Coolbeano wrote:
my friend just got the best computer. well, best that i've heard of or know personally.
here it is...
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
4gb DDR PC3200 ram
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Mobo
2x XFX 7800GTX SLi graphics cards
1.2TB 7200rpm SATA drives in RAID-0 configuration. (4 drives total)
Creative X-fi Fata1ity sound card
Reserator passive watercooling (silent)
Enermax Noisetaker 600W PSU
wowzers. dunno how much that shit costs though
Close but not the best.
AMD 64 FX-57 is faster tan 4800+
OCZ EB DDR PC-4000 2x1024MB Platinum Edition Dual Channel Kit
(get 2 of the 2x1gig kits) they run in pairs better especially if your going to go with the asus dual channel board above. (total of 4 gig)
2x Gigabyte GV-3D1-68GT in SLI
I would NOT suggest doing a RAID-0 with 4 drives... I would do Raid-0+1 with 2 drives(storage) and your system drives 2 of them in Raid 1, this would be the most speed efficient and system tolerant. I also wouldn't do 7200rpm sata drives, I would do 2 10000rpm WD Raptors for the system drives and 2 Hitachi Sata3 500gigs for the storage.
Creative X-Fi Platinum is the best sound card out at the moment.. the Fatality is just too much extra crap that you won't ever use.
I would suggest the Zalman Resenator 1 Plus for a water cooling system.
I would also suggest getting an 850 watt powersupply if you seriously want to beast it up and not have to worry about power lag.