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Building a SOHO rig, need advice

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wolf550e

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the specs are as follows:

ASUS P4B533-E (w/ sound,raid,firewire,ethernet)
Intel P4 2.0A
2x Corsair 256MB PC2100
2x Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm (mirroring)
Matrox G550

Need help choosing optical drives (please advice on brands):

CDROM: AOpen x52 / ASUS x52 / Sony x52 / LitoOn x52 / Memorex x52 / MSI x52 / Sansung x52

CDRW: ASUS 40x12x48 / LiteOn 40x12x48 / LG 40x12x40 / Plextor 40x12x40 / Teac 40x12x48 / Sony 40x12x48



What do you think?
-Wolf550e
 
Get Different memory,

Samsung Original pc 2700...

There is no way your getting a northwood and not overclocking ! 😛

As for the Cd drive i would go with the Lite On to save money... Didnt get mine yet, so i can't tell you how it is YET!..

Good Luck.

Bryan
 
wolf550e, I'm w/ bjc112 on the memory. Go for either the Samsung original, Crucial or Corsair PC2700. Re optical drive, have you considered a DVD drive, rather than a CD-ROM? I don't know how much software out there today requires distribution on multiple CDs, vs. one DVD. One program we use at home is Print Shop, and w/ P.S. it's either one DVD or five CDs. It's nice not having to swap out CDs in the middle of a project. You can pick up a 16xDVD/48x CD-ROM drive for $38 @ newegg.com.
 
Well, unfortunately, this machine will not be overclocked, thus no need for speedier RAM (or can I run it 100/166 on i845E?)
RE: DVD, I'll ask the guy who ordered it. The cost is really low but he has no real need for a DVD.

Can anyone pick two drives out of that list? I think of going with AOpen and Lite-On, or Lite-On/Lite-On. Anyone has any comments on the drives?

BTW, our prices here are much higher than in the US, and not lineary too, so going for example from DDR266 to DDR333 is much higher in percentage of the DDR266. Same thing with faster processors and the like.
 
wolf550e, from what I've read recently I'd take a go at Asus/Asus. Solids drives that run quiet, w/ good copying capability.

Re the memory, if you're not going to overclock go w/ the Crucial PC2100. I have two 256MB sticks on an EPoX 4SDA+ SiS645 board and they run day in/day out at PC2700 speed.
 
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