Pirre

Hi guys, I have been a bit inactive on following up on hardware components. I need to assemble a rock stable work station for a friend.

I have a few questions:

- choosing a 775 3ghz cpu, would I take DDR2 or not?

- a rock stable system starts with a rock stable mobo, what is today's best mobo for that? Asus still good?

- what raid controller is best for 200GB WD HD's in mirror?

- what's today's best 19inch LCD?

- a SCSI slot for a PD-ROM is also required.

I'd appreciate some expert opinions.

thanks a lot

update, I've assembled the following:

1 Logitech MX1000 - Cordless Optical Mouse
1 Logitech Deluxe Acces Keyboard BE 104 keys PS/2
1 ViewSonic VP912S 19" - TFT flat panel display
1 Antec TRUE480PEC TruePower 480W ATX Power Supply
1 Antec Performance Plus AMG Plusview1000AMG SOHO - Fileserver Midi Tower Case
1 Adaptec ATA-2400A ATA RAID Card 4 Channel Retail Kit
1 Plextor PX-716A/T3 DVD+/-RW Writer 16x Retail White + Black front bezel
1 Plextor PX130A/T3 16x DVD - 50x CD-Rom IDE internal - Tray In BULK
1 3,5'' 1.44 MB Floppy Diskdrive (Mitsumi, Samsung, NEC of Sony)
1 MSI ATI Radeon RX700PRO-TD128E - 128MB DDR PCI-E TV-OUT/DVI 425/860 128b
2 Western Digital Caviar 2000JB SE MB 200 GB - 8.9ms/8192K/7200RPM - U-ATA100 harddisk
4 Papst 8412NGMLE 80x80x25mm
2 Apacer DDR2 512MB PC4300 CL4.0 LFT
1 Intel Pentium IV 540 - 3.2GHz with 1024K cache - socket 775 - 800MHz FSB - In-a-box with cooler
1 Asus P5GD2 / Socket 775 / Intel 915P / ATX motherboard

kristos

for every day use, I'm sure that will do very well.

if you're going to oc, I'd make some changes though.
--> OCZ 520 or 600 or PC P&C 510 deluxe (actually, even if you're not going to OC, I'd advise you to get one of these: Antec is good but these are a fair bit better and I hear Antec has been producing poorer prducts lately...)
--> P5AD2 E premium
--> OCZ EB ddr2

piotke

why not a A64 + tccd memory ? Cheaper and better performance ?

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