I'm looking to put together a new computer to replace my aging rig. I just now learned that my mobo only supports 28 bit LBA, and I have 2 drives greater than 137 GB. Accessing anything past 137GB corrupts all the data on the drive, causing me to lose a lot of stuff I download off of bit torrent. This is ****ing me off to no end. Old rig must die, and get stuck in my closet doing Folding.
This rig will also be the core of my multimedia center, with a projector attached, so I can play UT2004 on a screen 120 inches across. I want to be able to run 10-12 AI based scripts, and TIVO style recording on the second processor, and use the first one for HL2, Doom III, and UT2004, since it's directly attached to the PCI/AGP bus. Would some other processor/mobo combination be better suited to this?
My new rig will have the following, assuming I somehow get the 3k+ to buy it:
Dual AMD Opteron 250s <-- Is there any way to overclock these and not have to change the PCI/AGP bus frequency?
Tyan K8W motherboard -- Sexy PCI-64/133mhz
Expensive 1024 ECC Registered DDR400 memory modules
NetCell RAID Expander card via SATA w/ 5 WD250GB hard drives in RAID5 .9TB accessable space.
DVD9/BluRay burner (I'm not getting this anytime soon)
Water cooling for all active areas CPU/Bridges/GPU/MOSFETs/etc.
TV Tuner card with hardware MPEG2 encoding at 720x480
550W 24+8+6 power supply
Custom case, since there is absolutly no way I could fit all this stuff into one full tower.
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Creative Labs Audigy (pick one, I don't know yet)
My main questions are:
Can I overclock these processors in any way? If so, will I have to play with the AGP/PCI bus frequency?
Is there something that is cheaper, and does a better job?
Is this just plain overkill?
Do you suggest any changes to the hardware above? Why?
This rig will also be the core of my multimedia center, with a projector attached, so I can play UT2004 on a screen 120 inches across. I want to be able to run 10-12 AI based scripts, and TIVO style recording on the second processor, and use the first one for HL2, Doom III, and UT2004, since it's directly attached to the PCI/AGP bus. Would some other processor/mobo combination be better suited to this?
My new rig will have the following, assuming I somehow get the 3k+ to buy it:
Dual AMD Opteron 250s <-- Is there any way to overclock these and not have to change the PCI/AGP bus frequency?
Tyan K8W motherboard -- Sexy PCI-64/133mhz
Expensive 1024 ECC Registered DDR400 memory modules
NetCell RAID Expander card via SATA w/ 5 WD250GB hard drives in RAID5 .9TB accessable space.
DVD9/BluRay burner (I'm not getting this anytime soon)
Water cooling for all active areas CPU/Bridges/GPU/MOSFETs/etc.
TV Tuner card with hardware MPEG2 encoding at 720x480
550W 24+8+6 power supply
Custom case, since there is absolutly no way I could fit all this stuff into one full tower.
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Creative Labs Audigy (pick one, I don't know yet)
My main questions are:
Can I overclock these processors in any way? If so, will I have to play with the AGP/PCI bus frequency?
Is there something that is cheaper, and does a better job?
Is this just plain overkill?
Do you suggest any changes to the hardware above? Why?