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| Thread ID: 84625 | 2007-11-12 18:44:00 | Opinions Needed | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 610930 | 2007-11-12 18:44:00 | By the next few weeks, I need to figger out what I want to do as far as building another computer with an eye toward building a new unit right after the new year . . I don't game . . that's a given . . . and I don't particularly see the need for cutting or bleeding edge graphics or processors or even quad cores or such . Don't want to even consider Vista yet . . I'll wait for ten years to see if it gets stable by then . I want fast harddrive access, a reasonably fast CPU and stable power supply . I see that SCSIs are on the way out . . right? What's new and good for me right now? I need to have multiple hdd ports . . I like to run many 500g units at the same time . . not running in stripes or redundant systems though . I like JBOD . . as it works and I have hard copies of everything as an archive anyway . . so losing a drive isn't fatal any more! I learned!! I want to have a PCLinuxOS on grub booter with XP-Pro on another partition . I enjoy movies and music . . store audio files at about 1kb and very few . wav or Oggs at all . I want good networking, but that might just be a good software choice . No WIFI . . . . not even wireless mice or keyboards . I require a HDTV/FM tuner card . Bluetooth and regular good ol' DVD abilities are required I think . OK . . the question: Is Athlon where I should look? I have an Athlon-XP processor in a SOYO now as well as a few P3's and P4's in Dells and other homebuilts . . . . so I am familiar with, but not technically noticing any real differences in any of them . Got any good ideas for a motherboard that has the things I seem to need? I want a lot of RAM space and fast bridges etc . . . Don't mind fan noise as I figger it's part of the requirements of the system anyway . BTW: The assembly instructions should be in English As A Primary Language!!!:blush: Please remember that I am looking for opinions here, not links to other sites . I trust and believe what F1-ers say and will take all suggestions seriously . Are there any other "toys" I should consider too? Let me know . . . OK? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 610931 | 2007-11-12 19:18:00 | The good thing about living in good ole US of A is the cheap price of technology... I dont know what does it for you, but if you spent much time in front of a PC screen then you would appreciate a great monitor....ot two. I would suggest a couple of 22" @ 1680x1050, which gives a good pitch size of text and real estate, the 2nd monitor just doubles it. 24" goes up in res too much for me, the text is too small. The price of RAM these days is nothing, get 4GB! You may not use it all, however a Quad core will allow you with the RAM to run Virtual PC's, dual booting is so yesterday mate, have them all running all of the time!....LOL |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 610932 | 2007-11-12 19:25:00 | 4gb is overkill for xp as it cant use it all anyway and theres damn all apps cept for games that require it.....hell I've got 1.5gb on this xp system and most of the time it's got nearly 1gb (or more) free... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 610933 | 2007-11-12 19:27:00 | ok well if you are runnin virtual pc's then more ram is necessary but hey you still wont want or need 4gb......my 1.5gb suffices very well unless I want to have several virtual operating systems running at the same time and that's very rare as I cant see any necessity for that....after all it only takes a matter of seconds to popup a virtual o/s | drcspy (146) | ||
| 610934 | 2007-11-12 19:28:00 | Ahhhh, yeah, overkill now, 2-3 yrs......anyway, doesnt hurt having too much and it will allow him to run virtual machines.....read the post! I have 2Gb in my dual core and its not enough for VM's (2003, sql server plus clients etc) |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 610935 | 2007-11-12 19:42:00 | If you want fast drives, new scsi interface is serial scsi or SAS, they are smaller 2.5" over the older 3.5", use less power and of course cooler....some nice 15k, arent cheap, but hey, if you can afford it, I would... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 610936 | 2007-11-12 19:49:00 | If you want fast drives, new scsi interface is serial scsi or SAS, they are smaller 2.5" over the older 3.5", use less power and of course cooler....some nice 15k, arent cheap, but hey, if you can afford it, I would... Can you say: "retired-on-fixed-income"? I get a little side work..but that's just for the fun things..so I don't want to enter the workpool again just to afford a couple of hdds. :eek: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 610937 | 2007-11-12 21:27:00 | OOOooo, no wonder your here 24/7!! SATA2 should be okay for ya then........ |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 610938 | 2007-11-12 22:58:00 | Can you say: "retired-on-fixed-income"? I get a little side work..but that's just for the fun things..so I don't want to enter the workpool again just to afford a couple of hdds. :eek: Me too. I have considered many times putting wife out on the streets on night shift when I require a new HDD, but I doubt she would go for it:-( |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 610939 | 2007-11-13 00:24:00 | I sold all my kids to a Chinese athletic shoe factory so my bartering days are gone by now too. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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