Hello,
After waiting a while, I'd like to finally graduate up from my 5 year old Dell Dimension 4100 PIII 800mhz, and recently picked up the following parts at a Fry's sale:
Athlon 64 3500+ with HSF (serial number ends with "CG"?)
ECS KN1 SLI Extreme (lite) motherboard
Mushkin 2GB (2x1GB) DDR400 dual channel RAM
Seagate SATA 300GB HD, 7200RPM/16MB buffer with NCQ
I already have a DVD burner and another optical drive, as well as an old 80GB ATA drive. I have a firewire PCI card. I'll be using Windows XP home. Other parts I can get from the old Dell (that still works!!)
I'd like suggestions for a reasonable case, PSU and PCIe video card (I think that's all thats left). I'm not particularly into gaming, but I plan to do a lot of miniDV recording/editing and encoding to DVD. Since I'm overseas military, it'll be stuff that needs to be sent to me - I believe newegg will send to FPO addresses. Thank you all in advance.
After waiting a while, I'd like to finally graduate up from my 5 year old Dell Dimension 4100 PIII 800mhz, and recently picked up the following parts at a Fry's sale:
Athlon 64 3500+ with HSF (serial number ends with "CG"?)
ECS KN1 SLI Extreme (lite) motherboard
Mushkin 2GB (2x1GB) DDR400 dual channel RAM
Seagate SATA 300GB HD, 7200RPM/16MB buffer with NCQ
I already have a DVD burner and another optical drive, as well as an old 80GB ATA drive. I have a firewire PCI card. I'll be using Windows XP home. Other parts I can get from the old Dell (that still works!!)
I'd like suggestions for a reasonable case, PSU and PCIe video card (I think that's all thats left). I'm not particularly into gaming, but I plan to do a lot of miniDV recording/editing and encoding to DVD. Since I'm overseas military, it'll be stuff that needs to be sent to me - I believe newegg will send to FPO addresses. Thank you all in advance.