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Title: Critique my PC parts list
Post by: zahc on March 12, 2006, 02:09:33 PM

http://www.muskingum.edu/cgi-bin/webmail.cgi?cmd=url&url=https!3A!2F!2Fsecure.newegg.com!2FNewVersion!2FWishlist!2FPublicWishDetail.asp!3FWishListNumber=1802526!26WishListTitle=charles!2Bmiller!2527s!2Bpc

My choices has settled down in the last couple days, so I will be buying this soon. I already have a basic graphics card, and peripherals.

The objective is a quiet, modestly priced desktop PC for mild HTPC duty, lossless music/video storage and playback. I have an additional 250GB external HDD that will let me share content with this laptop. My music is handled with external DACs.

Title: Critique my PC parts list
Post by: bg on March 12, 2006, 05:07:56 PM

Have you looked at Patriot's XBLK mem ? It's based on the Samsung
tccd pcb and works good. I have it running now..It's also on sale at the
Egg >
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220033

Title: Critique my PC parts list
Post by: Calumus on March 13, 2006, 03:36:36 PM

Not bad, but as long as you're dropping some decent coin you should look at AMD's X2 chips. Not much more for a 3800+ and from what I've been reading the speed increase while multi-tasking is fairly signifigant. If you're a gamer some of the new games coming out are being set up to actually use each core for separate parts of the game which can mean huge improvements. I was told yesterday that the new King Kong game that's coming out does this, one core for the enemies AI, one for everything else. I'll definatly be going the X2 route when I build my new system sometime next month. Cheers,
Shawn