Just a verification on chipsets
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About memory:
I'm thinking of coupling the mobo with 256MB of DDR 266. What do you think of this choice? I mean should I go for 512 SDRAM or 256 DDR 333? (money is the regulator and I think DDR 266 is a good cost/benefit choice)
About speakers:
I think I'll give YAMAHA YST-MS50 a choice (2x20W RMS+40SW). I need a pair of fairly good speakers since before burning audio CDs, the audio files pass through the 30 band EQ of CoolEdit.
NE suggestions on this? (let's not go beyond the point of 100 euros-or is it too much?)
I'm thinking of coupling the mobo with 256MB of DDR 266. What do you think of this choice? I mean should I go for 512 SDRAM or 256 DDR 333? (money is the regulator and I think DDR 266 is a good cost/benefit choice)
About speakers:
I think I'll give YAMAHA YST-MS50 a choice (2x20W RMS+40SW). I need a pair of fairly good speakers since before burning audio CDs, the audio files pass through the 30 band EQ of CoolEdit.
NE suggestions on this? (let's not go beyond the point of 100 euros-or is it too much?)
if you use an intel system, then you want intel chipsets (via will just mess it up). On AMD system, you can get away most times with VIA chipsets.
SiS chipset though slower, is still quite good and would easily be in the run for contenders in the mobo business.
What exactly you want to do with your system will depend on how much RAM you really need.
RDRAM is still the best choice for Intel chipsets, but never go for SDRAM (you will cry about it in the future *near future lol) for the new systems. DDR 266 is different from DDR 333, so if you go with 256DDR RAM, make sure you are getting what you want:
DDR266=PC2100
DDR333=PC2600, or is it PC2400 lol (sorry I forget which one now, but I think it is the 2600).
Judging that you like to use CoolEdit, I would suggest you try buying 2 sticks of 256MB DDR RAM or one stick of 512MB DDR RAM (in the long run you will appreciate it better).
Also what OS system you plan on running?
-if win9x then 256 will do you fine, but on win2k and especially XP you will want more--the more you handle bigger files and encodings.
256 is good starting point for those systems, but always get as much RAM as you can.
Good luck
SiS chipset though slower, is still quite good and would easily be in the run for contenders in the mobo business.
What exactly you want to do with your system will depend on how much RAM you really need.
RDRAM is still the best choice for Intel chipsets, but never go for SDRAM (you will cry about it in the future *near future lol) for the new systems. DDR 266 is different from DDR 333, so if you go with 256DDR RAM, make sure you are getting what you want:
DDR266=PC2100
DDR333=PC2600, or is it PC2400 lol (sorry I forget which one now, but I think it is the 2600).
Judging that you like to use CoolEdit, I would suggest you try buying 2 sticks of 256MB DDR RAM or one stick of 512MB DDR RAM (in the long run you will appreciate it better).
Also what OS system you plan on running?
-if win9x then 256 will do you fine, but on win2k and especially XP you will want more--the more you handle bigger files and encodings.
256 is good starting point for those systems, but always get as much RAM as you can.
Good luck
@ poko: Wow dude! I know you're a perfectionist but 450$ dor computer speakers? What kind of audio do you plan to hear through them? Isn't your home stereo is superb enough? LOL. Believe it or not YST-M100 never crossed my mind. Coupling your suggestion with the one here: _http://w*w.computeraudio.co.uk/caw/cawreviewshtml/yamahaystm100.html made me sit down and think...
@ shadoe_phantom:
What exactly you want to do with your system will depend on how much RAM you really need.
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My needs are quite wide-ranged: I work from AutoCAD (with 40MB TIFFs as layers),ArcGIS & Photoshop (try applying those filters on a 300-600dpi 17x24cm psd until you get what you want is a pain in the ass) to CoolEdit (some turtles move faster than it handles audio) some complex self written FORTRAN progs that solve differential eaquations (where too many iterations & too small time steps REALLY matter) and a little bit of LAME.
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RDRAM is still the best choice....
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1) and more expensive though... (Money is hard to find these days LOL)
2) Tom's Hardware Guide: "The SiS645 also shows that all the claims 'Pentium 4 needs RDRAM' that I had contradicted so many times in the past are simply false. Pentium 4 doesn't even need the 3200 MB/s of memory bandwidth provided by dual-channel RDRAM, as long as the 2666 MB/s offered by SiS645 and DDR333 are able to score the same benchmark results."
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Judging that you like to use CoolEdit...
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Well...I find it rather simplistic but I guess I got used to it, it does what I need it to do, it's solid and I don't wanna learn something other.
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I would suggest you try buying 2 sticks of 256MB DDR RAM or one stick of 512MB DDR RAM (in the long run you will appreciate it better).
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My god, the more I read what I've written above the more I come closer to this opinion...(damnned money I'll start with one 256 stick and who knows what the future may bring)
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Also what OS system you plan on running?
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Same as now: Win2k SP3 w XP-Antispy. LOL. Windows have been satisfactorily working with 128MB SDRAM 133, that's why I thought that doubling both MBs and MHz would be enough.
Thanks both of you gyus for helping my money buy the right products
@ shadoe_phantom:
What exactly you want to do with your system will depend on how much RAM you really need.
----------------------
My needs are quite wide-ranged: I work from AutoCAD (with 40MB TIFFs as layers),ArcGIS & Photoshop (try applying those filters on a 300-600dpi 17x24cm psd until you get what you want is a pain in the ass) to CoolEdit (some turtles move faster than it handles audio) some complex self written FORTRAN progs that solve differential eaquations (where too many iterations & too small time steps REALLY matter) and a little bit of LAME.
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RDRAM is still the best choice....
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1) and more expensive though... (Money is hard to find these days LOL)
2) Tom's Hardware Guide: "The SiS645 also shows that all the claims 'Pentium 4 needs RDRAM' that I had contradicted so many times in the past are simply false. Pentium 4 doesn't even need the 3200 MB/s of memory bandwidth provided by dual-channel RDRAM, as long as the 2666 MB/s offered by SiS645 and DDR333 are able to score the same benchmark results."
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Judging that you like to use CoolEdit...
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Well...I find it rather simplistic but I guess I got used to it, it does what I need it to do, it's solid and I don't wanna learn something other.
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I would suggest you try buying 2 sticks of 256MB DDR RAM or one stick of 512MB DDR RAM (in the long run you will appreciate it better).
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My god, the more I read what I've written above the more I come closer to this opinion...(damnned money I'll start with one 256 stick and who knows what the future may bring)
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Also what OS system you plan on running?
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Same as now: Win2k SP3 w XP-Antispy. LOL. Windows have been satisfactorily working with 128MB SDRAM 133, that's why I thought that doubling both MBs and MHz would be enough.
Thanks both of you gyus for helping my money buy the right products
yes Tomshardware guide is a joke. They are just full of too many mistakes and never consistent on how they run their tests (also the fact they work with intel in the same building kinda let's you know who's b**ch boy they are).
I wrote something earlier in the year on bennefits of RAM, and since you will be using rendering software (aswell as photoshop and cooledit) I would deffinately say the more RAM the better.
512MB-1Gig will do you nicely lol (256 will get you buy for now, but you will deffinately notice a difference with 512 and beyond).
Those tools are all memory dependent.
Win2K is a good choice and functions fine with 256MB RAM (but RDRAM still functions better than DDR for P4 above 2.2Ghz *because of bottleneck problems with P4 and DDR *but not a huge difference when you way the price).
Yes pokos speakers are too expensive (would have gone for Klipsch pro media or something, but probably similar in anycase).
Ofcourse poko is a big criminal mafia guy in greece so he just steals his stuff ROFL j/k poko (*_^)
Anyhow, good luck on your system and let us know how it turned out (and how happy you are with it).
I wrote something earlier in the year on bennefits of RAM, and since you will be using rendering software (aswell as photoshop and cooledit) I would deffinately say the more RAM the better.
512MB-1Gig will do you nicely lol (256 will get you buy for now, but you will deffinately notice a difference with 512 and beyond).
Those tools are all memory dependent.
Win2K is a good choice and functions fine with 256MB RAM (but RDRAM still functions better than DDR for P4 above 2.2Ghz *because of bottleneck problems with P4 and DDR *but not a huge difference when you way the price).
Yes pokos speakers are too expensive (would have gone for Klipsch pro media or something, but probably similar in anycase).
Ofcourse poko is a big criminal mafia guy in greece so he just steals his stuff ROFL j/k poko (*_^)
Anyhow, good luck on your system and let us know how it turned out (and how happy you are with it).
lol. Well just go what is within your budget, and see if you can test them out at the store before you buy (so you make sure you don't get a dud).
Best of luck to you
Best of luck to you