my first build... what do you think?

[rogpeter]

here's what i'm looking at. my budget is around 1000, give or take a few hundred. i'm hoping to use it as a daw, also htpc (pvr). it isn't going to be a gaming pc

case + psu (i don't know what to get... i want it as quiet as possible): 100
abit av8 or asus a8v (help on this?): 115
hitachi 120 gb hd: 81
hitachi 80 gb hd: 60
amd 3000: 150
ballistix 1 or 2 sticks of 512: 129 each
fx5200 GeForce: 53
E-mu 1212m sound card: 200
nec 3500a: 66

thanks for your help

 

[rogpeter]

bump

 

[JBDan]

The Antec Sonata is a good silent choice. I'm a stickler for silence. The fans I choose are SilenX and are as quiet as you will find. 120mm preferably as the exhaust and intake will give you the best cfm/dba ratio. I have a Thermaltake Tsunami with 2 120mm Silenx @14dba. My HSF for my cpu has a 80mm SilenX @14dba as well. I also replaced my PSU fan with a 14dba SilenX 80mm. If your looking for a SFF for a HTPC then Shuttle and ASUS have a good solution. Only need 512 mem for what you are using it for. Might want to think about a 9600xt AIW for your GFX card. Has a tv tuner. I love my A8V ASUS its stable as can be.

 

[Demo24]

the card sucks BAD but other than that GOOD

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: DEMO24
the card sucks BAD but other than that GOOD

 

[Mrvile]

Originally posted by: rogpeter
here's what i'm looking at. my budget is around 1000, give or take a few hundred. i'm hoping to use it as a daw, also htpc (pvr). it isn't going to be a gaming pc

case + psu (i don't know what to get... i want it as quiet as possible): 100
abit av8 or asus a8v (help on this?): 115
hitachi 120 gb hd: 81
hitachi 80 gb hd: 60
amd 3000: 150
ballistix 1 or 2 sticks of 512: 129 each
fx5200 GeForce: 53
E-mu 1212m sound card: 200
nec 3500a: 66

thanks for your help

 

[rogpeter]

i know the card isn't great, but i don't need it for gaming, just regular tv/dvd watching, really. anyway, is there a breed of the fx5200 that is the best? any help on that?

 

[CheesePoofs]

If your not going to be gaming much you probably don't really need the ballistix ram, getting some value ram would save you almost 100 dollars, and wouldn't have a noticable performance hit. You could also use that money to upgrade the graphics card to something like a ATI 9600PRO. Asside from that, the computer looks great.

 

[CheesePoofs]

Originally posted by: rogpeter
i know the card isn't great, but i don't need it for gaming, just regular tv/dvd watching, really. anyway, is there a breed of the fx5200 that is the best? any help on that?

if you want a 5200, be sure to get one with a 128 bit memory path, which is different than 128 mb of memory. Many manufacters won't say how wide the memory path is, so you might have to do a bit of digging around to find a good card.

 

[rogpeter]

i'm not going to be gaming, but i am going to do a lot of audio recording, and some video editing on it, and i'm hoping to be able to oc the computer--i hope to keep this build for a while.

does the ram still seem unnecessary?

 

[rogpeter]

bump

 

[JBDan]

I think your RAM is fine

 

[JBDan]

1 stick 512 that is

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: JBDan
I think your RAM is fine

i think its not. for the price he is paying for that 1 stick, he can get a gig of regular 3200 and never notice the difference.

 

[JBDan]

ok then get the "regular" ram