Finally built a new rig. 9850 Phenom x-Fire rig!

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DRT-Maverick

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So before anyone starts insulting AMD or Intel, let me just say that I know the performance ratios between the two, I know all that so I don't really want to hear anyone telling me I made a crappy choice by getting AMD.

I finally put this system together:
Lian Li V2000B Full tower
650watt Silverstone Zeus quad-rail PSU
9850BE AMD Phenom (OC'd)
MSI K9A2 Platinum Bios V1.3 Motherboard w/ 790FX chipset
4gb (2x2gb) OCZ Platinum PC8500 1066MHz (DC) RAM
Dual Asus TOP EAH3870 512mb DDR4 videocards in Crossfire. (1024mb 2x GPUs total)
Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme soundcard (PCI)
160gb+750gb+750gb (1.52TB) Western Digital HDDs
Asus 20x DVD-ROM RAM burner w/ all sorts of features.

Here are some shots of the system in the giant case:




I'm a bit new to the Hypertransport thing, so I'll mess around with that and keep you up to date on how fast I can get this, currently it's Overclocked to 3.0GHz x 4 cores.

I want to do watercooling eventually, Crossfire generates a lot of heat.
 

Crowze

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Just out of interest, what made you go for two 3870s over a single 3870X2? Over here the dual-GPU card is generally cheaper than two separate ones, plus it would have given you the option to for for quad-crossfire in the future. Also, I think you'll find that the video memory doesn't increase with multiple cards as each card requires its own copy of the various buffers, so it's still only 512MB.
 

DRT-Maverick

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They had a sale for 150 per DDR4 3870 card, so two was a total of 300 dollars, with DDR4, the 3780x2 DDR3 was still over 400 dollars. :eek:
 

ZenPirate

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I agree with the ati comment, Snarf. While my 8800gt is super powerful it seems lacking in the quality control dept., A lot of folks feel the ram on most of them has issues, as do the drivers. I kind of wish I had gone with the less powerful 3870 card when I upgraded because I had zero problems with my 2600pro card (except framerate :D )
 

DRT-Maverick

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Don't make me spank you with the metal spatula! >:0

I mainly went AMD because I'm familiar with AMD, the last 5 systems I've built have been AMD, so it was partially because of comfort, and another part is AMD owns ATI, so I'd expect very good support and stability from combining an AMD processor with an ATI graphics setup. :)

I've Never used ATI before, and I wanted to at least give them a try once in my life.
 
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DRT-Maverick

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*shakes it threateninly in the air!*


I'm bored and I've got no life, so I'm going to take the next step into nerdism and build a watercooling system. :)
 

DRT-Maverick

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I have to bump this. Just because I can't believe how excited I was over this pile of crap lol. Yeah I moved on from AMD. :) Intel i7 5960x and 32gb RAM :3
 

JohnDoe641

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Yeah 32gb is really nice to have, I never run out of memory now... that is unless I'm using Vegas and not watching my ram usage. D: