My New Custom System I am building.

[WallCrawler]

Well boys I am trying to get into graphics on PC.
So I needed a system that could handle the load I will be putting on it and able to upgrade with out any issues.
Well this is what I have designed.




· Thermaltake W0011+PFC Silent Purepower 480W with Silver
housing - Xaser Edition ATX 2-Fan Power Supply. Designed for AMD K7 and
Intel ATX +12V 1.1 and ATX 2.03 version (Fully Support Pentium 4).

· Thermaltake Xaser III V1000D Chassis, 12-Bay, ( BLUE ), ATX
Super Tower w/ Large Side Window and Locks -Retail
Record & adjust pre-setting Temp. °C / °F display switch. Temp. Alarm
Function. 4 channel adjustable fan speed knob. Thermaltake elegant blue
E-LED light on the front panel.


. Intel Pentium 4 (800 FSB) Motherboard Model D875PBZLK Retail
Specifications:
CPU:Supports Intel Pentium 4 processor with a 533/800MHz
(mPGA478-pin)Supports Hyper-threading
Chipset: Intel 875P
IDE:2x IDE with Ultra DMA 33 and ATA-66/100 support
RAM:4x 184-pin DIMM connect, Double Data Rate DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 support
Slots:1 x AGP 8X, and 5 x PCI
Ports:2xPS2, 4x USB, (see pics)
Onboard SATA:2
Onboard LAN: Gigabit 10/100/1000 Intregrated

· Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS PCI Internal Sound
Card - Retail
Features:
Superior Fidelity 24-bit ADVANCED HD™ THX® Certified Sound Card
Advanced Resolution™ 24-bit DVD-Audio Playback
Ultra-realistic EAX® 4.0 ADVANCED HD™ Effects and Acoustic Enhancements
Patented Creative CMSS® 3D Audio Technology
Integrated High Speed 1394 FireWire® Port
2 Western Digital Raptor 36GB SATA WD360GD 10,000 RPM 8MB Hard Drive

· Intel Pentium 4 / 2.8CGHz 512k socket 478 Hyper Threading
Technology 800 MHz FSB - RETAIL
Specifications:
CPU: 2.8GHz
Type: Pentium 4 Northwood
Cache: 512K
BUS: 800 Mhz
Socket: 478
Retail box (with Heatsink and Fan)
UNINCOM ROUND, 10-Inch, UV Clear Tube/Silver-Blue Floppy drive cable.
Booted, 2-Connector. ( SILVER/BLUE ). Single-device. Retail

· UNINCOM ROUND, 18-Inch, True ATA133/100/66/33, ( UV
SILVER/BLUE ) IDE Cable. 3-Head. 18 Inches. For IDE Hard Drives, CD ROM, DVD
ROM or CDRW.
CORSAIR MEMORY XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, Low Latency (Twin Pack)
1GB(2 x 512MB) 2x(64MX64) PC-3200LLPT With Platinum - Silver Heat
Spreaders.Retail
Specifications:
Speed 400 MHz
Organization 2 x 64M x 64
Memory type DDR
Part number: TWINX1024-3200LLPT

· ATI RADEON 9800XT 256MB DVI/TV 8X AGP
Specifications:
Chipset:Radeon 9800XT
Memory: 256MB DDR
Bus: AGP 8X
256-bit DDR memory interface
Eight parallel rendering pipelines
Four parallel geometry engines
2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
Ports:VGA + DVI + Svideo Out

· VeloCD 52x24x48x Internal ATAP/E-IDE CDRW Drive
TDK Internal Burners Add High-Performace CD Recording To Your Computer

· DVD cdrom.

· Windows PRO XP.

[NeoMoses]

When you say "graphics" what exactly do you mean? Animated gifs? Video editing/compression from digital camcorder? Photoshop work on images? Or are you going serious, like Maya?

how many computers have you built? Have you ever overclocked a computer? If not, you'll be happy to know that the system you're putting together will likely run at 3.0 GHz without a problem, maybe 3.2 GHz if you're lucky with stock cooling, and likely 3.5 GHz or faster with a good cooling solution (like the watercooler in my avatar )

My other comments: You may be better off to build a dual processor machine, especially if your 'graphics' program(s) can take advantage of it. You won't find a smoother running machine than a dually. Take a look at the MSI K7D Master-L with a couple of low-speed TBred B processors (like the 1700+) If your program is SMP capable, that system will be cheaper than the P4 system and have tons more processing power.

Also, I would always recommend buying quality, name-brand motherboards. My favorite brands are Abit and Asus, although there are plenty of other good brands.

finally, there's 2 websites I'd like to recommend.
1. www.newegg.com - hands down the best place to buy parts.
2. www.overclockers.com - be sure to check out their forums at forum.oc-forums.com . there's TONS of info there.

Hope it helps!

[WallCrawler]

Originally posted by NeoMoses
When you say "graphics" what exactly do you mean? Animated gifs? Video editing/compression from digital camcorder? Photoshop work on images? Or are you going serious, like Maya?
"I would like to get to that level.
Yes Flash Macro so on"

how many computers have you built? "50 PC and Servers "
Have you ever overclocked a computer? "YES"
If not, you'll be happy to know that the system you're putting together will likely run at 3.0 GHz without a problem, maybe 3.2 GHz if you're lucky with stock cooling, and likely 3.5 GHz or faster with a good cooling solution (like the watercooler in my avatar )

My other comments: You may be better off to build a dual processor machine, especially if your 'graphics' program(s) can take advantage of it. You won't find a smoother running machine than a dually. Take a look at the MSI K7D Master-L with a couple of low-speed TBred B processors (like the 1700+) If your program is SMP capable, that system will be cheaper than the P4 system and have tons more processing power.

Also, I would always recommend buying quality, name-brand motherboards. My favorite brands are Abit and Asus, although there are plenty of other good brands.

finally, there's 2 websites I'd like to recommend.
1. www.newegg.com - hands down the best place to buy parts.
2. www.overclockers.com - be sure to check out their forums at forum.oc-forums.com . there's TONS of info there.

Hope it helps!

I got most everything at New Egg and some at compusa.

[NeoMoses]

well, it looks like you're all set, wallcrawler. That ought to be a good, solid system for you.

I'm kinda getting tired of my old Athlon 1600+ running at 2.0 GHz, so I'm seriously thinking about upgrading to a nice dually with TBred Bs clocked to about 2.3 GHz each. (Watercooled, of course ) That ought to last me another year or so, at least until there's some good software written for 64 bit processors.

If you do overclock that 2.8C, let me know how it does. I've heard they're screamers.

[ullbergm]

looks nice.

the only thing i'd add is that the thermaltake case can be hard to install stuff in. so unless you like the look i would probably suggest a antec case, they are really nice as far as installing harddrives, etc.

edit: didnt realize you had already bought it. let me know what you think about the case

[WallCrawler]

This is what’s installed so far the OS XP PRO and all updates plus drivers plus antivirus.

Now I have to load Office 2003 PRO.
All files I backed up.
Tweak.
Install my graphics programs update all that, games install restore all back ups and updates.
I say about another 8 hrs of loading stuff.

Then test test test.

[CNCadmin]

What "graphics programs" are you using?

[WallCrawler]

Flash MX
MX studio
The one you gave me.
new phote shop

[WallCrawler]

Well she is up and running. Finel List.

· Thermaltake W0011+PFC Silent Purepower 480W with Silver
housing - Xaser Edition ATX 2-Fan Power Supply. Designed for AMD K7 and
Intel ATX +12V 1.1 and ATX 2.03 version (Fully Support Pentium 4).

· Thermaltake Xaser III V1000D Chassis, 12-Bay, ( BLUE ), ATX
Super Tower w/ Large Side Window and Locks -Retail
Record & adjust pre-setting Temp. °C / °F display switch. Temp. Alarm
Function. 4 channel adjustable fan speed knob. Thermaltake elegant blue
E-LED light on the front panel.


. Intel Pentium 4 (800 FSB) Motherboard Model D875PBZLK Retail
Specifications:
CPU:Supports Intel Pentium 4 processor with a 533/800MHz
(mPGA478-pin)Supports Hyper-threading
Chipset: Intel 875P
IDE:2x IDE with Ultra DMA 33 and ATA-66/100 support
RAM:4x 184-pin DIMM connect, Double Data Rate DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 support
Slots:1 x AGP 8X, and 5 x PCI
Ports:2xPS2, 4x USB, (see pics)
Onboard SATA:2
Onboard LAN: Gigabit 10/100/1000 Intregrated

· Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS PCI Internal Sound
Card - Retail
Features:
Superior Fidelity 24-bit ADVANCED HD™ THX® Certified Sound Card
Advanced Resolution™ 24-bit DVD-Audio Playback
Ultra-realistic EAX® 4.0 ADVANCED HD™ Effects and Acoustic Enhancements
Patented Creative CMSS® 3D Audio Technology
Integrated High Speed 1394 FireWire® Port

.2 Western Digital Raptor 36GB SATA WD360GD 10,000 RPM 8MB Hard Drive

· Intel Pentium 4 / 2.8CGHz 512k socket 478 Hyper Threading
Technology 800 MHz FSB - RETAIL
Specifications:
CPU: 2.8GHz
Type: Pentium 4 Northwood
Cache: 512K
BUS: 800 Mhz
Socket: 478
Retail box (with Heatsink and Fan)
UNINCOM ROUND, 10-Inch, UV Clear Tube/Silver-Blue Floppy drive cable.
Booted, 2-Connector. ( SILVER/BLUE ). Single-device. Retail

UNINCOM ROUND, 18-Inch, True ATA133/100/66/33, ( UV
SILVER/BLUE ) IDE Cable. 3-Head. 18 Inches. For IDE Hard Drives, CD ROM, DVD
ROM or CDRW.
CORSAIR MEMORY XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, Low Latency (Twin Pack)
1GB(2 x 512MB) 2x(64MX64) PC-3200LLPT With Platinum - Silver Heat
Spreaders.Retail
Specifications:
Speed 400 MHz
Organization 2 x 64M x 64
Memory type DDR
Part number: TWINX1024-3200LLPT

· ATI RADEON 9800XT 256MB DVI/TV 8X AGP
Specifications:
Chipset:Radeon 9800XT
Memory: 256MB DDR
Bus: AGP 8X
256-bit DDR memory interface
Eight parallel rendering pipelines
Four parallel geometry engines
2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
Ports:VGA + DVI + Svideo Out

· VeloCD 52x24x48x Internal ATAP/E-IDE CDRW Drive
TDK Internal Burners Add High-Performace CD Recording To Your Computer

· DVD cdrom.

· Windows PRO XP.
Windows 2003 Office Pro

[ullbergm]

thats a nice system.

i've got the SATA 10k drives as well, pretty schweet drives.

so, how was the case? i have heard they can be a pain to install stuff in. but they look really cool.

[WallCrawler]

Here are some pic's

[WallCrawler]

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