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12-27-2005, 11:07 PM
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New Build - Office PC
My father in-law has asked me to build him a PC. No pressure of course... he wants something that will never fail and work great.
His general use will be light home office work. He uses Word, Excel, Outlook and IE primarily. Gaming is limited to Solitaire.  Antec Solution Black Steel ATX Mini Tower (w/ 350W PSU) (80mm for case front) MITSUMI Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal 8-1 Floppy Drive (multi-card reader also) Western Digital Caviar SE WD2000JD 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 (might use a smaller drive, not sure he needs 200GB) BIOSTAR GEFORCE 6100-M7 Socket 754 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100Mbps PCI Ethernet Adapter GeIL Value 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR 400 (PC 3200) AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 800MHz FSB Socket 754 (or a Sempron 64 to help with build cost) LITE-ON DVD-CD R/RW My biggest reservation at the present: M'board only has 2 x PCI's, but it does have a PCIE-x16 and a PCIE-x1. One PCI will be taken up by a NIC. He is the internet server for his satellite connection, so he needs two nics. Actually I need to talk him into 802.11. Should be fine as I see no real expansion needs for him... but I'd like 3 PCI's for kicks. |
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12-27-2005, 11:16 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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Parts selection looks okay to me.
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12-27-2005, 11:35 PM
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Well if you don't mind switching to ATI for your on-board video, and spending $10 more this might work: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130526
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12-27-2005, 11:44 PM
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That boards looks nice, although I would be trading a PCIE x1 for a PCI. I do like the firewire port on the MSI board you linked, probably something he would never use though. Do you(or anyone else) know how well the ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 chipset on that board compares with the Nvidia 6100?
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12-27-2005, 11:53 PM
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Here's a heads up between the two I googled: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/chi...-gf6100_5.html
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12-28-2005, 12:20 AM
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Nice find... looks like the 6100 & 410 combo specs a little better over the ATI.
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