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Re: [LUG] New Setup Ideas

 

You could get a bare bones from novatech <Â600

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/barebones/Novatech/BB-10904G.html

this then can be modded for graphics and cooling, disks, Blue Ray dvd
etc  as required.



On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 22:00 +0100, Gibbs wrote:
> On 28/08/10 20:20, Rob Beard wrote:
> > On 28/08/10 19:46, Gibbs wrote:
> >> - CPU: something decent (AMD Phenom II x6 1055T?)
> >> - Water cooling? Some sort of awesome cooling system
> >> - Motherboard: something compatible that has 4x memory slots (for future
> >> upgrades of RAM)
> >> - Memory: 2x 4gb (DDR3?)
> >> - Graphics: 2gb ATI Radeon 5970 - with cooling?
> >> - OS: Windows ME
> >> - HDD: None
> >> - PSU: 800W?
> >> - USB: x6
> >> - Sound: Cheap onboard something
> >>
> >> No OS, monitor, keyboard, network card, floppy disk, software, webcam,
> >> printer etc etc. Also something that's moderately quiet.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >
> >
> > OS: Windows ME?
> >
> > LMAO!
> >
> >
> > You'll find the motherboard will have a network card onboard (usually 
> > 1Gbit) and plenty of USB ports (possibly 8 ish on the rear cluster of 
> > ports and maybe headers for another load to plug into the front of the 
> > case).
> >
> > Also, do you really need a floppy drive?  I'd suggest maybe a memory 
> > card reader instead.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> 
> Thanks for the feedback Rob and Neil (x2).
> 
> I want high spec so it lasts a long time. 1.5k is quite a bit of money 
> for me but as a web developer I really need something reliable that will 
> keep me going some years (and can be upgraded).
> 
> I don't need or want a floppy drive. Everything listed at the bottom 
> (OS, monitor etc) are things I don't need so basically a pretty bare 
> tower with new essential components is what I'm after.
> 
> With regards to the graphics card... I'm pretty stuck on that due to the 
> proprietary drivers that surround ATI/nVidia. I won't lie I do run some 
> Windows games through Wine (blame my dad heh) as well as native games. 
> I'm leaning towards ATI solely down to the possibility of open source 
> drivers.
> 
> Also thanks for the link looks really good and will be useful.
> 
> Gibbs
> 
Regards

Kevin Lucas
Minions Post Master(Sub) 
Ten Years in the Making!
www.minionsbandb.co.uk
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Po House, Minions,
Liskeard Cornwall 
PL14 5LE
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