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This is my first post to my project blog, which is less of a mod and more of a first build, which may, in time, develop into a mod.
I’ve opted to go the Spider route, due to a bit of curiosity, some fanboy symptoms, and an interest in their angle on the multicore problem.
I’ve been advised a million times that I should go with Intel, who have some very nice processors at the moment ( 45nm would be fun ), but where’s the challenge in that?
Here a quick run down of what my new PC will be comprised of:
Akasa Zen Mid-Tower Case
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610
MSI K9A2 Platinum V2
AMD Phenom 9600
2GB GeIL Ultra PC2-8000 4-4-4-12
Gigabyte Radeon HD3870
2 Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB (RAID 1)
Samsung DVD-RW DL drive
Akasa AK-876
The order’s shipped so advice on what to change is a bit late, though any comments regarding assembly from those with a bit more experience would be greatly appreciated.
Should have the bits by the weekend, so that’s when the photos will start flowing in, along with my next post.
Until then…
I just cannot understand why you would choose that platform when everyone is (quite rightly) telling you that Intel offers superior products right now?
The reasons for choosing AMD are in the post. Haven’t seen a Phenom on the Plogs yet, and I like the way they’re doing things, they just need to get it a bit more ‘right’. Want to play with AMD overdrive and possibly add an HD3870×2 to the system eventually. If it’s an almerciful failure I’ll post it here and everyone else can learn from my mistakes, if it works people can learn from that too. It’s all about sharing experience.
good to see your suporting the red team the hd3870 is an awesome card in my opininon you made a smart choice with then ram to i useed to have the same ram i got mine to run at 1200mhz
I found the Phenom gets very hot when I up the memory speed or drop the latency timings, even just dropping the CAS to 4 pushes up the idle temperature by 4 or 5 degrees. The chip is quite cool at stock speeds, rarely breaking 24 degrees, even under 100% load, though this jumps quite a bit when I overclock it. It’s a good challenge though, and it’s great havin a proper computer for a change.