I'm looking to build a new computer for a friend who is interested in video editing / moderate gaming. For the "core" components, here is what I am thinking of so far.
T-bird 1.3+ (no overclocking)
Epox 8k7a+
512 megs Crucial DDR
Asus GF3 w/ VIVO
Firewire Card
Win2k Pro
I generally like to stick with Intel chips / chipsets, but now that there are decent boards using an AMD chipset, I thought I'd give AMD a try. Also, 512 megs of RDRAM would be prohibitively expensive.
I'm not really sure what to do about storage. The budget for this computer is ~ $3000. I am considering an 18 gig Atlas 10K II boot / program drive, striped IBM 30 gig 60GXP's for temp video space, and a single 80+ gig IDE drive for storage. How does that sound?
Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks!
~bex0rs
T-bird 1.3+ (no overclocking)
Epox 8k7a+
512 megs Crucial DDR
Asus GF3 w/ VIVO
Firewire Card
Win2k Pro
I generally like to stick with Intel chips / chipsets, but now that there are decent boards using an AMD chipset, I thought I'd give AMD a try. Also, 512 megs of RDRAM would be prohibitively expensive.
I'm not really sure what to do about storage. The budget for this computer is ~ $3000. I am considering an 18 gig Atlas 10K II boot / program drive, striped IBM 30 gig 60GXP's for temp video space, and a single 80+ gig IDE drive for storage. How does that sound?
Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks!
~bex0rs