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August 3rd, 2001, 09:16 AM
#1
Registered User
 In Your Opinion what is the best....
- Athlon Motherboard
- 3D Card
- Sound Card
- Speakers
- Monitor
- CD-RW
- Case
I'm trying to put together my dream system. What would you put in yours?
"Motivation is not enough. You can motivate an idiot.. But then... all you have... is a motivated idiot."
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August 3rd, 2001, 09:40 AM
#2
[quote]Originally posted by DFW_Tech_Kenny:
<strong>- Athlon Motherboard
- 3D Card
- Sound Card
- Speakers
- Monitor
- CD-RW
- Case
I'm trying to put together my dream system. What would you put in yours?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Main Board = Gigabyte (for gaming  )
3D Card= Geforce2 GTS+ or Geforce3
Sound Card = Sound Blaster Live!
Monitor = Sony, VeiwSonic, HP (Sony really, Flat Screen)
CD-RW = Plexter or yamaha
Case = Aluminum 350watt 4 bay 1 floppy bay mid tower
Speaker = humm well I dont use speakers I have a 400 watt prologic Pioneer reciever hooked up to my computer with 2 12inch JBL Speakers and a 15inch sub
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...uts/athlon.gif
Do you leak any fluids, do you have any bumps on your rear, do you have any unpleasant odors?
If you answered yes to any of these then you are not qualified to own a new AMD ATHLON XP.
If someone ask you if you are running the all-new fastest AMD ATHLON XP, just turn around and reply "WHY YES, AND ITS CERTIFIED"
http://www.daemonprojects.com/
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August 3rd, 2001, 09:46 AM
#3
Registered User
I have my "dream" Pc right now...a dual p3 1ghz with 2 500 watt recievers as my speakers (1 for front L,R and the other for Rear L,R)
Only thing I could add would be ...well, max out the mobo ram (4gb) or add Scsi160...but why would I?
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August 3rd, 2001, 10:17 AM
#4
Registered User
My opinion:
Athlon Motherboard - IWill KK266-R
3D Card - ATI Radeon 64meg DDR
Sound Card - Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Speakers - I like Daemon's setup!
Monitor - I love the KDS Monitors
CD-RW - Plextor!
Case - Lot's of good choices, but definately at least 350W PS
I only post using 100% recycled electrons!!!
Stay on the bomb run, boys. I'm going to get them doors open if it hair lips everybody on Bear Creek.
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August 3rd, 2001, 02:25 PM
#5
Dual Athlon with DDR SDRAM and SCSI. 
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August 4th, 2001, 07:05 PM
#6
[quote]Originally posted by DFW_Tech_Kenny:
<strong>- Athlon Motherboard
- 3D Card
- Sound Card
- Speakers
- Monitor
- CD-RW
- Case
I'm trying to put together my dream system. What would you put in yours?</strong><hr></blockquote>
- Abit KT7A-RAID for SDR or Abit KR7-RAID (when available) for DDR. The KG7-RAID is another good board, but is not as impressive as the KT7A-RAID.
- ATI Radeon 64Mb DDR or wwait for the Radeon2 (R200)
- Soundblaster Live! 5:1
- Creative Desktop Theater DTS
- Monitor, whatever you like the look of yourselve & suits your eyesight.
- Plextor 24x10x40
- Any case that you like & is sufficient to your needs.
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August 4th, 2001, 09:11 PM
#7
Registered User
From the way all things sound, the next King of The Athlon Hill will be the Abit KG7-RAID. On the front page of the Windrivers site there is a link to a review for it. It will support the Athlon (and with a BIOS upgrade according to the review for this board that hasnt hit the market yet...) it should support the Athlon 4 or the Palamino or whatever the successor to the Athlon is called.
I am already counting down the days til I can get this board.
If it aint broke, TWEAK it!
When in doubt, throw it out!!
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August 5th, 2001, 11:11 AM
#8
[quote]Originally posted by DFW_Tech_Kenny:
<strong>- Athlon Motherboard
- 3D Card
- Sound Card
- Speakers
- Monitor
- CD-RW
- Case
I'm trying to put together my dream system. What would you put in yours?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Simple
Mainboard = Asus A7A266, obviously, high performance motherboard and usually little to no trouble with it lasting.[*]3d Card = depends on simplicity, the best of the best is Asus is a relatively cheap 3d graphics card maker, but they have high performance chips. They will soon be releasing a GeForce 3 with 128 mb ddr ram, i'd wait around for that one.[*]Sound Card = Sound Blaster Live Platinum (everything you can and would want in a Sound card at a low price)[*]Speakers = Creative Labs - Cambridge Sound Works 3500DTT, Dolby Digital 5.1 4 satelites with accoustic sound, a Center, A powerful sub, remote, and the ability to hook up other games systems or your tv to it.[*]Monitor = Viewsonic, Sony, pretty much the best out there.[*]CD-RW = Plextor Plexwriter 16x or (24x?) Plexwriters tend to hold up the best, tend to work the best with burn-proof, very favorable.[*]Case - Anything with a 300 to 350 power supply, for sturdiness I've always liked Macase cases, otherwise for looks, depends on what you want.
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Sometimes I stare people blankly in the face, and I wonder, do they know that I'm blankly staring them in the face?
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August 5th, 2001, 06:55 PM
#9
[quote]Originally posted by DFW_Tech_Kenny:
<strong>- Athlon Motherboard
- 3D Card
- Sound Card
- Speakers
- Monitor
- CD-RW
- Case
I'm trying to put together my dream system. What would you put in yours?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Gigabyte 7DX-R
1.33 GHz Athlon OC'ed to 1500+
Geforce3 Gainward or ASUS OC'ed
SB Live! Platinum or Hercules Game Theater XP
Labtec Pulse 424 (2 sets)
Don't laugh until you heard 'em. $300 sound for $50. 'Maximum PC Kick *** 9'
Sony 21: flat screen
Plextor CD-RW
Aluminium case or a full ATX Tower
Also:
GlobalWin WBK38 or ThermalRight SK6
RAID array of IBM HD
98SE & Win2K 
Heck, wait for the new Maximum PC. They'll give you 3 versions. 
Hey man! Hand me that thing. Not that thing! The other thing!!! You know, the thing!!!
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August 5th, 2001, 11:05 PM
#10
Registered User
I built mine a couple months ago. I'm too lazy to type everthing in it so here's the nfo.
System Information report written at: 08/06/2001 12:58:50 AM
[System Information]
[ Following are sub-categories of this main category ]
[System Summary]
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name GAME
System Manufacturer System Manufacturer
System Model System Name
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 0 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel ~1708 Mhz
BIOS Version Award Medallion BIOS v6.0
Windows Directory C:\WINNT
System Directory C:\WINNT\System32
Boot Device \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
Locale United States
User Name TC0\omitted
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 392,668 KB
Available Physical Memory 195,736 KB
Total Virtual Memory 1,336,244 KB
Available Virtual Memory 1,000,704 KB
Page File Space 943,576 KB
Page File D:\pagefile.sys
Page File G:\pagefile.sys
[Hardware Resources]
[ Following are sub-categories of this main category ]
[Conflicts/Sharing]
Resource Device
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
IRQ 9 NVIDIA GeForce3
IRQ 9 Creative SB Live! series(WDM)
IRQ 9 Adaptec SCSI Card 29160N - Ultra160 SCSI
IRQ 9 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX)
IRQ 9 Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller
IRQ 9 Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller
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[Storage]
[ Following are sub-categories of this main category ]
[Drives]
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Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed False
File System NTFS
Size 9.77 GB (10,487,197,696 bytes)
Free Space 7.14 GB (7,669,960,704 bytes)
Volume Name OS
Volume Serial Number 949A1E07
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 9.77 GB (10,487,199,744 bytes)
Starting Offset 32256 bytes
Drive Description Disk drive
Drive Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Drive Model IBM DDYS-T36950N SCSI Disk Device
Drive BytesPerSector 512
Drive MediaLoaded True
Drive MediaType Fixed hard disk media
Drive Partitions 2
Drive SCSIBus 0
Drive SCSILogicalUnit 0
Drive SCSIPort 1
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Drive TracksPerCylinder 255
Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed False
File System NTFS
Size 65.87 GB (70,728,544,256 bytes)
Free Space 50.01 GB (53,694,693,376 bytes)
Volume Name Stripe
Volume Serial Number 5400CAEF
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 33.91 GB (36,413,282,304 bytes)
Starting Offset 32256 bytes
Drive Description Disk drive
Drive Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Drive Model COMPAQ BD036635C5 SCSI Disk Device
Drive BytesPerSector 512
Drive MediaLoaded True
Drive MediaType Fixed hard disk media
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Partition Disk #2, Partition #0
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Starting Offset 32256 bytes
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Drive E:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed False
File System NTFS
Size 24.41 GB (26,213,933,056 bytes)
Free Space 12.69 GB (13,624,619,008 bytes)
Volume Name .
Volume Serial Number 843477C2
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 24.41 GB (26,213,967,360 bytes)
Starting Offset Not Available
Drive Description Disk drive
Drive Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Drive Model IBM DDYS-T36950N SCSI Disk Device
Drive BytesPerSector 512
Drive MediaLoaded True
Drive MediaType Fixed hard disk media
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Drive G:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed False
File System NTFS
Size 1.95 GB (2,097,149,952 bytes)
Free Space 1.38 GB (1,482,059,776 bytes)
Volume Name Page
Volume Serial Number F411076D
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 33.91 GB (36,413,282,304 bytes)
Starting Offset 32256 bytes
Drive Description Disk drive
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Partition Disk #2, Partition #0
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Starting Offset 32256 bytes
Drive Description Disk drive
Drive Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Drive Model COMPAQ BD036635C5 SCSI Disk Device
Drive BytesPerSector 512
Drive MediaLoaded True
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Drive U:
Description Network Connection
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oh, monitor is a sony GDM F500.
Deliver me from Swedish furniture!
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August 5th, 2001, 11:58 PM
#11
I just built it
Pentium 4 1.7 mhz Retail chip
4 256 800 mhz rambus memory
Asus P4T motherboard
Adaptec 39160 Scsi card
Kenwood scsi 52x cdrom
Plextor scsi 8/20 cdr
Pioneer scsi dvdrom
Iomega scsi zip drive
Seagate 18 gig scsi 10,000 rpm cheeta harddrive
Ibm 9 gig scsi 10,000 rpm harddrive
Server case with 425 watt power supply
SB Live sound card
Hollywood dvd decoder card
3com nic card with 3xp processor (3cr990-tx-97)
Creative labs Annihilator 2 video card
running win2k
Also have cable modem hookup for internet
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August 6th, 2001, 03:49 AM
#12
CAD Guru - PC Specialist
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August 6th, 2001, 05:47 AM
#13
Registered User
[quote]Originally posted by BLDouglas:
<strong>I just built it
Pentium 4 1.7 mhz Retail chip
4 256 800 mhz rambus memory
Asus P4T motherboard
Kenwood scsi 52x cdrom
Plextor scsi 8/20 cdr
Pioneer scsi dvdrom
Iomega scsi zip drive
Seagate 18 gig scsi 10,000 rpm cheeta harddrive
Ibm 9 gig scsi 10,000 rpm harddrive
Server case with 425 watt power supply
SB Live sound card
Hollywood dvd decoder card
3com nic card with 3xp processor (3cr990-tx-97)
Creative labs Annihilator 2 video card
running win2k
Also have cable modem hookup for internet</strong><hr></blockquote>
At least I got ya beat in cpu power with my daul 1ghz
the rest, we don't need to mention.
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August 6th, 2001, 10:16 AM
#14
I just built mine, but here it is anyways:
Abit VP6 m/b
Dual P III 700 MHz @ 933
640 Megs of PC133 fixing to be changed to CorsAir PC150
Asus v7700 Pure (GeForce2 GTS 32 MB SGRAM)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (If anyone knows of a good sound card other than the SB Live! let me know, cause I'm not happy with the Santa Cruz)
A pair of IBM 40GB 60GXP HDD's. These are stripped so that they are faster than average. They rate considerably faster than the average in SiSoft benchmark.
Plextor SCSI2 12x/4x/32x burner.
I am looking at a Hercules Game Theater XP Sound card to replace the Santa Cruz. Any other suggestions are welcome.
Instruction Booklet ??
I think I saw it in the trash that just went out.
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