Hi all,
Some of you have been nice enough to post in some of my other threads about my upgrade taking place shortly, so i just wanted to run down the specs on what i'm planning to do, and see if anyone has any better ideas or can tell me if somethings incompatible, etc... etc...
Being Purchased:
<b>(1)</b> ASUS P5AD2-E Premium i925XE Chipset Motherboard
<b>(2)</b> Intel Pentium 4 560J 3.60GHz LGA775 Proccessor
(Overclocked to 3.8Ghz @ 1066MHz FSB)
<b>(3)</b> Corsair XMS2 Series Dual Channel Kit 1GB(512MB*2)
DDR2-675 PC2-5400 (*2 for a total of 2GB)
(Overclocked to 1066MHz FSB)
<b>(4)</b> ATi FireGL V7100 256MB GDDR3 PCIe Video Card
<b>(5)</b> Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
<b>(6)</b> Enermax Noisetaker AX ATX 12V v2.0 485W Power Supply
<b>(7)</b> Zalman CNPS7700 All Copper CPU Cooler (Socket775)
<b>(8)</b> Arctic Silver Premium Silver Polysynthetic Silver
Thermal Compound
<b>(9)</b> Sony Internal 16x DVD+-R/RW Double Layer Drive
Already Have or Being Pulled From My Old System:
<b>(10)</b> Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
<b>(11)</b> Thermaltake Xaser III full tower Case (7 80mm fans)
<b>(12)</b> Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM EIDE Hard Drive
<b>(13)</b> Seagate 160GB 7200RPM EIDE Hard Drive
<b>(14)</b> Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM EIDE Hard Drive
<b>(15)</b> Buslink 4x DVD+-R/RW Drive
<b>(16)</b> Floppy
<b>(17)</b> 2 Samsung 17" LCD Monitors
<b>(18)</b> Creative Labs P7800 7.1 Surround Speakers
<b>(19)</b> Logitech Cordless Keyboard/Opt. Mouse Combo
Ok i think that's all that matters. Does anyone see any problems or conflicts with that configuration?
I also have one question concerning the Hard Drives. I want to use the new Maxtor SATA HDD as my system drive, but i'm also going to have a couple other IDE HDD's attached as well. That should be no problem correct? The reason i ask is that i built a system recently with a SATA system drive, and when i put an IDE drive in to take some data off of it, the system tried to boot from the IDE drive. I obviously don't want that, i want my new system to boot from the SATA drive always, and use my IDE drives for storage.
(Hmmm for those familiar with the P5AD2-E Premium, the SATA drive will be on the SATA 1 Channel, the 250GB IDE drive on the IDE RAID 1 Channel (set as a stand alone drive), and the 160GB and 80GB on the IDE RAID 2 channel in a RAID0 Array, and the two DVD drives on the primary IDE channel.)
As always, any feedback is appriciated!
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by LogicSequence on 12/30/04 04:36 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
Some of you have been nice enough to post in some of my other threads about my upgrade taking place shortly, so i just wanted to run down the specs on what i'm planning to do, and see if anyone has any better ideas or can tell me if somethings incompatible, etc... etc...
Being Purchased:
<b>(1)</b> ASUS P5AD2-E Premium i925XE Chipset Motherboard
<b>(2)</b> Intel Pentium 4 560J 3.60GHz LGA775 Proccessor
(Overclocked to 3.8Ghz @ 1066MHz FSB)
<b>(3)</b> Corsair XMS2 Series Dual Channel Kit 1GB(512MB*2)
DDR2-675 PC2-5400 (*2 for a total of 2GB)
(Overclocked to 1066MHz FSB)
<b>(4)</b> ATi FireGL V7100 256MB GDDR3 PCIe Video Card
<b>(5)</b> Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
<b>(6)</b> Enermax Noisetaker AX ATX 12V v2.0 485W Power Supply
<b>(7)</b> Zalman CNPS7700 All Copper CPU Cooler (Socket775)
<b>(8)</b> Arctic Silver Premium Silver Polysynthetic Silver
Thermal Compound
<b>(9)</b> Sony Internal 16x DVD+-R/RW Double Layer Drive
Already Have or Being Pulled From My Old System:
<b>(10)</b> Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
<b>(11)</b> Thermaltake Xaser III full tower Case (7 80mm fans)
<b>(12)</b> Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM EIDE Hard Drive
<b>(13)</b> Seagate 160GB 7200RPM EIDE Hard Drive
<b>(14)</b> Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM EIDE Hard Drive
<b>(15)</b> Buslink 4x DVD+-R/RW Drive
<b>(16)</b> Floppy
<b>(17)</b> 2 Samsung 17" LCD Monitors
<b>(18)</b> Creative Labs P7800 7.1 Surround Speakers
<b>(19)</b> Logitech Cordless Keyboard/Opt. Mouse Combo
Ok i think that's all that matters. Does anyone see any problems or conflicts with that configuration?
I also have one question concerning the Hard Drives. I want to use the new Maxtor SATA HDD as my system drive, but i'm also going to have a couple other IDE HDD's attached as well. That should be no problem correct? The reason i ask is that i built a system recently with a SATA system drive, and when i put an IDE drive in to take some data off of it, the system tried to boot from the IDE drive. I obviously don't want that, i want my new system to boot from the SATA drive always, and use my IDE drives for storage.
(Hmmm for those familiar with the P5AD2-E Premium, the SATA drive will be on the SATA 1 Channel, the 250GB IDE drive on the IDE RAID 1 Channel (set as a stand alone drive), and the 160GB and 80GB on the IDE RAID 2 channel in a RAID0 Array, and the two DVD drives on the primary IDE channel.)
As always, any feedback is appriciated!
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by LogicSequence on 12/30/04 04:36 AM.</EM></FONT></P>