3 2PCIE RAID VGA GLAN 2FW ATX HDMI SAT (SATA3 ... USB3 )

CPU .... AMD Phenom II X 6 Core 1090T(3.2GHz)AM3 9MBCache125W

RAM ..... Kingston 8Gig (4x2G)2000Mhz PC16000 DDR3 CL9 HyperX

Video Card .... Inno3D Geforce 8800 320 mb

Hard Drive .... Seagate XT 2TB 7200rpm 6GB/s 64M

Case .... Lian Li Lancool Dragon Lord PC-K58 Black

Power Supply .... Gigabyte ODIN GT 800W

Windows 7 64 bit.

That should keep me going for a while   
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2010, 03:28:33 PM »
Nice work mate
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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2010, 04:28:29 PM »
I like it   
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« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2010, 10:00:39 PM »
I wouldn't trust a 2TB drive yet... especially if your PC runs more often then not.  Maybe look at two and RAID them? (I would 2 x 1TB and RAID though..)

I've seen more dead then alive 2TB drives... almost the same story on the 1TB unless your going to an enterprise quality SAS drive but in a R1 you have some redundancy.
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« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2010, 10:59:00 PM »
Quote from: Andrew on July 01, 2010, 10:00:39 PM
I wouldn't trust a 2TB drive yet... especially if your PC runs more often then not.  Maybe look at two and RAID them? (I would 2 x 1TB and RAID though..)

I've seen more dead then alive 2TB drives... almost the same story on the 1TB unless your going to an enterprise quality SAS drive but in a R1 you have some redundancy.

In my "Old" system I have been running 2x1Tb Seagate SATA2 drives now for 12 months and haven't had any problems ... I know their was an issue with some earlier 1Tb drives when they first came out but they rectified that.

This new system I am running the 2Tb XT Seagate SATA3 drive and I have another 1.5 Tb Seagate drive for Acronis backup of the 1st so I am fairly well covered as well as that XT drive has a 3 year warranty so I am fairly confident ... the XT drive was $355 so not looking at populating my system with more than that one for now and really just biding my time waiting for Solid State drives to fall in price.
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« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2010, 07:29:46 AM »
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Me too, I've seen the speed difference between a 15000rpm Raptor and a (good) SSD and it is awesome but as you say the price needs to at least half first.
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« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2010, 11:32:59 AM »
Looking good  ,,jim
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« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2010, 11:25:56 PM »
Jim, am happy for you!
I am ready for a "New One" Win 7- 64bit too, need new Interests, besides mine is just so painfully slow now, it turned 5 Years last Month.


 
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