Nice review,cfitz!

[Bhairav]

Hey cfitz, just wanted to let you know that the review of the AOpen drive was A-OK!(Please excuse the horrible pun..)
Good to see you back!

[cfitz]

Thanks bhairavp, it's good to be back. And you must be one fast reader! It looks like you wrote your message a couple of hours before Ian posted the review.

cfitz

[aviationwiz]

Thanks bhairavp, it's good to be back. And you must be one fast reader! It looks like you wrote your message a couple of hours before Ian posted the review.

cfitz

Ian was slow at posting the review to the news section and forum, but it has been on the reviews section for a while and off to the left hand side on the main page for a while before bhairavp posted.

[cfitz]

Ah, now I understand. I guess bhairavp isn't psychic after all... Darn, that could have come in handy.

cfitz

[F1Pilot]

Heya cfitz! Welcome back!

[Ian]

Ian was slow at posting the review to the news section and forum, but it has been on the reviews section for a while and off to the left hand side on the main page for a while before bhairavp posted.

Yeah, I had some work to do this morning. CDRLabs doesn't make enough money to pay the bills.

[cfitz]

Heya cfitz! Welcome back!

Hi F1Pilot! Thanks for the greets Anything good going on down your way?

cfitz

[Bhairav]

Ah, now I understand. I guess bhairavp isn't psychic after all... Darn, that could have come in handy.

cfitz

Yeah.. more's the pity. I mean, imagine the possibilities. Cue Haley Joel Osment voice.."I see... DUAL LAYER DVD RECORDERS!"

[pranav81]

Good to see you back cfitz!
And that is a nice review.

::Pranav::

[cfitz]

Hi Pranav! It's good to be back. And I'm glad you liked the review.

cfitz

[BuddhaTB]

Read the review last nite and it was very well written.

Looking forward to reading more reviews from you

[F1Pilot]

Hi F1Pilot! Thanks for the greets Anything good going on down your way?

cfitz

Nothing special here, fitz! Same old. Although I do need to get more toys here soon.

[cfitz]

Read the review last nite and it was very well written.

Looking forward to reading more reviews from you

Thanks, BuddhaTB.

cfitz

[cfitz]

Nothing special here, fitz! Same old. Although I do need to get more toys here soon.

Well, same old isn't all bad. I'm working on some new toys myself. I'm slowly acquiring parts to assemble my first computer from "scratch".

cfitz

[Bhairav]

Sweet! AMD or Intel,cfitz?

[cfitz]

I was giving serious consideration to AMD, but finally chose Intel. The 64-bit AMDs with top performance are (I never thought I'd be saying this) a little too expensive. Besides, it seems like the AMD processors take the lead in gaming while Intel still holds a lead in multimedia processing (e.g. transcoding). Since I plan to use my computer for multimedia processing and not gaming, my choice was fairly clear. As for which Intel to get, I have decided on a Northwood core since I don't want to attach a refrigerator to my case. I really can't figure out why the Prescotts are going for a few dollars more than the Northwoods right now. Less performance, more power, more dollars - what's up with that? Maybe later when Prescott frequencies increase they will be worth it, but not now, not for me.

My current struggle is chosing a motherboard and memory. For motherboards I've been looking at ABIT's AI7 and IC7-G Max2 as well as ASUS's P4P800, P4P800 Deluxe and even P4S800D-E Deluxe. For memory I was looking at Mushkin but I've read too many stories about not even being able to get into the BIOS without first substituting a stick of other memory and increasing the RAM voltage of the motherboard. I don't want to buy an extra stick of memory just so I can use it once to bootstrap the Mushkin memory. So now I have started looking at Corsair XMS, OCZ LL and possibly even Kingston HyperX. I don't plan on doing much overclocking, so I want to get low latency memory to run at 400 MHz.

cfitz

[F1Pilot]

Damn! Sounds like it's going to be a killer Frankenstein box! I just need to do a few things with my laptop. I use it a lot for work. I need to get 2 sticks o' 512, a bigger drive (hopefully a 60 spinning at 7200 and a better CD drive...if I can swing it, with a DVD burner. I need to get a few things for my music stuff first.

[BuddhaTB]

Enjoy the new toys!

Get us some pics when you're all done assembling it.

[UALOneKPlus]

Pretty cool cfitz. I built nearly the same PC, with a Lian-li case, all at monarchcomputer.com. I didn't have the time to do it all with a baby on the way, and they did real nice work.

Enjoy the build!

[Bhairav]

I was giving serious consideration to AMD, but finally chose Intel. The 64-bit AMDs with top performance are (I never thought I'd be saying this) a little too expensive. Besides, it seems like the AMD processors take the lead in gaming while Intel still holds a lead in multimedia processing (e.g. transcoding). Since I plan to use my computer for multimedia processing and not gaming, my choice was fairly clear. As for which Intel to get, I have decided on a Northwood core since I don't want to attach a refrigerator to my case. I really can't figure out why the Prescotts are going for a few dollars more than the Northwoods right now. Less performance, more power, more dollars - what's up with that? Maybe later when Prescott frequencies increase they will be worth it, but not now, not for me.

My current struggle is chosing a motherboard and memory. For motherboards I've been looking at ABIT's AI7 and IC7-G Max2 as well as ASUS's P4P800, P4P800 Deluxe and even P4S800D-E Deluxe. For memory I was looking at Mushkin but I've read too many stories about not even being able to get into the BIOS without first substituting a stick of other memory and increasing the RAM voltage of the motherboard. I don't want to buy an extra stick of memory just so I can use it once to bootstrap the Mushkin memory. So now I have started looking at Corsair XMS, OCZ LL and possibly even Kingston HyperX. I don't plan on doing much overclocking, so I want to get low latency memory to run at 400 MHz.

cfitz

May I suggest the Corsair XMS3200LL in conjunction with the Asus P4P800D? Stick with the Intel chipsets, and that Asus is a really good motherboard,with support for PAT-like BIOS settings.If you're not overclocking, how about an Intel motherboard? The D875PBZ and D865PERL are very stable,fast performers.

[pranav81]

Yes,I think bhairavp is right.If you are not in overclocking then you could go for the original Intel board.I have seen that the systems built using original board rock solid.Asus is good.You could also look in some new boards by MSI.About RAM,I hear that Crucial is good.


::Pranav::