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?

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/1176/puterni4.jpg

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

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?

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

do you use floppy disks yet?

i love my 8 Track

http://www.bitetv.ca/blog/archives/8track.jpg

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

Sure, which one?

Yeah, I was just going to say that.

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

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

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

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

550 watt is noted. Which ram do you suggest?

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

http://images.tigerdirect.com/itemDe...07-out4-hl.jpg

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

Noted. Thanks.

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

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

Yeah, you can.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

I hear exactly the same stories the other way around.

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

intel is the bomb

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

Wuts wrong with AMD?

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.

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

Wtf is a thumb drive?

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

Yup yup!

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 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.

Floppy sucks.But some programs still require to use it