DarrylH Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 After a weekend of research and given that I know NOTHING aboutb teh technical side, how does this sound for a system which will NOT be overclocked? ITEMs to Order : Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Processor LGA1366 8MB Cache CPU Thermaltake Bigwater 850i Liquid Cooling System Asus P7P55D-PRO P55 4DDR3 FSB2133(OC) RAID GLAN 3xPCIEx16 7SATA ATX Corsair HX3X12G1600C9 12GB (6x XMS3 2GB) PC-12800 (1600MHz) Samsung 500G SATA II 7200rpm HD502HJ Seagate SATAII 500GB 7200RPM (SV35 Surveillance Asus ENGTX285-HTDP-1GD3 GTX285 1GB 512bit DDR3 Asus DRW-24B1ST SATA DVDRW Internal Card Reader with Slim Floppy Drive Black Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer - 7.1Ch 8 Port 10/100 Ethernet Switch Thermaltake Element 1 x 23cm Fan With Window NO PSU(VK60001W2Z) Thermaltake Tough Power 850W Q-FAN PSU Microsoft Windows VistaHomePremium 64bit w 7 UPG(OEM)buy w Hardware Three Year On site warranty($3000-$5000)Umart System Build Only Other : TOTAL : $$4181 The price shown are cash/cheque price only,all credit cards attract a extra charge, The Price shown are system build price and installation charge are included,but any parts in the other(anything else) are not included Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jones Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 u could proberly save money by getting a decent fan cooling system rather then the water cooling, from what ive heard water cooling isnt so good. u get roughtly the same cooling preformance as a good fan but u pay more and u have the risk of leaks. depending on the price u are paying to have the system built , well if u can twist a screw driver u can build a pc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveyeo Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 That motherboard (LGA 1156) won't go with the I7 975 processor (LGA 1366). You need a X58 motherboard such as the Asus P6T Deluxe V2. Happy Shopping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrylH Posted September 28, 2009 Author Share Posted September 28, 2009 Thanks guys, this is the sort of advice I need. I just picked high spec stuff and for all I know could be trying to run an F1 car on orange juice... cheers Darryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abulaafia Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 nonsense, that MB works fine with i7. Great system, a bit like mine 'cept for the MB. Very good performance. http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=kvkzMAsYAaWQ0z8M&templete=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwho Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 yes the motherboard is compatible with the i7 processor but its only compatible with the i7 860 and i7 870 they are both LGA 1156 socket processors the i7 920 and up (including the i7 975) are all 1366 socket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotspot Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 yes the motherboard is compatible with the i7 processor but its only compatible with the i7 860 and i7 870 they are both LGA 1156 socket processors the i7 920 and up (including the i7 975) are all 1366 socket Tru tok - there are two different sockets for i7's now - just what we need! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrylH Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 Thanks again for all the help guys, here is the system I ended up with: CASE Thermaltake Full Tower - Armor with Liquid Cooling System - POWER SUPPLY Thermaltake ToughPower750W Qfan Heavy Duty Power Supply Unit - MAINBOARD Intel Chipset Gigabyte GA-EX58 UD4P - PROCESSOR Intel Core i7 920 Processor - OVERCLOCKED UP TO 4GHz - RAM 12GB DDR3 1600Mhz - Corsair XMS3 / G.Skill - HARD DRIVE Seagate / Samsung 1 TB SATA Hard Drive - GRAPHICS NVIDIA GTX 285 1GB - SOUND Onboard 8 Channel Hi Definition Soundcard - OPTICAL DRIVE Dual Layer DVD Burner with Lightscribe - LAN Onboard LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s Network Card - CARD READER All In One Multimedia Card Reader - OS Vista Home Premium 64bit with Free Upgrade to Windows 7 I found someone to professionally overclock, so no rocket science classes for me! I would have preffered two hard drives but there you go.... Looking forward to receiving it in about two weeks. I will look at dropping a second 285 into it at soem stage if that will be of benefit. thanks all Darryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heiko Glatthorn Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Shouldn't be a problem to add a HDD or two ? It's highly recommended that FSX resides on a dedicated (and fast) drive which got a defrag by file-name (if it is not a SSD). If you don't use every addon available, a newer generation 64 GB (or bigger) SSD would make for some great texture load performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrylH Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 Hi mate, No, shouldn't be a problem at all. The system is "pre-built" but I will add a drive to it (wasn't sure whether Vista could handle more than 1 TB ). I will look into SSD, I don't know much about it. Even a 500gb Sata 7200rpm shouldn't be hard to add, or overly expensive, cheers Darryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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