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Hello everyone,
As a newcomer I've read through some posts and there seems to be some good advice on system specifications so hopefully you'll have some for me too. I'm a heavy PC user (work not games sadly!) and I'm looking to invest in a top end system. I'm looking for something that will be very fast but also very stable and with lots of storage and good back-up to avoid data loss. Finally I'm also interested in as quiet a PC as possible so I'm considering non fan case options. I run Office applications and also Dreamweaver, Director and Music editing software so its quite a variety of uses. I realise there are trade offs between certain factors but I guess my top one is stability. I don't want my system to crash or for drives to fail. I will use someone else to build it but I will source all components:
This is quite a wish list I guess!
But as it is for work my budget is fairly generous, up to 2k, which I reckon will give me a decent system.
Anyway here's my initial spec. ideas - ideas to improve gratefully received:
CASE: VapoChill Xtreme Edition
PSU: Antec TrueBlue 480W (+ SATA adapter cable)
MotherBoard: Asus A7N8X De-Luxe nForce2 SATA (Version 2)
CPU: Pentium P4 3.2
Additional Cooling: (not required?)
RAM: 2x512Mb Corsair XMS3200 CAS2 RAM + heatspreaders
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 120GB (inc 8MB buffer)
HDD (Backup) Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 120GB
GPU: GeForceFX 5900 Ultra
SPEAKERS: Creative Megaworks 510D
SOUNDCARD: ??
DVD: Pioneer A05 DVDRW
CD: Plextor PleXWriter Premium (52X32 8Mb Buffer)
CONNECTIONS: 4 x USB (new type) / 1 x Firewire
Power Supply: (included in Vapochill case?)
Hauppage TV Tuner card
Look forward to your comments!
TIM
As a newcomer I've read through some posts and there seems to be some good advice on system specifications so hopefully you'll have some for me too. I'm a heavy PC user (work not games sadly!) and I'm looking to invest in a top end system. I'm looking for something that will be very fast but also very stable and with lots of storage and good back-up to avoid data loss. Finally I'm also interested in as quiet a PC as possible so I'm considering non fan case options. I run Office applications and also Dreamweaver, Director and Music editing software so its quite a variety of uses. I realise there are trade offs between certain factors but I guess my top one is stability. I don't want my system to crash or for drives to fail. I will use someone else to build it but I will source all components:
This is quite a wish list I guess!
But as it is for work my budget is fairly generous, up to 2k, which I reckon will give me a decent system.
Anyway here's my initial spec. ideas - ideas to improve gratefully received:
CASE: VapoChill Xtreme Edition
PSU: Antec TrueBlue 480W (+ SATA adapter cable)
MotherBoard: Asus A7N8X De-Luxe nForce2 SATA (Version 2)
CPU: Pentium P4 3.2
Additional Cooling: (not required?)
RAM: 2x512Mb Corsair XMS3200 CAS2 RAM + heatspreaders
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 120GB (inc 8MB buffer)
HDD (Backup) Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 120GB
GPU: GeForceFX 5900 Ultra
SPEAKERS: Creative Megaworks 510D
SOUNDCARD: ??
DVD: Pioneer A05 DVDRW
CD: Plextor PleXWriter Premium (52X32 8Mb Buffer)
CONNECTIONS: 4 x USB (new type) / 1 x Firewire
Power Supply: (included in Vapochill case?)
Hauppage TV Tuner card
Look forward to your comments!
TIM