I'm contemplating a few different systems/setups. I am building for someone else so will NOT be overclocking.
His only real desire was that the system be quiet and that it cost 1000 bucks +/- 200 bucks. Well, I'm figuring I have 1000 bucks to spend w/o shipping costs. (and my fee...
) He plans on getting a Digi-camcorder in the next year, but will get the firewire card, if needed, then. He plans to do some digital editing of those videos. I'm just attempting to build him a good well-rounded system that will last him a good long while.
Case: $45 Enlight Medium ATX Tower Case Model EN-72370X3
CPU: $110 AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz 266MHz Bus Socket A processor
Motherboard: $119 EPoX EP-8KHA VIA KT266 3DDR UDMA100 6PCI 1AGP Audio ATX
Thermal: $8 Arctic Silver II Thermal Grease
Heat Sink: $32 TAISOL CGK760092
Memory: $60 Crucial 256MB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM, 184-pin DIMM
Video card: $136 Leadtek Winfast DDR GeForce2 Pro GTS 32M AGP Retail Box
DVD: $63 Pioneer 16X DVD Drive IDE Slot Loading Model# 105SZ( OEM )
CD-RW: $93 Lite-On 12x10x32 CD-RW Rewriter, OEM Version w/ software
Hard-Drive: $183 Seagate 60gb eide ultra ata/100 3.5lp [ST360020A] - 'U' series
Total system cost === $849 + shipping.
Now, I'm pretty sure all the above components would work nicely together. Please, can you guys double check for me... I chose the Hard-drive because it only has 2 platters and advertised as very quiet. From my lookings, the hard-drive seems to be a place I can upgrade... I also chose 256 RAM because I figre thats good for now, next summer add another 256 stick, and if needed add the third farther down the line.
Would a Epox 8K7A be a better choice... the 8KHA was recommended to me... but I haven't heard much about it.
Well, the hard-drive may be alittle slow for digital editing (what do you guys think??) So I looked @ a faster hard-drive. The IBM seemed to fit the bill both in cost, semi-quiet, and speed (although I heard no one other than IBM tell me they were relatively quiet)
So, change out the HD for a IBM 60GB 7200RPM 60GXP. Drops the total system price to $833.
Sound good? Sound better than the above?
Anyway... in my meanderings to upgrade the disk for him, I got to thinking about a m/b with onboard RAID.
Perhaps this system would work better. (Note: different m/b and hard-drives)
Case: $45 Enlight Medium ATX Tower Case Model EN-72370X3
CPU: $110 AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz 266MHz Bus Socket A processor
Motherboard: $181 Gigabyte GA-7DXR
Thermal: $8 Arctic Silver II Thermal Grease
Heat Sink: $32 TAISOL CGK760092
Memory: $60 Crucial 256MB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM, 184-pin DIMM
Video card: $136 Leadtek Winfast DDR GeForce2 Pro GTS 32M AGP Retail Box
DVD: $63 Pioneer 16X DVD Drive IDE Slot Loading Model# 105SZ( OEM )
CD-RW: $93 Lite-On 12x10x32 CD-RW Rewriter, OEM Version w/ software
Hard-Drive: $226 2 X IBM 40GB 7200RPM 60GXP Ultra ATA/100
Total system price --- $954
I would place the drives in a RAID 0 config for speed and capacity. How does this sound? Is two of these drives in a RAID 0 config overkill? (remember, if I deliver the product for cheaper I get slightly more money... but if I don't deliver a good product, I'm either - never going to get to do it again, or going to have to be upgrading it in the future for free(which I don't want to do other than RAM and a PCI card here or there))
Would a Epox 8K7A+ be a better choice???... it would be roughly 20 bucks cheaper.
Anyway, opinions? Ideas? Advice? Any places you know I can get these parts cheaper?
Which of the three (or six, depending on how you count it) systems would you choose???
Thanks in advance...
JOE
His only real desire was that the system be quiet and that it cost 1000 bucks +/- 200 bucks. Well, I'm figuring I have 1000 bucks to spend w/o shipping costs. (and my fee...
) He plans on getting a Digi-camcorder in the next year, but will get the firewire card, if needed, then. He plans to do some digital editing of those videos. I'm just attempting to build him a good well-rounded system that will last him a good long while.Case: $45 Enlight Medium ATX Tower Case Model EN-72370X3
CPU: $110 AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz 266MHz Bus Socket A processor
Motherboard: $119 EPoX EP-8KHA VIA KT266 3DDR UDMA100 6PCI 1AGP Audio ATX
Thermal: $8 Arctic Silver II Thermal Grease
Heat Sink: $32 TAISOL CGK760092
Memory: $60 Crucial 256MB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM, 184-pin DIMM
Video card: $136 Leadtek Winfast DDR GeForce2 Pro GTS 32M AGP Retail Box
DVD: $63 Pioneer 16X DVD Drive IDE Slot Loading Model# 105SZ( OEM )
CD-RW: $93 Lite-On 12x10x32 CD-RW Rewriter, OEM Version w/ software
Hard-Drive: $183 Seagate 60gb eide ultra ata/100 3.5lp [ST360020A] - 'U' series
Total system cost === $849 + shipping.
Now, I'm pretty sure all the above components would work nicely together. Please, can you guys double check for me... I chose the Hard-drive because it only has 2 platters and advertised as very quiet. From my lookings, the hard-drive seems to be a place I can upgrade... I also chose 256 RAM because I figre thats good for now, next summer add another 256 stick, and if needed add the third farther down the line.
Would a Epox 8K7A be a better choice... the 8KHA was recommended to me... but I haven't heard much about it.
Well, the hard-drive may be alittle slow for digital editing (what do you guys think??) So I looked @ a faster hard-drive. The IBM seemed to fit the bill both in cost, semi-quiet, and speed (although I heard no one other than IBM tell me they were relatively quiet)
So, change out the HD for a IBM 60GB 7200RPM 60GXP. Drops the total system price to $833.
Sound good? Sound better than the above?
Anyway... in my meanderings to upgrade the disk for him, I got to thinking about a m/b with onboard RAID.
Perhaps this system would work better. (Note: different m/b and hard-drives)
Case: $45 Enlight Medium ATX Tower Case Model EN-72370X3
CPU: $110 AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz 266MHz Bus Socket A processor
Motherboard: $181 Gigabyte GA-7DXR
Thermal: $8 Arctic Silver II Thermal Grease
Heat Sink: $32 TAISOL CGK760092
Memory: $60 Crucial 256MB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM, 184-pin DIMM
Video card: $136 Leadtek Winfast DDR GeForce2 Pro GTS 32M AGP Retail Box
DVD: $63 Pioneer 16X DVD Drive IDE Slot Loading Model# 105SZ( OEM )
CD-RW: $93 Lite-On 12x10x32 CD-RW Rewriter, OEM Version w/ software
Hard-Drive: $226 2 X IBM 40GB 7200RPM 60GXP Ultra ATA/100
Total system price --- $954
I would place the drives in a RAID 0 config for speed and capacity. How does this sound? Is two of these drives in a RAID 0 config overkill? (remember, if I deliver the product for cheaper I get slightly more money... but if I don't deliver a good product, I'm either - never going to get to do it again, or going to have to be upgrading it in the future for free(which I don't want to do other than RAM and a PCI card here or there))
Would a Epox 8K7A+ be a better choice???... it would be roughly 20 bucks cheaper.
Anyway, opinions? Ideas? Advice? Any places you know I can get these parts cheaper?
Which of the three (or six, depending on how you count it) systems would you choose???
Thanks in advance...
JOE
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