- Joined
- Feb 2, 2001
- Location
- Delray Beach FL
I'm looking to put together a new machine. Doesn't have to be the fastest on the planet (nor most expensive). A few questions though.
Barton 2500 a reasonable match for the board? How do I know it's a Barton when I see it at a PC Fair?
Any problems installing Win2003 Enterprise? I have a free copy and might as well use it.
A review said the built in sound is noisy and the 8RDA+ has better sound. Sort of suprising considering it was supposed to be good sound. Any feelings on this?
Recommended PSU?
My uses will include lots of disk i/o stuff (large wav files and mpgs being downloaded and uploaded and burned - mostly bootleg concerts in SHN or FLAC format). Some conversion of analog tapes to digital. And, of course, a bit of time for games and such.
That said, SATA I suppose, maybe raid. The fast one, not the safe one. I'll do backups as needed for that. What is a good SATA drive for standalone or raid use? I read something about SATA corruption with this board. Is that something to fear?
Memory. Dual a good idea for this? Corsair and Buffalo seem like good candidates but are expensive. Do I need that for mild OC?
Video card. Likely to start with an old 32mb decent AGP card for now and I'll replace it when I can justify a better one. I can swap out the nice video card in my current machine (MSI 266 something running an Athlon 1800+) and use the 32mb one in that. That has the MSI 4200 or maybe 4600? I forget. The one without video input.
Ok. Thanks for any comments. There is a PC Fair in my area this weekend so maybe I'll do it then. But it isn't anything I can't wait another few weeks to do if I can't figure it all out by then.
Barton 2500 a reasonable match for the board? How do I know it's a Barton when I see it at a PC Fair?
Any problems installing Win2003 Enterprise? I have a free copy and might as well use it.
A review said the built in sound is noisy and the 8RDA+ has better sound. Sort of suprising considering it was supposed to be good sound. Any feelings on this?
Recommended PSU?
My uses will include lots of disk i/o stuff (large wav files and mpgs being downloaded and uploaded and burned - mostly bootleg concerts in SHN or FLAC format). Some conversion of analog tapes to digital. And, of course, a bit of time for games and such.
That said, SATA I suppose, maybe raid. The fast one, not the safe one. I'll do backups as needed for that. What is a good SATA drive for standalone or raid use? I read something about SATA corruption with this board. Is that something to fear?
Memory. Dual a good idea for this? Corsair and Buffalo seem like good candidates but are expensive. Do I need that for mild OC?
Video card. Likely to start with an old 32mb decent AGP card for now and I'll replace it when I can justify a better one. I can swap out the nice video card in my current machine (MSI 266 something running an Athlon 1800+) and use the 32mb one in that. That has the MSI 4200 or maybe 4600? I forget. The one without video input.
Ok. Thanks for any comments. There is a PC Fair in my area this weekend so maybe I'll do it then. But it isn't anything I can't wait another few weeks to do if I can't figure it all out by then.
Buffalo ram, from what I've read, is fairly inexpensive. Depends on how mild you want to be? 2.2? 2.0? 1.85? In any case, I have the Corsair Valueselect PC3200, at $86 a stick it wasn't too bad.
