Finally decided to build a system myself, as my 6 year old notebook wont stand up to the strains of virtualization.
Put together the following, outlined my reasoning below
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard
AMD X2 Athlon 64 5200
4G Crucial DDR2-800 RAM
WD Caviar Blue 250G harddrive
LiteOn DH-20A4P-21c DVD-RW
Antec Three Hundred ATX case
Thermaltake w0104-RB power supply
Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 cpu cooler
The most salient point to mention is that this is NOT intended as a gaming pc, nor a video or audio workstation. This is solely for my home development lab, and it will have a very minimal linux system installed.
Also it is a budget build, around the £500 mark.
These two points informed my decision heavily when selecting components, namely the mobo and cpu. Funnily enough the choice of motherboard came first, as it has the 780 chipset, meaning i hopefully wont have to buy a discrete video card for the foreseeable future. Also the 4 ram slots should give me enough room to exand in that direction should i need to, possibly even coupling the 64bit athlon with a 64bit linux system shoudl mean i never run into a ceiling with ram.
The case and power supply may seem disproportionate compared to the other components, however i felt if i invested slightly more in these two i would have a decent frame to expand into at a later date if needs be.
Im in two minds about the harddrive. For what it is it seems to be a decent speck, and it is within budget, however iv got a nagging feeeling there are other, better, options i havent considered yet.
So, thats that. Please, pick holes, make fun, generally tear it to bits, its all in the name of learning.
Put together the following, outlined my reasoning below
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard
AMD X2 Athlon 64 5200
4G Crucial DDR2-800 RAM
WD Caviar Blue 250G harddrive
LiteOn DH-20A4P-21c DVD-RW
Antec Three Hundred ATX case
Thermaltake w0104-RB power supply
Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 cpu cooler
The most salient point to mention is that this is NOT intended as a gaming pc, nor a video or audio workstation. This is solely for my home development lab, and it will have a very minimal linux system installed.
Also it is a budget build, around the £500 mark.
These two points informed my decision heavily when selecting components, namely the mobo and cpu. Funnily enough the choice of motherboard came first, as it has the 780 chipset, meaning i hopefully wont have to buy a discrete video card for the foreseeable future. Also the 4 ram slots should give me enough room to exand in that direction should i need to, possibly even coupling the 64bit athlon with a 64bit linux system shoudl mean i never run into a ceiling with ram.
The case and power supply may seem disproportionate compared to the other components, however i felt if i invested slightly more in these two i would have a decent frame to expand into at a later date if needs be.
Im in two minds about the harddrive. For what it is it seems to be a decent speck, and it is within budget, however iv got a nagging feeeling there are other, better, options i havent considered yet.
So, thats that. Please, pick holes, make fun, generally tear it to bits, its all in the name of learning.
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