Hey guys! Check out my rig!

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AMD Athlon64 FX-55
Sapphires Radeon X850XT Platinum
2x1024MB Corsair TwinX DDR550 CL2.0
2x74GB Western Digital Raptor @ RAID 0
2x400GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 @ RAID 0
BenQ DW1625 LightScribe
Antec True550W ATX
ViewSonic VP171 17" LCD

What do you think of it? :lol:

[Coconut Monkey]

I think you missed something..... ;)

[Catweazle]

A few things actually. I reckon it's not gonna be very useful ;)

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What did I miss? :-/

[Catweazle]

What you gonna plug that Athlon FX into?

[EXP]

Hmm, alright. The motherboard of course. Asus A8V-Deluxe. Why asked for that?

[kc0arf]

Hi,

Motherboards tie everything all together. If you want performance, your motherboard design determines the clock refresh rate, the memory update rate, front and backside caching, and a bunch of other things.

I notice that you are missing some sort of backup device for your striped hard drives. I would hate to see you post in our Windows forum that you are missing files, and need help recovering them.

I'd love to run Linux on this one, actually.

Christian

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Backup device as in?

[LoafOfBread34]

A tape drive.

[Catweazle]

Hmm, alright. The motherboard of course. Asus A8V-Deluxe. Why asked for that?

It might surprise you to see just how many people ask for advice about their proposed system, and it turns out that they've chosen a motherboard and processor which are actually incompatible. :D