If you were building a new system today ?

ChaosMinionX · Jul 3, 2007, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by DuncanMcDermott

Great thanks!
I was going to buy today but was told there will be a price drop on Intel cpus soon. I am going to hold off for that to happen. And I am going to go Quad if I can squeeze in the extra price.

Now to sort though the coolers. I need to check the current thread on them. They are getting so heavy board makers will have to add support for all that weight soon.

Only 2 I will recommend....

Enzotech Ultra-X
Thermalright Ultra-120Extreme

The TR U120X is a huge tower based cooler, and the Enzotech is much shorter as it is a horizontal type cooler (specific classification of that cooler, no idea)...But for quad they are definately the ones to get...I personally use an Ultra-X...but ive seen good things from the U120X

Necrosis · Jul 3, 2007, 10:52 AM

I've been quite pleased w/ my Noctua.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Jul 4, 2007, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by temeteus82

for me... copy of the Xeon rig that was reviewed here some time ago

yeah I do some video rendering back here ...

I have to agree... except if I had that cash I'd run SCSI RAID on the sucker to really unleash the potential power.

photonblaster · Jul 16, 2007, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by H3X4D3C1M4L

I have to agree... except if I had that cash I'd run SCSI RAID on the sucker to really unleash the potential power.

Sorry to bug you all, but after an hour of searching I have not been able to locate the thread/article about the XEON system mentioned in this thread. I am building a new high end system for multi-threaded number crunching, and I feel due diligence demands that I review the info on the xeon system before I fully commit to a regular quad CPU system such as an overclocked Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz on a Gigabyte P35 DQ6.

Can someone link me to the xeon rig thread/article please?

H3X4D3C1M4L · Jul 25, 2007, 07:05 PM

Look in the Driverheaven reviews section, it should be under Systems

Jul 3, 2007, 10:52 AM	#32
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	I've been quite pleased w/ my Noctua.

Jul 25, 2007, 07:05 PM	#35
H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	Look in the Driverheaven reviews section, it should be under Systems