Does this sound like a good rig for my mom?

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
over kill X10000
nforce2 with integrated everything and 1700 T-Bred B, with 256mb of ram

i guess i could rephrase it to be, "does this sound like a good computer for *you*, if you didn't care about 3d video or sound, and could spend up to 1k" 😛

Nah... its the fact that most people's moms dont do much except surf the web or something.

My mom does CAD, and I'm going to build a system similar to yours, albeit with a QuadroFX, FireGL, or Wildcat VP video card and U160 SCSI (Fujitsu MAP series, which are quieter than most 7200rpm IDE drives mind you).

 

[0roo0roo]

i'd add a fan speed controller to cut noise, and perhaps a barracuda as a quieter harddrive. and as quiet a cpu cooler as possible.

 

[BaboonGuy]

Get some better RAM definetly if she doesn't like to wait. Get some Corsair or HyperX that will be guarenteed to run at CL2, I really notice a big diff from CL2.5 to CL2.

I'd go with an AMD solution, but hell if she wants speed and will pay for it then by all means go intel. Intel does own AMD in bussiness type tasks anyways.

Unless she's going to want to copy a CD on the fly, get her a Lite-On CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive.

Oh and dont forget the floppy, they are actually useful sometimes.

 

[DeRusto]

seeing that you are gonna connect this machine to a lcd monitor, i highly suggest you spend 5 bucks more on the video and get a radeon 7000 like this one

here

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: nick1985
4 128 sticks of barf crucial 3200???? what the hell?

what's wrong with crucial?

nothing...besides the fact that it runs at CL47 erm..i mean 3. thats like the slowest you can get. and what the heck is with 4 sticks??? 😕

 

[EglsFly]

Follow fearofthenight's suggestion.
Using an nForce2 motherboard with IGP, and AMD Barton 2500+ CPU, you will save a bundle and will be more than fast enough.
Then just get a EIDE Hard Drive like a 80GB Western Digital SE, will be plenty fast and have more storage.

 

[Hankysmoo]

I like how your mom's computer is going to be a lot better than a lot of gamer's computers around here that don't have enough cash to upgrade =P.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: nick1985
4 128 sticks of barf crucial 3200???? what the hell?

what's wrong with crucial?

nothing...besides the fact that it runs at CL47 erm..i mean 3. thats like the slowest you can get. and what the heck is with 4 sticks??? 😕

oh... well i was just reading that anandtech article about how it's better to have 4 single sided dimm's in a 875p board than 2 or 1. the article is at http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=1839&p=8