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First Time builder, How does this rig look?

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kxm9976

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Hello,

Thank you beforehand. What do you guys thinkg about this rig. I am not going to be doing any oc'ing, jsut need something stable, excellent performance at stock speeds and reliable. The rig is going to be used for regular day to day stuff and video editing. Minimal gaming.

Please take a look at this, and let me know if you think. Does everything seem to be compatible. Do you think this setup is going to be pretty reliable and good performing?

Here we go:

AMD 64 3200+ (s754, Newcastle core. Is it worth to pay extra $30 to get 3400+?)

DFI Lanpart UT Nf3 250gb (for long time i couldn't decide between this and the ASUS K8N-E Deluxe)

2x512mb Corsair Value Select

2 x Seagate 160GIG 7200RPM Hard drives (one for programs and downloads, the second for video editing stuff)

ATI Radeon 9800Pro

Antec 1080AMG Performance Plus Atx Tower with 430Watt Antec Truepower PSU

Monitor (can't decide between the Samsung 997DF Dynaflat 19" or Viewsonic)

NEC 16X Double Layer DVD±RW, ND-3500A BG

Iomega Beige Internal IDE 3.5inch 250MB Zip Drive, Z250ATAPI

SONY Beige 1.44MB 3.5Inch Floppy Disk Drive,MPF920

Windows XP Home edition sp2

LINKSYS Broadband EtherFast Cable/DSL Firewall Router with 4-Port Switch/VPN, Model BEFSX41

Thank You for all your input


 
Perfect ! Oh and I would spend the extra 30 on the 3400+ (if its a newcastle also, 2.4 ghz, right ?)
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: gwai lo
do you do video editing enough to make a P4 worthwhile?
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The P4 does not dominate encoding anymore...
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double you tee eff?

hmm....seems like I'm way behind everything now...well...anyway...i see
 
thank everyone for input,
to answer your question, yes I do a lot of video editing (life events, weddings, etc.)

Actually I read the Anand's article on mid range systems, and few times he mentioned that the P4 is better choice for video editing. That kind of left me wondering.........
One thing with video editing that is very important to me is the rendering times and video encoding.

Do guys think that the P4 would be better. I am building another comp for my Dad, and I am gonna put P4 3.0 HT in his. So if my AMD doesn't do good, I'll take his P4.

Thanks.
 
I know this is going be flame bait, but I would still go with the Intel, been more reliable in my 10+ years experience. Nothing can beat the reliability of an Intel board + cpu
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
I know this is going be flame bait, but I would still go with the Intel, been more reliable in my 10+ years experience. Nothing can beat the reliability of an Intel board + cpu
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RadiclDreamer,
have you used your system for video editing stuff, or just regular usage?

Thanks
 
i have an intel infact i have 2 pc that have intel . one is p2 and one is p4.. my dad does vid editing on the p2 and its reliable and stable even though its takes a whole night to do a vid eediting and burning it to disk!
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
I know this is going be flame bait, but I would still go with the Intel, been more reliable in my 10+ years experience. Nothing can beat the reliability of an Intel board + cpu
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show me some proof that intel is more reliable. :roll:

saying that is a front that intel fanboys love to put up, to bad its not even true.
 
Originally posted by: kxm9976
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
I know this is going be flame bait, but I would still go with the Intel, been more reliable in my 10+ years experience. Nothing can beat the reliability of an Intel board + cpu
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RadiclDreamer,
have you used your system for video editing stuff, or just regular usage?

Thanks
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I use my machine for gaming, audio, video and a plethora of other things. Running a completely stock system (no mods or OC)

Currently its a

P4 3000mhz prescott
Intel D875PBZ
2GB Crucial Dual Channel DDR 400
BFG 6800 Ultra OC
120GB 8mb
120GB 8mb
80GB 8mb
40GB 2mb
36GB 10,000RPM SATA
460 watt enermax
12x Lite-On DVD RW
52X Lite-On CDRW
Promise IDE Controller
Asus 10bit TV Tuner
Audigy 2
2x 5,000RPM Thermal Take Temp controlled fans
Round IDE

Never had an ounce of trouble out of it or any of my other Intel based machines.

Now I'm not saying AMD is bad, I just wish someone would make a STABLE board for it. I could care less about having balls to the wall speed and OC features, I just want it STABLE
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Originally posted by: kxm9976
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
I know this is going be flame bait, but I would still go with the Intel, been more reliable in my 10+ years experience. Nothing can beat the reliability of an Intel board + cpu
Click to expand...

RadiclDreamer,
have you used your system for video editing stuff, or just regular usage?

Thanks
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Now I'm not saying AMD is bad, I just wish someone would make a STABLE board for it. I could care less about having balls to the wall speed and OC features, I just want it STABLE
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once again, there are plenty of stable boards. the nforce3 is a very quality chipset. and if you havnt used AMD for 10 years, how the hell would you know if they are stable or not in the first place? a buddy tell you? :roll:
 
I didnt say that I hadnt used them, I just said that Intel were more reliable. I've had a thunderbird 1.1 go up in smoke on me due to a fan failure, then again I've seen Intels with fans completely stopped for hours with no damage

I just put together a Sempron machine but had random freezes until I disabled the onboard sound

Like I said, its not the AMD chip, its the mobo makers out there. Now if AMD made their own board, I would be interested
 
To this day I am still left baffled by the opinion of Intel being more stable. But back to the topic, I do believe the athlon 64s made the gap much smaller for video encoding. I would go with the athlon 64 as it has 64 bit capabilities for future-proofing, owns in games, and is extremely competitive in both video encoding and more so in price. For which one, if you don't mind going with an OEM cpu, then the socket 939 3000 is definitely the way to go. Youll get dual channel ram support, and with it being 90nm your almost guarunteed to reach 2.4-2.5ghz. Thats if you wanna OC though, but with a few simple precautions its basically like buying an fx-53, except you can actually afford food for the rest of the month.
 
And the P4 is does NOT dominate encoding anymore. Want to read the benchmarks first ? And screw the person that says Intel is the most reliable. You haven't read the thread withs hundreds of responses saying that crap ? AMD is ahead right now, read and weep Intel fanboys. Jeesh I am sick of this. You want advice READ THE REVIEWS AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I MEAN !
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
I didnt say that I hadnt used them, I just said that Intel were more reliable. I've had a thunderbird 1.1 go up in smoke on me due to a fan failure, then again I've seen Intels with fans completely stopped for hours with no damage

I just put together a Sempron machine but had random freezes until I disabled the onboard sound

Like I said, its not the AMD chip, its the mobo makers out there. Now if AMD made their own board, I would be interested
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must just be bad luck. So far I've built 5 computers, 3 athlon XPs and 2 athlon 64s. All with different mobos from Abit, Asus, MSI, using both Via and nvidia chipsets. Never had a single hiccup with any one of them.
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
I didnt say that I hadnt used them, I just said that Intel were more reliable. I've had a thunderbird 1.1 go up in smoke on me due to a fan failure, then again I've seen Intels with fans completely stopped for hours with no damage

I just put together a Sempron machine but had random freezes until I disabled the onboard sound

Like I said, its not the AMD chip, its the mobo makers out there. Now if AMD made their own board, I would be interested
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The one problem with the Tbird, was this if somebody didn;t buy a quality fan they would die when the fan dies, but that has been remedied on the Athlon64. And you blame AMD for your cheap fan ? or was it retail ? IN anycase that doesn;t apply anymore, and also has nothing to do with stability.

And if you bought a cheap motherboard or installed the drivers wrong and you also blame that on AMD. Sounds like you need to buy a Dell !
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
And the P4 is does NOT dominate encoding anymore. Want to read the benchmarks first ? And screw the person that says Intel is the most reliable. You haven't read the thread withs hundreds of responses saying that crap ? AMD is ahead right now, read and weep Intel fanboys. Jeesh I am sick of this. You want advice READ THE REVIEWS AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I MEAN !
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Zealot AMD FANBOY! You hate intel just because they arent the "cool" company to like. Im all for rooting for the underdog but when it comes to personal attacks, this is ridiculous.

Any day you want to talk about reliability I'll take the heat sink off my beast and you take yours off your AMD, lets see who's lives to tell the tale......
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
I didnt say that I hadnt used them, I just said that Intel were more reliable. I've had a thunderbird 1.1 go up in smoke on me due to a fan failure, then again I've seen Intels with fans completely stopped for hours with no damage

I just put together a Sempron machine but had random freezes until I disabled the onboard sound

Like I said, its not the AMD chip, its the mobo makers out there. Now if AMD made their own board, I would be interested
Click to expand...

The one problem with the Tbird, was this if somebody didn;t buy a quality fan they would die when the fan dies, but that has been remedied on the Athlon64. And you blame AMD for your cheap fan ? or was it retail ? IN anycase that doesn;t apply anymore, and also has nothing to do with stability.

And if you bought a cheap motherboard or installed the drivers wrong and you also blame that on AMD. Sounds like you need to buy a Dell !
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Actually, it was a Globalwin SAK-38, cost me nearly $40 at the time, as for the drivers, not a chance that they were installed wrong, installed em straight from the CD and then went to the manuf website and got updated ones, same issue.

As for AMD, like I keep saying, its not AMD that I dont like its the board makers for them
 
Don't get a DFI if you're not overclocking. The Asus is a killer beast at stock, and has sweet accessories.
 
I'm thinking that any attempt to future proof will fail. By the time 64-bit is in full swing your system will be old news anyway. Get what you can afford/makes you happy. Liking intel over amd does not make you an evil person.

Your system looks good with the exception of the zip drive. the dvd writer should take care of your portable storage needs. If not, grab a flash drive. cheers :beer:
 
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