Help Me To Build One Heck Of A System Please

[bigdawgfoxx]

One heck of a system with a FX5200? And $147 for it...

what bout the HDDs

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

me personally, i would go with a Radeon 9800 vid card, i dont know what to say about athlons, as i use Intel, Stay away from ultra PSUs and get an enermax. i use maxtor drives, and even my 120gb drive is silent and i have it in a vantec drive cooler and it runs at 36C max (even less when my tornado fans are on full, but thats not quiet) Cheiftec also makes nice cases. i just bought one and my only problem with it is the case reverberates sometimes when my TDK VeloCD burner runs, so i put dynamat on the inside panels and fixed that problem (TDK VeloCD burners sound like jet engines when they burn discs). Definitly get an ASUS board.

of course if your wealthy, you could get this

[FlyingDutchman]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@28 March 2004 - 21:34
One heck of a system with a FX5200? And $147 for it...

what bout the HDDs

I'm on a "GeForce2 MX 400" now, and I don't feel restricted by it.
Not everyone is a gamer.

The MSI FX5200 is the "Personal Cinema" edition. There is a TV tuner in it so you can watch TV on the PC, and use the PC as a TV-recorder. I think that might come in handy.

Nothing decided on the hard disks yet.
Probably 1 external 160 Gig IDE for backups, and 2 or 3 7200 rpm 160 Gig SATA Samsungs.

Question: The NEC 2500, is it a good DVD-writer?

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

why get external drives? that seems to be a waste of money. get internals and a case big enough to hold em all. heat wont be an issue if you got it all laid out properly, and youll save a shitload of money. if it portability you want, just get vantec swapdrives for your 5.25 bays like this one. i have one and they are pretty nice.

[bigdawgfoxx]

Well one hell of a system wont seem like one when you look at specs with a shity vcard, nor will it benchmark high.

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

hey dawg, he said he wasnt a gamer, so i dont think he cares about benchmarks as much as we do.