New case

[Just...Will]

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Bein delivered today, fans for it on the 31st.

System thats going into it:

AMD Athalon 64 3500+

Asus AX850XT (Ati Radeon X850XT) vid

Asus A8N-E mobo

2x DVD drive

DVD burner

160 gig SATA HD

Case pictured above

[ThePhantom]

Wow how much is that hardrive costing you?


Is that a dream or do you have the money in hand and going to buy it?

Sexy case :D

[Skhorpion]

junk teh drive and get two WD Raptor drives and put them in RAID0

[<-Dying_to_Live->]

wow how much did that hunk of junk cost?

[Skhorpion]

processor is roughtly $130

[Just...Will]

The HD was like $150, and it's now sitting on my desk having overcome accidental bios deletions and mobo screws that were very stubborn. It was delivered at about 1:30 along with my comp's new fingerprint reader and the Sims 2. The case itself was $53-ish.

[Skhorpion]

The HD was like $150, and it's now sitting on my desk having overcome accidental bios deletions and mobo screws that were very stubborn.

wtf

your harddrive doesnt have a bios or mobo screws

and if you meant your motherboard then A. if you delete the bios your motherboard is trash and B. your using the wrong size screws

[<-Dying_to_Live->]

how much did it cost in total

[ThePhantom]

I know really :/ .. i dunno s ome people want to feel important. . he will soon find that it will be a hell of hassle to hear ''i want to play damn solitary and it is asking me to scan my finger!!'' and you have to run in and swipe it so ur mum can play solitary ..

[Whisper]

Alex....jesus

They can hold more then one print

[ThePhantom]

I know but you would have to be like super paranoid in my opinion to have to do that . . especially when you ahve passwords, we don't need to go thru THAT measure JUST for a home desktop .. my opinio
And anyways it doesnt scan your fingerprints, it scans the heat that omits from your body :geek:


But answer the question! How much was it total?

[Blahages]

That's expensive for the hdd. Hmm...

My Maxtor 200GB SATA was only 83$.

That case looks a lot like mine. Has the same lcd display on the front. But, the case is a bit different.

[Skhorpion]

im getting a $150 74GB WD Raptor

[Kiros]

A SCSI drive in SATA format... don't really make that much of a difference if they rotate faster than they can send data...

[Skhorpion]

pfft 10 WD Raptors in Raid0

[Kiros]

It still wouldn't help the performance if they can't transfer as faster as they can read. You should know that.

[Skhorpion]

4 15k SCSI drives in Raid0+1?

[Kiros]

That might be worth the $3000+ you spend on them :)

...No, nevermind.

[Skhorpion]

the WD Raptor is basicaly a SCSI drive bridged over to SATA interface :P

[Kiros]

A SCSI drive in SATA format... don't really make that much of a difference if they rotate faster than they can send data...

Hmmm... I thought I already made that clear ô.o
SCSI's have a faster transfer rate than SATA, so making a SCSI drive in SATA format isn't really the brightest idea :? Unless it's in the new SATA format (300MB/s one way), but I'm pretty sure the Raptors aren't.

[Skhorpion]

ive seen raptors benchmark higher than those SATA2 drives

forgot you said that about the scsi in sata thing

don't really make that much of a difference if they rotate faster than they can send data

maybe, but even so, it lowers seek times

[Kiros]

Yes.. That's a point, but I'm afraid this has gotten way off topic :|

[Just...Will]

The HD was like $150, and it's now sitting on my desk having overcome accidental bios deletions and mobo screws that were very stubborn.

wtf

your harddrive doesnt have a bios or mobo screws

and if you meant your motherboard then A. if you delete the bios your motherboard is trash and B. your using the wrong size screws

no no no no no as in the hard drive was $150 and now the system is sitting on my desk having overcome blah blah blah. It meant that I'd finished moving it. Entire system: Approx. $1300

AND the bios was cleared, I wasn't specific enough. As in I had to reenter the system time and boot drive priority and junk. Two seperate things, I kind of mushed them together. I've never been very specific about how I type things. And the mobo screws were in the mobo, nothing to do with the hd.


AND I still wasn't clear enough. I already had everything running in a difft case, this is the new case that I'm moving the stuff into. The mobo screws were stripped and wouldn't come OUT of the ORIGINAL standoffs in the OLD case. So much so that I had to take a hammer to it (the other side of the case with the mobo plate behind it to get the standoffs out so I could get the screws out of them easier.

[Skhorpion]

LOL alright i thought you were nuts there for a sec

why so many dvd drives?

[Just...Will]

Well if I'm copying a DVD then I can't do anything else. Plus I can brag about having 3 disc drives in my comp to the people at my school who barely know what a disc drive is. I'm, sadly, the only person at my school that knows how to build a computer.

[Skhorpion]

I'm, sadly, the only person at my school that knows how to build a computer.

i know how it feels :P

[Just...Will]

A fingerprint reader? Jesus Christ. What the hell do you have on your computer that is so secret you went out and bought a fingerprint reader. What a waste of money.

It's for convenience, not security. When you scan your finger it puts in the username and password for you so you don't have to remember it, so it's more secure than IE or Firefox remembering it for you, but you could still just put in a usename and password.