So, i am now in the process of finding the bits so i can order the machine… Waiting for money to clear in to my bank account (hopefully by Thursday) and then into the Credit Card (Friday). Then i can start ordering!

Some things i have been looking into since the last update:

The case has changed 3 times… Originally i was looking at the SilverStone TJ07, but cant seem to get my hands on it anywhere… Then I was looking at their Raven RV01… Then this morning i found the Antec P193… and now i am thinking The Thermaltake Kandalf VD4000BWS… and its water cooled!!! This thing looks like a bit of a beast… It has:

  • 360×120mm radiator in the front
  • 500l/hr pump
  • all the stuff needed to water cool the machine (need to get a second cooler for the CPU… and might have to change the first one also… no mention of the Socket 1366 support)
  • 9 5.25” drive bays
  • 2 external 3.5” and 6 internal 3.5” drive bays (total of 17 drive bays!!!)
  • 120mm and 90mm rear and a 90mm top mounted exhaust fans
  • and some other pretty impressive stuff

Next thing to change was the hard drives. I did not mention them the last time around, but the idea is now that i will have 2 Western Digital VelociRaptor 300Gb drives and 4 1Tb Drives (not sure make just yet). The VelociRaptors will be in RAID 0 (for SPEED!) and the 1Tb drives will be mixed (2 in RAID 1 and 2 in RAID 0). i will have a home server backing up the raptors incase anything goes wrong, and all my important stuff will be stored on the RAID 1 array. The Board has onboard RAID 0, 1 and 10 support, so its all hardware raid.

Finally, and a decision has not been 100% made on this, is the graphics card… I am leaning towards a NVidia GTX 275 card (Cuda is a tempting option). but the ATI Cards (the 4850 and 4890s) are quite tempting also… The board only supports CrossFire, so i know i cant get 2 NVida cards working together, but if i add a second card, i only want it for extra monitor support… SLI and CrossFire are not much use to me… Any Recommendations?

So, i am currently talking with a computer shop and they are working on getting the parts… Hopefully if all goes well, i could have this in the next week or so!

[Update] So the guys on the OverClockers.co.uk forums are not impressed with this case… they are strongly advising i stay away from it… Maybe we are back to the P193… leaning back to water cooling again too…

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