What bits would you use?

ANDARIAL

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As i have a bit of spare time over the holidays i have decided to have a shuffle about of old pc parts/computers
Parts list below
abit ab9 pro
ga p31 ds3l
Q6700
4x800 ddr2 ram 1gb sticks
4x1066 ddr2 ram 2 gb sticks
2x800 ddr2 2 gb sticks

I am undecided whether to go for more ram over higher speed ram
Use of pc is just a dumping ground and additional secondary backup so no gaming etc.This pc is/will not be used for long periods just to backup etc

also got about 8 hdds to fit in(got a few spare sata cards to use if necessary

Mainly want opinions on which mobo and weather to use more slower ram or less faster ram
Cheers :)
 
Looking at what you have i would use the following items.

Abit AB9 Pro (Has 9 SATA onboard and couple of PCI-E X1 Slots and Dual Gigbit LAN ports)
Use 4x1066 DDR2 memory

Use the SATA connections on the board and 6xSATA Intel® ICH8R offers RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
Use 2 SATA for RAID 1 for two drives to support the OS

This wuld give you some resilience if you are using it as a backup system and cover any problems if there is a hardware fault with the OS.

This should be able to sit within a single case and depeding on your the GPU you would need to have at least a 450W PSU to cover the power of the drives, cpu and the rest of the components.

Regards
Z
 
Thanks for the advice
No raid as this is just for a dump system really and the drives already have drivepool installed(So photos/docs are backed up 2 times on here and elsewhere too)
psu atm is a 380 w Antec but i have a 550 cic i can put in there
Not wanting to buy additional bits as nothing is critical that is stored on the drives:)
Gpu wise i am using a very old 8400 gs
 
Just noticed that the abit mobo only supports upto 800mhz ram
So final question before i start
8 GB of 800mhz(1066 ram downclocked) on the abit

or 4 GB of 1066mhz @1066 mhz on the ds3l (giga mobo won`t support/boot with more than 4 GB of ram)
 
Those Abit boards were good for overclocking, I'm sure you could push it beyond 800.

Quantity will beat speed everytime IMO, as anything not in memory is going to need to be pulled from disk - which is a much much slower option than slightly slower memory anyway.

Are your SATA addon cards all SATA 1? Only use the addon cards if they offer a better SATA interface, though this won't make much difference unless your using SSDs or modern HDDs
 
Only using 1 addon sata atm,That is a pci-x sata 2
Can`t fit any more than 1 more hdd in that case anyway (got 9 hdds in total in there)

Put it all together the other day and it would not boot at all,turn out that the gfx card died on me (took a while to figure this out :o)
All working fine atm:D
 
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