cathater Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 have finnally saved a little money and am designing my buggered systems replacement. Was gonna do amd athalon x2 6000 instead of storebought intel system this time pci express ?(make sugestion) video card (I'm not a gamer don't need anything fantastic here, just video editing) ? audio card ( wish to edit video in 5 channel)(newegg doesn't describe all audio jacks on asus m2n mobo) motherboard---asus m2n e sli (handles 4 ide devices- to use my old toys-, and a 1394 jack I need) I understand sli shares 2 video cards to accelarate video rendering, I don't need that does it works with 1 card??? does it take part of 1st screen onto second card and 2nd monitor full screen or is that something I've read about elsewhere and different
Jerseyguy Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 How much is a little bit of money? just so we can get a idea on what you want to spend, i just spent $900 on my new system. and that was just for a processor, motherboard, memory and video card.
cathater Posted July 27, 2007 Author Posted July 27, 2007 Oh I was kinda hoping for <$600, and reuseing all my ide stuff till it dies. Don't think theres anything else from my sony p4 I can borrow. So far I'm up to $400 (just 2 gig mem) Was tinking a raidmax 612wb case with 500 watt power supply another $100 (4 fans, my sony always ran hot while rendering video, and thats when it died) Jeepers, I don't think my sony xp runs on anything but that sony
chewy Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 I would go with a 2.6 windsor or even a 2.5 brisbane core, the 6000 is pushed to it's limits already with heat and power issues better power supply since you are using 4 ide's you will need a good power supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811119068 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817159040 compare to the raidmax power http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817152029
cathater Posted July 27, 2007 Author Posted July 27, 2007 (edited) I looked at power supplys Chewy, interesting one has a 28 amp 12v, and the other has 2 12v at 18 amp. Now if I can find the mobo voltage in diagram I can figure out what I need? Or is this a sorted thing, 12v to mb, seperate 12v line to drives, and the other unit shares. Have not played this deep in computer before. Edited July 27, 2007 by cathater
cathater Posted July 27, 2007 Author Posted July 27, 2007 they have 2 2.6 windsor, both 129$ L2 cache 2 1mb or 2 512kb, bigger is better or just more heat? decisions , decisions , thanks for the help Chewy
chewy Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 the 2 or 3 raidmax's I have seen had issues within a year or few months they claim +12V@28A but Hold-up Time >10ms at full load whereas the coolmax(not that good a brand) +12V1@18A, +12V2@18A they would be a little more conservative http://www.coolmaxusa.com/productDetailsPo...category=single the connectors tell a lot too
chewy Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 they have 2 2.6 windsor, both 129$L2 cache 2 1mb or 2 512kb, bigger is better or just more heat? decisions , decisions , thanks for the help Chewy the larger l2 is wasted on the amd64's as the onboard memory controller is so damn fast the one thing to know is the amd64's need premium ram to keep up with the cpu's design
cathater Posted July 29, 2007 Author Posted July 29, 2007 premium ram? ddr 2 800 Latency 4 or 5 or do you have a specific brand to avoid
chewy Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 good ram on sale http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820146565 cas 4
dontasciime Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 That memory also has a bundle deal with XION Supernova XON-800R14N ATX12V quad rail nvidia sli cert. Still makes $133 for psu though.
chewy Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 That memory also has a bundle deal with XION Supernova XON-800R14N ATX12V quad rail nvidia sli cert.Still makes $133 for psu though. if we had another 600$ of cath's money to spend we could get him into a E6850 and a decent video card another 2 gigs of that ram, course then he would want to go 64 bit
dontasciime Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 It's fun spending other peoples money though 1 gfx card . surely you meant 2 X 8800gtx/ultra/faf
chewy Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 I thought we would save the second 300$ card for after we got him hooked and then he would spend 1500$ course then he would need to stripe some raptors
cathater Posted July 30, 2007 Author Posted July 30, 2007 If I had another $600 I'd probably go on a motorcycle vacation and worry about computing some other time. I've always got sweeties computer, although it goes somewhere in computer dreams sometimes. Taskmanager says system 98% idle, 2% taskmanager, and half my keystrokes nevermake it to the monitor.(it's not my spelling) I think she could use a clean install of everything, her kid says no. Was looking at am2 fans, and reading the reviews, nobody sounded like they were doing a really good job. Let me see, 70c* 9/5+32= 158F (I understand F and that seems quite toasty, don't remember my p4 ever breaking 100F. )Should I continue saving money, and go some other way or does everybody run this toasty?
chewy Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductRevie...e=10&Page=1 should be idle at 35C load 40-50C bit about a slight overclock to get memory up to 800 is a good tip
cathater Posted July 31, 2007 Author Posted July 31, 2007 Dynatron > Item#:N82E16835114044 new idle temp of 105F vs. 116F with stock fan. Sustained torture CPU temp max of 136 to 141F compared to stock AMD cooler max at 153F I may have been wro, wro, wrn, I may have been less then fully correct, I only remembered it as C Still for $30 it not a bunch better then stock
chewy Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 keeps my AMD 5600+ x64 x2 at a cool 34C when at a full load. idle it drops down even lower! http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductRevie...N82E16835200013
cathater Posted August 1, 2007 Author Posted August 1, 2007 well the cheap, miserable person inside of me ordered the case and power supply today. will recover from wallet shock and buy the rest payday guess I better get to pinnacle studio to see what it requires for vid card as my agp card wont work here
cathater Posted August 1, 2007 Author Posted August 1, 2007 256mb direct9 , ati radion9600, nvidia geforce6 or better I know my agp card wasn't that good and it ran on a p4
chewy Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 (edited) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130075 the 7600's have dropped in price lately or for a little more corn's gt chipset http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....=GeForce+7600GT Edited August 1, 2007 by chewy
cathater Posted August 10, 2007 Author Posted August 10, 2007 all the goodies should be here any day first dumb question 2.2 v ram, 1.35v cpu and 3v and 5 volt lines on the power supply, am I gonna find 35 jumpers on the motherboard and no instruction pamplet? second question has bill gates fixed vista enough yet, so it works with my editing software like xp does
dontasciime Posted August 10, 2007 Posted August 10, 2007 Lol. You will be ok there will be few jumpers and none to worry about. Vista now thats a different matter.
cathater Posted August 16, 2007 Author Posted August 16, 2007 Parts here! Mobo in case, power supply in, video in, most of the wires hooked up,- hot and sweety in garage tonight, BREAK TIMe need to get to other house, hdd, opt, floppie, monitor 3rd question mobo labeled spk, gnd, gnd, 5v - case speaker(piezo buzzer?) jack -wire blank blnk wire well it does looker like a piez buzzer to me , if it was a speaker I would think speaker and grnd on mobo- what do you think?
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