How does this look

[ineedit]

This is my new project, anyone see any problems, or suggestions?
Use: Gaming, Some home video editing, surfing

ANTEC Black Performance Series II SOHO File Server Tower ATX Case with 400W Power Supply, Model "SX1040BII"

ASUS P4C800-E DELUXE, 875P Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU, Model

Intel Pentium 4/ 2.8E GHz 800MHz FS

SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON 9800PRO Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP

CORSAIR MEMORY XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, 184 Pin 256MB DDR PC-3200

SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive, Model MPF920

1. Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive

2. Maxtor 120GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive

SONY Black 16X DVD-ROM Drive, Model DDU1612

Plextor Black 8X DVD-RW/+RW Drive, Model PX-708A/SW-BL

 

[jpeyton]

Looks pretty good. Why the 3 hard drive setup though?

 

[Gagabiji]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Looks pretty good. Why the 3 hard drive setup though?

I think he might mean 2 HDs...😕

 

[Peter D]

Change that Prescott to a Northwood (P4C) and change that 256MB to 1024MB of RAM 😉

Welcome to AnandTech, BTW 😀

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Looks pretty good. Why the 3 hard drive setup though?

Does he mean one drive for OS, Swap, Page and the other on RAID-0 for files? 😕 But as stated above "looks pretty good".

-Por

 

[airfoil]

Why do you have Hard drives of differing sizes? Do you already own one? If you do, and I'm guessing its the 80G drive, you may want to consider buing another 80G drive to match the one you already own - this if you're interested in setting up RAID.

The ASUS P4P800 Deluxe (865 PE) has been found to be equal in performance to the more expensive P4C800. The money you save on this could go towards another stick of Corsair XMS. 512 MB is the sweet spot as far as memory is concerned and that the minimum you should buy. By having 2 identical sticks of RAM, you would enable the dual memory channels resulting in a significant performance boost.

Stay away from the Prescotts denoted with the 'E' and buy a Northwood 'C' instead.

 

[ineedit]

Wow, quick response. The 80 gig is primary (OS). The 120 I have with back-up files and I use to edit video. Agian more suggestions are more than welcome.
Thanks
🙂

 

[bluewall21]

Also, check out the Athlon 64s. They're faster for gaming.

 

[somekid617]

unless u oc that 2.8c to around 3.6 ghz, then i dont think amd 64 can beat it... IMHO

 

[SneakyStuff]

I would also reccomend the Athlon 64, because come 2006 when microsoft releases longhorn, if you have 64 bit, you have new options, so the bottom line is that an Athlon 64 is more future proof, and it is better for gaming. Plus it isnt much more than the Pentium 4 to begin with, check it! Newegg.com And as far as the case goes, check this out, save yourself a few bucks, the SilentPCreview says these babys are wind tunnels, and they're quiet to boot! Newegg.com Hope this helped! 🙂