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Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 10:06 AM

Im gonna buy a new system one of these days and have roughly found what i want.
I used an online tool to configure a system. I dont know much abour brands and stuff though. Is there anything you would change? Is there anything that doesnt work together?

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 10:07 AM

Im thinking about using a small 10.000 rpm harddrive for the operating system. This makes sense right?

Evil E · 05-13-2007, 10:18 AM

Windows XP instead of Windows Vista.

Might want to add a second hard drive with raid 1 to have data redundancy.

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by knewon

Windows XP instead of Windows Vista.

Might want to add a second hard drive with raid 1 to have data redundancy.

I already have 2, you mean a 3rd one?

ssp · 05-13-2007, 10:30 AM

Why not get a mainboard with sound and lan, wireless and firewire onboard?

HEAT · 05-13-2007, 10:48 AM

do you use floppy disks yet?

Deej · 05-13-2007, 10:50 AM

i love my 8 Track

Klen · 05-13-2007, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Dirty Franck

Im thinking about using a small 10.000 rpm harddrive for the operating system. This makes sense right?

I suggest you buy two wd raptor disk (10000 rpm) and put them into raid 0 field.

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by ssp

Why not get a mainboard with sound and lan, wireless and firewire onboard?

Sure, which one?

ztik · 05-13-2007, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ssp

Why not get a mainboard with sound and lan, wireless and firewire onboard?

Yeah, I was just going to say that.

Why get such a shitty motherboard when you have such nice componets?

Martin3 · 05-13-2007, 10:59 AM

I'd go with better ram and a 550 watt psu.

ucv.karl · 05-13-2007, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Deej

i love my 8 Track

"And you know who that was? Mr Sunshine-On-My-Goddamn-Shoulders John Denver. Could you believe it?"

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by ztik

Yeah, I was just going to say that.

Why get such a shitty motherboard when you have such nice componets?

I dunno much about motherboards, thats why im asking. Can you tell me which one to buy please? Which type/brand.

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Martin3

I'd go with better ram and a 550 watt psu.

550 watt is noted. Which ram do you suggest?

ztik · 05-13-2007, 11:03 AM

Asus M2N32 Pro http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l...&modelmen u=1

ztik · 05-13-2007, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Dirty Franck

550 watt is noted. Which ram do you suggest?

Oh, I didn't notice only 550. Your going to want bigger.

Go with OCZ for ram get 800mhz instaid of 600mhz

http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...latinum_series

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by ztik

Asus M2N32 Pro http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l...&modelmen u=1

Noted. Thanks.

I can add 2 videocards in it right? I might buy a 2nd card in the future.

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 11:06 AM

I dont have time to read that page now as i have to leave but it looks really good.

ztik · 05-13-2007, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Dirty Franck

Noted. Thanks.

I can add 2 videocards in it right? I might buy a 2nd card in the future.

Yeah, you can.

Martin3 · 05-13-2007, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Dirty Franck

550 watt is noted. Which ram do you suggest?

Well, I'd go with a different board aswell. The 590 suggested above is a good one. 570 also, but about $30-40US cheaper, both will have all your usb, firewire, sound, and lan onboard. OCZ ram instead of Kingston.
550 watt psu is about the minimum I'd go with. It depends on how many fans and hard drives you plan on adding. Having room for future growth doesn't hurt. I don't know how power hungry that card and cpu are. I have a 550 with an opteron 165 [email protected], x1900xt, 3 hard drives, and 4 120mm fans + 80mm cpu fan. It works fine for me. But the opteron isn't very power hungry. 650 watt are higher probably wouldn't hurt, price difference isn't that much once you get that high anyways.

acctman · 05-13-2007, 11:44 AM

buy a shuttle xpc box... www.shuttle.com

edit: western digital drives SUCK... they die after about 3-5yrs, right when the warranty runs out.. get a seagate

Antonio · 05-13-2007, 01:38 PM

second video card? do you really need the one that you chose on a frist place? do you do video editing? play games? otherwise drop it, way too much money IMO

yet again if you really want Vista you migh need it, lol

cess · 05-13-2007, 03:50 PM

You should be reading/asking at anandtech or some other tech site/forum. BTW why go with AMD? Intel is a much better buy right now...

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Martin3

Well, I'd go with a different board aswell. The 590 suggested above is a good one. 570 also, but about $30-40US cheaper, both will have all your usb, firewire, sound, and lan onboard. OCZ ram instead of Kingston.
550 watt psu is about the minimum I'd go with. It depends on how many fans and hard drives you plan on adding. Having room for future growth doesn't hurt. I don't know how power hungry that card and cpu are. I have a 550 with an opteron 165 [email protected], x1900xt, 3 hard drives, and 4 120mm fans + 80mm cpu fan. It works fine for me. But the opteron isn't very power hungry. 650 watt are higher probably wouldn't hurt, price difference isn't that much once you get that high anyways.

Thanks. Can you tell me the difference betwen the 570 and 590 btw?

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by acctman

buy a shuttle xpc box... www.shuttle.com

edit: western digital drives SUCK... they die after about 3-5yrs, right when the warranty runs out.. get a seagate

Any suggestions on how many harddrive and what setup? Someone mentioned a raid setup?

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by cess

BTW why go with AMD? Intel is a much better buy right now...

I hear exactly the same stories the other way around.

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Antonio

second video card? do you really need the one that you chose on a frist place? do you do video editing? play games? otherwise drop it, way too much money IMO

yet again if you really want Vista you migh need it, lol

Well, not for now. That 768 card is more than enough but who knows next year?

GAMEFINEST · 05-13-2007, 04:04 PM

intel is the bomb

nico-t · 05-13-2007, 04:32 PM

reading this thread made me feel like i used to feel in math class...

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by GAMEFINEST

intel is the bomb

Wuts wrong with AMD?

whomework · 05-13-2007, 05:06 PM

I would ditch the floppy drive and get yourself a 1GB thumb drive for about the same price. Also, get yourself an extarnal HDD for backups. Nothing like losing all your data and not having a backup strategy in place. I have seen grown men cry over lost data. LOL.

tranza · 05-13-2007, 05:34 PM

Seems like you're going to build a nice CPU there...

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by whomework

I would ditch the floppy drive and get yourself a 1GB thumb drive for about the same price. Also, get yourself an extarnal HDD for backups. Nothing like losing all your data and not having a backup strategy in place. I have seen grown men cry over lost data. LOL.

Wtf is a thumb drive?

And i already have an external drive. Right now im just looking for what to use as internal drives.

Dirty F · 05-13-2007, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by tranza

Seems like you're going to build a nice CPU there...

Yup yup!

ssp · 05-15-2007, 02:04 AM

I stopped using floppy drives, I use USB sticks instead.. 2GB... 4GBs. Why go back to 1.4MB drives lol!

I think any ASUS board with shit on board will do the trick.. I usually go for a deluxe or premium board so I know it's good. Check out their website www.asus.com.tw I think.

Personlly I found Vista to be a horrid system but that's up to you.

The Sultan Of Smut · 05-15-2007, 03:45 AM

The only thing I could add is maybe toss the ASUS board. I know ASUS boards are packed but I've owned two in the past and my Internet connection would drop periodically. I know it was the board both times since in each instance I swapped it out but used the same components.

It's been a while now so maybe their boards in the past few years don't do that but I'll never buy one again.

Klen · 05-15-2007, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ssp

I stopped using floppy drives, I use USB sticks instead.. 2GB... 4GBs. Why go back to 1.4MB drives lol!

I think any ASUS board with shit on board will do the trick.. I usually go for a deluxe or premium board so I know it's good. Check out their website www.asus.com.tw I think.

Personlly I found Vista to be a horrid system but that's up to you.

Floppy sucks.But some programs still require to use it

05-13-2007, 10:06 AM	#1
Dirty F Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 59,204	Computer nerds...err...experts - inside please Im gonna buy a new system one of these days and have roughly found what i want. I used an online tool to configure a system. I dont know much abour brands and stuff though. Is there anything you would change? Is there anything that doesnt work together?

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Dirty F Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 59,204	Im thinking about using a small 10.000 rpm harddrive for the operating system. This makes sense right?

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ssp Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,990	Why not get a mainboard with sound and lan, wireless and firewire onboard?

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ztik Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Nomad Posts: 5,196	Asus M2N32 Pro http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l...&modelmen u=1 __________________ .

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Dirty F Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 59,204	I dont have time to read that page now as i have to leave but it looks really good.

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acctman Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Atlanta Posts: 2,840	buy a shuttle xpc box... www.shuttle.com edit: western digital drives SUCK... they die after about 3-5yrs, right when the warranty runs out.. get a seagate

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Antonio Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Spartaaaaaaaaa Posts: 14,136	second video card? do you really need the one that you chose on a frist place? do you do video editing? play games? otherwise drop it, way too much money IMO yet again if you really want Vista you migh need it, lol

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cess Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,921	You should be reading/asking at anandtech or some other tech site/forum. BTW why go with AMD? Intel is a much better buy right now...

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whomework Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: CT/NY/MA Posts: 109	I would ditch the floppy drive and get yourself a 1GB thumb drive for about the same price. Also, get yourself an extarnal HDD for backups. Nothing like losing all your data and not having a backup strategy in place. I have seen grown men cry over lost data. LOL. __________________ Get your site listed on Whomework.com. Log On. Get Off!™ XXXTrafficTrades \| XXXWebmasterCash \| Get your .TV domains now for $19.99! Limited Time Only.

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05-15-2007, 02:04 AM	#35
ssp Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,990	I stopped using floppy drives, I use USB sticks instead.. 2GB... 4GBs. Why go back to 1.4MB drives lol! I think any ASUS board with shit on board will do the trick.. I usually go for a deluxe or premium board so I know it's good. Check out their website www.asus.com.tw I think. Personlly I found Vista to be a horrid system but that's up to you.

05-15-2007, 03:45 AM	#36
The Sultan Of Smut Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Vancouver Posts: 4,325	The only thing I could add is maybe toss the ASUS board. I know ASUS boards are packed but I've owned two in the past and my Internet connection would drop periodically. I know it was the board both times since in each instance I swapped it out but used the same components. It's been a while now so maybe their boards in the past few years don't do that but I'll never buy one again.