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Aragorn · 22-03-2005, 11:49

That case certainly looks pretty serious stuff. Unlikely to get overheated in there!

You can get 10K 140Gb disk mechs, but only in corporate disk arrays (EMC, HP etc). If you need more than the 74Gb mirror, you could either add a large IDE drive or get a PCI Sata RAID controller (such as http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...tml?ADA-105715) and a couple of slower large SATA drives, eg Maxtor DiamondMax10's, in RAID 1 again.

As far as the memory goes, I think the main difference between some of those Corsair chips is the number of LED's attached! If you're going to have a window on your case then get nice flashy LED memory, otherwise just get the lowest latency matched Corsair sticks you can afford. Personally I went for GEIL, but afaik both have a good reputation.

Sounds like one big mama of a system your building - let use know how you get on!

HTH

22-03-2005, 11:49	#15
Aragorn Inactive Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Minas Tirith, Gondor Age: 60 Posts: 3,458	Re: Building my own PC That case certainly looks pretty serious stuff. Unlikely to get overheated in there! You can get 10K 140Gb disk mechs, but only in corporate disk arrays (EMC, HP etc). If you need more than the 74Gb mirror, you could either add a large IDE drive or get a PCI Sata RAID controller (such as http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...tml?ADA-105715) and a couple of slower large SATA drives, eg Maxtor DiamondMax10's, in RAID 1 again. As far as the memory goes, I think the main difference between some of those Corsair chips is the number of LED's attached! If you're going to have a window on your case then get nice flashy LED memory, otherwise just get the lowest latency matched Corsair sticks you can afford. Personally I went for GEIL, but afaik both have a good reputation. Sounds like one big mama of a system your building - let use know how you get on! HTH