[Thorian]

BOW DOWN BEFORE THE NEW GOD BOXEN


Thermaltake SOPRANO VB1000BWS Black Middle Tower Case With X type side panel window

DFI "LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR" NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 939 CPU

2 eVGA nVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra Video Cards, 256MB GDDR3, 256-Bit, TV-Out/Dual DVI, PCI-E, Model "256-P2-N377-AX"

That is right $1000 worth of video cards

ZALMAN Noise-free 400W(PFC, ver 1.3)/ ATX12V power supply Supporting Intel P4 & AMD CPUs, Model "ZM400B-APS"

AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 512KB L2 Cache, Socket 939 64-bit Processor 90nm process

Geil Ultra Series Dual Channel 184 Pin 2GB(512MBx4) DDR PC-4000

2 Seagate 160GB Barracuda 7200.7 7200RPM SATA with NCQ Hard Drives, To be ran in 0+1 Raid

ViewSonic VP171B-2 17" LCD Monitor, 8ms

Pioneer Black DVD+RW/-RW Drive, Model DVR-109

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Sound Blaster Audigy 2

ZALMAN CPU Cooler for Socket 478/A/754/939/940 With FAN Speed Controller

Razer Salamander Red Diamondback Precision Gaming Mouse

Windows XP Professional w/SP2- W/ MS Plus! for Windows XP / MS Plus! Digital Media Edition-OEM

This post has been edited by Thorian: 10 March 2005 - 12:54 PM

[BlueCube]

All I will say is dear God. :bowing:

[pioSko]

alphabet soup

j/k

nice setup

[supersloth]

[BlueCube]

Wait, why do you have (2) 256m video cards capible of dual monitoring, when you only have one 17" monitor. It's seems a bit overkill. Well, even if you were running dual 30"'s, it's a bit over kill.

[supersloth]

the whole box is overkill DUH.

[BlueCube]

You said DUH. You are overkill.

[Thorian]

symphonicreverb, on Mar 10 2005, 02:57 PM, said:

Wait, why do you have (2) 256m video cards capible of dual monitoring, when you only have one 17" monitor.  It's seems a bit overkill.  Well, even if you were running dual 30"'s, it's a bit over kill.

Because the Nforce 4 SLI chipset along with 2 SLI Capable graphics cards Bridge the 2 cards into effectively 1 clustered loadbalanced video card. Similar to the origional Graphics accelerators back in the day that were a add in to the video card that was in the PC.

So in effect it is a Dual Video Processor Card with a single pair of DVI Outputs and 512MB of video memory with loadbalancing.

And the reason for this is that work is giving me another 3grand for a home PC. Last time I bought a alienware area 51m laptop. I only have to stick around for another 2 years to keep it.

Oh and just as a matter of comparison Alienware wants $4052 for a similar system.

With shipping im spending just over $3000 and that is also buying a copy of xp pro (cause honkey went straight legit)

This post has been edited by Thorian: 10 March 2005 - 05:09 PM

[Trakker]

eVGA....*shudders*

[Thorian]

is that a good shudder or a bad shudder


Reviews that I read were good.

[Acid Reign]

ih8u

[Thorian]

I was doing some looking and have decided to swapp the Zalman 400w Power supply for a 560w Thermaltake Xaser PSU And the case got switched to a thermaltake viking because it has a fan controller and no side window fan just 2 120mm fans one in front and one in back.

The Mobo requires a 24pin power connector and the SLI video cards with the Drives and gobs of memory really should have a minimum 450W

[skrilla]

get a water-cooled case. i <3 my koolance. keeps my overclocked 2.8C (P4, OC to 3.4) cool to, well, at the moment its 21C. it depends on how hot or cold it is in my dorm room. and its sooper quiet.

and dont make get into a box war

nice setup there, but i WOULD question the choice of an AMD...

[Thorian]

Ehh Amd is all I have had good luck with. Past 2 P4's I have had had problems with heat (prescott's). I wanted Bleeding edge and Intel's 64 bit chip lags behind the regular athlon xp's.

Personal prefrence Nothing more nothing less.

[Thorian]

Ehh the godliness of the box got vetoed by the wife



scratch 1 of the 6800 ultras
1 160 gig HDD

and 1 gig of memory

so now it is just a lesser diety