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Thank you for your kind works, K!Kathy said:
You can get drives in other colors than beige or black, but it can be tricky to find them. Usually, the drives that do come in silver aren't that great of a brand.Kathy said:
I usualy spray my case down with canned air once a month to get the dust out of the air intake ports, etc.
I wish!!!! I'll be on the west side of Michigan visiting family since my sister is going to Iraq in a couple months. I won't have a whole lot of time for site seeing in the motherlandSuprnova04 said:
Wish I coulda gone to the Venetian Festival in St Joe mid July. I have family there so it's not like I'da been hurting for a place to staySuprnova04 said:lol.. motherland..
I think i'll end up there.. my gf is pushing me to take her.. It's usually fun to go there.. I just get bored with walking through the shops and seeing the same things
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That's subject to how much you want to spend. They will perform almost exactly alike, as a 200MHz increase isn't really noticable on an A64 platform. You have to have a difference of about 400MHz or more to notice a bit of a difference for single threaded apps/games. Even higher for multithreaded apps/games that can fully utilize the X2 dual core.Kathy said:
The 4400+ and 4800+ have the 1MB cache per core. Unless you're doing some really heavy CAD or multimedia work, it won't make a difference at all.Kathy said:
Thanks!
No harm done, K!Kathy said:This is why I don't like to think, it just doesn't get me anywhere! lol
I wanted to ask too about the SATA thing, do they hook up like my old drives do? I have two and both on the same cable and controller as master/slave? I also have my DVD and CDRW the same way,can I do that too with the new setup? That will leave me one pci slot left for my Zip drive which I think I had to us a Promise controller card, think that's what it's called anyway.
Kathy
New motherboards have between 4-8 SATA ports, each of which you can plug a single drive into. They still have the old IDE connectors. Usually 2 ports able to run 2 drives each in master/slave. The PCI slots are totally separate.Kathy said:I'm confused again. If the two hd's have to take up both controllers on the mb, then that leaves me only 3 pci slots for my, DVD/CDRW, Zip drive, CDROM and modem. How is that going to work out?
Kathy
There are SATA dvd/cd drives, but they are very pricey and offer nothing in terms of speed or stability over IDE.Kathy said:This is good news and music to my ears!!!
So are there SATA DVD/CDRW drives or are all the extra SATA connectors just for HD's? Thanks again!
Kathy
I get that look all the time! Good thing it's from coworkers and not my boss, since he's in Houston.Kathy said:The heck with that then!
OK, once again you've given me sooo much help and I really do appreciate it! You have a great day! My boss is looking at me like "what am I paying you for" so I better clear off my desk and go home now.
Kathy
DejaWiz said:I get that look all the time! Good thing it's from coworkers and not my boss, since he's in Houston.
Later K!
[drool smiley here] Nice setup K! Cooler Master cases are decent. Can you tell us what kind of fans it houses total? Awesome, awesome setup! [/jealousness]Kathy said:Oh well, there used to saying (Houston we have a problem!) lol
Well, you'll be happy to know I ordered all my parts tonight, except the case and I have an empty Cool Master aluminum case that I never used before, so do you think that will work?
I ended up getting the MB, CPU and fan from Monarch Computers. It cost just a little more but they will set it up and test it for me, for free. Only problem is the cpu has an ETA of 8/10/05, sure hope it comes in! The rest of the stuff I got from NewEgg. I'm so excited and I know I won't sleep untill it comes!
Here's a list of what I got. See if I did good?
1. ASUS MB A8N-SLI Premium
2. AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
3. EVGA 7800GTX
4. Samsung 200GB Hard drives (2)
5. Rosewill 2GB (2X1GB) Memory DDR400 (PC3200)
6. PCP&C 510w Power supply
7. NEC DVD/CDRW Drive
8. Kingwin removable hd trays (2)
Kathy
If the case has at least fans in the front and back (to go along with the blowhole on top), then you should be fine in terms of airflow. Definitely let us know what the quantity and sizes of those fans are.Kathy said:The only extra fan (I think) is right on top and it's just a small one. There's none on either side, but I'm not sure if there's one in the back. I'll try to dig it out tomorrow and see. But I'm almost positive that's it.
Oh wait, I think there's one in the front too.
Sounds like 80mm fans ya got there. Probably don't want to go over 26-30dB, as that's approaching the annoyance threshold for most people (at least me anywayKathy said:DejaWiz, there are 2 fans in the front on the bottom (one on top of the other) and one on the top of the case and then one in the rear plus the one for the PS. There all small, I'd say about 3 inches across. Is this OK? The Pen4 system I have now which never runs hot only has a fan in the front and rear, none on top or the sides. My brother told me the reason my Dad never used this case was because it was loud. Are there some good quiet fans I could pickup and stick in there before I start building this thing? I really need it to be a quiet computer because of it's location. Thanks!
Thanks alldat, I appreciate the nice comments! And yes, I'll be getting another video card for it down the road and I'll be letting you and the world know how it runs!
)in my experience, my NF3-250GB board that I am running my s754 3700+ on is about the MOST stable platform i've ever used, and that includes intel chipsets since the socket7 days....... and the only additional step to setting it up over an intel system is installing the NF3 platform drivers........breetai72 said:
Thanks for the info.......coolie_d said:
Hi Kathy, don't know ya yet so welcome to [H], I was perusing your thread and got in too late to contribute anything, but I wanted to congratulate you on your purchase, WAY more system than you need right now, but at least it will run anything you can throw at it for about the next year or so, and then if it starts feeling slow, you can just pop in another 7800GTX and be good to go...... to give you a point of reference, the system in my sig is a smoking fast rig as far as i'm concerned, and it's like one of those $300 Walmart systems compared to what you're putting together....... you are making the right decision.....Kathy said:
not too sure about the case/airflow since i'm not familiar with Cooler Master....... i've never had too much concern about noise either, so i'm afraid I can't offer too much insight on keeping the thing quiet, for this I apologize, my Window AC is right next to the computer and drowns out all of the noise anyways..... I would just suggest finding fans with a good CFM rating and the lowest possible decibel rating, and perhaps using a fan controller for control over the fan speeds.....DejaWiz said:Thanks for the info.......
Got any comments on the S939 X2 3800+ system that Kathy has just bought the parts for and are in transit right now?
How about the airflow questions regarding her Cooler Master case and keeping it quiet? I listed some fans in a previous post, what are your thoughts?
the X2 3800+ should be marginally faster than my 3700+ s754 on single-threaded apps, and totally kill it with multithreaded apps/multitasking.....
Good call. A fan controller might be a viable option, if there is enough free drive bays in the case with the optical drive and removable hard drive trays.coolie_d said:
Umm, yeah. I meant my other right. LOLKathy said:Thanks, I found it even if you don't know your right from your left.
And I sure will let you know about the fans. That's the least I can do!
Well I have to finish watching this move (Godsend) I have a feeling it will end up stupid, but I have to see now. lol
Kathy
I can see your sig now.Kathy said:Well it didn't work, my sig never showed up and I still can't see anyone else's sig either. Oh well, guess I can live with it.
Kathy