I just built a new PC, first for me. I've worked on PC's for years but never went the "home built" route. I bought an Intel DP35DP motherbord, an Intel Q6600 quad core CPU, cheap Windows keyboard and a case. I had a 550watt Antec power supply, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a 500GB SATA hard drivem two PATA DVD burners and an XFX8600GT video card. I also bought an OEM copy of Vista Home Premium (Total cost, excluding the items I already had - $487.87 at the local CompUSA store).
Amazingly after I assembled everything, I powered it up and it Worked! It booted through the BIOS to the DVD drive that had Vista and Vista installed and activated without a problem. I then installed the Intel chipset drivers, Sigma-Tel audio (which is now "IDT" as IDT bought Sigma-Tel) and a couple of other Intel supplied items. I had it wired to my router and it even connected to the Internet. I have Windows Live One Care security package and installed it on this machine (the One Care license is for 3 PC's and this made the third PC).
I will be migrating my Computer based recording applications (includign Sonar 7) to this machine
and probably will add another high capacity hard drive as recording takes a lot of disk space.
Built New PC
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Jack Stoner
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Cool, Jack. I built one several years ago, and it sure was a rush when it actually worked. I upgrade it every once in a while, and have Linux on it at the moment.
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Jack:
Sounds like you had fun, Jack. I rebuilt last winter with an Intel board and am glad I did. Enough with Asus motherboard issues.
If you need a new high capacity drive, take a look at the Western Digital 640 gig model just introduced. It is getting rave reviews. Only two platters, so it is very quick and quiet. I bought one 3 weeks ago at new egg for 130 and see that it is now 110!! Drat. They don't do price matching, so I can't get the $20 difference back. I had used Seagate and Samsung successfully for several years, but no regrets on the WD so far.
Wondering offhand why you stuck with PATA DVDs? I see that your Intel board has plenty of SATA ports. I was glad to get rid of ribbon cables once and for all.
Sounds like you had fun, Jack. I rebuilt last winter with an Intel board and am glad I did. Enough with Asus motherboard issues.
If you need a new high capacity drive, take a look at the Western Digital 640 gig model just introduced. It is getting rave reviews. Only two platters, so it is very quick and quiet. I bought one 3 weeks ago at new egg for 130 and see that it is now 110!! Drat. They don't do price matching, so I can't get the $20 difference back. I had used Seagate and Samsung successfully for several years, but no regrets on the WD so far.
Wondering offhand why you stuck with PATA DVDs? I see that your Intel board has plenty of SATA ports. I was glad to get rid of ribbon cables once and for all.
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Jack Stoner
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I reused the PATA optical drives that I took out of another PC. If I would have had to buy new drives I would have went with SATA.
The 500 GB drive I have, is a WD.
The parts I reused were all less than 6 months old. An Antec Tru Power Trio 550 watt power supply, four G-Skill 1GB memory modules (but they will eventually be replaced with 8500 memory as they are only 667MhZ and the bus on the new machine is 1066.
The 500 GB drive I have, is a WD.
The parts I reused were all less than 6 months old. An Antec Tru Power Trio 550 watt power supply, four G-Skill 1GB memory modules (but they will eventually be replaced with 8500 memory as they are only 667MhZ and the bus on the new machine is 1066.