kazuya Posted July 27, 2002 Share Posted July 27, 2002 I am planning to build a diy pc specifically for adobe after effects, premiere and maya. I had made a list of 3 diy pc configurations. Do you mind loking at it, and tell me which of them is most suitable? DIY pc 1 is a little over my budget. DIY PC Dual AMD Processor AMD MP 2000+ $295 AMD MP 2000+ $295 Tyan S2466N Dual CPU / Support MP CPU $479 PC-2100 512MB Crucial 1st Party ECC Reg $349 PC-2100 512MB Crucial 1st Party ECC Reg $349 PC-2100 512MB Crucial 1st Party ECC Reg $349 WDC 800JB 80GB with 8MB Cache $198 WDC 800JB 80GB with 8MB Cache $198 ATI Radeon 8500 128MB DDR/TV/DVI (CP) $329 Sony 1.44 Floppy Disk Drive $17 Teac 40X12X48X IDE $125 Creative SB Live 5.1 SE $54 Pinnacle Studio DV 7 Multi-Standard $179 Samsung 753DFX 17" $287 Casing ( ??? ) $??? ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Total $3503 ----------------------------------------------------- AMD AMD XP 2200 $355 Asustek A7V333 - ER Raid DDR ATA133 USB2.0 $283 PC-2100 512MB Crucial 1st party DDR 266 $249 PC-2100 512MB Crucial 1st party DDR 266 $249 PC-2100 512MB Crucial 1st party DDR 266 $249 WDC 800JB 80GB with 8MB Cache $198 WDC 800JB 80GB with 8MB Cache $198 ATI Radeon 8500 128MB DDR/TV/DVI (CP) $329 Sony 1.44 Floppy Disk Drive $17 Teac 40X12X48X IDE $125 Creative SB Live 5.1 SE $54 Pinnacle Studio DV 7 Multi-Standard $179 Samsung 753DFX 17" $287 Casing ( ??? ) $??? ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Total $2772 ----------------------------------------------------- INTEL Intel Pentium 4 2.26B Box CPU 512KB L2 533 FSB $375 Asus P4B533 i845E 3DDR ATA100 / USB2.0 $305 PC-2100 512MB Crucial 1st party DDR 266 $249 PC-2100 512MB Crucial 1st party DDR 266 $249 PC-2100 512MB Crucial 1st party DDR 266 $249 WDC 800JB 80GB with 8MB Cache $198 WDC 800JB 80GB with 8MB Cache $198 ATI Radeon 8500 128MB DDR/TV/DVI (CP) $329 Sony 1.44 Floppy Disk Drive $17 Teac 40X12X48X IDE $125 Creative SB Live 5.1 SE $54 Pinnacle Studio DV 7 Multi-Standard $179 Samsung 753DFX 17" $287 Casing ( ??? ) $??? ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Total $2814 ----------------------------------------------------- Do you have any better recommendations? I am looking for a mobo with raid. Feel free to comment. p.s. the cuurencies are Singapore dollars. $1us ~ $1.7 sing dollars Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YahoKa Posted July 27, 2002 Share Posted July 27, 2002 Buy system #1 if you really want to spend the cash, then get a pci raid card. Buy system #2 and save yourslef some cash and use a motherboard with built in RAID (Recommend the Gigabyte one; it is top rated + award winning + cheaper.) What you should change is to add an extra cd drive or dvd drive for regular use - use your CDRW only for burning. Next you'll want to buy an audigy card instead of a soundblaster live! one. For the case and power supply, you'll need a 400w psu for something like that. Sparkle, Enermax are really good. If it were me i'd get #2 for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimGuy Posted July 27, 2002 Share Posted July 27, 2002 I'd recommend system #2 for it's price :to: performance ratio. Also, you could consider upgrading to a nice 19" monitor from Samsung or ViewSonic and using a high-quality Antec case (such as the 1030 or 1040). With those additions, it would bring the cost of system 2 probably up to $3050 or so, which isn't too bad for what you are getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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