document updated 17 years ago, on Dec 13, 2006
Case: Silver Thermaltake Tsunami $105-120
(it really is pretty)
Fans: Those mentioned here: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1902999,00.asp
The motherboard supports "Asus Q-Fan 2"... is this all I need for speed control?
(well, it sounds like it *should* work... I guess we'll stick with that for now)
Graphics:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/26/the_best_gaming_video_cards_for_the_money/page2.html#best_pcie_card_for_under_100
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html
X800 GTO 73fps $86 POWERCOLOR X800GTO256MBDDR3
X700 51fps $62
HDD:
How much space is a full enwiki dump? Well, a full dewiki dump is ~400gb uncompressed. Soo......
Compressed as bz2, a full enwiki dump is likely to be >60gb
Sound card:
On-board sound looks pretty great, especially if we're output digital. THough it doesn't do
digital encoding of dynamic sources, so it's still mediocre-ish.
Have we decided on any sort of sound setup? :| It *would* be nice to
Order:
Case: Silver Thermaltake Tsunami (the ONE WITHOUT THE WINDOW)
PSU: SeaSonic S12-430
MB: Asus P5B Deluxe
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
Graphics: POWERCOLOR X800GTO256MBDDR3 (the non-open one)
RAM: 4GB PC6400 DDR2-800 SDRAM, probably F2-6400CL4D-2GBPK (this is 2.0v, but I think the MB is very flexible)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010170147+1052108080+1052416064+1052308477&Subcategory=147&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=
HD: 400GB N82E16822152046
http://tinyurl.com/ylcenh
DVD drive: NEC 7170A-0S
Future hardware plans:
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- GPU IS OPEN BOX! Test it and return if needed ASAP!! (15 day limit)
- upgrade to a DirectX10 graphics card once they hit the ~$300 price point, and they're not so bleeding-edge new
- fill the other two RAM slots with either 2x1GB or 2x2GB (for a total of either 4GB or 6GB of RAM)
- buy whatever is needed to do audio mixing
- buy whatever is needed to make a sort of universal remote work with my various components
- buy a HD-DVD drive (or BluRay or combo drive) when they're less bleeding edge, and there's more movies for them
- BUY A QUIET DVD drive, cripes (though http://www.cdspeed2000.com/ is software that can limit a drive's maximum speed)
Future software plans:
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- figure out how to get Windows and Linux working alongside each other
(possibly in a way that makes MVP not be such a huge PITA incompatible POS)