I've spent literally weeks looking through this board and athlonMb. I think I've finally come to a desciison.
I'll be doing photoshop mostly - BIG files. Wont be overclocking at first. Can anyone see if I may have any problems - or other suggests for components? Just in case anyone else is looking I've put my reasoning in too.
asus a8v deluxe rev2 no wifi - [least problems out of either MSI 939 boards, or the epox 939 board]
Athlon 64 3500+ (939) 90nm (winchester) - [runs cool, fast, lower energy consumption]
corsair twinx2048 2GB (2x1gB) - [lots of poeple using corsair with this board]
Matrox Millennium P650 - [colour accuracy important - dont play games]
enermax 430w or 480w powersupply
Any old case
Western digital SATA 200GB 7,200rpm
Western Digital SATA 74G 10,000 rpm boot & page file
The advice I've had about RAM so far is that 4x512 would force slower timings on the MB than using 2x1Gb sticks. (I definitely want 2GB! I'd have 4 if it didn't come down to 333mhz). Not sure about the HD's yet whether to run 2 7200 SATAs in raid 0 or the one 10,000 drive.
Getho
I'll be doing photoshop mostly - BIG files. Wont be overclocking at first. Can anyone see if I may have any problems - or other suggests for components? Just in case anyone else is looking I've put my reasoning in too.
asus a8v deluxe rev2 no wifi - [least problems out of either MSI 939 boards, or the epox 939 board]
Athlon 64 3500+ (939) 90nm (winchester) - [runs cool, fast, lower energy consumption]
corsair twinx2048 2GB (2x1gB) - [lots of poeple using corsair with this board]
Matrox Millennium P650 - [colour accuracy important - dont play games]
enermax 430w or 480w powersupply
Any old case
Western digital SATA 200GB 7,200rpm
Western Digital SATA 74G 10,000 rpm boot & page file
The advice I've had about RAM so far is that 4x512 would force slower timings on the MB than using 2x1Gb sticks. (I definitely want 2GB! I'd have 4 if it didn't come down to 333mhz). Not sure about the HD's yet whether to run 2 7200 SATAs in raid 0 or the one 10,000 drive.
Getho
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