new spec - comments please

metrophage · 13 Jul 2006 at 13:50

following on from this thread

I am starting from scratch again. budget approx £450. Comments on this spec greatly appreciated

MB-147-AS Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-147-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
MY-059-CS Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x512MB) (MY-059-CS)
£59.95 £59.95
GX-026-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-026-BG)
£67.95 £67.95
CA-000-SS Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS)
£44.95 £44.95
HD-095-WD Western Digital Raptor 36GB WD360ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-095-WD)
£68.50 £68.50
Subtotal £371.25
VAT £64.97
Total £436.22

will be used for general use - programming, graphics, web and perhaps a bit of low level gaming

need to add a quiet silver dvd writer - though choice seems limited is lightscribe worth getting?

will also be adding large data HDD's prob samsung spin point - though not in this budget

metrophage · 13 Jul 2006 at 14:05

fenderbass86 said:
Get rid of the raptor for one of these:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Price: £52.50 (£61.69 Including VAT at 17.5%)

reasons why would be useful....

on reading hdd thread's i thought common practice was to stick OS and programs on raptor for speed and data on other drives.

metrophage · 13 Jul 2006 at 14:07

other requirements for the machine - must be stable and reliable.

I am also likely to to be doing some major GIS work using arcGIS. ANy one had any experience of this and hardware requirements?

metrophage · 13 Jul 2006 at 14:29

how do the barracuda compare to samsung - particularly regards noise?

metrophage · 13 Jul 2006 at 14:39

updated spec

MB-147-AS Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-147-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
GX-026-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-026-BG)
£67.95 £67.95
CA-000-SS Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS)
£44.95 £44.95
MY-095-CS Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-095-CS)
£111.95 £111.95
HD-051-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB ST3808110AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-051-SE)
£29.50 £29.50
Subtotal £384.25
VAT £67.25
Total £451.50

have kept the graphics card at low spec - as my gaming requirements are low, and have increased ram to 2 gig - have swapped raptor to 80g barracuda with larger data storage drives to be added at a later date.

hows this all looking? I am presuming there are no major problems ith mobo/cpu/mem as no one has commented on those yet?

metrophage · 13 Jul 2006 at 15:20

ok have updated the drive so...what do we think? - oh and thanks for all your comments so far

MB-147-AS Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-147-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
GX-026-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-026-BG)
£67.95 £67.95
CA-000-SS Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS)
£44.95 £44.95
MY-095-CS Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-095-CS)
£111.95 £111.95
HD-079-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-079-SE)
£52.50 £52.50
Subtotal £407.25
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.95
VAT £72.84
Total £489.04