anyone here built a btx system?

[hans007]

i was going to go ahead and build an microatx based machine, when i had the idea of building a btx machine. i could like put all the new fangled technologies in it, since im building from scratch anyway.

could have ddr2, and sata and hell maybe ill get a dual core 2.8 (hell of a lot cheaper than an amd one).

apparently its not even that expensive...
there dont seem to be that many options case wise, seems there is a pretty decent chenbro one (i've used chenbro before, very good stuff) for like $70 at ewiz, and a 945g board is $110 and p4 2.8-3.0 775 chips are like $85-100 on ebay. ddr2 seems to be really cheap on ebay, like people buy the wrong ram for their system a lot it seems.

so funny i think itll actually cost less to build a btx intel system than a microatx amd 64 machine...

what do you guys think? good move, bad move? i do like the much cleaner layout.

 

[jfrog]

As everybody else will say, the AMD64 runs cooler than the Pentium 4 while offering better performance. The AMD X2 dual core is superior to the Pentium D, for the same reasons, but the Pentium D is cheaper, at least until August or so when AMD comes out with lower clocked X2's.

Your system built, with the Chenbro case, the 945g mobo, the p4 3.0 off Ebay and Corsair DDR2 Value Select 2x512 from Newegg(was a little cheaper than ebay, unless I wasn't looking in the right place) should be around $360. You still need drives, a power supply and a hsf though.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: jfrog
As everybody else will say, the AMD64 runs cooler than the Pentium 4 while offering better performance. The AMD X2 dual core is superior to the Pentium D, for the same reasons, but the Pentium D is cheaper, at least until August or so when AMD comes out with lower clocked X2's.

Your system built, with the Chenbro case, the 945g mobo, the p4 3.0 off Ebay and Corsair DDR2 Value Select 2x512 from Newegg(was a little cheaper than ebay, unless I wasn't looking in the right place) should be around $360. You still need drives, a power supply and a hsf though.

yeah i already have an amd64 system. and after thinking about it i've decided i'm gonna do it.

case comes with a psu , and i already have drives so i guess price performance wise it might be a bit worse. seems like if i go with only 512mb of ram i could get it under $300...

the hsf is sort of a tough one, since btx heatsinks are sort of expensive, they are lik e$25. oh well i think i'm gonna go ahead and do it. a dual core system of this type would actually be cheaper even, but i think ill go with single core.

after looking over p4 2.8 prices i can probably get one for around the price of a sempron 2600 socket 754. and well i already have a amd64 machine, might as well go with some variety for my linux machine.

 

[eplebnista]

anyone here built a btx system?

No.

 

[hans007]

oh well i went and orderd the parts. the computer costs more or less as much as it would have cost to build a sempron machine. so it actually is pretty cost effective.

 

[jfrog]

Cool. When you get it built, maybe run Prime95 on it and report the load temp of the Pentium. Maybe also do dome real world comparisons to your AMD64...