Patrick Janka
July 26th, 2010, 02:32 AM
Hey, it might be a little late to ask, but I ordered all the parts for my new build, but now am wondering if I got the right stuff.
First, are nVidia and EVGA considered the same thing? I ask because I may end up getting Adobe CS5, and according to this: Adobe Premiere CS5 Video Cards with CUDA Acceleration Mercury Playback Hack Mod Tip Unlock (http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm) you can get CS5 to work with any nVidia gfx card. Does that mean my EVGA GTX 470 is included?
I ordered the 930. I noticed some people here suggest the i7 920 over the 930 for overclocking purposes. Why is that? From my understanding the 930 can be overclocked just fine. This leads me to my next question. I don't really know anything about overclocking. How necessary is it that I overclock? How do I go about doing so? Is there a good tutorial you recommend?
Lastly, I ordered the ASUS P6X58D mobo. It has two 6gb/s slots that are RAID configurable. Just how future-proof are these? It would seem to me that I could hook up only two drives, a boot/system and a scratch/render drive. With only two slots RAID 0 is out the door unless I use a 3gb/s mechanical drive for my boot, and two SSD's for the 6gb/s, but perhaps with that sort of throughput RAID is unnecessary? Are the 6gb/s slots simply marketing to sell mobos?
Anyhow, here are all the components I got:
Cooler Master ATCS 840 full tower
Intel i7 930
Win 7 Home 64 bit
ASUS P6X58D mobo
12GB (6x2) XMS3 triple channel Corsair RAM
3TB (1x3) Samsung Spinpoint 7200rpm HDD
EVGA GTX 470 GFX
Corsair 850x 850 watt PSU
Hauppage WinTV capture card
TP-Link Wireless N USB Adapter
Arctic Silver 5
Two Viewsonic VA2223WM 21.5" 1920x1080 LCD Monitors
Should be a good editing system for Vegas/CS5, correct?
I ordered a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ Heat Sink/Fan, but I just found out it's still on backorder after 2 weeks, so I'm going to cancel my order and install the stock fan that came with the i7 and use the Arctic Silver. If I'm not overclocking should I still upgrade the fan? Is the 212 good, or is there something better? Is liquid cooling better? I was looking at the Corsair H50 liquid cooler, but it seems it's a pain to install and whatnot.
Thanks =)
First, are nVidia and EVGA considered the same thing? I ask because I may end up getting Adobe CS5, and according to this: Adobe Premiere CS5 Video Cards with CUDA Acceleration Mercury Playback Hack Mod Tip Unlock (http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm) you can get CS5 to work with any nVidia gfx card. Does that mean my EVGA GTX 470 is included?
I ordered the 930. I noticed some people here suggest the i7 920 over the 930 for overclocking purposes. Why is that? From my understanding the 930 can be overclocked just fine. This leads me to my next question. I don't really know anything about overclocking. How necessary is it that I overclock? How do I go about doing so? Is there a good tutorial you recommend?
Lastly, I ordered the ASUS P6X58D mobo. It has two 6gb/s slots that are RAID configurable. Just how future-proof are these? It would seem to me that I could hook up only two drives, a boot/system and a scratch/render drive. With only two slots RAID 0 is out the door unless I use a 3gb/s mechanical drive for my boot, and two SSD's for the 6gb/s, but perhaps with that sort of throughput RAID is unnecessary? Are the 6gb/s slots simply marketing to sell mobos?
Anyhow, here are all the components I got:
Cooler Master ATCS 840 full tower
Intel i7 930
Win 7 Home 64 bit
ASUS P6X58D mobo
12GB (6x2) XMS3 triple channel Corsair RAM
3TB (1x3) Samsung Spinpoint 7200rpm HDD
EVGA GTX 470 GFX
Corsair 850x 850 watt PSU
Hauppage WinTV capture card
TP-Link Wireless N USB Adapter
Arctic Silver 5
Two Viewsonic VA2223WM 21.5" 1920x1080 LCD Monitors
Should be a good editing system for Vegas/CS5, correct?
I ordered a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ Heat Sink/Fan, but I just found out it's still on backorder after 2 weeks, so I'm going to cancel my order and install the stock fan that came with the i7 and use the Arctic Silver. If I'm not overclocking should I still upgrade the fan? Is the 212 good, or is there something better? Is liquid cooling better? I was looking at the Corsair H50 liquid cooler, but it seems it's a pain to install and whatnot.
Thanks =)