Sweet, finished wife's new system...

[Pliablemoose]

Read the specs & drool:

AMD 2500 Barton
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
2 512meg sticks of Kingston 2700 DDR
2 80 gig HD's set up as RAID 1 (older IDE HD's with Rockethead SATA adapters)
Zalman PSU, CPU cooler, VGA card heat sink
120 mm case fan

Installed the software & moved a bunch of her old files over last night, it sure is fast

Haven't OC'd it yet...

I got pi$$ed @ my last HD failure & put a RAID 1 in my system, & wife (who connects to VPN from home & does a lot of work from home) asked me for a different system with a RAID 1 too.

 

[Schadenfroh]

:camera:?

 

[rudeguy]

nice work. dont most people pass on their old rigs to their wives though?

 

[loup garou]

Didn't you just build her a SFF system?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

general hardware?

 

[Pliablemoose]

Evercase 10 bay @ Newegg

It doesn't glow or fly or anything

Still looks like a$$, cause I don't have a black keyboard, CDR, floppy, mouse yet... Next on my list

Want a black internal card reader too, we'll use it as the digicam downloading station...

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

i'm a fan of the case

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: werk
Didn't you just build her a SFF system?

Not enough room for a RAID in the SFF she already had, & it was noisey (her system is in the bedroom) moving the Shuttle SFF to oldest daughter... put a quieter fan in it too.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
general hardware?

You can nef in GH?

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
nice work. dont most people pass on their old rigs to their wives though?

Wife does computer related stuff @ work, she like to brag about what I build for her

I bought an Xbox this month (spent as much on accessories for it as the damn system), so I figured it was time for a play pretty for her.

I have an extra A7N8X Deluxe left after the buying orgy, will build something for myself shortly...

 

[0roo0roo]

hope you made it quiet with low rpm fans or a speed controller

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
hope you made it quiet with low rpm fans or a speed controller

Yep, note the extensive use of Zalman components, would like add a controller to the 120mm fan.

(note to self, remember that extra Zalman CPU cooler you bought with speed controller you can hook up to the 120mm case fan?)

Just installed the extra fan controller & brought the 120mm fan down to about 1/2 speed, loudest component is the CDR now...

 

[prvteye2003]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Read the specs & drool:

AMD 2500 Barton
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
2 512meg sticks of Kingston 2700 DDR
2 80 gig HD's set up as RAID 1 (older IDE HD's with Rockethead SATA adapters)
Zalman PSU, CPU cooler, VGA card heat sink
120 mm case fan

Installed the software & moved a bunch of her old files over last night, it sure is fast

Haven't OC'd it yet...

I got pi$$ed @ my last HD failure & put a RAID 1 in my system, & wife (who connects to VPN from home & does a lot of work from home) asked me for a different system with a RAID 1 too.

I've got the same mobo and cpu. my mem is xms pc3200llpt, wd raptor, maxtor 40gb for extra storage, lian li pc65 case. o/c to xp3200 nicely though...give it a shot

 

[slag]

sounds like the one i just built.. well, close anyway.

I used an aopen Ak79g-400VN board since it was $85.00 and its working great.

I'm overclocked to 2.35 ghz.. 206X11.5 with the barton core 2500+ processor

 

[Atrail]

Nice setup. We share the same motherboard...

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
nice work. dont most people pass on their old rigs to their wives though?

Bingo Thats where my 1.6 @ 2.4 is going when I finish my 2.4 at 3.4 today.

 

[oniq]

My next system will be my current transformed into a mini system. I'm tired of hearing my fans Only dilemma I face is getting 3 hard drives in it. I guess I'll have to have an external case for the drives.

 

[Turin39789]

http://www.directron.com/fk320.html

mmm case

 

[SaltBoy]

2 80 gig HDD's? What's that for?

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: Atrail
Nice setup. We share the same motherboard...

Saw you built one in the A7N8X MB thread...

just popped the extra MB into my youngest daughter's

kitty case till I scrounge up a faster CPU for it & swap it over to my system

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
2 80 gig HDD's? What's that for?

RAID 1, she keeps spouting nonsense about all her lost files when I tinker with her system... (she really does lose data when I tinker with her system, she has the software tweaked & the VPN set up (hours of work))

I just had the HD's laying around from hot deals, have a 120 gig & a 60 gig lying around now...

 

[Ionizer86]

Evercase owns, 2500+ owns, A7N8X DX owns, nice rig I personally prefer the white evercase for $47.99 since it's got a Sparkle PSU and front 1394, audio, usb.

 

[KGB1]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Read the specs & drool:

AMD 2500 Barton
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
2 512meg sticks of Kingston 2700 DDR
2 80 gig HD's set up as RAID 1 (older IDE HD's with Rockethead SATA adapters)
Zalman PSU, CPU cooler, VGA card heat sink
120 mm case fan

Installed the software & moved a bunch of her old files over last night, it sure is fast

Haven't OC'd it yet...

I got pi$$ed @ my last HD failure & put a RAID 1 in my system, & wife (who connects to VPN from home & does a lot of work from home) asked me for a different system with a RAID 1 too.

Why not get DDR 3200? I know you're not overclocking her rig yet, but if in the future if you were to do so it wont be stable.
Should have thought ahead and got the DDR400

The Zalman parts are all nice

 

[BaboonGuy]

evercases are the best, i think they are rated like the best at silentpcreview too

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
2 80 gig HDD's? What's that for?

RAID 1, she keeps spouting nonsense about all her lost files when I tinker with her system... (she really does lose data when I tinker with her system, she has the software tweaked & the VPN set up (hours of work))

I just had the HD's laying around from hot deals, have a 120 gig & a 60 gig lying around now...

ah raid 1 is sweet. i've lost far more files to hd death then to any other cause