New office machines
 

2 new office network machines will be ordered.

They must be silent, small and reliable.
Not interested in 3D performance or high fsb.
They will run W2K + MS Office

Motherboard - ASROCK K7VM2 - 69,99
Processor - XP 1700+ - 69,99
Cooler - Arctic Cooling Copper Silent - 19,99
Ram - 256MB DDR PC266 CL2 Infineon - 82,99
VGA - Prosavage8 gfx onboard - 0
LAN - 10/100 onboard - 0
Case - Aopen H400A (200W psu) - 62
Cdrom - Liteon 52x - 26,99
HD - Seagate Barracuda IV 40GB - 98,99
Keyboard - Cherry space saver (belgium) - 20
Screen - 15" TFT BENQ FP557 - 359,99
Mouse - MS Wheelmouse optical - 27
Casefan - Pabst 612FL 60mm - 19,5

Total = 857,43 EUR

Shoot !

why shoot ?

everything looks great: price, config,....

go for it.

Only 2 things bothering me:

1) Prosavage graphics. Probably more then enough to display Word & Excel. But ... will onboard vga cripple the entire system ? (If so i can still add an agp-card ofcourse.)

2) Height mATX case = 135mm
Height cooler = 90mm
If you make a sum of "case-feet" - case thickness - top cover - spacer - mobo - slot A ... it will be a tight fit and not leaving much space.

Re: New office machines
 

Why not the ASrock K7T...? KT266A (a lot faster than KM266 chipset) and has lan and onboard sound.

It doesn't have onboard VGA, but it's 12 eur cheaper, and you can get a basic agp card for 20 eur.



Seagate Cuda V should a tiny bit more quiet, and the 60GB version costs only 10 eur more (but i doubt you'll need 60Gb for office...).



Last thing... a 60mm casefan? :s

onboard vga won't cripple your system for desktop applications

go with the config, looks :super:

a) Where ? Who sells it ?
b) If i could buy a silent 7200 rpm fast disk of 5GB, 10 EUR cheaper then the 40GB i would still go for the 5GB. Smaller disk = faster format, no partionmaking, faster image. I do NOT need the space, but i want the speed.
c) It doesn't make any sound and it will lower temps at load with at least 5°C.

Ordered, thx for taking the effort to check !

There is no Asrock K7T in mATX
http://www.asrock.com/product/amd/index.htm

excellent choice :super:

couldn't this be a problem ?
200 Watt ??

XP1700 - 70W
Cooling - 10W
Mobo - 25W
IDE 7200 - 10W
256MB ram - 16W
CDROM - 25W

Did my homework :^)