27 Jun
2006
27 Jun
'06
12:58 p.m.
On 6/27/06, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Greetings:
Massive thanks for the assistance ! Of course, questions engender more
questions, so :
I can get an Antec P150 with 430W power supply for $150, that seems
a good price. Is the PS sufficient for the CPU (2.4 GHz) ?
Which Zalman CPU fan should I buy ?
Generically I use somethign like this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118112
The pure copper ones are more expensive and probably not needed unless
you are really going to push the machine hard. I'm upgrading my wife's
machine to a Zalman copper as it does commercial flagging for MythTV
and works hard pretty much all day long. I don't think it's nevessary
for audio apps though.
I forgot to ask about HD recommendations. I have two aged 15 GB
drives I'd like to replace. 80 GB seems like a good start, but I haven't
bought a drive for a long time. Suggestions ?
160GB Serial ATA as a starting point, I'd guess. I assume this
machine's chipset has SATA support? Much better/faster/etc. More disk
space is good if you want to do anything with video or even ripped CD
collections. I am so out of disk space all the time and I have over a
terrabyte on the network now. Haw can that be? ;-)
Any specific recommendations concerning RAM ?
I cannot imagine better customer support than you will get from
Crucial. I had a machine go bad a while ago. My Crucial DRAM was over
2 years old. They replaced it over the phone, no questions asked, for
free. They really stand behind their products. Great company, good
prices.
My 2 cents,
Mark