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| Thread ID: 55818 | 2005-03-20 08:03:00 | Motherbroad recommendation | Taklord (5245) | Press F1 |
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| 336089 | 2005-03-20 08:03:00 | is was wondering if you guys can recommend a motherbroad(with SATA) for a amd athlon xp 2600+,333fsb and can you help me pick a hard drive DiamondMax 10 200G SATA Hard Drive SATA150 7200RPM 8M Cache <9ms seek time $248.26 DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA Hard Drive SATA150 7200RPM 8M Cache <9.3 seek time $256.55 ps. is for playing games |
Taklord (5245) | ||
| 336090 | 2005-03-20 08:26:00 | is was wondering if you guys can recommend a motherbroad(with SATA) for a amd athlon xp 2600+,333fsb and can you help me pick a hard drive DiamondMax 10 200G SATA Hard Drive SATA150 7200RPM 8M Cache <9ms seek time $248.26 DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA Hard Drive SATA150 7200RPM 8M Cache <9.3 seek time $256.55 ps. is for playing games ASUS A7N8X/Lan OEM SocketA nvidiaGeforce2 ultra 400 NC18 ATX FSB400 Dual DDR400, 3XDIMM 1AGP8X 5PCI 6CH Audio USB2 , 10/100Lan and the 2nd 1st HDD - it's the cheaper of the two and not much diff. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 336091 | 2005-03-20 08:48:00 | Check out Pricespy (www.pricespy.co.nz). You can get 200GB SATA 8MB cache drives for less than $256-. To expand your choice, there's nothing wrong with Seagate or Western Digital drives. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 336092 | 2005-03-20 08:51:00 | Check out Pricespy (www.pricespy.co.nz). You can get 200GB SATA 8MB cache drives for less than $256-. To expand your choice, there's nothing wrong with Seagate or Western Digital drives. I prefer Seagate but I thnks its the 8mb he's looking at there...... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 336093 | 2005-03-20 09:11:00 | There are 8MB cache drives there for less than the price mentioned for the Diamond MAx drives. They're all much the same these at the mo, although I admit to a soft spot for Seagate too. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 336094 | 2005-03-20 09:40:00 | Taklord , apart from SATA , what else do you want from your board ? RAID , LAN , firewire/ multiple USB2 , front audio ?? etc What OS do you intend to install ? As it's to be a gaming machine have you a preference re video card? AGPx8 or PCIe ? ASUS , Gigabyte , MSI , Tyan [maybe not for your processor ... :) ] , Soltek all make good boards , and there are others eg Albatron that may be great [ no personal experience ] There is a great variation in price between all of these . |
KatiMike (242) | ||
| 336095 | 2005-03-20 09:58:00 | Anandtech has some interesting gaming recommendations .... | TonyF (246) | ||
| 336096 | 2005-03-20 11:31:00 | As it's to be a gaming machine have you a preference re video card? AGPx8 or PCIe ? ASUS , Gigabyte , MSI , Tyan [maybe not for your processor ... :) ] , Soltek all make good boards , and there are others eg Albatron that may be great [ no personal experience ] There is a great variation in price between all of these . He says for his "Athlon XP 2600" so it has to be a socket A board and there aren't any that I know of, with PCI-E on it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 336097 | 2005-03-20 13:24:00 | so your point is ?? Rethink of processor ?? socket 462 boards good for playing games ... many .... and it is known the original thread - starter is a "he " I have so much to learn ... |
KatiMike (242) | ||
| 336098 | 2005-03-20 13:40:00 | just to up date on the pc am puting together this is what i have so far: GECUBE RADEON 9250 128MB $79 Kaizer 860 Tower case Sliver $99 LITE-ON 52x32x52 CDRW+16X DVD COMBO $90 MITSUMI 1.44 FDD BLACK $27 Logitech® Access™ Keyboard $95 Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Digital $55 Hyena 450W ATX P4 ,ball bearing, 2 fans $110 and i'm going to be running windows 2000, fedora core 3 any sugguestions is again welcome |
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