New Computer Build Advice

[GearGuy2001 10+ year member]

Alright so I currently have an AMD Dual Core but thanks to Obama's stimulus package I can use money my rents put away for college for a computer purchase, well Im going to build my own.

Base Parts (Dont Change with either computer):

2 Pioneer 216D SATA DVD Burners

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827129032

Cooler Master 690 Case

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119137

Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10k RPM HDD

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136296

Corsair 620W PSU

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139002

EVGA 9800GT

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130435

Option #1

Intel I7 920

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202

Gigabyte Mobo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128362

Mushkin RAM (6GB of DDR3 1333)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226036

Zalman Cooler?

~$40

Total Cost: ~$1375

Option #2

Intel Q9550

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115041

Gigabyte Mobo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128358

Mushkin RAM (8GB of DDR2 1066)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146785

Artic Cooling Freezer 7

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134

Total Cost: ~$1220

I Built my last computer as a gamer (SLI, 2GB of RAM when that was alot) but this computer is going to be able to handle that even though its true intention is fast recoding and encoding of videos (x264 to wmv-hd). I would appreciate any input. Also I was considering the i7 as my only choice but my friend said they are having issues with the northbridge //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

With the Q9550 I think I can expect 3.5Ghz on air and with the i7 probably 3.2Ghz

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[blackdragonaudi 10+ year member]

Instead of the pioneer burners go with asus or sony much cheaper and maximum px rateted the asus ones they gave it there kick *** award. Also go with AMD there, cheaper, they run cooler, and you can over clock them like you would not believe. Gamers prefer amd and so do I intel is way to expensive. One more thing go with asus motherboards there much better for gamers as well weather you go with intel or amd.

 

[bigaudiofanati2 10+ year member]

I have to agree with blackdragon on this one gigabyte motherboards are not the best I have seen out there. Let alone just good either so X2 for what he said.

 

[cbrei1023 10+ year member]

yeah grab asus burners. Look around at other motherboards as well, see if you can find something that supports quad channel RAM and get 4x2GB ram. Look into Asus as well

And if you are running windows XP anything above 2GB of ram is really for the most part, useless.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx

Read that if ur on XP

Drop the 10KRPM drive. Virtually pointless. it can access and write data faster but we are talking about milliseconds here. if you want slightly faster times get 2 7200RPM drives and use a RAID 0 array. But speaking from experience there is no noticeable difference between the 10KRPM drives and some 7200RPM drives.

If you are doing alot of video encoding maybe look into ATI. I remember my friend saying that ATI does something special for such things but I never looked into it. I have always been an nVidia fan myself.

 

[sue bee 10+ year member]

150 gb is kind of small. Why two burners also? You don't know how to create and burn images?

 

[GearGuy2001 10+ year member]

I might try out the Windows 7 Beta but It will be an XP Computer most likely (64 bit of course)

Ill pass on AMD the Intel chips walk all over them from reviews and articles Ive read...

Im not sure how the video card would play into encoding, its all about the CPU, since your like changing a file type and not playing a game or anything.

150 gb is kind of small. Why two burners also? You don't know how to create and burn images?

Burn 2 things at once, sometimes I have "high" volumes of stuff to burn.

Also I forgot to add I have a 1TB and a 250GB that will be installed (they are in my current computer)

 

[GearGuy2001 10+ year member]

Go with the i7, you won't need to upgrade for like 3-4 years

Thats what I was thinking also, the core 2 quads are getting older now and I would hate to be stuck with the LGA 775 when the new thing could be LGA 1366

 

[cbrei1023 10+ year member]

I might try out the Windows 7 Beta but It will be an XP Computer most likely (64 bit of course)
Ill pass on AMD the Intel chips walk all over them from reviews and articles Ive read...

Im not sure how the video card would play into encoding, its all about the CPU, since your like changing a file type and not playing a game or anything.

Burn 2 things at once, sometimes I have "high" volumes of stuff to burn.

Also I forgot to add I have a 1TB and a 250GB that will be installed (they are in my current computer)

Alright. On 64bit windows your good for I think 8TB of RAM so no issues there. Good choice on the intel > AMD.

The card thing I have no idea about either, I'm just repeating what I was told, and trust the guys opinion.

If you have all that extra drive space then the 10k is good. just loud and annoying. Maybe wrap it in dynamat //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

I need to emphasise again though to check out some other motherboards. Gigabyte is good but there is much better.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131359

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145220

 

[GearGuy2001 10+ year member]

the 9800 is on, but get the geforce 250, or the 290 if you can aford it

I bought 2 7600GT's for this computer and I ended up hardly playing any games haha

Like I said this new one will mainly be for encoding and running quickpar/ unraring files.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

get an SSD and a large storage drive instead of the raptor