Geeky1
29 Feb 2004, 10:46pm
I'm hoping to get a couple new computers as graduation/birthday presents this summer... here's what I've got in mind:
<UL>Desktop
<li>ASUS, ABIT, MSI, or Tyan dual S939 board
<li>2 S939 Opterons @ the highest speed available at the time
<li>2-4GB DDR
<li>ATi R420 or NV40
<li>SATA or SCSI RAID w/4x 74GB Raptors or 74GB Seagate 15,000RPM SCSIs
<li>8x (or faster) DVD+RW/-RW
<li>52x+ CD-RW
</ul>
<ul>Laptop
<li>Probably a Sager, possibly something else
<li>15"+ screen w/1280x1024+ resolution, preferably not a widescreen
<li>AMD Athlon 64 or P4 CPU, possibly a Centrino, but I doubt it
<li>1GB+ DDR, dual channel if I go with the P4
<li>ATi Radeon 9700m/256MB, unless something else comes out that's faster
<li>7200rpm hard drive, possibly a RAID array + a backup drive (the Sager 8890 takes 3 hard drives internally...)
<li>DVD+RW/-RW
</ul>
That's what I have planned... What about you?
//Edit
Since so many people are constantly upgrading their systems rather than buying entirely new ones, I figured I'd add a little list of upgrades I'm considering:
<UL>NF7-S system
<li>Replace 1800+ JIUHB DLT3C w/Mobile 2600+
<li>Upgrade R9700 Pro to 9800XT or R420
</ul>
<ul>K7D-L system
<li>Replace dual 2500s with dual mobile 2600s
<li>Replace R8500 with the replacement 9700 Pro for the dead one I need to RMA
<li>Replace Toshiba DVD-ROM with a DVD-RW/+RW when they're about 50% of what they cost now (I've already got a DVD burner in the NF7-S, so I don't need another one)
</ul>
<ul>"Print Server" MSI Pro266TD-LR
<li>RMA the MSI board so I can get the K7S5A/1700+ out of it
<li>Replace the 1700 in the K7S5A with dual 1GHz PIIIs for the MSI board
<li>Throw the extra 512MB of DDR I have sitting around into the MSI board (for a total of 1.5GB)
<li>add a 3rd hard drive (160GB+)
<li>Replace Radeon 9000 with the Radeon 8500 that's currently in the K7D
</ul>
<ul>Tyan S1837 "Thunderbolt" 440GX
<li>Replace dual 450MHz PIIIs with dual 800MHz+ PIIIs in Upgradeware Slotkets
<li>Upgrade to 512MB PC133
<li>Get it in a case, with a hard drive of its own so it doesn't have to use my firewire enclosure's drive
<li>floppy, cd-rw drives
</ul>
<ul>Supermicro S2DGU 440GX Xeon board
<li>Replace dual 400MHz/512k Xeons with 500MHz+ 1MB/2MB Xeons or 2 1.4GHz PIII Tualatins in Powerleap adapters
<li>Turn it into a working system, not just a motherboard and CPUs sitting on my printer
</ul>
<ul>Supermicro P6DLS 440LX
<li>Turn it into a working system, not just a motherboard sitting on top of another motherboard on top of my printer
</ul>
<UL>Desktop
<li>ASUS, ABIT, MSI, or Tyan dual S939 board
<li>2 S939 Opterons @ the highest speed available at the time
<li>2-4GB DDR
<li>ATi R420 or NV40
<li>SATA or SCSI RAID w/4x 74GB Raptors or 74GB Seagate 15,000RPM SCSIs
<li>8x (or faster) DVD+RW/-RW
<li>52x+ CD-RW
</ul>
<ul>Laptop
<li>Probably a Sager, possibly something else
<li>15"+ screen w/1280x1024+ resolution, preferably not a widescreen
<li>AMD Athlon 64 or P4 CPU, possibly a Centrino, but I doubt it
<li>1GB+ DDR, dual channel if I go with the P4
<li>ATi Radeon 9700m/256MB, unless something else comes out that's faster
<li>7200rpm hard drive, possibly a RAID array + a backup drive (the Sager 8890 takes 3 hard drives internally...)
<li>DVD+RW/-RW
</ul>
That's what I have planned... What about you?
//Edit
Since so many people are constantly upgrading their systems rather than buying entirely new ones, I figured I'd add a little list of upgrades I'm considering:
<UL>NF7-S system
<li>Replace 1800+ JIUHB DLT3C w/Mobile 2600+
<li>Upgrade R9700 Pro to 9800XT or R420
</ul>
<ul>K7D-L system
<li>Replace dual 2500s with dual mobile 2600s
<li>Replace R8500 with the replacement 9700 Pro for the dead one I need to RMA
<li>Replace Toshiba DVD-ROM with a DVD-RW/+RW when they're about 50% of what they cost now (I've already got a DVD burner in the NF7-S, so I don't need another one)
</ul>
<ul>"Print Server" MSI Pro266TD-LR
<li>RMA the MSI board so I can get the K7S5A/1700+ out of it
<li>Replace the 1700 in the K7S5A with dual 1GHz PIIIs for the MSI board
<li>Throw the extra 512MB of DDR I have sitting around into the MSI board (for a total of 1.5GB)
<li>add a 3rd hard drive (160GB+)
<li>Replace Radeon 9000 with the Radeon 8500 that's currently in the K7D
</ul>
<ul>Tyan S1837 "Thunderbolt" 440GX
<li>Replace dual 450MHz PIIIs with dual 800MHz+ PIIIs in Upgradeware Slotkets
<li>Upgrade to 512MB PC133
<li>Get it in a case, with a hard drive of its own so it doesn't have to use my firewire enclosure's drive
<li>floppy, cd-rw drives
</ul>
<ul>Supermicro S2DGU 440GX Xeon board
<li>Replace dual 400MHz/512k Xeons with 500MHz+ 1MB/2MB Xeons or 2 1.4GHz PIII Tualatins in Powerleap adapters
<li>Turn it into a working system, not just a motherboard and CPUs sitting on my printer
</ul>
<ul>Supermicro P6DLS 440LX
<li>Turn it into a working system, not just a motherboard sitting on top of another motherboard on top of my printer
</ul>