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Hello. First new build. Wanted: Solid expandable unit for home-based
business and general home use. No specific demands - yet.
Comments gratefully received on anything serious overlooked..
Antec SX835 11 Workstation Tower - big enough to work in. Comes with 2 fans
and 350 PCU. Son fancies the window (later!) and coloured lights.
Mobo Intel D865GBF - 800FSB: On-board sound and video with 8x AGP for later.
Eight USBs: Two SATA and TWO PATA: Six PCI. Max 4GB memory: supporting up to
4 DDR SDRAM DIMMs - in 4 DIMM sockets (one Intel document) or 2 DIMM
channels (another Intel document). Can both be right?
P4 2.8 GHz 512k 800Mhz.
2 x Kingston 512MB 400Mhz DDR PC3200 ECC DIMMs - Not sure about this. Is
this the same as DDR 400 SDRAM? Chose this because everything else comes
from the same supplier - and they only do Kingston Memory (with lifetime
warranty).
2 x Seagate 80GB Barracuda 7200 SATA - for the SATA interfaces. One for OS
and Programs, one for storage.
Panasonic Floppy: Still got lots of old stuff I might want!
Plextor CD-RW Premium T3 8MB Nero SW - for small back-ups and Son's
music.
LG DVD +/- RW Multi Format : 8x DVD+ 4x -R/RW. For large back-ups (Should I
use - or + ?)
MS XP Professional. Expensive, seeing that I can only put it in one PC, but
hardly the area to skimp.
Would like to try Linux on a separate drive later.
Plus MS IntelliMouse and Keyboard and present monitor / printer / scanner
etc
Finally, I'm still puzzled by Intel's info on memory features. What does
this restriction mean? 'Double-sided DIMMs with x16 organisation are not
supported'?
And from the table of supported DIMM configurations I quote the following
line referring to the memory I've chosen. Is this telling me something I
need to know?
DIMM capacity:: 512MB.
Configuration:: DS.
DDR SDRAM Density:: 512 Mbit.
DDR SDRAM Organisation Front-side/Back-side:: 32 M x 8/32 M x 8
Number of DDR SDRAM Devices:: 16
All comments are welcomed and much appreciated as I'm hoping to order very
soon.
James
Hello. First new build. Wanted: Solid expandable unit for home-based
business and general home use. No specific demands - yet.
Comments gratefully received on anything serious overlooked..
Antec SX835 11 Workstation Tower - big enough to work in. Comes with 2 fans
and 350 PCU. Son fancies the window (later!) and coloured lights.
Mobo Intel D865GBF - 800FSB: On-board sound and video with 8x AGP for later.
Eight USBs: Two SATA and TWO PATA: Six PCI. Max 4GB memory: supporting up to
4 DDR SDRAM DIMMs - in 4 DIMM sockets (one Intel document) or 2 DIMM
channels (another Intel document). Can both be right?
P4 2.8 GHz 512k 800Mhz.
2 x Kingston 512MB 400Mhz DDR PC3200 ECC DIMMs - Not sure about this. Is
this the same as DDR 400 SDRAM? Chose this because everything else comes
from the same supplier - and they only do Kingston Memory (with lifetime
warranty).
2 x Seagate 80GB Barracuda 7200 SATA - for the SATA interfaces. One for OS
and Programs, one for storage.
Panasonic Floppy: Still got lots of old stuff I might want!
Plextor CD-RW Premium T3 8MB Nero SW - for small back-ups and Son's
music.
LG DVD +/- RW Multi Format : 8x DVD+ 4x -R/RW. For large back-ups (Should I
use - or + ?)
MS XP Professional. Expensive, seeing that I can only put it in one PC, but
hardly the area to skimp.
Would like to try Linux on a separate drive later.
Plus MS IntelliMouse and Keyboard and present monitor / printer / scanner
etc
Finally, I'm still puzzled by Intel's info on memory features. What does
this restriction mean? 'Double-sided DIMMs with x16 organisation are not
supported'?
And from the table of supported DIMM configurations I quote the following
line referring to the memory I've chosen. Is this telling me something I
need to know?
DIMM capacity:: 512MB.
Configuration:: DS.
DDR SDRAM Density:: 512 Mbit.
DDR SDRAM Organisation Front-side/Back-side:: 32 M x 8/32 M x 8
Number of DDR SDRAM Devices:: 16
All comments are welcomed and much appreciated as I'm hoping to order very
soon.
James