New system MAYBE. (if im lucky)

croc_croc_ New
edited September 2003 in Hardware
ANTEC SOLUTION SERIES MODEL SLK3700AMB w/ANTEC SMART POWER 350W

ABIT NF7-S ,nForce2 SPP chipset Support AMD Socket A with 200/266/333 FSB ,8X AGP,SATA 150 ATX motherboard Retail

ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 9800 PRO 128MB DDR 8X AGP Bulk


AMD ATHLON XP 2500 "Barton" 333 FSB PROCESSOR CPU- OEM

2x KINGSTON HyperX Series 184-pin 256MB DDR433 (PC3500) DDR RAM modules, Model# KHX3500/256- Limited Quantity Offer

2x Western Digital 200GB SATA WD2000JD 7,200 RPM 8MB Hard Drive OEM

Toshiba Recordable DVD-R/DVD-RW/CD-R/CD-RW Combo Drive Model SD-R5112 OEM

Samsung CDRW/DVD Combo Drive 52x24x52 CD-RW 16x DVD (Black) 2mb Cache, Model SM-352BENB - OEM

sorry its messy, im lazy.

I have an SLK 900a already.

If i can sell my shuttle system for 900ish im thinking about building that system (and overclocking, of course), what do you guys think?

Comments

  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2003
    the only caveat i would have is - is an 1800 jiuhb overclocked to 2.5 faster or slower than a barton 2500 overclocked to 2.3?
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Make sure your NF7-S is a Rev 2.0 board (Newegg doesn't specify but I got my rev 2.0 back in April so I don't see why you would get anything else from them and Excalibur does specify).

    You may consider going with 2x 512 on the memory (you wouldn't beleive the difference).

    Are you planning on putting those 2 WD's in RAID-0? If so you may want to consider 2 slightly smaller drives and get a 3rd drive for a backup (always a good idea when running RAID-0).

    Otherwise it all looks good and I don't see why it wouldn't do what ever you want. What is it's intended use anyway?
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited September 2003
    I would imagine the barton is faster due to cache? Not sure.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    I'll give ya credit for about 200MHz in exchange for the extra cache.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited September 2003
    The memory is too expensive ... I have 1gb now and I know what 512 feels like.... I dunno, what would you reccomend for memory? those sticks there are only 66$ each, I cant spend much more than that. (keep in mind I plan to overclock the barton ALOT and run the mem in sync)

    The drives are for storage, no raid. I already have 280gb full and I have alot more data coing my way soon, if i have the room.

    Its an all around machine: gaming, ripping optical media, encoding movies/music, graphics, you name it.

    Also plan to overclock it to the max (on air)
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Since you mentioned movies, music and graphics I would recomend running RAID-0. That is where it really shines and another reason why you should have the extra memory. I think you will be looking at a trade off here. Either you will want total hardcore O/C or something more suited for the stuff you mentioned. If you got 2 decent sized drives to runn off of to do your stuff and got another 1 or 2 large drives to suse for storage and backup that would be the way to go. As for the memory, the 512 sticks will slow you down a little but not be too bad.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    Croc, I CANNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH HOW STRONGLY I FEEL THAT <b>YOU SHOULD NOT GET THAT CASE!</b>

    I've put over 20 computers in this case (from CAD/CAM machines w/R9800s and 2800s to office machines with 1800s and gf2mx400s) and for stock systems, it's... passable. However, I'm very, very, VERY unhappy with the one I have one of my personal systems in. The cooling is absolutely awful- I've modified mine with 2 80mm blowholes, but they don't help all that much, because there's nowhere for the air to come in; with identical 120mm fans, the exhaust fan always ends up flowing less than the intake fan because it's competing with the PS for air.

    In short, don't get this case. The cooling is godawful, and outside of putting some fans in (I may have to put some in the side panel) there's not much you can do about it.

    //Edit

    Bbbbut I LIKE playing with annoying HTML tags! ;D;D
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Geeky,

    Please tone it down a tad. I can hardly read it. It won't do anyone any good if they can't look at it or don't want to. ;)
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Thank You!!! (wink, wink)
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    I do have to admit tho that it does a good job of keeping a 1.3 Celeron cool... I've got my print server in it now, which has the aforementioned celeron and the following other components:

    MSI Pro266TD-LR Dual P3/DDR board
    512MB PC2100 DDR
    ATi Rage 128GL 32MB w/gold Zalman passive northbridge heatsink
    Firewire PCI card
    80GB Maxtor DiamondMax 9 (yea, another one... I now have 3 80GB and 4 160GB drives... Maxtor had better not have pulled a Deathstar on these things :rolleyes: )
    LiteOn 52/32/52 CD-RW
    Vantec Nexus fan controller
    Floppy

    Cooling:
    Lapped Globalwin CAK38 w/12cfm 60mm Coolermaster silent fan
    2 120mm Enermax Adjustable fans (1 in, 1 out), 2 Vantec Stealth 80mm fans (exhaust) all hooked up to fan controller.

    I made it as quiet as possible (the loudest thing in it is the PS), and running F@H, the CPU temp. is <110*F. But it's a celeron, so you know... that's not all that impressive. The fact that this is the only system I have that the case can keep cool enough to allow serious overclocking (if the system COULD be overclocked that much... it can't) speaks to just how bad the cooling on this thing is.
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited September 2003
    The only thing I would want to change for sure is the psu, Go with the True Power line of psu's if you are going Antec.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    CompUSA FMI 400w model #11000823 for the PSU will school the 350/400 model of any Antec series.
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    go with the chemning case line....i like it...so do most people here...or if u wanna spend big bucks and get an ugly (but better) case...get the addtronics 96A or sumthing like that...the really big server tower with the grill in front of it
    www.addtronics.com
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Wug is right on it here.
    Addtronics is the case to get if you want a case for what it is designed for. No hocus-pocus, the fans, cages etc where they should be. Even if it is a little boring grey, i would choose that case over any other.
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