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The new PC will be made of:
LIAN LI PC-60BPLUSII Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Case
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4 Rev. 2.0 LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz Processor
OCZ GameXStream OCZ600GXSSLI ATX12V 600W PSU
EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KSRTL 320GB SATA HDD
Rosewill Dual Serial Ports PCI card Model RC-301
2 Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM 800 (4GB total)
also:
3 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB SATA drives
The 3 500GB perpendicular recording SATA drives are for setting up (probably level 5) RAID inside the new case for important things for which I want to have a bit more resiliency, though I will also be considering offsite backups of the most important bits, because I've had e.g. 2 drives fail simultaneously before. The 320GB will host the system, and act as a place for less important things - batched images, videos, temp files, etc.
I needed the serial ports for things like BASIC Stamp and PIC microcontroller work, so instead of basing my mobo selection around them, I just added them in via PCI slot to a board I liked, that fit my price range. The plan at this point is to take a 3rd Dell 1905FP 19" monitor (from Ebay), put it on a 3rd Ergotron LX arm (from Newegg), and hook all 3 through a Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition box, which converts a single DVI out (from the new 8800GTS) of a 3840x1024 screen resolution signal to 3 individual 1280x1024 monitors, which is the limit of my 3 1905FPs.
Everything in this pile was decided upon after 9 days of heavy research into what's current (haven't kept up since '02), and involved a mix of price, features, reviews by folks at Newegg, and through Google searches about what was good, and would play nicely together, as well as what was known to work with Linux, as I'll be installing Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on this thing as the primary OS. If/when I add Windows XP, it'll be contained on its own entirely separate drive. I had a twin boot on a partition last time, and would just prefer to have one large Linux disc, and one small Windows disc for the few times I need it.
IMG_2595.JPG
The new PC will be made of:
LIAN LI PC-60BPLUSII Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Case
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4 Rev. 2.0 LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz Processor
OCZ GameXStream OCZ600GXSSLI ATX12V 600W PSU
EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KSRTL 320GB SATA HDD
Rosewill Dual Serial Ports PCI card Model RC-301
2 Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM 800 (4GB total)
also:
3 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB SATA drives
The 3 500GB perpendicular recording SATA drives are for setting up (probably level 5) RAID inside the new case for important things for which I want to have a bit more resiliency, though I will also be considering offsite backups of the most important bits, because I've had e.g. 2 drives fail simultaneously before. The 320GB will host the system, and act as a place for less important things - batched images, videos, temp files, etc.
I needed the serial ports for things like BASIC Stamp and PIC microcontroller work, so instead of basing my mobo selection around them, I just added them in via PCI slot to a board I liked, that fit my price range. The plan at this point is to take a 3rd Dell 1905FP 19" monitor (from Ebay), put it on a 3rd Ergotron LX arm (from Newegg), and hook all 3 through a Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition box, which converts a single DVI out (from the new 8800GTS) of a 3840x1024 screen resolution signal to 3 individual 1280x1024 monitors, which is the limit of my 3 1905FPs.
Everything in this pile was decided upon after 9 days of heavy research into what's current (haven't kept up since '02), and involved a mix of price, features, reviews by folks at Newegg, and through Google searches about what was good, and would play nicely together, as well as what was known to work with Linux, as I'll be installing Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on this thing as the primary OS. If/when I add Windows XP, it'll be contained on its own entirely separate drive. I had a twin boot on a partition last time, and would just prefer to have one large Linux disc, and one small Windows disc for the few times I need it.