cyrnel - my old box is in Germany, I'm in the USA now
I took my hdd's, gfx card, and ran
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Anyways, time to update and stuff. (I've been working on this all morning ...)
Lemme explain better why I'm so keen on good opticals :
I have currently a dvd'd data archive of 1002 gigs. no, that is not a typo.
I will always find more to download. (and I will have a fast dsl connxn).
dvd's are cheaper than hdd's for storage.
I also want to get in the habit of backing up whatever I keep on the hdd's.
now, speaking of opticals ...
I've decided to say 'fuck silver optical bezels'. Performance matters more. (and price).
The DVD-ROM will most likely be the Lite-On 16p9s. 20$ shipped from newegg.
THe RW will be either the Lite-On 1693s (40$) or the BenQ 1640 (47$).
Decisions based on reading at cdfreaks forums, mostly.
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Other stuff :
Mobo - probably going to go for the Abit AV8. Seems like a good board, and the price is good (newegg has it for 99.50
before a 25$ rebate). So now it matches pricewise with the cheapy msi I was looking at, and is assumably a better board.
Mem - still likely going for the 1 gig corsair value kit from newegg (2x512). ~90$.
Proc - Still thinking the A64 3000+ Venice ... it's 146 @ newegg ... the 3200+ is 190$, and I'm not sure the performance increase would justify the price diff.
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Still working on the case and psu.
I'm leaning towards the Enermax Noisetaker 375w from newegg for 44$ plus ship ...
since I'm still not sure if I
need 400w, but 350w feels like it
might be too little?
Or, not, assuming I stick with a good brand?
Consider also that I may, instead of adding 2 sata's and keep the 2 ide's ... I might pull the 120 gig ide disk I have now, especially if in the future I may buy some cheap used box and make it a linux fw/file server (just for the fuck of it ..)
Case - I may wind up with a black and silver case, since I'm going with black opticals ... but I need some silver in it, somewhere.
and since psu and case are going to take the bulk of the shipping costs ... I need to factor that into my budget.
So .. I'm now going to look around other sites for cases/psu's, maybe with cheaper shipping ...