Just ordered my new machine

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Specs:
Asus P4P800 mobo, 800fsb, i865PE chipset
P4 2.8c 800fsb
1GB Hynix PC3200 ram
2x120GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives, 8MB cache
Gigabyte ATI Radeon 9600 128MB graphics card
Acer 17" LCD monitor
Wireless keyboard + mouse, blahblah

I'll drop in my Delta 44 and I'll be ready to rock. Woohoo! can't wait
 
Sounds like a cool toy. Gonna run those drive Raid-0 or have separate app and data drives?
 
Im using the same mobo with Logic & Lynx
Very stable 8 months counting
 
DAFFYDRUNK said:
Sounds like a cool toy. Gonna run those drive Raid-0 or have separate app and data drives?
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The performance of Raid 0 is tempting, but it's just too risky to stripe without mirroring, so yeah it's seperate app and data drives. I'm gonna partition them and use Ghost to image each to the other for total redundancy
 
It was $2600 here in New Zealand, which is around $1800 USD. That price also included the case, floppy drive & DVD burner.

I could have shaved around $300 off by going for 512MB ram, smaller drives and a lower spec graphics card, but WTH
 
Where did you order the components from? All the same place or did you search and destroy your brain comparing prices from different places?

PS: Looks great!
 
Haha yeh that search and destroy thing.

Actually it wasn't that hard. Once I'd decided on the type of mobo and ram, I used Pricespy to locate the cheapest bits and just knocked up a quick spreadsheet using the 4 or 5 cheapest suppliers for each part. I wanted to get the mobo, chip & ram from the same supplier in case there were any issues.

I could have save a few more $s but I ended up getting everything, except for the monitor, from the same supplier who will do the assembly as well. Which reminds me I gotta go check the status of that order
 
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