I am having a system built with the following:

[Glenn M]

I have started doing video and DVD authoring and found it was time for
a new system....
I am having a system custom built with the following:
Kingwin KT-424 case in black
GigaByte® GA-8KNXP 800MHz FSB Motherboard
3GHz Pentium® 4 Processor with 800MHz FSB
2 gigabytes of Mushkins Black DDR400 memory
Antec True550™ 550 Watt ATX power supply
Seagate 160 SATA hard drive
Radeon™ 9800 PRO 256 meg video card
Creative Labs® Audigy 2 Platinum sound card
Sony 16X DVD

I already have external Plextor 48/24/48U and a Sony DVD burner USB
2.0 and FIrewire... and a Maxtor 200 gig firewire hard drive with 8
meg cache... I will add in my Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card and an Adaptec
Duo connect firewire/USB 2.0 card ...
The monitor is Sony GDM F520....

I am open to any thoughts or suggestions...my objective was to put
together a top shelf system using premium parts....

Glenn
A GREAT DAY FOR FREEDOM... Pink Floyd
A GREAT DAY FOR FREEDOM... Pink Floyd

 

[Richard Dower]

I have started doing video and DVD authoring and found it was time for
a new system....
I am having a system custom built with the following:
Kingwin KT-424 case in black
GigaByte® GA-8KNXP 800MHz FSB Motherboard
3GHz Pentium® 4 Processor with 800MHz FSB
2 gigabytes of Mushkins Black DDR400 memory
Antec True550T 550 Watt ATX power supply
Seagate 160 SATA hard drive
RadeonT 9800 PRO 256 meg video card
Creative Labs® Audigy 2 Platinum sound card
Sony 16X DVD

I already have external Plextor 48/24/48U and a Sony DVD burner USB
2.0 and FIrewire... and a Maxtor 200 gig firewire hard drive with 8
meg cache... I will add in my Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card and an Adaptec
Duo connect firewire/USB 2.0 card ...
The monitor is Sony GDM F520....

I am open to any thoughts or suggestions...my objective was to put
together a top shelf system using premium parts....

Whats else do you need from us then?, you've got your "top shelf" PC picked
out and the parts for it.

But in 4 months time your top shelf will be old news when the new Intel
chips and socket 775 come out.

 

[Stacey]

I have started doing video and DVD authoring and found it was time for
a new system....
I am having a system custom built with the following:
Kingwin KT-424 case in black
GigaByte® GA-8KNXP 800MHz FSB Motherboard
3GHz Pentium® 4 Processor with 800MHz FSB
2 gigabytes of Mushkins Black DDR400 memory
Antec True550™ 550 Watt ATX power supply
Seagate 160 SATA hard drive
Radeon™ 9800 PRO 256 meg video card
Creative Labs® Audigy 2 Platinum sound card
Sony 16X DVD

I already have external Plextor 48/24/48U and a Sony DVD burner USB
2.0 and FIrewire... and a Maxtor 200 gig firewire hard drive with 8
meg cache... I will add in my Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card and an Adaptec
Duo connect firewire/USB 2.0 card ...
The monitor is Sony GDM F520....

I am open to any thoughts or suggestions...my objective was to put
together a top shelf system using premium parts....

Overkill videocard for video editing and a matrox G550 has better 2D. Also
as someone else stated there are some new intel chips/boards just around
the corner that will make this combo you picked out look slow as it's kinda
the end of this chip. Personally I'd wait if you can.

 

[Glenn M]

Whats else do you need from us then?, you've got your "top shelf" PC picked
out and the parts for it.

But in 4 months time your top shelf will be old news when the new Intel
chips and socket 775 come out.

Just looking for opinions....
If I always worried about what is next I would never get a
computer...there is always something new around the corner... I am
trying to build with hopefully the best of whats avaliable at this
time...

A GREAT DAY FOR FREEDOM... Pink Floyd

 

[Richard Dower]

Just looking for opinions....
If I always worried about what is next I would never get a
computer...there is always something new around the corner... I am
trying to build with hopefully the best of whats avaliable at this
time...

The parts you picked out right now are top of the line and excellent. You
will have a top flight PC for sure. But what i might suggest, if top end is
what you want, is you wait a few months and then buy the new Intel chips and
motherboards.

SATA II will be out then and PCI Express should also see some movement. You
could buy some of the parts now and leave the memory/motherboard and chip
for next year.

Also note that the Nvidia NV40 is due in a couple of months, that will
totally kill any ATI card on the market. You could keep the PSU you're
buying and some other parts are still relevent.

In the end it's what you want and when you want it...prices have dropped
alot on the parts you've selected and most people who can afford it would be
getting the same parts as you.

I certainly would if i had waited to get 800MHz FSB chips to be on sale, but
i ended up with the 8INXP and 533FSB...which at that time was also top of
the line.