davidweaverphoto Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 It's time to build a new system. <BR> The case may be excessive but it is very cool and it is halloween afterall! <BR> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119116 <BR> <BR> Here are the parts. Prices are those paid today. <BR> 1 MB ASUS P5W DH DELUXE/WIFI-AP GREEN - Retail (Price=$229.99) <BR> 4 HD 320G|ST 7K 16M SATA2 ST3320620AS - OEM (Price=$379.96) <BR> 1 CASE CM|RC-632-KKN1-GP BK RT - Retail (Qty=1, Price=$114.99) <BR> 1 CPU INTEL|C2D E6400 2.13G 775 2M R - Retail (Price=$220.00) <BR> 1 SW MS WIN XP X64 SP2B 1PK DSP UP C - OEM (Qty=1, Price=$139.99) <BR> 1 CPUCOOLER|ARCTIC P4|ACFZ7-PRO R - Retail (Price=$29.99) <BR> 2 Crucial Ballistix BL2KIT12864AA804 2GB kit DDR2-800 Price=$519.98) <BR> 1 Coolermaster RS-500-ASAA iGreen Power 500W PSU (Price=$104.99) <BR> 1 Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH GeForce 7600GT PCIE 256MB DDR3 Video (Price=144.49) <BR> <BR> I also picked up an internal HP lightscribe DVD for 60 bucks. <BR> <BR> This totals up to 1944.38 Parts should be arriving this week :-) <BR> <BR> Basically an Intel Core 2, 4 gigs of RAM, Windows XP 64bit with a free upgrade to Vista64 - 64 bit OS to take advantage of memory now and in the future, 4 320gig hard drives that will be RAIDed for large file reading and writing performance. <BR> <BR> There is a lot of data on the Net about stable overclocking the ASUS P5W DH motherboard with the Intel Core 2 E6400. The 4 gigs of Ballistix memory is well suited for this. This is a very speedy combo for a great price performance profile. The system will later get upgraded to a quad processor when they become affordable...and available...heh! <BR> <BR> This rig is for Photoshop and digital workflow. I don't need a 400 dollar video card for PS performance. <BR> <BR> I already have monitors, NAS and printers. <BR> <BR> I am thinking of adding a Raptor SATA drive for PS scratch disk but it blows my budget. Maybe I'll eBay some old laptops. <BR> <BR> Happy Halloween! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger_mattos Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 No sound card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidweaverphoto Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 Heheheheheh....onboard sound. Works for me. This is a PS rig. If I decide to do Premiere I'll swap out the video card and add a sound card. I'll add an audigy card or something else when I get around to ripping 3000+ vinyl albums! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edroper Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 your only backup medium is the DVD drive? Ouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidweaverphoto Posted November 1, 2006 Author Share Posted November 1, 2006 NAS (Network Attached Storage) for nightly documents/photos backup. Acronis is set up for system restore once a week. I don't back up to DVD. I ocassionally, every 3-4 months make a documents-pictures backup on a seperate HD that is placed at my brother-in-law's house. I don't live in a flood plain :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brixvold Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 So what do you want the 7600GT for? Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 is by far a better hd. Like in RAID 0??? The rest looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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