Hello to all!
I'm thinking of building a new AMD system, primarily for Gaming, but some Audio & Photographic work. Would like to have a bit of fun with overclocking, but stability and reliability is of far greater concern to me than benchmark scores..
I had this rough spec in mind, but I'm a bit green on what is advisable/recommended on the S939 platform:
Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe Mobo
AMD Athlon64 3500+ Winchester S939 CPU
1GB of appropriate Corsair (or whatever make) RAM
Western Digital Raptor10k 74GB HDD
PCI-E GF6800GT DDR3 (one or two depending on finance)
Antec NeoPower 480 ATX2 PSU
I'd love to go for 3 Raptors and Raid5 it, but unsure of the quality of the controller on the Asus board, and can't really afford 3 of those 10k beasts anyway!
Please feel free to suggest changes etc, but I'm assuming this sort of setup will cane an Intel S775, of similar cost, to death in almost everything..
Many thanks in advance,
Simon.