How to build the Ultimate PC? (December 2010)

[juanpmar]

2 juanpmar :
what about ASUS P7Q57-M DO
it has graphics inside so you will not need separate videocard  .....i think it may help for better cooling inside the case and less power consumption

An independent Graphic Card gives me more chance for future and now unknown possibilities. I have enough power with a 750w power supply and I thing there isn´t problem to cool it with the three 180mm fans inside the case.

[Gerard]

The use of the SSD will be for different posibilities:

1- To put there the OS
2- To put there the OS and the XXHighEnd
3- To put there just the Galleries

You did read this?

http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=1592.0

Maybe the solution BertD has is a good one. I have order one and will have it in next week or the week after.

 

[juanpmar]

I thought about the Velociraptor 10.000rpm but I wanted a silent pc as much as possible and the 10.000rpm are more noisy than the 7.200rpm. Still could be an alternative to consider. As I can see in the forum there are different opinions about where the OS and XXHigEnd should be installed  and it seems to me that nothing is still definitive. So maybe I´ll get also a Velociraptor in the next future depending on the experiences of other people.

Peter or someone else asked about the different models:

Model #        Interface     FormFactor   RPM   Capacity      Cache   

WD6000HLHX   SATA 6 Gb/s   3.5 Inch   10,000   600 GB   32 MB   
WD4500HLHX   SATA 6 Gb/s   3.5 Inch   10,000   450 GB   32 MB   
WD6000BLHX   SATA 6 Gb/s   2.5 Inch   10,000   600 GB   32 MB   
WD4500BLHX   SATA 6 Gb/s   2.5 Inch   10,000   450 GB   32 MB   
WD3000HLFS   SATA 3 Gb/s   3.5 Inch   10,000   300 GB   16 MB   
WD1500HLFS   SATA 3 Gb/s   3.5 Inch   10,000   150 GB   16 MB   
WD3000BLFS   SATA 3 Gb/s   2.5 Inch   10,000   300 GB   16 MB   
WD1500BLFS   SATA 3 Gb/s   2.5 Inch   10,000   150 GB   16 MB