Building:

[deharmonic]

R U building?

this is what I am building (nothing cutting edge):

amd athlon barton xp 2500+ cpu (thermalright sp97 heatsink)
512MB DDR400 OCZ ram
asus a7v600 mobo (kt600 chipset)
chaintech geforce fx5600 vidcard
m-audio delta 1010lt (10 ins, 10 outs)
80GB 7200rpm 8MB buffer hdd (audio drive)
40GB 7200rpm hdd (os / app drive)
noname dvd drive
16x/10x/40x cdrw

all in a server case
waiting on the cpu, heatsink, and ram

upgrading from a xp1500 @ 266 to a xp2500 @ 333

i'll let ya know how it goes...

 

[seryozha]

Watch out for the noname brands.

I used to buy those before i learned my lesson.

Had a noname cd-rom, it would lock the computer up everytime i used it, it was like this on every computer i tried it in, changed DMA settings, changed cables, changed damn IDE drivers.
fine i said, ill just get a replacement, maybe this one is bad or something.

Same gosh darn thing on the replacement.

It was subsequently disected,thrown around, sexually abused, burnt, and bludgened to its digital death. May it R.I.P.

 

[deharmonic]

Well, the only new parts are the:

amd athlon barton xp 2500+ cpu (thermalright sp97 heatsink)
512MB DDR400 OCZ ram
asus a7v600 mobo (kt600 chipset)


the rest are broken in....

the drives work fine...

 

[DAFFYDRUNK]

Looks fine to me. I'd probably go for an Nforce2 over a KT600 although the performance difference over a KT600 is almost nothing.

 

[deharmonic]

I actually have:
MSI K7N2 mobo, nforce2 chipset
ASUS A7V600 mobo, kt600 chipset


the MSI board I have is really picky about ram, and will not display with any of the ram I have

the ASUS board I have will boot on 1 of the old sticks of 256MB DDR266 ram I have

The MSI board can do dual channel memory and has better features (6 ide channels vs 4), but according to testing, the nforce2 chipset using dual channel memory is marginally faster with the CPU I am using (athlon xp2500+ barton 333MHz FSB) and the ASUS board is much cheaper and seemingly more tolerant. I also trust ASUS more than MSI....


So, I am going with the KT600 chipset, which should do fine with the CPU and RAM I am getting. I am returning the MSI mobo.

It's is great to be well rounded and knowledgeable/wise in many branches of life....

ps - yuengling lager + tequila + = .......