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[Pete75]

We're just about there!

A few changes,

I'm getting rid of Windows Pro for Home Premium, because I've had a look and it would seem that I just don't need professional. Seems to be more geared to a network environment so I can save $120 odd by getting Home Premium.

And, *drumroll* an ATI 5970!!!

The mob I was getting this through said "Oh..... they're hard to get". To which I replied:

"So hard that I'll need to go elsewhere?"

"No, we'll find you one".

Thought they might!

Which brings us to the PSU. In the interests of expandability in future, and to power a second 5970 somewhere down the track, I'm going to speak to them about specifying the computer as "for but not with" a second GPU and, from my reading on the web, 1000w will be cutting things very fine.

About Physx. The grapevine tells me that you can install a cheapish Nvidia card into the third slot and have it as a dedicated Physx card, thereby having the best of both ATi and Nvidia worlds. Anyone doen this or know anyone who has. Is Physx worthwhile.

I don't have unlimited funds so ideally this can't go much over $6000 and $7000 is a very hard and absolute limit that I'd prefer not to approach. Do you think I'm going the right way about it?

PS - How frekin' cool is the Logitech G19? If you haven't seen one, check it out!

[ReV]

Physx is not worht it, hardly any games use it and it makes bugger all differance, ATI use Havok and Halflife 2 ect use that and its basically the same as physx. If you run a ATI card you cant use Physx, Nvidia trying to get as many sales as they can nuked it about 6 months back, when you install the Nvidia drivers if it detects a ATI card in the system it disables Physx.

What about spending some money on a good set of Sennheiser Headphones and a good soundcard?

Allso with Win 7 pro it allows you to create backups, I dont think home does.

[Pete75]

I appreciate your help on this Rev, thanks.

It's quite amazing, wha I thght wold be quite simple has turned out to be far more complex. But it's interesting all the same.

I ordered 3 x 23" LCD monitors yesterday. I'm going to go fo ATi 5970. Just have to wait for supply to get up to speed. Can't wait to have 3 monitors, hopefully the 5970 will be able to run max settings over 3 displays.

Read some reviews on Windows and have decided to go for professional. At theend of the day, it's only $90 odd extra.

[ReV]

Pete did you make sure that one of your monitors support display port, you will need this to get 3 working, 2 of them connect to your card via DVI and the 3rd one connects using display port AMD's ATI Eyefinity Technology Review - AMD's ATI Eyefinity Technology Review | [H]ard|OCP

[Freedom]

Heya Code! how ya been dude?

[ReV]

Pete when you get the PC can you take some pics, and even better maybe some video footage on youtube, im excited to see this wepon.

[Pete75]

Originally Posted by ReV

Pete when you get the PC can you take some pics, and even better maybe some video footage on youtube, im excited to see this wepon.

Will do mate,

I'm off to Cnada for Christmas so I may or may not get it before then. In any case, it's all agoer so it is when, not if, at the moment.

You could always come around for a beer and a test run if you like.

[ReV]

Originally Posted by Pete75

Will do mate,

I'm off to Cnada for Christmas so I may or may not get it before then. In any case, it's all agoer so it is when, not if, at the moment.

You could always come around for a beer and a test run if you like.

Canada hey, lucky devil. A couple of brews droooling over your new pc sounds like a plan.

[Pete75]

Good stuff!



Hey, how easy is overclocking the CPU? It'll be a liquid cooled setup and he mob that is building it will overclock and test it for $350 up to 4.0GHZ. Now, I like the sound of the fact that they'll test it but I also see an opportunity to save $350.

Maybe if you know about such things, and you reckon it's easy enough, we could do some 'clockin?

What do you reckon, $350 money well spent or better saved?

[ReV]

4GH will be easy done, you will need a few programs for us to test stabillity, but nothing a good few hours wont fix.