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Rhodes
03-12-2007, 03:49 PM
Exterior Automotive Color: Silver Aluminum Finish

Power Supply: MAINGEAR 750W Ultra Quiet Power Supply

Motherboard: NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard

Processor: E6700 Core 2

CPU Cooling: Zalman Ultra Quiet CNPS9500 LED 92mm CPU Cooler w/ Copper Base

Memory: 2GB Corsair XMS2-8500 DDR2-1066

Do you want us to overclock your CPU?: YES

Hard Drive One: Western Digital Raptor Enterprise 150GB 10K RPM 16MB Cache - SATA

Hard Drive Two: Western Digital Raptor Enterprise 150GB 10K RPM 16MB Cache - SATA

Hard Drive Three: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache

Optical Drive One: 20X Dual Layer DVD±RW Drive w/ LightScribe Technology - black

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB PCIe

Do you want us to overclock your GPU?: YES

Sound Card: Integrated 8-channel High Definition Audio

Network Card: Integrated Gigabit Network Card

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition

Warranty: 1 Year Maingear Warranty

The Prelude doesn't offer any OC options when your configuring the system and the F131 does... however the F131 seems to be more of a SLI machine and I opted to go with only 1 video card. Trying to keep it under 4k.

I don't like Creative's bloatware on their cards and in terms of pure sound quality, they dont stack up as well. So going for intergrated sound but will add the HT Omega Claro myself since it uses C-Media's Oxygen HD CMI8788 audio processor.

My current PC is pushing it and so decided not to wait for Vista SP1.

Also with 3 HDs and 2 of em at 10k RPM, will they be too hot?

theDreamer
03-12-2007, 04:02 PM
Few questions.

What do you need 2x150gig raptors for?

Do you feel that you will need the overclocking for current or future games?

What do you plan on doing with this system? Games, Photoshop, Video editing?

I like to ask questions before I give a response just so I know what your needs are. Overall the system looks great, but you want to stay under 4k so picking between needs & wants is what it comes down to. Also what you feel you need for a some what "futureproof" system.

Rhodes
03-12-2007, 09:33 PM
i decided to use 1 hd for the os and keep it clean...

2nd hd would be for all the other apps.

current system had it in raid 0 but dont like it.

overclock for current and future. oblivion has a req of 3ghz.

games mainly with some (10 to 20%) photo and video edits.