My new box

[qball]

Every couple of years I build a new box. My old PII350's time has come for pasture. I basically have a good idea of some of the reqs, though any wise *** comments are always appreciated.

Athlon 800+ (just because I don't like Intel)
mobo w/onboard SCSI (2 channel) and 133FSB support (RAMBUS is out)(anyone, anyone?)
GeForce2 DDR (64M iffin I can get it)
Yawmaha 8X8X32 CDRW
Hollywood DVD encoder card
DVD drive

Luckily my budget is as big as I want, so I don't need to really skimp (nor am I cannibalizing any existing parts).

[SoopaStar]

Sounds ilke you have some good ideas, but I think you are going to have some trouoble finding a Athlon motherboard that has onboard scsi. Also, I don't think there are any athlon motherboards that support RAMBUS since that was mostly an intel thing. (And costs a helluva lot more!!).

[Warthog]

AMD = DDR memory
Intel = Rambus memory
I think...

And do me a favor:

Don't go the Rambus route. I almost bought my new comp with Rambus, but decided to 100% sure. I changed my mind. I did MUCH research on the memory and have since determined that, currently, Rambus is no good. It's hardly faster than PC133 yet 5 times as expensive.

DDR memory is not out yet, so you can't do that either.

Go with PC133 memory.

Warthog

[grunt]

I have had good luck with Yamaha CDRs. But if you are gonna go SCSI you might be better off with a Plextor.

I don't know of an Athlon board with onboard SCSI either - you can always slap an Adaptec 2940? in it.

[drn]

dont wast your money on the dvd decoder as you will not need it the sys you are building will run them great without it i have been using a dvd for more than a year now and have never use any decoder as long as you got over 400 mhz it runs great in fact i have decoder on vidio card and they play back better without the decoder

my sys
Asus K7M Mobo
Athlon 750 o/c to 1102 Mhz
192 PC 100 ram
128 PC 133 ram
2 15 gig hhd
6x DVD Rom
Sound Blaster X gamer
ATI Rage Fury Maxx
ATI Tv Wonder

Good Luck hope this helps you out

Darren

[KAknight]

Do you really think that you need a DVD decoder card? With an 800MHz processor a software player would do just fine, unless you want to do something else while watching a movie.

[qball]

No Rambus, bad. But isn't this where Intel is going?

Yeah, I can't find a Athlon mobo with onboard SCSI, either...