First off, my current desktop is 5 years old. A dell 8400 with a P4 3.0ghz processor, and 1 gig of ram.
This is what I want to build:
Asus P5K Deluxe
E6600 Clocked up somewhere between 3.0 and 3.6ghz
4x1gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 (4-4-4-12)
Zalman 9700 w/ Arctic Silver 5
Antec 900
Antec True Power Trio 650W
2x Sata II Western Digital 250gb drives
1x Sata I Western Digital 250gb drive (from my old machine)
RAID: (1x Sata II for apps, and the other two drives in Raid 1 for backup/storage/scratch)
Sony IDE DVD-RW
Some IDE DVD-ROM (taken from my old machine)
Ati Radeon x1800xt 512mb (taken from my old machine)
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum (from my old machine)
I primarily play blizzard and valve games, but I also draft on Autodesk Inventor, and do audio work with Adobe Audition and the Presonus Firebox. Sometimes I'll even compile a CSS map in Hammer. Drafting is my excuse for the 4 gigs of ram. I guess I want to try Vista 64bit, since XP 64bit is rubbish, and I'd like all the ram addressed. So what do you guys think?
This is what I want to build:
Asus P5K Deluxe
E6600 Clocked up somewhere between 3.0 and 3.6ghz
4x1gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 (4-4-4-12)
Zalman 9700 w/ Arctic Silver 5
Antec 900
Antec True Power Trio 650W
2x Sata II Western Digital 250gb drives
1x Sata I Western Digital 250gb drive (from my old machine)
RAID: (1x Sata II for apps, and the other two drives in Raid 1 for backup/storage/scratch)
Sony IDE DVD-RW
Some IDE DVD-ROM (taken from my old machine)
Ati Radeon x1800xt 512mb (taken from my old machine)
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum (from my old machine)
I primarily play blizzard and valve games, but I also draft on Autodesk Inventor, and do audio work with Adobe Audition and the Presonus Firebox. Sometimes I'll even compile a CSS map in Hammer. Drafting is my excuse for the 4 gigs of ram. I guess I want to try Vista 64bit, since XP 64bit is rubbish, and I'd like all the ram addressed. So what do you guys think?