Sapphire Radeon 9700 Atlantis 128MB. AGP, ATI 9700, DVI, TV-Out, retail Intel Pentium 4 2.53 GHz Boxed PC533. Socket PGA478, 512kB "Northwood- Seagate Barracuda V 120GB IDE 7200RPM. ATA/100, 8MB cache ST3120024A TwinMOS PC2700 DDR-DIMM 512MB CL2. Minne 184-P MSI 648 MAX Motherboard for S478/533mhz. SIS648, ATA/133, ATX, DDR, 8X, USB2.0 Enermax Strömförsörjning ATX 350W (P-4) Silent Series LianLi pc 60 with shipping and tax and all that stuff it costs almost exactly £850 (£1400 for all the yanks) feel free to suggest something else as long as its not more expensive than 850...
2 things: 1. I'm guessing Strömförsörjning means "power supply". If I were you, I'd try to get an Antec TruePower if I could afford the extra cost. 2. SiS P4 chipset + Radeon 9s = Incompatibility. Go for Granite Bay (which will require you to get 2 256 DDR DIMMs instead of 1 512, but it's worth it)
I agree with whypick 1, not just because of the incompatability. Don't try and save money on the motherboard before anything else. You'll only end up regretting it.
whypick, yeah, Strömförsörjning = psu and can someone point me to a nice and not to expensive granite bay motherboard at www.komplett.co.uk please, because i really dont know much about motherboards
I think jake is going for the Seagate because they are good quality drives and as near to silent as you get... i saw his other thread.
The Seagate drives are the quietest at the moment, followed closely by the IBM 180GXP. However, the seagates have lower performance than all its equivalent competitors.
how much performance is it to have a seagate vs like a WD or maxtor? and please give me a link to a nice not to expensive granite bay motherboard at komplett, cause thats the main issue at the moment
Below are the only granite bay boards available from Komplett.se for your perusal. None of them are available as of yet, but shouldn't be too long. ASUS P4G8X DELUXE MSI GNB MAX-FISR MSI GNB MAX-BFISR If you can stretch to these, then I would, otherwise, get an intel I845PE based board. This was pretty much the top performer up until the granite bay and still beats it in some benchmarks. If you decide to go this route, make sure you get 2 identical sticks of good PC3200 rated DDR, such as corsair XMS. I say this because Intel's future is very much dual channel DDR, and buying this now would set you up for your next board down the line. Hope this helps. 8-ball
Thanks alot well, ive heard lots of stuff about intel lowering the price on like all p4 CPUs one time in febuary and one time in april, if they do that i might take the extra cash and buy one of those motherboards, cause everybody seems to recomend them
argh, i check both komplett and datorbutiken.com but could only find I845PE base cards with AGP 4x... is there any I845PE cards with agp 8x?
Granite Bay is the only current Intel chipset to support AGP 8x. Although in all the benchmarks I have seen it makes very little performance difference. The SIS chipsets have had 8x AGP for a while now but most people in here don't like SIS. I have always had AMD machines so I can't comment either way.....until I (maybe) get the new 655 shipset at the end of the month.....
They are quieter than the older Maxtor drives, but they are still quite noisey. They are fast though, I wouldn't part with my Maxtor for anything short of a bigger faster Maxtor (or even better, two bigger faster Maxtors) I would wait, but that comes from a person that waited for 3-4 months for my Soyo P4X400 Ultra I personaly think that you have little to lose by waiting. Just my $0.02!
