Please rate my pc

[paoki4]

Please rate the following components i wish to buy and if possible help me with some guestions i have.

1)CASE : ATX VM2000AD THERMALTAKE SILVER+WINDOW
2)POWER SUPPLY : PSU ANTEC TRUE POWER DUAL FUN 480W
3)CASE COOLERS : NO
4)PROCCESSOR : INTEL PENTIUM 4 3.2GHZ 800/512 NORTHWOOD
5)PROCCESSOR COOLER : NO
6) MOTHERBOARD : ASUS P4C800-E DELUXE
7)MEMORY : KINGSTON HYPER-X DDR400 ( 2X512 ) BH-5 WINBOND
( KHX3200 K2/1G )
8)HARD DISC : WESTERN DIGITAL RAPTOR 36.7G , 10000RPM ( X2 )
( RAID TOTAL 73,4G )
9)GRAPHIC CARD : ASUS ATI RADEON 9800 XT/TVD 256MB/DDR
10)SOUND CARD : SOUNDBLASTER CREATIVE AUDIGY 2 ZS ( 7,1 )
11)SPEAKERS : CREATIVE INSPIRE T7700 DIGITAL ( 7,1 )
12) CD ROM : ASUS 52X
13) CD RW : PLEXTOR 52X32X52
14) DVD ROM : PIONEER DVD-121
15)FLOPPY : SONY FDD 3,5" 1,44MB
16)KEYBOARD : MICROSOFT INTERNET PS2
17)MOUSE : MICROSOFT EXPLORER 3.0 INTELLI PS2/USB

I already have a SONY TRINITRON 17' as well as a hp printer Qeustions
1)I aleady have win 2000 pro .Sould i use them or go for win xp pro??
2)Sould i go for two raptors in raid, or one in 74g??
3)We aleady have a pc<A HREF="http://www.myphone.gr/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11836" target="_new">http://www.myphone.gr/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11836</A> should it be enough for playing games with my bro trough a lan connection?
4)Your opinion about a ups??

Thanks in advance ....

 

[sabbath1]

Wow that's a long list

Everything's fine I guess, but why have one CD, one CDRW and one DVD? Get a DVD-RW instead and nothing more. This will both be a cheaper and better solution if I were to have my say...quality DVD burners can be had for less than $99 nowadays...

To your questions...

1) For me, Win XP is the best OS that MS has ever done, so I'd recommend that you upgrade while you're at it.

2) Hard to say. I used to have two 36 gb Raptors, but I got some problems with setting up a working array the second time so I got a 120 Gb drive instead. But since RAID is faster than non-RAID I suppose two 36 gb drives is the better solution, provided you can escape the possible problems.


My system: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ / TwinMOS 1Gb DDR400 / MSI K8T Neo FIS2R / ASUS Radeon 9800XT / Antec TruePower 550W / Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 120 Gb / Pioneer DVR-A06

 

[paoki4]

thanks for replying man..

 

[ytoledano]

If you're looking for somewhere to skimp, take the P4 3.0GHZ instead of the 3.2, never take the best CPU if the only difference from the one-step-older version is clockspeed, it simply doesn't make sense.

I know what everyone's been wondering - 2^33634943-1 IS NOT PRIME. Now, wasn't that worth running <A HREF="http://www.mersenne.com" target="_new">Prime95</A> for a month to know?

 

[HardWareBoss]

Keep 2000Pro. XP is 2000 with extra eye candy.

 

[HardWareBoss]

Your building a nice puter. Keyboard Logitech MX Duo cordless. I love this baby.

 

[Snaggle]

All great;but raptors run hot and if not well cooled start to whine.I agree with you're having more than one optical drive;but for gaming you just need one cd which reads at 52 and one dvd which reads at 16 with one of them a rw for backup.

 

[phial]

Keep 2000Pro. XP is 2000 with extra eye candy.

i used to think that too, until i switched about a 1000 times. XP is somewhat faster, and mainly it was when i had an ATI card in

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[pIII_Man]

HWBoss, win 2k does not properly support HT if you use win 2k with a HT cpu your best bet is to turn HT off. BTW instead of buying any OS look for the kazaa discount if ya know what i mean.


If it isn't a P6 then it isn't a procesor
110% BX fanboy

 

[phial]

yup i got xp pro kazaa version. been using it for 1.5 years

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[HardWareBoss]

Where did you get that clicky?

 

[HardWareBoss]

Don't use kazaa.

 

[paoki4]

sorry my mistake about the coolers...case comes with 7 fans

http://www.checkmate.gr/thermaltake/xaser3v2000a.htm

should it be enough for the system and raptors as well?

anyway thanks for replying.

 

[TheRod]

Why? I use KaZaa Lite wisely and I never had any problem!

--
Would you buy a GPS enabled soap bar?

 

[Rob423]

Kazaa lite Runs Sweet if you know what your doing... i happen to like Direct Connect++ alot better... WAY more media.

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