After being harrassed by Praetor (on computerforum) to get a system built rather than buy a ready-made one, I've now got the following spec from a shop (for $1,000 - they're building it for me). I don't do any gaming, this is mainly for web-design, music/movies downloading and running some modelling applications such as Matlab. Case: CM Centurian black 500W ATX power supply Asus P4S800 SIS 648FX Intel P4 Prescott 2.8Ghz 800fsb 1MB cache Jetram memory 512MB PC3200 DDR400 Maxtor 160GB HDD 8MB cache floppy drive Sony 16xDVD-ROM Pioneer 8xDVD-RW (with Nero 6.0) Sparkle FX5600 128MB graphic card Onboard sound card Windows XP Home 6 USB 2.0 + IEEE1394
Boo. I'm here too Again. My comments: - Id stay away from the Prescott as the NorthwoodC is your best bang-for-buck and doesnt come with the hassle - Since you're not into gaming, save your money by dropping to a 5200 and put it into some more memory - Another, probably more important thing you might want to do is get the P4P800 which is based off the Intel i865PE chipset -- vastly superior to the SiS chipset you've got there Cheers
Hi, I'm in agreement with Praetor especially as far as the chipset is concerned. In my opinion Intel's chipsets are better performing and better supported than those from Sis. My .02
