Subject: Building a system! Opinions??? (for seti crunching:)
From: am59@ath.forthnet.gr (Apostolos)
Date: 19/02/2004, 00:08
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

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!!!!!!!!!!