[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Just about to upgrade my existing P4 2.53Ghz Gigabyte Mobo with raid, 1 gig of ram.

Pls anyone comment & advise, I had a quote from my local comp guy who is generally pretty good on the following machine

Intel P4-3.0Ghz
ASUS P5P800 Mobo
GeCube 256mbATI Radeon 9600Pro video
4 off 512DDR400 Ram
2 off WD 300Gb Sata Hdd
400W ATX Case

Runs out @ approx $1,200 Aus

As far as the raid goes not familar with the Sata units is there a decent site where I can read up on this to have a better idea whats going on.

All comments appreciated.

Cheers
MC.

[oldwolf]

Hey MAVERICK, what state you in??
Is this for gaming?? If so I would change the vid card for a 6600gt, or whatever is the equivalent in ATI.
Also have a look at AMD, they have some good stuff that is better suited to gaming.
Otherwise its not bad, although I would get a better PSU than the one that comes with your case.


oldwolf

[nmX.Memnoch]

That motherboard doesn't have integrated RAID. It has SATA, just not RAID. I'm looking at either that same motherboard or the SE variant because I just acquired a Socket775 P4 3.4EE and don't want to replace my 4GB of Ballistix or my BFG 6800GT just yet...but I also don't want to give up a P4EE either.

Personally, I'm leaning towards the SE variant because the onboard NIC is Intel, where on the non-SE model it's Marvell. I had an Intel NIC before, but now have a Marvell NIC on my current P4P800-E Deluxe. I like the Intel NICs a lot better.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

@ oldwolf

Cheers @ Syd/NSW

Not for gaming neccessarily.
Thanks for the advice will look into it.

Regards

MC.

nmX.Memnoch, on Dec 21 2005, 07:40 PM, said:

That motherboard doesn't have integrated RAID. It has SATA, just not RAID. I'm looking at either that same motherboard or the SE variant because I just acquired a Socket775 P4 3.4EE and don't want to replace my 4GB of Ballistix or my BFG 6800GT just yet...but I also don't want to give up a P4EE either.

Personally, I'm leaning towards the SE variant because the onboard NIC is Intel, where on the non-SE model it's Marvell. I had an Intel NIC before, but now have a Marvell NIC on my current P4P800-E Deluxe. I like the Intel NICs a lot better.

Thats the advice I need, Thanks man.

This post has been edited by MAVERICKS CHOICE: 21 December 2005 - 02:45 AM

[suryad]

Go with an AMD you would save money and at the same time get a better performance in anything else besides gaming as well.

[ripken204]

go amd dual core!