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From: Charlie Wilkes on 25 Mar 2010 08:08
I'm scoping a cheap system to replace the one I assembled four years ago,
which chokes on blu ray movies. Here is what I came up with:


Board Asus M4A77TD $ 84
CPU AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition $105
RAM Corsair XMS3 DHX 2 GB - 1600 MHz (PC3-12800) $ 59
Graphics card 1GB HP/Asus Radeon Hd 4850 DDR3 256bit $100
HDD Western Digital Caviar Black 500 GB WD5001AALS $ 66
Case Antec THREE HUNDRED CASE ATX MID TOWER BLACK W/O PSU $ 59

TOTAL $473

Mainly I want something that can handle HD video - playing, ripping, and
rendering. For now I am going to stick with XP, although I will probably
want to add more RAM and install a 64-bit OS down the road. I will want to
overclock but not to the absolute max. I have two good optical drives,
including a blu ray drive, as well as a new 650w antec PSU.

Can I do much better than this without spending much more money?

The 1600 mhz RAM is the same price as the 1333 mhz. Is there any reason why
I might want 1333 mhz instead of the 1600?
From: Agent_C on 25 Mar 2010 08:20
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:08:04 -0700, Charlie Wilkes
<usexpedition(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Board Asus M4A77TD $ 84
>CPU AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition $105
>RAM Corsair XMS3 DHX 2 GB - 1600 MHz (PC3-12800) $ 59
>Graphics card 1GB HP/Asus Radeon Hd 4850 DDR3 256bit $100
>HDD Western Digital Caviar Black 500 GB WD5001AALS $ 66
>Case Antec THREE HUNDRED CASE ATX MID TOWER BLACK W/O PSU $ 59
>
>TOTAL $473


* I have the Caviar Black 1TB drive and it's outstanding - Faster than
any non SCSI drive I've ever owned. Quite and cool as well.

* If you're running Win7 double up on the memory.

A_C
From: Ron on 25 Mar 2010 11:45
On 3/25/2010 5:20 AM, Agent_C wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:08:04 -0700, Charlie Wilkes
> <usexpedition(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Board Asus M4A77TD $ 84
>> CPU AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition $105
>> RAM Corsair XMS3 DHX 2 GB - 1600 MHz (PC3-12800) $ 59
>> Graphics card 1GB HP/Asus Radeon Hd 4850 DDR3 256bit $100
>> HDD Western Digital Caviar Black 500 GB WD5001AALS $ 66
>> Case Antec THREE HUNDRED CASE ATX MID TOWER BLACK W/O PSU $ 59
>>
>> TOTAL $473
>
>
> * I have the Caviar Black 1TB drive and it's outstanding - Faster than
> any non SCSI drive I've ever owned. Quite and cool as well.
>
> * If you're running Win7 double up on the memory.
>
> A_C

I also have that Caviar drive - true, fast and no problems. Btw, Windows
7 *will* run nicely with 2 gigs of memory, but since you're planning to
all that HD video work, A_C's right, 4 gigs will make a difference,
especially since you're sacrificing a little of your RAM with the 1GB
video card.

Ron Moore
From: noi ance on 25 Mar 2010 15:24
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:08:04 -0700, Charlie Wilkes typed this message:

> I'm scoping a cheap system to replace the one I assembled four years
> ago, which chokes on blu ray movies. Here is what I came up with:
>
>
> Board Asus M4A77TD $
84
> CPU AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition
$105 RAM Corsair XMS3 DHX 2
> GB - 1600 MHz (PC3-12800) $ 59 Graphics card 1GB HP/
Asus Radeon Hd 4850
> DDR3 256bit $100 HDD Western Digital
Caviar Black 500 GB WD5001AALS
> $ 66 Case Antec THREE HUNDRED CASE ATX MID TOWER BLACK W/O
PSU $ 59
>
> TOTAL
$473
>
> Mainly I want something that can handle HD video - playing, ripping, and
> rendering. For now I am going to stick with XP, although I will probably
> want to add more RAM and install a 64-bit OS down the road. I will want
> to overclock but not to the absolute max. I have two good optical
> drives, including a blu ray drive, as well as a new 650w antec PSU.
>
> Can I do much better than this without spending much more money?
>
> The 1600 mhz RAM is the same price as the 1333 mhz. Is there any reason
> why I might want 1333 mhz instead of the 1600?

Larger HD 1TB and more memory 4gb. Especially for graphics work, ripping,
editing and future Win7. I assume HD4850 adequate for HD editing.
From: Charlie Wilkes on 25 Mar 2010 20:55
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:45:47 -0700, Ron wrote:

> On 3/25/2010 5:20 AM, Agent_C wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:08:04 -0700, Charlie Wilkes
>> <usexpedition(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Board Asus M4A77TD $ 84
>>> CPU AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition $105
>>> RAM Corsair XMS3 DHX 2 GB - 1600 MHz (PC3-12800) $ 59
>>> Graphics card 1GB HP/Asus Radeon Hd 4850 DDR3 256bit $100
>>> HDD Western Digital Caviar Black 500 GB WD5001AALS $ 66
>>> Case Antec THREE HUNDRED CASE ATX MID TOWER BLACK W/O PSU $ 59
>>>
>>> TOTAL $473
>>
>>
>> * I have the Caviar Black 1TB drive and it's outstanding - Faster than
>> any non SCSI drive I've ever owned. Quite and cool as well.
>>
>> * If you're running Win7 double up on the memory.
>>
>> A_C
>
> I also have that Caviar drive - true, fast and no problems. Btw, Windows
> 7 *will* run nicely with 2 gigs of memory, but since you're planning to
> all that HD video work, A_C's right, 4 gigs will make a difference,
> especially since you're sacrificing a little of your RAM with the 1GB
> video card.
>
> Ron Moore

If I'm running 32bit windows with the right updates, doesn't the OS use the
full 2gb of RAM plus the 1gb on the card?
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