computer specs....thoughts?

[acejj26]

hey all, i'm building a computer for a friend of a friend. in time, he's going to want to do movie editing and digital photo work. in time, he's going to buy a digital camcorder, but he doesn't have it now. anyways, this is what i spec'd out for him. lemme know what u guys think.

Athlon XP 2500
512 MB PC2700 DDR RAM
Samsung 60 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
Liteon Black 48x24x48x16x CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive
Samsung Black Floppy Drive
Black Midtower w/350 Watt Power Supply
Asus KT400 Motherboard
6 USB 2.0 ports
1 powered, 1 unpowered Firewire port
Onboard 10/100 network interface card
Onboard 6 channel sound card with S/PDIF in and out

I chose that board because it's relatively cheap and it comes with both USB 2.0 and firewire, thus giving him more options for a digital camcorder.
Has anyone had any experience with this mainboard? It got a lot of good reviews at newegg.

 

[Ionizer86]

Can you post prices on components? There might be places to save a lot on:

ie $60 for a 120GB Maxtor 8MB ultra drive at Depot this week, and some very inexpensive optical drives.

Oh um btw, what kind of video card?

 

[mosco]

Is the board a ASUS A7V8X? I think you find a nforce 2 board with those features for the same or less. Also might want more than 60 Gigs especially if he will be working with dv. If he doesn't plan on overclocking, that memory should be fine.

 

[acejj26]

axp (retail) - $93
memory - $85
hdd - $69
mobo - $97

i tried finding an nforce mobo with those features, esp the firewire connectors, but i couldn't find one in that price range
as for the digital video, since he's not gonna use this for gaming, i thought the 60 GB would be good enough. when he starts doing the digital movies, he's going to buy a dvd burner, so that should help keep the hard drive pretty clean.

btw, he's using a kyro2 video card that he bought from a friend.