Can some of you give helpful views or critiques of my next project? ;)

[JJ650]

Case: Inwin, midtower
Mother Board: Asus Tek, CUSL2 i825 Cel/P-III
CPU: Intel OEM Pentium III, 733B Flip Chip, Coppermine
RAM: 256 Mb PC133
HD: IBM, Ultra ATA/100LP 20 Gb EIDE
CD ROM: Kenwood, True 72
Floppy: NEC Superdisk (1.44/120 Mb)
Ethernet Card: 3Com, 3C905B-TX
CDR: Plextor CDR/DVDR
Video Card: Gillimount, OEM Profit 3D GeForce
Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live Value
Mouse: Microsoft Intelemouse Explorer
Keyboard: Microsoft Internet Pro Keyboard (non-ergonomic)
Monitor: Sony Trinitron 17" OR eqivalent LCD
monitor
CPU Fan: Supercool

 

[Jumpem]

How's it going JJ650? Pretty close to what I want to get. Make sure the IBM hardrive is one of the new deskstar gxp varieties. These are just my personal suggestions, so if you don't like them, too bad! He,he. I would go with a pioneer 105S (16X slot-loading DVD) over the CD drive. Also, why a superdisk? You have a CDR for backups, so I would get a Zip 100MB or 250MB seeing as they're real popular and you could share disks with other peoples computers. Who makes the supercool CPU fan? Also, Sony monitors RULE! Have fun with the new box.

EDIT: Where are you getting your parts from? I'm trying to find some good dealers.

 

[Eli]

Just curious, but why are you investing in a P3?

 

[JJ650]

SUPERDISK cause the rest of the office uses them. Some of the folks like to put it on a floppy instead of burning onto CDRWs or CDR's. Less time(?) and doesn't flip out the folks who aren't computer savy enough to burn cd's. The burner is used for LARGE backups and disk copying.

BTW changing the Video to a MX card. was thinking maybe G450 but the MX proves to be a better performer.
As far as prices, I use pricewatch.com I haven't checked out any prices yet. This is all still in the paper stage

 

[JJ650]

THis is still specualtive. I may make the jump to AMD and an ABIT-KT7 for the onboard RAID. I think that would be nice. Anything else I should consider as per your experience, opinions?

 

[obeseotron]

I'd definately get a p3 700e and overclock it. I would also just get a fast pioneer dvd instead of that truex.


1000th post! Golden Member - BOOYAH.

 

[Cybordolphin]

Don't get the 733b get the 700e flip instead, and overclock it.

And get a different case..... go with an Addtronics.

And I would go with the MSI 6163 Master motherboard.

Other than that..... looks pretty good!

 

[loogie]

I'd get one of those linksys nics selling for 15 bucks with the 10 dollar rebate and use that money on a better sound card or vid card. Like my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

 

[daz555]

Ditch the PIII and that mobo combination.

Get yourself an ABIT KT7 (RAID or non) and a AMD Duron CPU. My own KT7/Duron700 system is kicking along quite happily at 952Mhz (112x8.5).

Spend the money saved on the CPU on the best Graphics card you can afford.

Cheers, Daz.

 

[JJ650]

I appreciate the replies. I'm not planning on overclocking this since it is not going to be a gaming machine (well maybe during lunch ) but otherwise it won't be overclocked. It will be mostly used in office CAD drawings, etc. I think I will go with another ABIT KT7-100 for the onbaord raid. That'll come in handy.

 

[Remnant2]

if you're doing cad/3d design, most definitely go with the Athlon/Duron. Even unoverclocked, you're likely to beat a several-hundred-mhz higher P3. And if you go with the Duron (99% of the same performance in CAD), you'll be saving a bundle too!