I started out with buying the case...
Oops...I'll resize the pics.. :shock:
Case SPECS
• 500Watt PSU
• 3 Fans (2 Intake,1 Exhaust)
• 1 Exhaust Fan added(total 4 Fans)
• Lighted Front Door
• Front Panel-- 2USB Ports,1-1394 Firewire,Mic,AudioOut
• Clear Side Panel
• 4 - 5" bays
• 2 - 3 1/2' bays
• 7 - 5" Hidden bays
Dimension
• 30.5cm(L) x 24.5cm(W) ATX Form Factor
I then added the Motherboard-- MSI Neo Platnuim -- K8N Neo
MOBO SPECS
CPU
• Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 processor (Socket 754)
• Supports up to 3200+, 3400+, 3700+ or higher CPU
Chipset
• nVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb Chipset
- Supports Athlon? 64 processor (Socket 754), 800MHz Hypertransport interface.
- Supports single memory channels, DDR 400/333/266 without ECC support.
- Supports external AGP 4X/8X
- Integrated Serial ATA interface: dual channel 4 S-ATA RAID controller and dual channel
ATA 133/100/66/33 master mode EIDE controller.
- Integrated an nVIDIA MAC for Gigabit LAN.
- Supports 8 high speed USB2.0 ports.
- AC'97 2.3 compliance.
Main Memory
• Supports 3 slots for 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM modules.
• Supports DDR 400/333/266.
• Supports a maximum memory size of 2GB for DDR400
• Supports a maximum memory size of 3GB for DDR333
Slots
• One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 1.5V 4X/8X slot
• Five 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface).
On-Board IDE/SATA
• An IDE controller on the nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO,
Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices
• Support 2 S-ATA RAID controller and dual channel ATA 133/100/66/33 master mode EIDE controller.
Audio
• 7.1 channel audio codec RealTek ALC850.
- Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec.
- Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.
LAN
• nVIDIA® nForce3 NV Gigabit LAN controller
- Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip.
- Supports 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s auto-negotiation operation.
- Compliant with PCI v2.2.
- Supports ACPI Power Management.
On-Board Peripherals
On-Board Peripherals include:
- 1 floppy port supports 1 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes
- 1 serial port
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 6 audio ports
- 8 USB 2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4)
- 1 RJ45 LAN jack
BIOS
• The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and
expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your
mainboard specifications.
Then I added the CPU,HeatSink and Fan...
Due to the high cost of these chips at the moment I went with the 3200+ until there's a drop in price....
SPECS
• AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor
• AMD64 Technology for High Perforance 32-Bit and 64-Bit
• Hyper Transport Technology
• Integrated DDR Memory Controller
For now I installed a 40GB Samsung 7200RPM HDD
I'll upgrade to a 120GB IDE HDD and SATA drives later...
Can't sink to much $$$ into this all at once...
I also installed new Floppy drive as well as a 16x DVD Player.
Hardware still to be installed:
• PC3200 DDR400 Memory
• Lite-On 8x DVD-RW SOHW-812S
• Video Card----???????
• Sound Card---???????
• Smart Card Reader
So as you can see I'm not ready for Power-up yet but would like alittle input on the Video Card.
I'd like to stay with the nVidia architecture,but am open minded.
If you think it'll perform then let's hear it...I'll certainly check it out.
$300.00 or less...that's my limit on the Vid Card...
I've had ALOT of input and help from some special people from this Forum,ALL greatly appreciated...
I do have a few more pics to post but need to re-size them first...
In the mean time...any suggestions on a Video Card??
Cactus
....you sure can...come on over...
