Need help Buying a PC

[Xsmoke]

Hey fellas,

I am about to order a new computer tonight or tomorrow.
I had a buddy find these parts for me and he said this is a really good pc.
I am hoping to get a little advice, or opinions from you people to
help ease my mind.
I don't know alot about pc's besides for i love ZBrush,Maya,ZBrush,Video Games and ZBRUSH!

Here are the list of Specs he gave me.

Tower - Super ThermalTake Armor Series, 25cm Side Fan
Power Supply - ATI ThermalTake Tough Power 750w
Motherboard - ASUS p5W Deluxe
Processor - INTEL E6600
Memory - 2 1gig 240 Pin, 6400, 800mhz
Graphic - ATI X1950 XTX, 512mb Ram
Harddrive - 2 Seagate Baracuda 320gb 16mb cache
DVD - 2 Samsung x18, 1 has Lightscibe

Thanks alot for any replys...

[peterpanUK]

Believe it or not , its the same system I`m about to purchase except the graphics card. I have read so many times that ATI cards are great for games , But Nvidia are the cards for 3d work? So I am still trying to find the Nvidia 6800 GT as it still has the edge and if not a pair of 7600 gt . still hunting for advice ,except for the cpu. Of which I have read articles till it bored me silly and I am totally going for it as are you. Before it came out I was after the Amd 64 dual 4600 , but then the Bang for buck hit me. Good luck in priceing up your goods, as I`m finding it hard to get what I want cheaper then buying one already made up ! It used to be cheaper in the UK to build your own but not now it seems ! If your in the UK ,I`d be interested as to where you can get that spec for less then £750.00 ? I`ve read many reviews of the retailers in the UK and yep , theres lots of complaints about many of them. As I said all the best :tu:

[lemonnado]

I don't see backup. You need an external drive and a good backup software. Otherwise you will look rather silly with 640GB of data down the fritzzzzzzzzz. And facing a couple of weeks of reinstalling software stinketh as well.
Cheers
Lemo

I use:
http://www.emcinsignia.com/?gclid=CPC4ysL0mYgCFRGXFQodHHxvcA

And I backup my mac, two desktops and two laptops with it. I had total disk loss on every laptop over it's life time and one major loss on one of the desktops.

It is not a matter of IF but of WHEN you will loose everything. And nothing nicer than plopping the backup in and restoring everything while relaxing.

PS:As backup drive I'd go for a 1TB external firewire. Peace of mind. Just only power up and connect it when you actually back it up every night after you are done working on it.

[bicc39]

Monitor? mouse?
Only partially kidding, get the biggest one you can ( monitor)

[Xsmoke]

PeterpanUK_
I am from the U.S. and it seems i will be spending about $1,800.00
on the parts you see listed.
I have heard the same about ATI being better for games and Nvidia
is better for 3d. I heard the 3d Software cards are way more expensive
and you will see very little difference. "True"?

Lemonado_
I have had the same thing happen to me.I had a WD 250gig
internal harddrive with everything i have collected over the years on it,
burn up on me.

I now have
Internal - 1 WD 80gig BootDrive, 1 WD 80gig Storage, 1 WD 250gig Storage
External - 1 WD 500gig

My intensions were to backup everything on the external and unplug it.
But the problem is that i still edit my files on my internal drives and
I have no idea which one's are backed up and which are not.
So i have been plugging in the 500gig, deleting everything, then
copying everything over to it each time i want to backup.
As you can imagine, this is terrible.I know there is a way to mirror
the drives but then i would have to leave the external plugged up.
"Not safe"
Any solutions to this would be wonderful!

Bicc39_
Good looking out...
I have a
22" Samsung SyncMaster Monitor.
Logitech G15 Extreme Gaming Keyboard.
Logitech MX 1000 Laser Cordless Mouse.