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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:06:21 PM EDT
At first, I was just going to upgrade my SSDs to the new OCZ Vertex 3 SATA3 drives with Sandforce 2500 series controllers (rated at Max Read up to 550MB/s and Max Write up to 500MB/s). After getting the drives, I discovered that my old Gigabyte motherboard, X58A-UD7, had a lame SATA3 controller (Marvell 9128) that wouldn't be able to provide the necessary throughput. So, I made a quick trip to Microcenter and came home with a new Gigabyte G1.Sniper X58 motherboard that has the new Marvell 9182 SATA3 controller (which should have no problems handling up to 1100MB/s read/write).
Just got it assembled, and took a few pics. First 3 pics are stock pics of the motherboard. You can click on any of the pics to view a higher resolution version of each. System specs: Gigabyte G1.Sniper motherboard Intel Hexacore 980X CPU Thermalright Silver Arrow cooler ATI 5970 gfx card 12GB of Corsair XMS 2x OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD in Raid 0 6x Western Digital Black 2TB HDDs Corsair Obsidian 800D case Corsair AX1200 power supply Aerocool Shark case fans etc, etc       |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:12:10 PM EDT
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"heat sink, not a weapon. Cannot be assembled as a firearm"
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:14:35 PM EDT
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Holy balls, Intel has 6 cores out?
ETA: Did you post that on [H] so everyone can whine about you posting a gun with your rig? |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:16:10 PM EDT
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Nice build, sick mobo
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:19:52 PM EDT
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Shit I am envious of your build, great job.
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:22:16 PM EDT
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Holy balls, Intel has 6 cores out? ETA: Did you post that on [H] so everyone can whine about you posting a gun with your rig? There's plenty of gun nuts on [H] |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:23:36 PM EDT
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Jesus tits, someone's got some money.
The new OCZ V3's are fucking kickass. |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:24:36 PM EDT
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Holy balls, Intel has 6 cores out? ETA: Did you post that on [H] so everyone can whine about you posting a gun with your rig? Shit, AMD has had out their hex-cores since April 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenom_II#Thuban |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:25:34 PM EDT
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Quoted: Holy balls, Intel has 6 cores out? ETA: Did you post that on [H] so everyone can whine about you posting a gun with your rig? good idea! |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:26:42 PM EDT
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I see you got that gigantor Noctua heatsink.
How do you like it so far? |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:27:51 PM EDT
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Holy balls, Intel has 6 cores out? ETA: Did you post that on [H] so everyone can whine about you posting a gun with your rig? Shit, AMD has had out their hex-cores since April 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenom_II#Thuban AMDs is like the toyota of the computer world. 
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:29:22 PM EDT
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Holy balls, Intel has 6 cores out? ETA: Did you post that on [H] so everyone can whine about you posting a gun with your rig? Shit, AMD has had out their hex-cores since April 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenom_II#Thuban AMDs is like the toyota of the computer world.
Better than everyone else?  
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:52:56 PM EDT
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Quoted: Jesus tits, someone's got some money. The new OCZ V3's are fucking kickass. I'm in the IT biz, so that's my excuse. ;) The OCZs are indeed pretty quick. Of course, I'm coming from a Sandforce 1200 series Raid 0 setup that was pushing well over 500/500 MB/s reads and writes, so I only notice the extra speed when messing with huge video files, large file compression, and encryption. |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:57:30 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Holy balls, Intel has 6 cores out? ETA: Did you post that on [H] so everyone can whine about you posting a gun with your rig? Shit, AMD has had out their hex-cores since April 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenom_II#Thuban Intel released their first consumer hexacore on March 16, 2010, and that's about when I got mine. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_microprocessors That said, I am a HUGE fan of AMD's graphics cards. |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 6:59:05 PM EDT
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Jesus tits, someone's got some money.
The new OCZ V3's are fucking kickass. I'm in the IT biz, so that's my excuse. ;) The OCZs are indeed pretty quick. Of course, I'm coming from a Sandforce 1200 series Raid 0 setup that was pushing well over 500/500 MB/s reads and writes, so I only notice the extra speed when messing with huge video files, large file compression, and encryption. What are you using for encryption? |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:02:19 PM EDT
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Quoted: I see you got that gigantor Noctua heatsink. How do you like it so far? Actually, it just looks like the Noctua. It's a Thermalright Silver Arrow. With the design and pastel colors (light blue fan blades and tan fan housing), it's pretty clearly modeled after the Noctua. So far the performance has been good ... about on par with the Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B that it replaced. This Thermalright is big, but when you arrange the fans in a push-pull setup instead of the push-push configuration, you do have room for 6 sticks of RAM with tall heat spreaders. I'm currently running the CPU @ 800MHz over stock (3.33GHz > 4.13GHz) while breaking in the new build, but I expect I'll easily be able to get 1GHz on air cooling with this Thermalright. |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:02:32 PM EDT
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Whats the price tag on that puppy?
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:13:32 PM EDT
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@ HKUSP45C - I use PGP and Truecrypt at work for mail and disk encryption, and GPG and Truecrypt at home. The Intel 980X has on-board AES encryption so it's about 10X faster than non-AES processors.
@ JimsZR2 - The motherboard is about $425 if you shop around. That's alot of $ for a consumer PC motherboard, but I figure it was worth it since it has a built in Creative X-Fi sound processor and Bigfoot Networks Killer network processing unit (and all of the regular Gigabyte goodies). And I figure the AR-15 theme is worth at least $100 to me too. ;) |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:20:27 PM EDT
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AMD > Intel.
Asus CHIV > that overpriced Gigabyte. |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:23:00 PM EDT
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Quoted: AMD > Intel. Asus CHIV > that overpriced Gigabyte. Careful now ... I've got a Barrett in my office, and if you're in Missouri too then you're within range. ;) |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:23:10 PM EDT
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Nice build. Motherboard looks silly, but it beats the shit out of my system.
My GTX 260 is aging now. ArmA 2, and I will be Il-2 Cliffs of Dover + DCS A-10 won't run good on it. |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:27:55 PM EDT
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I did this a few years ago. It is the storage computer for my security camera.
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:27:58 PM EDT
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@ HKUSP45C - I use PGP and Truecrypt at work for mail and disk encryption, and GPG and Truecrypt at home. The Intel 980X has on-board AES encryption so it's about 10X faster than non-AES processors. @ JimsZR2 - The motherboard is about $425 if you shop around. That's alot of $ for a consumer PC motherboard, but I figure it was worth it since it has a built in Creative X-Fi sound processor and Bigfoot Networks Killer network processing unit (and all of the regular Gigabyte goodies). And I figure the AR-15 theme is worth at least $100 to me too. ;) What's a decent system for something like gaming but around $700 to $800 budget? |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:35:45 PM EDT
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@ mjohn3006 - man, that is AWESOME! thanks for the pics. nice work, and practical too. :) @ JimsZR2 - for $700-800, you can build a nice gaming rig that'll do whatever you need. You will *definitely* be able to build a much better performing PC than to just buy a pre-built, mass-produced PC. If you don't have experience building them, just find a friend or family member with experience. |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:39:36 PM EDT
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Holy balls, Intel has 6 cores out? ETA: Did you post that on [H] so everyone can whine about you posting a gun with your rig? Shit, AMD has had out their hex-cores since April 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenom_II#Thuban Intel released their first consumer hexacore on March 16, 2010, and that's about when I got mine. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_microprocessors That said, I am a HUGE fan of AMD's graphics cards.
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Jesus tits, someone's got some money.
The new OCZ V3's are fucking kickass. I'm in the IT biz, so that's my excuse. ;) The OCZs are indeed pretty quick. Of course, I'm coming from a Sandforce 1200 series Raid 0 setup that was pushing well over 500/500 MB/s reads and writes, so I only notice the extra speed when messing with huge video files, large file compression, and encryption. /faint |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:41:09 PM EDT
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@ JimsZR2 - for $700-800, you can build a nice gaming rig that'll do whatever you need. You will *definitely* be able to build a much better performing PC than to just buy a pre-built, mass-produced PC. If you don't have experience building them, just find a friend or family member with experience. I build my current 9 year old PC myself....
It's been quite awhile since I've seen the newer tech. |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:41:53 PM EDT
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Quoted: I did this a few years ago. It is the storage computer for my security camera. http://www.mjohn3006.com/albums/album33/IMG_1969.jpg http://www.mjohn3006.com/albums/album33/IMG_1978.jpg http://www.mjohn3006.com/albums/album33/IMG_1996.jpg http://www.mjohn3006.com/albums/album33/IMG_2055.jpg http://www.mjohn3006.com/albums/album33/IMG_2203.jpg http://www.mjohn3006.com/albums/album33/IMG_2204.jpg http://www.mjohn3006.com/albums/album33/IMG_2202.jpg |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 7:51:53 PM EDT
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@ HKUSP45C - I use PGP and Truecrypt at work for mail and disk encryption, and GPG and Truecrypt at home. The Intel 980X has on-board AES encryption so it's about 10X faster than non-AES processors. @ JimsZR2 - The motherboard is about $425 if you shop around. That's alot of $ for a consumer PC motherboard, but I figure it was worth it since it has a built in Creative X-Fi sound processor and Bigfoot Networks Killer network processing unit (and all of the regular Gigabyte goodies). And I figure the AR-15 theme is worth at least $100 to me too. ;) What's a decent system for something like gaming but around $700 to $800 budget? I built a sweet AMD 6 core all from microcenter for about 525 |
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Posted: 4/17/2011 8:12:07 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: @ JimsZR2 - for $700-800, you can build a nice gaming rig that'll do whatever you need. You will *definitely* be able to build a much better performing PC than to just buy a pre-built, mass-produced PC. If you don't have experience building them, just find a friend or family member with experience. I build my current 9 year old PC myself.... It's been quite awhile since I've seen the newer tech. Hell, they're MUCH easier to assemble and get running these days than they were 9 years ago. You'll have no problem doing it yourself. :) |
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