low cost video card is good enough for vista use and also included a usb audio adapter in case you want sound....you could get a dvd burner for a few $$$ more and the case comes with a nice PS that would run everything just fine. dunno if RAID 5 is necessary, but thought it gave good performance and redundancy backup...500GB drives are only $40 more each if the space is needed. The 4 sticks of Ram leave you with 4 empty slots on the mobo so you can add more easily later as the board can handle 32Gb......am I missing anything???
wow now that I see the price, I could use a nice new system at work....lol
Message edited by gizmogamez on 03-28-2008 at 04:46:02 PM
Completely forgot about sound ... I'm so used on on-board cards . I'm not a fan of the USB thing, might be good, but it looks like the kind of stuff sold on infomertials . I would spend an extra 15$ to get a dedicated card, that way I know the sound processing won't eat-up system performance. Go for any cheap SoundBlaster like this one.
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From what I have read... using Deep Fritz with a multi-core cpu will allow it to work faster. OR you can run two chess engines at the same time to obtain different results. The chessbase website doesn't mention quad cores... but it sounds like if you have a four or eight core machine, that you should be able to run two or four engines at incresed speed... I'm not a professional chess player, but having four different ways to play become available very quickly sounds very nice.
I agree that more than 3-4 gigs of ram is not needed if his software is not x64, but I am sure that chess software will be x64 in the future... just like everything else. It is only a matter or time.
2x X5430 = 960 US
SUPERMICRO MBD-X7DVL-i= 283 US
2x 2x2 Crucial FB-DIMM 667mhz (8 gigs) = 380
WD 640 gig (FAST!) =130
750 watt corsair cup = 140
Home Premium x64 = 99
Lian-Li PC-a05b = 80
cd drive ~30
This gives you eight cores at 2.66ghz, 8 gigs of ram, and 640gigs of hdd space. It also gives you a very nice, small case. If your into looks at all, you can get a drive bezel from annother store online for ~5 bucks, and have a very clean looking case. the parts come to ~100 below budget.. factor in shipping, and you will be right at it. All prices are from newegg.
if you decide you want to spend more... deffinately put it in the CPUs
Message edited by dimwhited on 03-28-2008 at 05:15:51 PM
yeah i was a big fan of bobby fisher at one time when i used to play a lot of
chess. When i saw ur name i was like wtf lol can't be him. oh well you hd me there.
and yea you could save a little if you went vista home prem, instead of ultimate, but someone before did mention remote access...so that would be something to think about.....
since your budget is about $1000 more then the last 2 quoted ideas I would deff say that the extra money going into the cpu's is best...also since both boards mentioned have on board video you could use that instead of a card, but i'm not sure how much that might slow things down so for the small amount i was thinking of freeing the cpu's of as much as possible. I do like that the supermicro board is standard atx form factor though. yet i don't think that antec case is bad looking, but it will fit both boards so.....
yeah i was a big fan of bobby fisher at one time when i used to play a lot of
chess. When i saw ur name i was like wtf lol can't be him. oh well you hd me there.
Bobby Fischer is dead. He would not accept any form of westernized medicine and died. As I stated, the news did not sadden me at all, the guy was a prick.
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"Deep HIARCS 12 is the ultimate multi-core/multiprocessor HIARCS chess engine capable of utilising up to 8 CPU cores simultaneously." -Chessbase website
"Deep HIARCS 12 is the ultimate multi-core/multiprocessor HIARCS chess engine capable of utilising up to 8 CPU cores simultaneously." -Chessbase website
deffinately need 2x Xeons
Yes, i'm now focus in a dual xeon solution.
However, as far as I can see in the net, prices here in Europe for that kind of component (socket 771), are far more expensive than in the States ...
But I agree with you ... deffinately a solution based on a dual Xeon (2x5410 or 2x5420 since they are cheaper and I am not a rich person ) it better for me and chess software.
and yea you could save a little if you went vista home prem, instead of ultimate, but someone before did mention remote access...so that would be something to think about.....
There is also the multi-CPU support, does Home Premium support multi-CPU? Heard somewhere it was only supported by the Enterprise, Business and Ultimate versions.
There is also the multi-CPU support, does Home Premium support multi-CPU? Heard somewhere it was only supported by the Enterprise, Business and Ultimate versions.
I believe you are correct. It doesn't go by CPU's, but rather by socket.
However, I shudder to say this, I think AMD worked out some kind of deal where a 2P Quad FX system fell under the normal licensing, but they only do two duals, not quads.
. I'm not a fan of the USB thing, might be good, but it looks like the kind of stuff sold on infomertials 
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