Currently
running:
Asus
A7V
MoBo
Pioneer
DVD SCSI ROM
TDK
Cyclone CDR
1.1G
Athlon
1
Seagate
Cheetah 18.2GB Ultra Wide SCSI HDD
1
Dunno
9.1GB Ultra Wide SCSI HDD
1
Samsung
13.1GB IDE HD
1
Seagate Series
5 IDE 40GB HDD
1 SCSI
Zip
100 Drive
1
Samsung
IDE CD ROM
Adaptec
2940W SCSI card
Creative
Live 1024
3DFX
5500
Graphics card
640MB
RAM
Very
quick
once you shut down all the Windows c*ap from the background, it rocks for
games
with full Dolby Surround or DD if you can get it! Asus mobo is great plus
you
get another three USB ports, very
handy.
One
thing
for games is buy a decent case, that’s my next PC purchase from one
of the
overclocking boys, not to overclock, it just to stop it being an additional
radiator!
K.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Mark Harrison
[mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 June 2001 18:34
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: [ukha_d] OT:
Motherboards
Hi
all,
I'm
vaguely thinking about my "Next PC". This will be primarily to
run
Games. The current PC moves into "node zero" and acts as an
MP3/deCSS
server.
Trying
to think about specifications, and I'd appreciate comments on the following
spec.
This is _not_ someone's offered product, but what I think I
need:
-
AMD
Athlon 1.3Gz (or 1.5Gz???)
-
256Mb
RAM (or should I go for more???)
-
Abit
motherboard with ATA-100 (NON RAID) on board (or should I wait for the
dual-Athlon
boards to come out???)
-
20Gb
(ish) IBM 7200rpm HDD for the Operating System ONLY
-
40Gb
(ish) IBM 7200rpm HDD for applications (Bear in mind I'll be running a
separate
server for MP3/DeCSS stuff)
-
10/100
WOL "el cheapo" NIC
-
Region-free(!) DVD player (Any manufacturers I should go for or
avoid???)
-
nVidia
MX2-based 32Mb RAM video-card, with some kind of TV-out for DVD replay
(help????)
-
Creative soundcard, with SP/DIF and _front-panel_ connection
plate!
-
300W
PSU
-
Tower
case
-
Some
kind of TV capture card for "Tivo-like"
things???
And
for
the convergence requirements....
-
For
local replay, ie games soundtracks, I'll be running the sound out through
my
"study system" which is a Quad 406/44 pair driving Rogers LS4a
speakers
-
I'd probably
want to run the set of DVD's that are ripped to the _server_ hard disk (all
of
which I own on DVD!!!!) to play through in the bedroom as
follows.
-
Files
ripped, de-CSSed, and stored on the server. Replayed on the "new
PC",
using 10switched -BaseT for the data stream. IS THIS
VIABLE???
-
From
the new PC, initially, it would be analogue and TV-out, passed through a
KAT5
transmitter-receiver pair, into the telly/amp.
-
The
main amplification for that system is a Shearne Phase 2 Integrated,
bi-wired
with a Shearne Phase 3 power amp, drivign Linn Keilidhs. The telly is a
Loewe
Xelos.
-
MP3-wise, I'm on the "Graham list" for a DDAR, which would sit in
the
bedroom, directly accessing the files off the server, over the ethernet, so
the
new PC wouldn't get involved except to play MP3's IN the
study.
- In
the
longer term, I'm after a Meridian 56x and a Chord DAC1500. However, I've
still
not made up my mind about the order of purchase ;-) At that point, I'd loop
the
SP/DIF from the new PC over a _long_ cable into the bedroom, and route the
audio through the digital inputs on the Meridian. (By the way, those two
would
co-exist by all digital sources going into the Meridian, and the front pair
feed going from the Meridian as a PCM stream into the Chord DAC.) Can I run
a
PCM stream over SP/DIF over 5 meters or so???
Regards,
Mark
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