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railfrog · August 25th, 2008, 08:06 PM

So it would be best with the MSI board and the 1066 ram?

KarmaKiller · August 25th, 2008, 08:10 PM

Not really.
If your going for the highest OC you can, then again, I'd say go for the Blood Iron.
Those OC nicely.
If you think your gonna leave it on stock settings most of the time, then I would go for the MSI with the faster RAM.

railfrog · August 27th, 2008, 09:16 PM

Is this a good power supply compared to my original find.
Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2

KarmaKiller · August 27th, 2008, 09:24 PM

Yes, Corsair units are top quality. That would be a nice PSU.

railfrog · August 28th, 2008, 05:15 AM

I have seen some smaller WD SE16 Hard Drives ( 500GB ) and was wondering if the size of the drive had a relevance on speed or is it the make ( SE16 ) that makes it faster.

BipolarBill · August 28th, 2008, 06:08 AM

It's the particular drive series. The 250/500/750/1000GB drives have 1, 2, 3 and 4 platters. The 320/640GB drives have 1 and 2 platters.

Western Digital's Caviar SE16 640GB hard drive - The Tech Report - Page 1

railfrog · August 28th, 2008, 06:44 PM

Thanks for the link Bill

railfrog · August 30th, 2008, 02:43 PM

Does the Antec 900 case that i want for this build come with front filters for the fan ( i don't think it does ) and if it dosen't is there a workaround?

railfrog · August 30th, 2008, 02:46 PM

Am i right in saying that i can crossfire the HD4850 GPU?
I was under the impression that it was just the very high end of cards that would do that.

KarmaKiller · August 30th, 2008, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by railfrog

Does the Antec 900 case that i want for this build come with front filters for the fan ( i don't think it does ) and if it dosen't is there a workaround?

The 900 does not come with fan filters. You can order some and place on there yourself if you want them.
Fan filters
Another suggestion would be check into the CM690. They come with filters on all the intake fans. And really it's a super nice case. If your into modding at all, then this case is even more ideal.
Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER RC-690-KKN1-GP Black SECC/ ABS ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases
I can show you tons of mods for this case.

Quote:

Originally Posted by railfrog

Am i right in saying that i can crossfire the HD4850 GPU?
I was under the impression that it was just the very high end of cards that would do that.

As long as your motherboard supports crossfire, you can run that on any 48xx series card. You have to have the same model of cards, like 2x 4850's, or 2x 4870's. On the older ATI cards, you had to have a "master" card, but they finally got away from that. But most ATI cards are crossfire compatible.