First post in here in bloomin ages - Spec me...

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I am in need of Test 2 machines.

No amazing spec. They will be used day in and day out for scanning external hard drives for viruses, testing graphics cards etc.

Base unit, keyboard + mouse and monitor for each. Cheapo on the latters will be fine.

The motherboards need to have IDE + SATA ports so I can test both hard drive formats. One motherboard needs to have an AGP slot, the other a pci-x so I can test both graphics card formats.

Again, the one with an AGP slot needs to take DDR ram, the other needs to take DDR2.

It'll be very useful if in the cases the hard drive bays are "hot swappable" so I can change hdd's over easily.
Both need FDD's and cdrw/dvd combos

Budget of £300 on each? maybe £350?

Many Thanks,
Jake
 
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You may find it a bit hard to get a new motherboard that supports DDR and agp, however i might have one soon as parents getting a new pc and theres has both of those with it
 
Vigoro said:
You may find it a bit hard to get a new motherboard that supports DDR and agp, however i might have one soon as parents getting a new pc and theres has both of those with it
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I'd prefer to use new components. Nothing on OcUk's site? been so long since I browsed hardware someone who does it regularly will find one quickly.
 
no i just had a look and can only see boards with pci-e even in the b-grade stuff, other sites might have it but i havent had a look yet
 
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That motherboard is supposed to take AGP/PCI-E cards, DDR & DDR2 RAM. it has SATA2 & IDE.

You'll have to add in an FDD and probably a DVD-RW (instead of my DVD-ROM). Didn't know if you wanted a HDD, so left it blank.
 
now that is handy having both :) dont you need one for ddr aswell though from what you were saying
 
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Vigoro said:
now that is handy having both :) dont you need one for ddr aswell though from what you were saying
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Well if the board takes both thats fine. It's purely for testing purposes so I'll test DDR more than DDR2.


Thanks for the quote, will take a look in a sec, just doing my own :) (been a long time since I've done this!)
 
Chimerical said:
That spec really can't be improved upon...at least not with OCUK products. Thats all as cheap as possible (with regard to the fact that the CPU can be downgraded, etc.)
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Cool beans.

Shall save that :) - least I have a spec to go on! Thanks for your help!
 
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