what do you guys think about this.....

[Atticka]

AMD T-bird 1GHZ
Abit KT7A -Raid
Lian-Li PC60 case
ATI all in wonder 128, 32MB (upgrading to GeForce 3)
256MB PC-133 RAM
2x30GB Qauntum HD's in Raid-0
Pioneer 10X DVD
HP 9310 CD-RW

need a suggestion on a sound card

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Atticka
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[ynd69]

Looks good!! Is that generic RAM?? You might wanna get good ram like crucial/corsair/mushkin. Why don't you get the Pionner 16X instead, they are fairly cheap now. For the sound card, go for the SB Live! OR Philips Acoustic Edge. Both are great.

Make sure your tbird is unlocked before you plug it in with your kt7a.

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[Atticka]

not sure what RAM I'm gonna get, I will most likely go to Crucial for the RAM.

I already have the Pioneer 10X so I cant really justify getting a faster one for just watching DVD movies.

I'll check out those sound cards!


I was checking this heatsink for the CPU
http://www.bigfootcomputers.com/Merc...gory_Code=1060
does anyone have any info on this fan.heatsink combo? any good?
thanks!

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Atticka
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[This message has been edited by Atticka (edited February 27, 2001).]

[Kero-chan]

i hear the phillips acoustic edge is pretty good or you can always go with a SB live 5.1...

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[Gladius]

I have the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 6.1 sound card. I like it a lot. It supports up to a 6.1 speaker surround system, and has a spiffy "versa jack" that you can set for analog out/in or digital out. It is an easy install and set-up and from a reliable company. I haven't, however, ever used the SB Live! Platinum, and everyone says that is is awesome, so that may be a better one. Beats me.

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[Superpabs]

May want to look into one of those gigabyte ddr mobos w/ some PC2100 ddr...10 percent game improvement and in the future probably like 30-40 percent over reguar PC133

[WCHL9]

I was checking this heatsink for the CPU
http://www.bigfootcomputers.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD=Bigfoot=1115HSAL=1060
does anyone have any info on this fan.heatsink combo? any good?
thanks!

[/B][/QUOTE]

Please dont buy the heatsink from them you can get that for about $35 at other places and you may want to look it the Alpha pal6035 v.2 and get a YS tech 60mm fan, you can get practically equal performance for about $25 and the fan is slightly quieter



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256RAM
IBM DSTAR ATA-100's 90G
Voodoo 5500 AGP
NEC 22" FE1250
Sound Blaster Platium 5.1
Midiland S4 7100
Plextor12x/Pioneer16x DVD
Antec SX 1030 case

[Soldier_Of_Evil]

About the sound card, get the SBLive! X-Gamer 5.1 I have it and never had any rpoblems with it, its great. I got it for $100 and it also has full versions of UT, Dues Ex, Thief 2, and MDK2 inside. Real nice, right?
And about the HSF, thats way to expensive, i recommend going for the WBK38, its the follow-up to the FOP38-1, its suposed to cool better too. Get it, you wont be sorry.

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[ynd69]

Originally posted by WCHL9:

I was checking this heatsink for the CPU
http://www.bigfootcomputers.com/Merc...=1115HSAL=1060
does anyone have any info on this fan.heatsink combo? any good?
thanks!

Please dont buy the heatsink from them you can get that for about $35 at other places and you may want to look it the Alpha pal6035 v.2 and get a YS tech 60mm fan, you can get practically equal performance for about $25 and the fan is slightly quieter

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Those prices are canadian. And that is the site where I got my delta 38cfm fan and other things. It's a very good site.

That HSF is very good. But I suggest you get the FOP38-1 instead. It performs much better, but it is kinda loud.


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Abit KT7
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IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP
ATI TV Wonder
NEC MultiSync FE950
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer
Bose Lifestyle® 3 Series II system
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Netgear 10/100 FA310TX
Enermax EG351P-VE 330W PSU
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro
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[vercro]

geta sound blaster live 5.1 card.

[Kero-chan]

i'd really look for some sort of sound card shoot-out article... i'm not impressed at all with the sound blaster live. the only thing that's forcing me to get one is the sound-fonts because i like to make electronic music and dont feel like spending tons of money on a sampler or a professional music card. imo, creative should go back to what they did with the awe64 and put onboard memory instead of using my system memory. i mean, they dont need ddr ram or anything, and ram is dirt cheap these days...

well, i digress... basically, dont go by what someone else says, do some research on zdnet or some hardware sites for comparisons.

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[This message has been edited by Kero-chan (edited February 27, 2001).]

[ynd69]

Originally posted by Kero-chan:
i'd really look for some sort of sound card shoot-out article... i'm not impressed at all with the sound blaster live. the only thing that's forcing me to get one is the sound-fonts because i like to make electronic music and dont feel like spending tons of money on a sampler or a professional music card. imo, creative should go back to what they did with the awe64 and put onboard memory instead of using my system memory. i mean, they dont need ddr ram or anything, and ram is dirt cheap these days...

well, i digress... basically, dont go by what someone else says, do some research on zdnet or some hardware sites for comparisons.

LOL! DDR on a sound card...haha good one Kero!

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AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" [email protected] (112X11 @ 1.85v)
Global Win FOP38-1 (with Artic Silver II)
Abit KT7
Corsair 128MB CAS2 PC133@150 SDRAM
IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP
ATI TV Wonder
NEC MultiSync FE950
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer
Bose Lifestyle® 3 Series II system
Pioneer DVD-115 16X
Netgear 10/100 FA310TX
Enermax EG351P-VE 330W PSU
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro
Microsoft Windows ME

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[Bono]

Originally posted by Atticka:
AMD T-bird 1GHZ
Abit KT7A -Raid
Lian-Li PC60 case
ATI all in wonder 128, 32MB (upgrading to GeForce 3)
256MB PC-133 RAM
2x30GB Qauntum HD's in Raid-0
Pioneer 10X DVD
HP 9310 CD-RW

need a suggestion on a sound card

1.2
a7v133
case is fine
DONT GET GEFORCE, radeon 64mb,
everything else is fine
get SB LIVE! value
there ya go


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[Kero-chan]

yeah, i was saying they DONT need expensive ram... they can use the crap they had on awe64s... i really dont get why they wont let you just use hard drive space...

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[Atticka]

I bought the KT7A-Raid, IMO its one of the best boards around, and I dunno if I wanna take the plunge into DDR just yet (next system for sure), and the RAID features is sweet, I had a bad experiance once when I lost a HD with a ton of important sstuff on it.

I think I have to do a little more research on sound cards, the SB Live sounds like a decent card, but I'd rather not install a ton of apps just for the sound card, I want a simple sound card, with great quality (no crackles/pops), speed (doesnt hog CPU) and is reliable.

GeForce 3 looks sweet, so does the ATI Radeon, I'm a big fan of ATI because of their feature packed video cards (DVD decoding, TV in/out, video capture, great quality), where as teh GeForce has limited features.

thanks for all your replys

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