Head Guru Posted July 28, 2003 Posted July 28, 2003 Howdy, Thought I would post in the Hardware forums about my plunge back into AMD goodness. Going to build a new PC for myself. Here are the specs. CPU AMD2500+/333 ATHLON XP BARTON Retail Boxed Motherboard Epox EP-8RDA+ With the nForce2 chipset Yea Yea, I bought a Epox. I personally think they are awesome boards. HD (Going with IDE Raid) (2) 80GB Western Digital 7200RPM 8MB Cache WD800JB Is there any other drive to buy rather than WD CDRW LITEON 52X32X52X CDRW Black This will be my 3rd or 4th Liteon CDRW. They all have been excellent DDRAM (2) 512MB DDR400 CAS 2 PC3200 Kingston I really like the Kingston Modules. I have had great luck in servers with them. VIDEO VGA ATI XPERT2000 PRO 32MB 4X AGP I am not a gamer! ATI is all thats spoken in the Kish household. CASE Enermax 10B M ATX CS-3051L-B3A My personal favorite case maker, although Antec and Codegen have always done well for me. It will run Linux and Windows 2000 Dual Boot. I will get some photos of the build when I am done. Just for fun! What amazes me, is out the door with overnight delivery. I am under $800 for the entire build. newegg.com has great pricing btw. Quote
TCH-JimE Posted July 28, 2003 Posted July 28, 2003 Even if your not a Gamer Bill, splash out a bit more on the Graphics card, you never know when you might get overcome and want to play the Tomb Raider series! Jim Quote
Head Guru Posted July 28, 2003 Author Posted July 28, 2003 Jim Ive spent more time in front of my workstation than most and have never even fired up a game of hearts. Quote
TCH-JimE Posted July 28, 2003 Posted July 28, 2003 That settles it, Head Guru is indeed a Robot. Naughty Jim Quote
leezard Posted July 28, 2003 Posted July 28, 2003 /hugs his AMD Thumbs Up /glares at the Intel that died yesterday Mad!!! all excellent choices, I would have suggested a better vid card also, but since you are in fact a robot I'm not going to make that suggestion newegg does have some good prices, tiger direct is good also. plus tigerdirect has an affiliate prog..so if you ever in the market for new hardware go to my site and follow the link so i'll get a comission Seriously i love AMD, I am trying to like Intel but the system I have had less than a week died yesterday, actually not the entire system, just a dead mobo....now i have to wait god knows how long for an RMA. Quote
leezard Posted July 28, 2003 Posted July 28, 2003 I take it you have had bad exp, with tiger direct? Quote
AtomicVPp Posted July 28, 2003 Posted July 28, 2003 Not to bash WesternDigital at all. I have this 60gig hard drive from them that when I create large files or move large files it crashes and the master boot record gets messed up. It also corrupts files sometimes. I have found a program that can fix the MBR: TestDisk It works really well and is easy to use. -Tim Quote
Mav2u Posted July 29, 2003 Posted July 29, 2003 I like the Western Digital HDD's. I have all four computers running them and only one has failed because a power supply blew and it took the board and HDD controller on the Western Digital. I called Western Digital and had a new drive in the mail within 3 days, sent the old one back and went on with my life. I now buy the 8mb versions of Western Digital since they have the three warranty now. All others only have a 1 year now as do most other manufacturers. Oldes Western Digital is in my 233 mhz, running darn near 24 hrs a day 365 days a year since June 1997. Any Maxtor I've purchased with out the liquid bearings has died within about 2 yrs or less. That goes for my friends who have purchased them also. Not sure if it's just bad luck or what but I don't buy them anymore. You could have spent a little more on the video card and got an ATI All in wonder version. That way you could watch tv on the computer or edit video or anything if the need ever arised. But at least it's not onboard video! Mav Quote
DConley Posted July 30, 2003 Posted July 30, 2003 I will have to openly admit that I have never played a game on my computer.... I do, however, have every gaming console known to man... lol Excellent specs Bill, and for that price, you can't really go wrong. Thumbs Up Quote
TCH-JimE Posted August 12, 2003 Posted August 12, 2003 Hi, I havent seen the motherboard but since its based ont he Nforce2 chipset, it should be built into the motherboard Jim Quote
leezard Posted August 13, 2003 Posted August 13, 2003 yup, probably has the soundstorm onboard audio....it's better then most sound cards. I've got two SWEET sound cards comming this week for review i cant wait Quote
Head Guru Posted August 13, 2003 Author Posted August 13, 2003 Sound Card? I dont need no stinking sound card... lol Stares at Denon AV System. I am not a gamer so when it is tune time I turn on the Denon. Quote
taznumber1 Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Tiger Direct Whip Mad!!! Mad!!! I personally like dealing with New Egg http://www.newegg.com They have been cheaper then tiger direct in like 9 out of 10 items I have wanted. Also New Egg has excelent customer service, and real quick delivery. Quote
Head Guru Posted August 30, 2003 Author Posted August 30, 2003 Well its been a while since the parts arrived and the new AMD was built. I have to say, its been flawless so far. Not one crash! Windows 2000 is loving this new system. Quote
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