| Subject: Building a system! Opinions??? (for seti crunching:) |
| From: am59@ath.forthnet.gr (Apostolos) |
| Date: 19/02/2004, 00:08 |
I would like to build a system for my office PC:
Money is not an issue if something is really worth it. For example I
dont think it is worth the extra $300 to get the Athlon 64 3400 than
the AThlon 3200+.
The Pc will be for office use, however I would like it to be very good
at SETI@HOME. (8500+ units and going......:))
CPU Athlon or Intel? AS stated above I dont want to spenfd the extra
$$$ If the percentage increase is small. The cpu must be great at
seti above all since I wont be playing any games on it. (and run
office but all modern pcs can do). Toms hardware doesnt have any last
tests on seti.
Motherboard: It has to be reliable but also support overcloaking.
For my home pc I have an ASUS motherboard p4c800 that overclocks my
pentium 3 g to 3.3 g. iT IS PRETTY STABLE AND i AM SATISFIED.
Ram: 1 gig is a must!
Graphics card? I guess any will do?? Office work mostly. I have an
eizo monitor so a dvi input is an option if it makes the screen
better!
Sound card: Simple, only to hear some videos
DVD writer??? Need a good one since it will there for a long time in
terms of speed.
HArd disk? I was thinking to get the raptor sata 36 Gig for the
system and another for everything else..
Lan card: A stable one? Any ok one will do.
Fan: I need a silent one, at home I have one zalman for cpu and one
for the power supply and it is quiet:)
ANy other ideas??
THZ!!!!!!!!!!