jagged Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Hi I have followed debates here for a while and now i take the plunge. I just want a final advice on the pieces i have choosen. I will go for a abit ip35 board, a core 2 duo E6750 processor, 2 GB ram (which??), a gt 8800 graficscard, A sata DVD burner (which ?) and a seagate barracuda sata harddrive. I plan on trying the kalyway install, but is there something in the above that I should worry about. Are there better choises ? Hope someone will help me, I have to order within 2 days. The machine will be used for final cut pro mainly. Best wishes Jagged Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90102-would-you-buy-these-components/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuietOC Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I will go for a abit ip35 board, a core 2 duo E6750 processor, 2 GB ram (which??), a gt 8800 graficscard, A sata DVD burner (which ?) and a seagate barracuda sata harddrive. If you like silent and fast you should consider a WD Green Power or WD3200AAKS-00B3A0 or Hitachi P7K500 over the Barracuda. Also an E8200 would be a very nice upgrade over the old E6750 (faster and half the power.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90102-would-you-buy-these-components/#findComment-642951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I second the WD Green Power drives. Quite, cool, and fast. Plus, I haven't been happy with Seagate lately. Been seeing a lot of failures in customers machines. They getting almost as bad as Maxtor. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90102-would-you-buy-these-components/#findComment-642971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagged Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 If you like silent and fast you should consider a WD Green Power or WD3200AAKS-00B3A0 or Hitachi P7K500 over the Barracuda.Also an E8200 would be a very nice upgrade over the old E6750 (faster and half the power.)are you sure ? :0)Its even a bit cheaper so that would offcourse be fantastic. I am not sure but I think I did choose the E6750 for its overclocking potential but if the E8200 is faster out of the box and cooler that is my choise for sure.Thanks for the tipBest wishesJaggedI second the WD Green Power drives. Quite, cool, and fast. Plus, I haven't been happy with Seagate lately. Been seeing a lot of failures in customers machines. They getting almost as bad as Maxtor.perfect thanks, i will have a look at those.Thanks for the effort.Best wishesJaggedIf you like silent and fast you should consider a WD Green Power or WD3200AAKS-00B3A0 or Hitachi P7K500 over the Barracuda.Also an E8200 would be a very nice upgrade over the old E6750 (faster and half the power.)HeyI am very thankfull for the tip. I have now looked at tomshardware and can see that the e8400 would be a very nice cpu to go for. Its quite a bit faster than the 6750.BUT can you tell me if that one will fit the abit ip35 board ??Best wishesJakob Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90102-would-you-buy-these-components/#findComment-643314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 If you like silent and fast you should consider a WD Green Power or WD3200AAKS-00B3A0 or Hitachi P7K500 over the Barracuda. Also an E8200 would be a very nice upgrade over the old E6750 (faster and half the power.) All new maxtors are exactly the same hard drives as the seagates (seagate owns maxtor) they just use the same chipset. the e8400 will certainly fir the ip35. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90102-would-you-buy-these-components/#findComment-643346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagged Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 ahh ok thanks. Great with the e8400 that will be the one i choose.Best wishesJagged. If you like silent and fast you should consider a WD Green Power or WD3200AAKS-00B3A0 or Hitachi P7K500 over the Barracuda.Also an E8200 would be a very nice upgrade over the old E6750 (faster and half the power.)I have looke around for the WD greeb power disk i cant find it. Do you have any links for that one ?Best wishesJagged Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90102-would-you-buy-these-components/#findComment-643355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 ahh ok thanks. Great with the e8400 that will be the one i choose.Best wishesJagged.I have looke around for the WD greeb power disk i cant find it. Do you have any links for that one ?Best wishesJagged http://computers.pricegrabber.com/hard-dri...0AACS/st=query/ Need to learn how to use a search engine, my friend. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90102-would-you-buy-these-components/#findComment-643669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuietOC Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I have now looked at tomshardware and can see that the e8400 would be a very nice cpu to go for. Its quite a bit faster than the 6750.BUT can you tell me if that one will fit the abit ip35 board ??Best wishesJakob I learned today that the Xeon E3110 is identical to the Core 2 Duo E8400, but the Xeon was available for less than $200 (5% off at buy.com). The word is out on both chips, though, so expect low stock and higher prices. Both can run 4GHz fairly cooly when overclocked. I am still happy with my 3.2GHz $75 Pentium Dual Core E2140. I did hear about some issue with the v15 of the IP35 BIOS and the 45nm chips. Best Quiet/Fast 500GB Drives: 500GB Western Digital GP (WD5000AACS) $105 -Quietest 500GB Samsung T166 (HD501LJ) $105 -Fastest 500GB Hitachi P7K500 (HDP725050GLA360) $101 Smaller versions of T166 and P7K500 are quieter/cheaper. The newer Samsung F1 looks to be the all around champ, but is only available in 750GB/1TB models right now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90102-would-you-buy-these-components/#findComment-645017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagged Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 Hi thanks for the info. Are you sure that the xeon is precisely the same. I will check the prices. Regarding the bios i guess it wont be a problem for me since I have to buy a new DVD burner anyway and will buy a sata one. I will be using the machine for video editing using final cut pro. Do you know if the green power disk from Western Digital will slow that down ?? I would love it for the lack of noise but I dont want it to reduce speed. Best wishes Jagged Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90102-would-you-buy-these-components/#findComment-645417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuietOC Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I will be using the machine for video editing using final cut pro. Do you know if the green power disk from Western Digital will slow that down ?? I would love it for the lack of noise but I dont want it to reduce speed. Video editing is the one of the few places that benefit from fast sequential transfer rates which is also helped by using RAID. Buy a couple of high density platter drives and run them in RAID0 (or 5 with more drives). The cheapest high density drive is the single platter Samsung S250 HD250HJ for $63. The P7K500 drives also have 250GB platters. The WD3200AAKS has 320GB platters, and the new Samsung F1s have 334GB platters. All can read over 100MB/s on their outer edges and decay down to 50-60MB/s on the inside. Because of its slower rotation speed the WD Green Power can only do 80MB/s to 35MB/s. Combine 2 identical drives in RAID0 and get about twice the sequential rates of the single drive. For other uses (more random) the RAID0 array may be slower than single drive. A typical best setup uses something like a single 150GB Raptor as the system drive and a RAID array for storing the video files. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90102-would-you-buy-these-components/#findComment-645634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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