thinking about getting the parts together for a new build...
this will (groan) be running XP, and I'm aware of the limitations, but that's what it has to be...
parts already acquired:
Lian Li pc60 case
2 seagate 7200 rpm 500 gb sata drives
waterchill pump, 80 mm black ice radiator, chipset cooler, and cpu cooler & fan
mushkin 4 rail 650 watt power supply
other than the above , the rest is still in research..
I was wanting to do a asus p5q pro motherboard, E8500 core 2 duo CPU, 512 either nvidia 9800, or 5650 ati graphics card, and either 2GB or 4GB ram, 2 samsung 20x dvd burners, and a floppy drive, and a pci card for parallel & serial port.
I want to overclock this, both memory & cpu and have it be rock stable & use as much as the combination as possible. if I could have better performance with 4gb ram, even though I could not use all of it due to xp limitations,
not really looking for a gaming rig, per se, but a good cad platform...something that will fly through xp & the current applications I have..
thanks for the input..
this will (groan) be running XP, and I'm aware of the limitations, but that's what it has to be...
parts already acquired:
Lian Li pc60 case
2 seagate 7200 rpm 500 gb sata drives
waterchill pump, 80 mm black ice radiator, chipset cooler, and cpu cooler & fan
mushkin 4 rail 650 watt power supply
other than the above , the rest is still in research..
I was wanting to do a asus p5q pro motherboard, E8500 core 2 duo CPU, 512 either nvidia 9800, or 5650 ati graphics card, and either 2GB or 4GB ram, 2 samsung 20x dvd burners, and a floppy drive, and a pci card for parallel & serial port.
I want to overclock this, both memory & cpu and have it be rock stable & use as much as the combination as possible. if I could have better performance with 4gb ram, even though I could not use all of it due to xp limitations,
not really looking for a gaming rig, per se, but a good cad platform...something that will fly through xp & the current applications I have..
thanks for the input..