My New AMD Rig

[Zoot]

My old Rampage Formula gave up on me there about a month ago and my old coolermaster stacker was ****ing me off at the sheer size and noise of the thing. So I thought it was time for a new setup. Plus I wanted to go back to AMD, built a good few AMD setups over the years - Athlon and Nforce 4 anyone? Used to love that setup.

Was tempted by the i7 but I hate what Intel has done now with 3 different sockets on the market, plus the AMD was much better value.

Specs:

Case: CoolerMaster Centurion 590

MB: Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955

Memory: 4GB Crucial DDR3-1333

GFX: Sapphire HD4870 1GB

AUDIO: Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer

HDs: Samsung Spinpoint 500GB & 2 X 1TB, WD Carviar 750GB

CPU Cooler: Akasa Evo 98

PSU: Corsair TX620W

OS: Ubuntu 8.04 & Windows XP Pro

 

[Rastalovich]

Nice build, thanks for sharing.

Some good choices there, and finally I found some1 who uses all those stickers they give u

U use ubuntu for general stuff and XP for gaming ? Nice idea.

 

[Zoot]

Thanks.

U use ubuntu for general stuff and XP for gaming ? Nice idea.

Yup I use Ubuntu for everything except gaming and home recording (i'd love to be able to use it for those too).

I've gone to the stage now that I really really dislike Windows (Be it XP, Vista or 7).

 

[Diablo]

Really nice build there, lovely and clean. I like the orange/red cables onto the drives, goes with the ubuntu sticker.

 

[Brooksie]

Stickers have gone to good use

Nice and tidy, good job

 

[monkey7]

Was tempted by the i7 but I hate what Intel has done now with 3 different sockets on the market,

:worship: Show them where it really hurts

Beauty of a rig, does the harddisks being in front of the fan create noise?

 

[Zoot]

Thanks guys.

Beauty of a rig, does the harddisks being in front of the fan create noise?

The WD Carviar is a tad noisy yeah, I find the spinpoints a lot quieter. Of the 4 the Carviar is the only one that's actually noticeable.

 

[monkey7]

What I meant is does the airflow there create noise? It looks like it's being blocked by the sheer amount of harddisks.

 

[I Hunta x]

What I meant is does the airflow there create noise? It looks like it's being blocked by the sheer amount of harddisks.

i have 2 in front of my bottom fan in this antec 300 (used to have 4 there) and it dont make any difference that i can hear, it drops hdd temps by 5 deg +, it could be i cant hear them cos im running 2 4850's, but no realy noticeable difference even with my old fairly quiet 8800gt

 

[Zoot]

What I meant is does the airflow there create noise? It looks like it's being blocked by the sheer amount of harddisks.

Nope, no difference over the other fans. It does a good job of keeping the Hard Drives cool too, I think the max temperature I've seen is around the 30C mark.

 

[Conman]

Nice rig Price?

 

[Zoot]

Price?

~€530 I think. Not counting hard drives, CD Drive, GPU, Soundcard and CPU Cooler (had them already).

 

[iceie]

Nice cable Management

 

[Conman]

~€530 I think. Not counting hard drives, CD Drive, GPU, Soundcard and CPU Cooler (had them already).

Pretty sweet

 

[naveen.the.1]

you can do better cable management man.

 

[Zoot]

you can do better cable management man.

Lazyness wins out though..