BrazilMAC Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 HI, I am just posting my setup for anyone that is willing to build a top performer system with cheap hardware and still beat the best benchmarks out there. Here is my setup: Asus P5W DH Deluxe Intel e4300 processor 2GB OCZ Mmemory (OCZ Reaper, great OCers memory) BFG 7900GTX 512 (or any brand 7900GTX) I am jsut listing the items above since they are problably the ones that make a diff when overclcocking. Hard drives dont really do much, IMHO. The P5W is a great overclocker's mobo, and the best of all, everything works under MAC. It has a built-in Wireless Card, 2 Gigabit Ports and Surround Sound. Do you need anything else???? The e4300 is a favorite processor for overclocking. I have mine running at 3.38GHZ, Orthos stable for 24 hours. Coupled with the super-affordable Scythe Ninja Plus and a bit of ARtic Silver, you get 55c on the processor overclocked more than 75%!!!!! OCZ REaper - This memory runs at DDR950MHZ 4-4-4-13. No errors on orthos. It just flies!!!!! No cooling needed, since it comes with a heatsink. I still think I can prob push some more on it. 7900GTX - Well, Until the 8000 series dont fully work on MAC, this is prob the card to get. REason????? Get a hold of Aquamac and ahve him modify your card's bios. It will make it a Quadro FX5500 out of this card??? Well, the real 5500 costs over 1500 quid, and the only REAL diff is the amount of memory: the real one comes with 1GB. Great for the video enthusiasts. If anybody needs, I can post my bios settings for you. Thats my 2 cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fustyler Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Hi, Thanks for sharing your experience. I just built mine using a p5k-e. I got everything to work except for the wifi on the board. How did you get the built in wifi to work? Regards, Eric HI, I am just posting my setup for anyone that is willing to build a top performer system with cheap hardware and still beat the best benchmarks out there. Here is my setup: Asus P5W DH Deluxe Intel e4300 processor 2GB OCZ Mmemory (OCZ Reaper, great OCers memory) BFG 7900GTX 512 (or any brand 7900GTX) I am jsut listing the items above since they are problably the ones that make a diff when overclcocking. Hard drives dont really do much, IMHO. The P5W is a great overclocker's mobo, and the best of all, everything works under MAC. It has a built-in Wireless Card, 2 Gigabit Ports and Surround Sound. Do you need anything else???? The e4300 is a favorite processor for overclocking. I have mine running at 3.38GHZ, Orthos stable for 24 hours. Coupled with the super-affordable Scythe Ninja Plus and a bit of ARtic Silver, you get 55c on the processor overclocked more than 75%!!!!! OCZ REaper - This memory runs at DDR950MHZ 4-4-4-13. No errors on orthos. It just flies!!!!! No cooling needed, since it comes with a heatsink. I still think I can prob push some more on it. 7900GTX - Well, Until the 8000 series dont fully work on MAC, this is prob the card to get. REason????? Get a hold of Aquamac and ahve him modify your card's bios. It will make it a Quadro FX5500 out of this card??? Well, the real 5500 costs over 1500 quid, and the only REAL diff is the amount of memory: the real one comes with 1GB. Great for the video enthusiasts. If anybody needs, I can post my bios settings for you. Thats my 2 cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilMAC Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 I believe the Wifi on your mobo is the same mini-pci card as on mine. To get it to work, use the ralink driver on their web site. Look for the P5W DH thread and there is a link there. Cant find at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badge Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 The P5K-E has USB wireless, not mini-PCI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilMAC Posted August 17, 2007 Author Share Posted August 17, 2007 sorry, didnt know that...I thought they all shared the same design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fustyler Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Hi badge, Are you sure the p5k-e is usb wifi? On mine the antenna goes into an antenna jack on the motherboard. I thought I remember seeing a mini-pci card connected to the board near where the antenna jack is. regards, Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilMAC Posted August 17, 2007 Author Share Posted August 17, 2007 That was my understanding too...... You can clearly see the mini-pci card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliab Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Nice work ! Have you got sound in ? and how Does all the sata ports are usable ? Thank's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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