Building New Computer

[Chucky]

This is what I plan on:

Antec SX-830 Case
ASUS P4B533 MoBo
512 MB DDR333 Ram
40 GB System Drive--Maxtor
80 GB HD For Video Editing--Maxtor
TB Santa Cruz Sound Card
GeForce FX 5200 Ultra--When Available
US Robotics Modem
SONY 52X CD Drive
SONY 52x52x24 Burner
MicroSoft Natral Keyboard
Wireless Explorer Mouse
NEC 17" LCD Display
Altec Lansing 4.1 Speakers
MicroSoft Wireless Networking


How's this sound? Any other suggestions?

Chris

[marko]

Sounds good. What processor speed you getting?

Also, if you are doing video editing, keep your eyes open on good deals for dvd burners (unless that sony is a dvd burner). You can get them with a mail in rebate for a pretty good price if you keep your eyes open.

[boomerang]

Ditch the P4B for one of the P4PE series Asus boards. These will accept the fastest processors Intel is making at this time. Your upgrade path will exist longer.

I'd go for Seagate drives over Maxtor. Quieter and more reliable. This from my own personal experience.

[HarryD]

Are you shopping around or getting this from one place?

[Chris Blount]

Looks like a pretty good system Chuck. The only thing I would recommend is to get yourself a DVD burner instead of one or both of the CD drives. In my system I have a DVD burner and a regular DVD-ROM drive (no cd drives) and get along just fine. When you edit videos, you will want a DVD writer. Trust me.

[gcutler]

Ditto on the DVD-Burner. And with DVD R/RW you can at least archive off your data in file format without even making a DVD-Video out of it (which you might want to do as well). I took all my old data and burned it to a 4.4GB DVD-R (had to make sure I closed the session) but I can read those files from any PC that has a DVD-ROM or DVDR/RWW.

If you are going to be editing digital video, you are looking at easily several hundred MB to several GB in file size, so a CD-RW Won't cut it for moving the DV data off (at least coveniently).

With the right coupons and sales, a very popular OEM of the Pioneer latest and greatest DVD-R/RW can be gotten for close to $150 (list $300)

[Chucky]

I am thinking of at least 2.6GHz.

What do you think about waiting for the 800MHz Bus speed processors to appear?

Chris

[CoriBright]

The new Maxtor drives have the 8mb cache buffer. Available in 80gb, 120gb and (I think) 100gb. I got the 80gb one. Faster and quieter.

http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/retail_kits/ultra_7200_rpm/

[The Tophinator]

I recently purchaced a CenDyne 4X DVR ($179 after $50 rebate in todays Fry's add). It is the Poineer 105 only cheaper. I would seriously consider the 4X DVR because the CDR and CDRW speeds are very slow on a 1X DVR.