Building a system, help?

[Vogster]

I am building a new system. I decided to go with a 266fsb thunderbird, not sure what speed though. I was wondering what you guys felt would be better, a raid mobo with 133 sdram or a ddr board(if they make a raid ddr board great). What do you guys think would be best and what brands. I'm a newbie and also was wondering how hard raid is to setup.

Thanks for the help.

 

[aUt0eXebat]

Well, I'd go with Abit mobo if you want good AMD board, and 266 bus support. Try This site for the mobo (there is also a RAID version of it), and either this site or this page for the RAM, most of the RAM has been tested and certified to work with the chipset in the mobo I reccomended. Check out pricewatch.com for low prices on the CPU you want

 

[MichaelD]

Hi and welcome to the AT Forums! The more the merrier.

You made the right choice by going with a TBird. Better performance than Intel for half the price. No duh. (No offense to the PIII + PIV folks...my opinion..well fact, actually! )

What do you plan on doing with this proposed system? Email and surfing are a given, that's universal to all systems. Are you a big gamer? Edit lots of digital photos/video? Spreadsheets with 30mb of numbers to crunch?

Others may disagree, but unless you are either running a server or you want to automatically back up your data down to the last bit, you don't need RAID. However, if you buy a RAID board (I did) you gain an extra two channels that can be used for CDRs or other HD's for backup or whatever.

Tell us what you wanna do with your new system and we can hook you up with the info. Assuming you have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, you can build a nice AMD-based gaming system for under 1K. Lots less if you really shop around.