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Major Upgrade ..... need advice
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mk47
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Posted : Jan 18, 2007 08:12
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hello friends , finally upgrading my setup .. iv done some research and heres what iv come up with :
Motherboard : Asus P5B deluxe
Chipset : Intel core 2 duo E - 6700 or 6600
2 GB RAM : Corsair xms2 DDR2
im going to get all this assembled from my computer guy , not building it myself so i need to get it right when i order , need
your advice here on my specs , is there better options (same price range) ? also .. one really dumb question .. wtf is SATA ?
sorry for starting a new thread but id like some quick replys , i want to order this soooon !
thanks
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orange
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Posted : Jan 18, 2007 12:52
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bholenath
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Posted : Jan 18, 2007 13:25
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ManiaaaK
If you arent gonna overclock. get the Intel 965 boards.. stable and best.. if your buying in India. You should also get a mid-range gfx card to get the best out of this sytem.
As orange says.. go for E6600... its the best of the lot.
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Elad
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Posted : Jan 18, 2007 16:00
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good computer 
need good soundcard most important
SATA = serial ata 
dont know what it is.. but get SATA2 anywayz
also heard there is PATA but fuck i hate computers anywaz
also pci express for the graphic card.. and make sure graphic card is minimum 128
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Kaz
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Posted : Jan 18, 2007 17:27
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About the graphics card - it really matters if you intend to use your computer as a DAW or as an all-around machine. Because excluding videogames, the onboard is quite enough, and perhaps that money would be better spent on a better soundcard.
Actually, the ideal would be that you only use one soundcard, and disable the rest of the slots on your computer via the BIOS, even though this will create only a marginal difference in performance, it's still a little bit extra.
As with the CPU, I'd think perhaps watercooling + overclocking, while slightly more expensive, would also reduce the noise your computer makes, and you could get really near that 4GHz mark.
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Posted : Jan 18, 2007 18:19
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I disagree with about the on-board card.
Most of those use RAM as a graphics memory, so it slows the computer down because there's much more traffic in the memory because of the on-board graphics card.
Same thing with those "Hypermemory" and "TurboCache" laptop graphics cards, which consume both, their own dedicated memory and RAM |
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Kaz
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Posted : Jan 19, 2007 04:35
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mk47
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Posted : Jan 19, 2007 06:08
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thnx for all ur replies ppl .. iv decided on the E - 6600 chipset , bholenaath .why would i need a gfx card to optimise it ? im going to use it mainly as a DAW and some other very limited uses , internet mainly . i have a m audio usb card , its working good for now , so a more powerful chip and some good ram shud do it .. for now . oh .. also getting a new 7,200 rpm 80 gig hdd .. the 10,000 rpm ones are exceeding my budget just a bit so maby at a later stage .. im still confused about this SATA thing .. cudnt make much sense of it on wiki or other places on the net .. wtf is SATA ? wat do i ask for ? a SATA hdd ? or a SATA mothrboard ? please clear this if u could ..
thanx again
peace
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bholenath
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Posted : Jan 19, 2007 09:09
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Ask for a SATA II HDD..my guess is between 2000-2500 in India for an 80gb.
All motherboards for Core 2 Duos will have SATA II. So dont worry about that.
Buy a low end gfx card..just make sure you get one so that as someone said it doesnt interfere with the RAM.
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mk47
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Posted : Jan 19, 2007 09:33
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do i need a gfx card at all if i dont plan to use it for any games etc and just as a daw ?
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Buy a low end gfx card..just make sure you get one so that as someone said it doesnt interfere with the RAM.
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not installing one in the first place should solve that then , but u earlier posted that i need one to get the best out of the system ? again .. i just want to run my audio progs no games , no photoshop or anything .
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bholenath
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Posted : Jan 20, 2007 17:22
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See...
A computer needs a graphics card or a display adapter (which could be on board) to display. If you use the Onboard gfx it needs RAM to run..which slows down the system..hence to get out the most out of your new config it is advisable to get a gfx card...
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Kane
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Posted : Jan 21, 2007 06:01
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Sounds like a nice setup..
As was posted, SATA is Serial ATA..for connecting hard drives and such.. |
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mk47
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Posted : Jan 21, 2007 06:25
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cool .. thnx for ur replies .. now if anyone could just suggest me a low end gfx card and sort me completely ..
thnx again ppl
peace
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WAVELOGIX
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Posted : Jan 22, 2007 18:16
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ask your pc guy , he will know it ... Geforce G07400 is standard these days with onboard 25b mb VRAM.... |
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Posted : Jan 22, 2007 18:25
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Serial ATA & Serial ATA 2 are just the connectors for hard drives & CD/DVD drives basically. They are smaller & faster than the older parallel ATA ports. Most devices are moving to SATA, but you'll need an adapter to use the older PATA on an SATA chain.
GEForce is a decent graphics card.
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