Sup all.  Yea I know I'm not around much anymore, Army has been keeping me crazy busy.  Just finished the third deployment.  Anyway, with all the time I've been gone, that old Op939 rig that used to make people drool just wasn't cutting it now'a'days.  So I ordered up a bunch of goodies and am builting a new one.

Parts Ordered
Cooler Master Stacker tower
Cooler Master Real Power Pro 850w
MSI K9A2 mobo
AMD Phenom 9850 BE
Coolit Freezone cooler
2x G.Skill DDR2-1066 2GB memory stick (with another pair about to be ordered)
4x Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB drives (cuz four of these cost ~ as two 1TB)
2x Asus 20X DVDR Lightscripe drives
EVGA GeForce 9800GTX
Acer 22" Widescreen lcd
Asus Xonar DX pcie soundcard
Logitech G51 speakers
Logitech MX 3200 keyboard & mouse
OCZ Rally2 8GB flashdrive (going to wire it to an internal USB header)
Vista 64bit

After this gets built, the old tower is getting shuttled to file/media server duty and the laptop will go in the living room.  Might have to build a SFF box to hook up to the HD-LCD TV.  We'll see.

=0 Coolit Freezone cooler
 that gonna be ice cold

Yea, I haven't used air cooling in a rig for years now.  You most likely never saw my old rig.  Water cooled Opti at just shy of 3ghz, with 4gb of ram, 3 monitors, and over 1tb of storage.  And this was back in 05. 

AMD 9850... ugh.  I watercooled one and using Asus' new M3N-HT Deluxe 780a board, I could only muster 2.8ghz.  And that took upping the voltage from 1.3 to 1.6v.  Hopefully you land a better chip than I did.

Anything past ~1.4v won't really help you at all.  And the AMD boards have always OC'ed the new AMD chips higher then the Nvidia boards.  That 2.8ghz is what most people have hit from what I've seen with the Nvidia boards.  With the same chip, people are hitting 2.9~2.95 with the AMD board.  But I'm not really to worried about it.  I like AMD.  Plus I already have a couple of Intel machines. 

very nice Zen, very nice. Its good to see you around again. Thank for all that you do for our country and its people. 

zEN, that case is huge. HUGE. You must a massive desk. Did you consider a smaller one? To put it in perspective for the other members it's well over half a meter in height and depth.That Opteron 939 was a great purchase, they overclock like crazy and cost next to nothing for the performance.

-Dev

Dev2:

zEN, that case is huge. HUGE. You must a massive desk. Did you consider a smaller one? To put it in perspective for the other members it's well over half a meter in height and depth.That Opteron 939 was a great purchase, they overclock like crazy and cost next to nothing for the performance.

-Dev

I agree, I'm a big fan of large oversized cases.

Zen, when do you expect that your new goodies will be in? Also, are you wiring the 8GB flash drive for Vista to take advantage of? 

Nice, you did a nice job picking your case. I have the Stacker as well. Very large, but one of the best. Make sure you get some silent stuff, or else you will be annoyed by the noise. It is like an open case. :) 

entermymatrix03:

I agree, I'm a big fan of large oversized cases.

Zen, when do you expect that your new goodies will be in? Also, are you wiring the 8GB flash drive for Vista to take advantage of? 

So am I bro.  I tend to go with the bigger cases since I always seem to end up with Watercooling/bazillion HDD/2+ disk drives/etc.

Stuff should hopefully be coming in sometime soon.  And yea, I'm going to wire up the flash drive using one of the usb internal headers to see how much it does for Vista.

 *Edit*
I gotta find my  charging cable for my cam.  Thing is lost somewhere after this cross country move I just did.

I've heard pretty good things. Never tried it myself because Vista didn't stay on my system long due to lockups and poor performance/lockups in games.

Find that cable and snap some pics!

 Glad to have youy back, The new PC looks killer. Any numbers your hopeing for?