The Best Hardware!

HackingGuruHackingGuru
edited June 2003 in Hardware
Hey, I need some help guys, whats the best:

Motherboards $80-$150 (for all the processors)
Power Supplies
Memory
Hard Drives
Cases

Comments

  • TmodTmod
    edited June 2003
    Well this is just my opinion,


    Motherboards $80-$150 (for all the processors)=Any Abit Board
    Power Supplies=PC Power & Cooling
    Memory=Corsair
    Hard Drives=Western Digital
    Cases=Don't have a preference
  • Massive_gasMassive_gas Baghdad
    edited June 2003
    The word best is such a temporary term.
  • dydxdydx Cymru, UK
    edited June 2003
    What are you planning on doing with the hardware?

    The best server hardware wont be very good at gaming.

    Give us more details.

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  • CoasterCoaster
    edited June 2003
    PSU=Enermax (for me)
    Memory=Corsair
    Hard Drives=Western Digital
    CPU=Barton XP2500
    MOBO=KD7
  • EMNEMN
    edited June 2003
    Originally posted by Coaster
    PSU=Enermax (for me)
    Memory=Corsair
    Hard Drives=Western Digital
    CPU=Barton XP2500
    MOBO=KD7

    I second that. Except for the mobo I'd recommend the NF7-S, since the nForce2 chipsets offer a significaant performance gain over KT400. ;)
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    Crucial used to be reliable and cheap, but now their prices are just on par and their RAM is unreliable, so go with either Twinmoss or Corsair.

    NS
  • XZGohanXZGohan Scottsdale, Arizona Member
    edited June 2003
    Well, dad called me today, sends me a picture of what's at home.
    Abit IC7-G Max2
    Intel 2.8c
    4x Sticks matched Corsair XMS3200 C2 512mb each
    2x Maxtor SATA 160gb drives
    :eek:

    Anyway, my recommendations are...
    Abit NF7-S 2.0
    Corsair XMS3200 C2, 2 sticks of 256mb
    Amd 2500+ Barton
    LianLi PC60
  • CoasterCoaster
    edited June 2003
    Can you only have 2 sticks of 3200 with the NF7 like the KD7?
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited June 2003
    Yes you can only have 2 sticks of 3200 in the NF7-S

    As far as the best hardware

    Mobo - NF7-S
    PSU - pc power & cooling
    memory - corsair
    hard drive - WD, Segate, Maxtor, never had a problem with either of them
    cases - I like the Chieftec's myself
  • HackingGuruHackingGuru
    edited June 2003
    Arent the Maxtor ATA 133 hard drives good? Its mostly for gaming machines.
  • karatekidkaratekid Ogdensburg, NY
    edited June 2003
    Maxtor hard drives are nice drives, but the difference between ATA 133 and ATA 100 is basically nothing. I would not make ATA 133 a deciding factor when purchasing a drive.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    A 2MB drive will get slaughted by an 8MB drive,
    An 8MB ATA100 drive will kill a 2MB ATA133 drive,
    but you probably wont even notice, or that there actually will even be a difference between an ATA100 and 133 drive, for the simple reason, a bigger cache actually makes the drive physically faster, whereas increasing the bandwidth on the interface when the drives cant even reach that speed makes little to no difference at all.

    NS
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited June 2003
    Maxtor's ATA-133 8mb drives are faster than the WDs I think... mine do ~42000kb/s in SiSoft Sandra, which is only a few mb/s off the reference 15k rpm scsi drive, and faster than the reference RAID array, and they are NOT RAIDed.

    Motherboard- ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe
    PS- Antec, PC Power & Cooling
    Memory- Corsair
    HD- Maxtor 8mb/7200rpm, either SATA or ATA-133
    Case- The Antec/Chieftec/Chenming mid-towers are pretty good, but their full towers (Antec SX-1240 & clones) are better. Unfortunately the only place that seems to have them anymore is Directron.com... if it's got 6 5.25" bays and 6 hd bays, it's an SX1240 or clone....
  • CCWCCW Suffolk, UK
    edited June 2003
    Motherboards - Abit NF7-S
    Power Supplies - Not sure
    Memory - TwinMOS w/BH-5 chips
    Hard Drives - Maxtors
    Cases - Chieftec Full Towers
  • HackingGuruHackingGuru
    edited June 2003
    Thanks for you help everyone!
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