Seems to be quite a common thing at the moment!

Just built myself:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (0-stepping)

4GB OCZ Reaper RAM

Asus P5E Motherboard

2x WD Raptor 150GB's (in RAID 0) + 1x WD 500GB

Sapphire Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB

All in a shiney black Antec P180, with Antec Quattro 850 PSU, Samsung 22" LCD, and a logitech keyboard and mouse

Spent far too much, but should keep me going for a while!

2x Raptor! nice

Actually the raptors are not that quick these days, and while they spin at 10k the cache isn't always big and data density is quite low.

That means while latency to the first few bits is lower, but still higher than the 15k SAS discs, the actual amount of data you get off after that is lower so it is actually a slower disc than many of the modern 7.2k disks.

Still a nice system though.

Ohhh It's on now, wait till I get mine sorted lol It's like an arms race

Think i'll just wait for you all to do it then go buy one cheap in January :P

Ohhh It's on now, wait till I get mine sorted lol It's like an arms race

Lol - not even tried OC'ing yet

Apparently these CPU's will get to 3.6Ghz on air...

Which OS are you using, with 4GB of memory XP 32bit and Vista 32bit will only see approx 3.5GB of ram because of the way 32bit addressing works. To use all 4GB without issues, you will need to use a 64bit OS. There is a workaround for 32bit but its not 100% compatible.

Which OS are you using, with 4GB of memory XP 32bit and Vista 32bit will only see approx 3.5GB of ram because of the way 32bit addressing works. To use all 4GB without issues, you will need to use a 64bit OS. There is a workaround for 32bit but its not 100% compatible.

Yep.. its a combination of motherboard and the way 32bit addressing works, modern mobos have an option to enable memory remapping so vista should see most if not all of the memory

seeing 3.25GB in Vista Home Premium 32bit.

tbh, I'm not missing the extra lol

seeing 3.25GB in Vista Home Premium 32bit.

tbh, I'm not missing the extra lol

you will be using the full 4gb, its just the 4gb 32bit limit includes the memory-mapped devices such as video-memory etc so the OS sees it but the user wont

look at this

Edit: ive just checked my bios and theres a couple of options called "DRAM over 4gb Remapping" which apparently works in conjunction with PAE.

Seems to be quite a common thing at the moment!

Just built myself:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (0-stepping)

4GB OCZ Reaper RAM

Asus P5E Motherboard

2x WD Raptor 150GB's (in RAID 0) + 1x WD 500GB

Sapphire Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB

All in a shiney black Antec P180, with Antec Quattro 850 PSU, Samsung 22" LCD, and a logitech keyboard and mouse

Spent far too much, but should keep me going for a while!

Nice spec - my X2 4000@3ghz is starting to feel old hat now im still on DDR1 memory which limits my options somewhat now.

nowt wrong with DDR1 :P

my X2 4400+, 2Gb of PC3200 and nvidia 8600GT do me just fine for everything i need to do, i see no point in quad core, its not like you ever really take advantage of it on a desktop pc

i see no point in quad core, its not like you ever really take advantage of it on a desktop pc

But quad core sounds cool though

I have a ZX spectrum :rofl:

I'm sure like most things if you're into it it all make perfect sense........

Reason I went for quad core, is that I'm trying to future-proof as much as I possibly can (ha!), and I edit lots of video, and Premiere loves the quad core

Photoshop too - carrying out CPU intensive processing on very large print res images is noticeably faster on a quad core. Maya loves them as well

Forgot that one!