Critique My New system (comments will be appriciated)

[coldfuzion6]

Building a new system, what do u think?

I already got most of the components exept the Mobo and Monitor.

Will be mainly used for, Amateur Video editing, School,
Some Gaming, Movie Watching.

Processor: AMD Athlon 850mhz @ 850mhz
Motherboard: ASUS K7M
Memory: 2 Corsair 128 MB PC133 SDRAM
Video Card: ATI Radeon 64MB (w/video capture)DDR AGP
CD Burner: Plextor Plexwriter 12/10/30 IDE
CD Rom: Plextor UltraPlex 40X SCSI
DVD Rom: Toshiba 8.0X,32X read &Hollywood+ Decoder Card
2nd IDE: Promise Ultra 66 PCI Controller Card
Hard Drive1: Maxtor 40GB, UDMA 66, 7200rpm, 9ms
Hard Drive2: IBM 75GPX, 45GB, UDMA 1000, 7500rmp, 8.5ms
Hard Drive3: IBM 75GPX, 45GB, UDMA 1000, 7500rmp, 8.5ms
Removable: Iomega Zip, 250MB internal ATAPI drive
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
Speakers: Creative DeskTop Theatre 5.1
Monitor: Sony CDD-G500 Trinitron 21"
Video Capt2: Dazzle Digital Video Creator DM-4100
Keyb/Mice: Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro
Gaming: Microsoft SideWinder Force Feeback Wheel, USB
Microsoft Force Feedback Flight Stick
Microsoft Sidewinder Pro USB
Wingman Gaming Mouse USB

Optional: I might dump the Radeon Card and get a Dazzle Digital Video Creator DM-4100 and a 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500.

What do u think?

 

[ndee]

You've got toooooooo much money. Not bad, isn't this the dream machine of anand?

Hm, buy a GTS II, Voodoo 5 6000 and a Radeon. For Glide Games, you can use the Voodoo, for other Games the GTS II and for DVD watching the Radeon, what do you think?

 

[Jonny]

beauuuuuuuuuuuuuutiful system. Stick with the radeon, its all good.

1 question, why the Maxtor 40GB, UDMA 66, 7200rpm, 9ms?

 

[oldfart]

Keep the Radeon and buy it from Hawk.

 

[Jeff H]

I see:

> CD Burner: Plextor Plexwriter 12/10/30 IDE
> CD Rom: Plextor UltraPlex 40X SCSI

but I see no SCSI controller. More importantly, why are you going EIDE burner but SCSI CD-ROM? If you're going SCSI, why not go SCSI on the burner too?

 

[AMB]

Processor: AMD Atlhon T-Bird 850Mhz
Motherboard: Abit KT7
Memory: 2 Corsair 128 MB PC133 SDRAM
Video Card: GeFOrce 2 GTS
CD Burner: Plextor Plexwriter 12/10/30 IDE
CD Rom: Plextor UltraPlex 40X SCSI
DVD Rom: Pioneer 105S
2nd IDE: Promise Ultra 66 PCI Controller Card
Hard Drive1: Maxtor 40GB, UDMA 66, 7200rpm, 9ms
Hard Drive2: IBM 75GPX, 45GB, UDMA 1000, 7500rmp, 8.5ms
Hard Drive3: IBM 75GPX, 45GB, UDMA 1000, 7500rmp, 8.5ms
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
Speakers: Videologic Digitheatre
Monitor: Sony CDD-G500 Trinitron 21"
Video Capt2: Dazzle Digital Video Creator DM-4100
Keyb/Mice: Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Gaming: Ferrari Force Feedback
Saitek X-36 USB
Microsoft Sidewinder Pro USB
Wingman Gaming Mouse USB

 

[DarkRipper]

Since you are asking our opinions, I would go with a P3 866 proc, and SCSI for both the CDRW and CDROM. If you must go Athlon, you should realize that the K7M isn't PC133 compliant, it is PC100. You are buying PC133 ram though....
Also, why the 40 GB Maxtor? It's not in the same class as the IBM drives. Get a Fastrak 66 controller instead of the Promise 66 controller, and go IDE RAID with your IBM drives. Mucho speed in a stripe set.

Just my humble opinion.

DR

 

[Oyeve]

If your going to spend that kind of money I would dump the IDE hard drives and get some Ultra wide 2 10000 rpm scsi hard drives. The slowest bottle neck today are IDE hard drives.

 

[XMan]

Don't go with a slotted Athlon; they're pretty much on the way out.

A KT7-RAID allows you the ability to overclock your CPU easily, plus it offers an onboard RAID controller. If you want to save a bit 'o the green stuff and upgrade elsewhere, get a Duron. Most of 'em overclock to 850 or 900.

 

[RagingGuardian]

I'd go with a Abit KT7-RAID, dump the Maxtor and run the IBMs in a stripe set.

The SB Live Platinum is great but I'd save my money and get the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and get the Midiland S4 8200 speakers. The Santa Cruz is great and offers 6 speaker support for the S4 8200 or even the Creative Theatres.

The Ultra Plex is the best but I would get the SCSI burner if Read Write speads aren't essential. Bit by bit extraction from the two Plextor units is awesome.

The Zip drive is a waste of cash in my opinion but to each man his own.

 

[coldfuzion6]

I got the Maxtor because It was part of my old puter, so I'd rather keep it since I can always use storage. As for the Abit KT7-Raid, anyone knows a good page I could use to get some information on Raid, I'm not familiar with Raid technology. and If I get the Abit, will I still be able to get the Promise card and have support for 8 IDE devices? (it is key that I have 3 IDE Hard Drives of Maximum Capacity). I'm not going because storage space is my main concern, as opposed to Speed.

Thanks for all the suggestions, Keep em comin'!

 

[coldfuzion6]

Jeff H, I already have a SCSI card from my old puter, it's an Adaptec AHA-2930 that's what I'm planning on using as I barely had any problems with it in the past.

RagingGuardian, I need the zip drive because I work at home and school, so I do need removable storage, as for the plextor, I'm looking into the IDE unit because I have heard much good stuff about it, and burning speed is a priority of mine.

I don't really have set plans on overclocking the CPU (althought I'm gonna push this computer as high as the sky let me take it) but If I were to opt to overclock it, How far could it go?, would I have to make modifications to the chip? (links would be helpful).

It's obvious now I'm gonna cancel my Mobo order and go with the KT7-Raid. Which Reminds me, I need a good Place to buy a FULL TOWER (with a whole lot of power) Case and That Abit KT7-Raid combo, looking to spend less 250-300 bucks for both.

I'd prefer buying from a reputated and large online retailer (as I may look into getting a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and get the Midiland S4 8200 speakers if my SB live and creative speakers are returnable).

Suggestions Please.
Thank YOu

 

[Zucchini]

Turtle beach santa cruz/klipsch promedias or midilands/drop the dvd decoder card(your gonna be low on irqs and its redundant).. possibly drop the cordless stuff, not as useful as i thought it would be. cordless mouse =50hz refresh so not so good for games...get a logitech optical mouse. logitech force 3d joystick has a good price and is rated good.

 

[HouRman]

I didn't really revise this setup, as I copied parts of it from other systems I've heard of.2X 450W Enermax power sources $300
Intel OR840 motherboard VIA133a chipset, i840 with 2 rambus channels $300
2X Intel Pentium III 933Mhz $1090.00
2X 72 watt Leufken Peltiers and current Alpha HSF $170
2X 256 meg PC800 RDRAM $2000
GeForce2 Ultra 64MB $495.00
SCSI RAID adapter- DPT SmartRAID IV Century PM28665 $900
Tekram DC-395UW scsi $69.95
Seagate 18GB Cheetah X15 hard drives (15,000 rpm) $2900.00
Plextor UltraPlex 40X max cdrom $92.00
Internal Floppy and Zip drives $150
Plextor Ultra SCSI 12/10/32 with 4meg buffering and Burn proof technology $380.00
Pioneer DVD ? 304S $150
SoundBlaster Live Platinum! $199.00
Sony GDM-FW900 $2328.00
Video Logic Sirrocco Crossfire Speakers $400
2000dpi razor mouse, Intellimouse Explorer $180
Operating System ? Quadruple Boot: Windows 2000 PROF., Windows Millennium Edition, Linux, and BeOS version 5.0. $600
MS natural keyboard, Everglide giganta mouse pad & bungie, PC tote and Arctic Silver thermal paste, and Web camera $200
Laser Printer $1000

Cost = chump change

 

[coldfuzion6]

what is this? a joke?

I have limited amount of money!

heh