Legit Reviews

Obviously the basic hierarchy would go SSD(Intel x25-m; OCZ) > 10k(Velociraptor) > 7.2k(Spinpoint F3; Caviar Black; Barracuda) > 5.4k(Caviar Green), but I am curious to see the relative performance of these drives when short-stroked or put into a RAID array so that I can better decide which combinat...

Just updated the OP. Just bought a case and put up some additional options for your judgements. Check up on it.

Two of these will run you half the cost for about 90% of the performance and lot more storage. Thank you for the tip. But if I don't need 2 tb of storage, could I run, say, 4 smaller drives in RAID x, and have it be even faster? I don't know much about RAIDing, but I know there are several differen...

I've had my eye on the XCLIO Windtunnel Full Tower Case for a while now and it just went on discount. I'm looking at $125 taxed and shipped, 40 bucks more than my OP case. Considering that it should completely eliminate any question of whether or not everything will fit in the case, and the fact tha...

Quick update: I made a mistake by buying the Caviar Green. I was cripplingly sick that day and was not thinking clearly and ended up making a dumb decision. I'll be trying to RMA this one or sell it and go back to my previous idea of a Spinpoint F3. The OP will be changed to reflect this. Totally ki...

Gave a little update to the OP. I exchanged my PSU for a nicer one, nabbed a Caviar Green instead of a Spinpoint since Amazon was running a special, changed my ODD again and got rid of the peripheral purchases I made since the people I bought it from never sent the items. I did get my money back, th...

One of my biggest questions is if everything will fit into my case of choice, especially with the rather large video card I will be using. Does anyone know for certain?

I just purchased my CPU and motherboard, changed my ODD of choice, and updated the OP accordingly. I decided to commit to the i7 860 and subsequent compatible motherboard/RAM, so the rest of this build should fall into place pretty easily. Final purchases are planned to be made in the next few days ...

I have been considering replacing my current motherboard selection with the EVGA P55 SLI 132-LF-E655-KR LGA1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard . It is $184 taxed/shipped , which is only 20 dollars more than my current mobo. This one looks to be of higher quality and more feature-rich, though my per...

I just finished giving the OP a revision. The possibility of an i5 CPU was scrapped, and due to popular user demand, I have allowed a return of the possibility of an i7 920/x58/tri-channel core system build possibility, albeit against my better judgement. Please see the points marked ***New*** for g...

OP updated.

But at some point the amount that you cool stuff becomes overkill. Why make it cooler than it needs to be able to run smoothly? Cooling your parts isn't going to make them go faster.

Do I REALLY need to worry about cooling with this system? As long as it doesn't OVERHEAT shouldn't it be fine?

Snatch up this PSU that was posted on legit deals

Done.

Thank you all for your suggestions. I just gave the OP an update. I'll be back to respond tomorrow evening.

This build's ultimate purpose is to be used for mainly for gaming and multimedia downloading/burning/ripping/playback. I have stated that this build has no budget restrictions. This is true, however that is not to say that I am willing to spend excess amounts of money for hugely diminished returns o...