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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: shadowman who wrote (14686)	12/24/2005 3:05:49 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

My last computer was put together by the company I bought the components from. I researched them for weeks and then put the order in. At the last minute I decided on a AMD Dual Core chip, unfortunately the motherboard didn’t support a Dual Core chip and the sales guy didn’t catch it nor did the assembler who builds computers everyday. I was wondering why this thing was slower than expected, then I started to get all sorts of software errors. I took the system back, and the service tech said I had an unsupported motherboard and the hard drive failed the SMART test, so he put another same brand hard drive in the system and loaded Windows, it would not load stable. It turns out that batch of hard drives was defective, after a few days they got the system back up and running 100% stable. The box is nice, it’s a Lian Li black aluminum case, next system I get will have the same brand of case, really pleased with the look and quality of the case. I would buy another computer from them with no hesitation, I would just make sure myself the all the components are compatible with each other, not just rely on their expertise. One thing about a custom machine is the huge amount of choices you have, it’s the only way to go. PS I respect you guys that build your own boxes from scratch, my hang up is installing the motherboard, after reading the manual for the motherboard, seems like a lot of things can go wrong if you are not careful. Installing the rest of the stuff is a piece of cake.

To: shadowman who wrote (14686)	5/8/2006 12:13:27 AM
From: Greg from Edmonton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I think it's time to build myself another Dream Machine. Probably build a budget server that can also do some occasional gaming. The hardware should be well supported for Linux (Fedora or CentOS as the base OS), and also other OSes through VMWare Server to test with (Ubuntu, Windows, and various others). My last computer was a dual CPU and I would like to go that route again, only dual core this time. Here's the contents of my shopping list so far: ASUS A8N-E Motherboard ATX S939 NFORCE4 Ultra DDR PCI-E16 PCI-E4 2PCI-E1 3PCI SATA RAID Sound GBLAN AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core CPU 1GB RAM (256MB x 4 modules from extra inventory to start) Nvidia GeForce 6600 or 6600GT PCI-E, not determined yet Pair of SATA NCQ hard drives in hardware RAID-1 configuration on-board controller (probably Seagate or WD with 5-yr warranty). Use existing keyboard, mouse, monitor, CD-RW drives, power supply and tower case initially. I don't think I will overclock, but from what I have read it should be quite possible. Any comments to add on this setup? It's been 5+ years since my last Dream Machine buildup, which has been used regularly until January before my recent move: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation ABIT BP-6 motherboard dual Celeron 366MHz CPUs overclocked to 550MHz 512MB RAM 100GB WD hard drive (upgraded to this about a year ago).