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Hi all
Well, I have been doing further homework etc working towards my big day of
buying (a couple of months from now)
My current shopping list is as follows
Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Prescott
I have gone for this as this one doesn't seem to have done too bad in the
temperature issue unlike the 2.8Ghz and 3.0Ghz. I contemplated the Extreme
Edition P4 also but due to Longhorn reputedly not supporting it I have
decided to avoid it for the sake of forward compatibility.
Asus P4P800 Deluxe
After having this recommended, and reading the multitude of reviews for it I
don't think there could be any alternative.
Matched Pair of 256MB Corsair CL2 RAM (512MB Total)
I am no memory expert but after reading around it seems the lower the Cas
Latency the better, and I read nothing but "ooh corsair this, ooh corsair
that" so I thought they must be good. I want the matched pair for the dual
powered RAM thingy for better performance.
2 X 120GB Maxtor DMAX+9 SATA150/7200
After reading around a bit it seems that this SATA malarcky is worth
exploiting, and with the MOBO having built in RAID and SATA support I
thought what the hell. I am supposed to place these 2 drive in a RAID 0
Stripe???? Can anyone shed light on this for me? How do I install this etc -
I have only ever installed bog standard IDE drives. This will be a clean
system in need of XP loading on it - how would I proceed to get the drives
and the OS installed and setup properly?????? Desperate for help on this
one.
Thermaltek Xavier Case - Silver
They look good and it comes with a 400W PSU. Will this PSU be enough to
supply the prescott alongside everything else. I am hoping to get a pretty
powerful graphics card at some point later on (maybe the upcoming 6800
nvidia or a FX5900).
All the other bits and bobs will be bought as well, rewriter etc etc
Desperate for some advice on this lot
Cheers
Daniel Yates
Hi all
Well, I have been doing further homework etc working towards my big day of
buying (a couple of months from now)
My current shopping list is as follows
Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Prescott
I have gone for this as this one doesn't seem to have done too bad in the
temperature issue unlike the 2.8Ghz and 3.0Ghz. I contemplated the Extreme
Edition P4 also but due to Longhorn reputedly not supporting it I have
decided to avoid it for the sake of forward compatibility.
Asus P4P800 Deluxe
After having this recommended, and reading the multitude of reviews for it I
don't think there could be any alternative.
Matched Pair of 256MB Corsair CL2 RAM (512MB Total)
I am no memory expert but after reading around it seems the lower the Cas
Latency the better, and I read nothing but "ooh corsair this, ooh corsair
that" so I thought they must be good. I want the matched pair for the dual
powered RAM thingy for better performance.
2 X 120GB Maxtor DMAX+9 SATA150/7200
After reading around a bit it seems that this SATA malarcky is worth
exploiting, and with the MOBO having built in RAID and SATA support I
thought what the hell. I am supposed to place these 2 drive in a RAID 0
Stripe???? Can anyone shed light on this for me? How do I install this etc -
I have only ever installed bog standard IDE drives. This will be a clean
system in need of XP loading on it - how would I proceed to get the drives
and the OS installed and setup properly?????? Desperate for help on this
one.
Thermaltek Xavier Case - Silver
They look good and it comes with a 400W PSU. Will this PSU be enough to
supply the prescott alongside everything else. I am hoping to get a pretty
powerful graphics card at some point later on (maybe the upcoming 6800
nvidia or a FX5900).
All the other bits and bobs will be bought as well, rewriter etc etc
Desperate for some advice on this lot
Cheers
Daniel Yates
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