Options and opinions

[Duke of Buckingham]

Do you think that is enoug because I have 500W Asus PSU.

Duke

ASUS P-50GA 500 W Power Supply

[John P. Myers]

Duke, you can save yourself some money and get a nice 750W PSU with a strong 12V rail! That will be plenty.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...Tpk=tr2%20750w
Only $70 after rebate.

Although...maybe a cheaper place to get one in Europe?

Wow that PSU looks familiar

And yes Duke, that will be good enough for what you have.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I think is better to pay the "sending" stuff. Sorry I dont know the word.

http://www.shopping.com/750-psu/products

Duke

[joker]

Ill take a guess here and guess that you mean "Shipping" DB.

[DrPop]

Duke I think the question now becomes, how much do they charge you to ship a PSU to Portugal? If it cost a lot, or if you have to pay import fees, maybe better to get the bigger one and not have to buy again for many years. Does that make sense?

[valyn42]

Love all the input, think I'm going to be ordering soon for a Memorial weekend build. Can anyone tell me if BOINC can leave a specific GPU alone? I've got a 9500 GT that I could put in pops rig that should do all his video needs, and have a couple of cards crunching away 24/7?

[joker]

Im pretty sure it can. I will leave it to others to tell you how though.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Yes you do make sense as usual. You must be right. The 500W arent enough for GPUs or are they? And joker thanks for the "shipping". That is the word.

[dan]

Personal recommendations.

Looking at benchmarks Intel's 2600K cremes every other processor except for a few high end 1366 socket ones. These are running mid $200s.

ASUS mother boards are solid. MSI I went through 4 until I found one that worked, so stay away.

CORSAIR PSUs. Understand the diff between, Plus, Bronze, Silver and Gold, before you make a choice. Modular is nice if you can afford the price difference.

GSkill memory is my favorite. Every stick I have works perfect and customer service is outstanding.

SSD Crucial makes SATA III drives and when I got mine they were the only one making SATA III drives. Min size should be 128. I got only 32 GB left on my SSD. It boots real fast.

Secondary Hardrives. RAID 5. I have 5 500GB Western digitals. The throughput beats my SSD. Small drive in a RAID 5 or 10 are the way to go. Now why an SSD? Seek times on an SSD are between 100 and 1000 times faster than disk.

CPU Cooling. Don't get oversold on water cooling. My Zalman CPU coolers performed the same temps as my water cooling of the same CPU.

Case. Still an Antec fan. Love my Lanboy, 1200 and want to get a DF-85 and yes I've looked at the HAF and still am not interested.

That should cover my opinions. And you know what they say? Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.

Good luck!

[Maxwell]

Love all the input, think I'm going to be ordering soon for a Memorial weekend build. Can anyone tell me if BOINC can leave a specific GPU alone? I've got a 9500 GT that I could put in pops rig that should do all his video needs, and have a couple of cards crunching away 24/7?

You can - from memory, it's something like <ignore_cuda_dev>X</ignore_cuda_dev>. But don't quote me on that. Check this FAQ item for info on the cc_config.xml file (there is a link there for all the options you can configure).