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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: TheFox on December 22, 2003, 10:48:07 AM

Title: New Project Specs - problems/conflicts ?
Post by: TheFox on December 22, 2003, 10:48:07 AM

Hi all

I am looking to build the following system in the new year, mainly to be used for AH, Music production, and digitisation of old VHS tapes to DVD.

Can anyone see any obvious problems or conflicts with this spec ? .

Antec LS138 Sonata-UK Case
Asus P4P800 Delux Motherboard
Intel P4 2.6C 800MHz Bus CPU
Kingston HyperX DDR400 512mb x 2
3.5 Floppy Drive x 1

ATI Radeon 9800XT Graphics Card

Maxtor (or similar) 200GB 7200 Hard drive x 2
LG GSA-4040B DVD Writer
Liteon  LTC4816H CD-Rom

Pinnacle Studio Deluxe Video Capture Board

EgoSys WamiRack 24 Sound Card
Audigy Sound card or similar for AH

Win XP

Thats it - all comments will be appreciated

Regards

Title: New Project Specs - problems/conflicts ?
Post by: bloom25 on December 22, 2003, 11:36:22 AM

I don't see any problems with your choices.  About the only thing I can recommend is to pick up another 120 mm Antec casefan to go in the front of the Sonata.  That's going to be a lot of heat for the one 120mm in the rear to take case of alone.

Title: New Project Specs - problems/conflicts ?
Post by: TheFox on December 22, 2003, 02:02:48 PM

Thanks for that Bloom - good idea about the second fan, I will include it as part of the build.

Regards

Title: New Project Specs - problems/conflicts ?
Post by: Skyfoxx on December 22, 2003, 02:36:41 PM

Nice setup. :aok
Only one very minor suggestion. Have you considered using SATA hard drives over IDE. The cost is only a small amount more and a SATA drive will allow you to get rid of some of the bulky cabling associated with IDE drives etc. It will reduce case clutter, posssibly giving your fans a less obstructed cooling path.