re: building a pc
Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 9:23 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6525 messages posted)
As a builder for business clients for many years, I would agree with Richard. Also
I would make these observations.
1) Make sure you use recommended memory usually listed in the owners manual. Use
it in dual channel mode which would require two matched modules and go for 2 gig
of memory, which would mean two matched 1 gig memory modules. You can get these
in matched pair sets from Crucial. This doubles your effective FSB speed and will
make a big difference in gaming and video work/rendering.
2) The board has 7.1 sound on it and using an old 5.1 SB Live may be a step backward.
I wouldn't put that in unless the onboard sound proves to be worse (or problematic)
than the old SB Live.
3) You don't list if your big HDD is SATA or not, so if it is PATA, make sure the
board supports the old PATA drive interface. The chip specs indicate that it doesn't
(without looking at the complete board specs).
It is always tempting to buy brand new hardware when it is released but most of the
time there are issues so unless you are a seasoned builder, it an be very frustrating
troubleshooting issues and bugs, so I would say to wait about 6 months during which
the prices may drop a little, and issues/bugs identified and corrected.
Final note, look at a lot of cases so that you buy one that is easy to work in and
uses as many 120 mm vent fans as possible. They will move more air with less noise
and make sure that there is a fan blowing air (from the outside) over the hard drives.
Don't skimp on the PSU either. It can make, or break a good system and cause odd
failures/errors..
On Friday, January 26, 2007 at 11:22 pm, aliasnp wrote:
>hi i am thinking of building my own pc which i will run windows vista ultimate on.
>the specs are below the purpose of this machine is for some gaming and photo and
>video editing and the usual things normal people use their computer for.
>can you guys tell me if this configuration would work??
>thanks guys
>aliasnp
>
>Case- undecided
>Motherboard- Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H
>CPU- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40 GHz
>RAM- Corsair VS1GB667D2 1GB Value Select PC-5300 DDR2 RAM
>Hard Drive- WD 36 GB 10,000 RPM SATA HDD
>Hard Drive- 250GB Seagate 7200rpm HDD
> Graphics Card- GeForce 7900 GPUs 256MB
>Keyboard- Logitech g15
>Mouse- Logitech MX900
>CD burner/DVD reader- liteon SHM165h6s
>Wireless card- D-LINK DWL-G520 XtremeG 11/54/108Mbs
>sound card- CREATIVE SOUNDBLASTER 5.1 PCI SOUND CARD
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- building a pc (aliasnp: Friday, January 26, 2007 at 11:22 pm)
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