Building a new Computer [specs]

[sNyx]

Feel free to voice any thoughts on other hardware. Keep in mind this is a bare bone setup to get started on.

Additional features like CD Roms, keyboards, monitors, graphics and sound cards will all come later. Spend the bulk to get up and running, add as you go along.

This is a graphics machine. Built not for 3D rendering but multitasking of resource thirsty applications and largescale print work.

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$225 - LIAN LI PC-6070B Alum Silent Case w/ door, Black

$195 - Asus [A8N-SLI-DX] A8N-SLI Deluxe (Asus NF4 SLI S939 1066FSB Dual-DDR400 PCIE16 PCIE8 SLI(x2) 2PCIEx1 3PCI SATA300-R(0/1/0+1) SATA150-R(0/1/0+1/5) ATA133 i1394 USB2.0 7.1Audio 2x G-LAN ATX)

$605 - AMD [ADA4200BVBOX] Athlon64 X2 4200+ S939 (Athlon64 X2 4200+ Dual-Core 2.2GHz 1000FSB 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 (AMD64/EVP) (Retail))

$60 2x Kingston [KVR400X64C3A/512] 512MB PC3200 (Kingston 512M DDR400 PC3200 CL3 (3-3-3) DIMM (retail ))

$132 - Seagate [ST3200826AS] 200G SATA NCQ 8M (Seagate Barracuda 200GB 7200.8 SATA150 8M NCQ 150mb/sec 7pin 3.5")

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$1277 // est. total @ Atic.ca

[sNyx]

LIAN LI PC-6070B Alum Silent Case w/ door, Black

[ebbomega]

Nice. You gots a video card for it already?

[sNyx]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Nice. You gots a video card for it already?

onboard for the time being.

my second big buy (hopefully) will be a pair of 19IN LCD SyncMaster's
worry about my videocard later, I know some gamers who'll help me out ;)

[ppcock]

onboard anything sucks ass

if i manage to get my hands on the 9800 pro.. you can have my 9600 pro.

[sNyx]

well it would only be very temp, under a month. paycheck2paycheck sorta dealy.. I may bug ya about it tho, thx cock

[rawb]

there is no way you can fit all of your porn in that case.

[ppcock]

well.. Most of it is midget porn. He could fit a lot of it.

[sNyx]

picked me up a pair of IMB's for all the porn..



Left one houses my freak porn, the right for the Rawb porn.

[clevich]

ahhh why Seagate? I've had aloooot of drive failures with Seagate.

nice proc though :) best bang for your buck. Where are you purchasing the parts?

[sNyx]

Originally Posted by clevich

ahhh why Seagate? I've had aloooot of drive failures with Seagate.

nice proc though :) best bang for your buck. Where are you purchasing the parts?

Seagate? well I donno a bunch aboot HD's what would you recommend. I recall some computer store guy talking about a 8000rpm bottleneck, but I don't even think im quoting him right.

As for parts, im most likely going to take a ride down Broadway and stop at Atic. They priced out about $200 cheaper then Ncix for the same parts. But the tower, that a special order online. Couldn't find it local.

[rawb]

Originally Posted by sNyx™

picked me up a pair of IMB's for all the porn..



Left one houses my freak porn, the right for the Rawb porn.

I WAS GOING THROUGH COLLEGE, I NEEDED THE MONEY

[sNyx]

note: the rawb porn is seperate from the freak porn

[clevich]

^

I'd go Maxtor. never had a problem.

[mapleleaf4ever]

^ I second that. I've been using Maxtors in every system I've owned. Never a problem.

[fritz]

if you're on a budget get a seagate barracuda 7200.8, any size. cheap, quiet, fast
slightly slower are the WD caviars, louder, cheaper, 5yr warranty + sata2 (pointless)
if you're a dot-com-millionaire get WD raptors, they'll always be the fastest until someone puts out a 10k SATA drive

if you're bored get 3x or 4x smaller sata drives and raid-5 them since your mobo supports it

[FeelGood]

id stay away from WD's, mine died after 2 years and my friends died after 7 months.
go maxtor.

[FeelGood]

ps. 1gb of ram is nice.

[ppcock]

I currently have 1.5 on 3 ddr slots.

the porn is fast!

[sNyx]

Originally Posted by sNyx™

$195 - Asus [A8N-SLI-DX] A8N-SLI Deluxe (Asus NF4 SLI S939 1066FSB Dual-DDR400 PCIE16 PCIE8 SLI(x2) 2PCIEx1 3PCI SATA300-R(0/1/0+1) SATA150-R(0/1/0+1/5) ATA133 i1394 USB2.0 7.1Audio 2x G-LAN ATX)

$334 - AMD [ADA3700BNBOX] : Athlon64 3700+ 2.2GHz 1000FSB 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 (AMD64) (Retail)

$60 - 4x Kingston [KVR400X64C3A/512] 512MB PC3200 (Kingston 512M DDR400 PC3200 CL3 (3-3-3) DIMM (retail ))

I have been informed that the new 2X AMD chips (however better) are still minimal on the amount of applications that can take full advantage of them. So a reccomendation was to go with the 3700 can save nearly half off my chip costs, then double up on my ram. Thoughts?

[DJDeeb]

Nice setup.

You should take a look at the Hitachi drives that are coming out. SATA II :y:

Also make sure you get a good power supply. You'd be surprised as to how many stability problems in computer just come from a shity power supply. don't cheap out!

[FeelGood]

Originally Posted by DJDeeb

Also make sure you get a good power supply. You'd be surprised as to how many stability problems in computer just come from a shity power supply. don't cheap out!

i can vouche for that statement.

[clevich]

Originally Posted by sNyx™

I have been informed that the new 2X AMD chips (however better) are still minimal on the amount of applications that can take full advantage of them. So a reccomendation was to go with the 3700 can save nearly half off my chip costs, then double up on my ram. Thoughts?

I'd stick with the dualcore. Both AMD and Intel have been trying to persuade game developers and software distributers to take advantage of the dual-core setup. I'd rather be ahead of the game then have to make a rather tedious upgrade later on. As with your ram, I would have gone with 2gb from the start.

[sNyx]

I scored a sweety deal on a Sapphire Radeon X800 XL 512MB card last night! WOOT.. lets hope all pans out on that buy =)

Originally Posted by DJDeeb

You should take a look at the Hitachi drives that are coming out. SATA II :y:
Also make sure you get a good power supply. You'd be surprised as to how many stability problems in computer just come from a shity power supply. don't cheap out!

Looking around im trying to find a SATA2 w/ 16MB cache, without luck. I can find one or the other. Hitachi's Deskstar does rock both, but the only models I can find are 500GB for over $400. Perhaps someone could link me to some options under $200.

Originally Posted by clevich

I'd stick with the dualcore. Both AMD and Intel have been trying to persuade game developers and software distributers to take advantage of the dual-core setup. I'd rather be ahead of the game then have to make a rather tedious upgrade later on. As with your ram, I would have gone with 2gb from the start.

My attempts are to keep the inital bare bone cost under something like 1300 before tax. However nice to be ahead of the game, it does cost the extra money do so. Plus the full advantage of being ahead never really plays out until X amount of months thereafter buying. By then they are 3 steps ahead. Well my original gameplan was not to stick with only a gig, bare bone starter box ;)

[DJDeeb]

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...acture=Hitachi

Not sure if this is a typo though 80GB seems too small now days.

The 500GB is sweet but way to expensive!!

The other thing to look for is a hard drive with NCQ ...i think Seagate HDs have these ( Raptor? )