Finally put together the new computer

[schmoe]

OK, after several weeks of waiting for stuff to arrive I have put together the new computer.

Here are the specs:
1.333GHz Athlon Thunderbird C
256MB Corsair PC2100 SDRAM
256MB Crucial PC2100 SDRAM (both unbuffered)
Asus A7M266
Alpha PEP66-T Heatsink with Delta fan
Leadtek Winfast Geforce SDR 32 MB(1.5 years old)
3ware 6400 RAID IDE card(this things a monster)
4 IBM Deskstar 75GXP 20.5 GB HDDs
Adaptec 2930U SCSI card (for my CDROMS)
Ricoh CD-RW 2x2x6 (3 years old)
Toshiba CDROM 32x (3 years old)
And the CoolerMaster ATC-200

I have installed both memory modules, and things are running great. I've been cracking keys for about 2 days now and have played Counter-Strike and Tribes2 with no crashes. I installed win2k for the system. At some point I'll get a better video card once I get some games that annoy me enough to buy one.

The only problem was that I had to install the heatsink fan on the side where the power supply is. Not the best place since there's more heat there, but I couldn't install it on the away side since the chipset fan was in the way. It's kind of weird how the fan installs on the side of the heatsink. I don't think you'd have any problems with a heatsink that installes the fan on the top.

Any doubts about stability has clearly been stamped out in my mind. I love this new system

 

[Kindjal]

Wow! That looks like one potent machine. I got my 1.2Ghz T-bird the other day and I my wife is afraid the smile will be permanent. Good luck with the new system!

 

[Degenerate]

can i ask, why have you got two diffrenet brands of memory?

 

[MichaelD]

Nice Rig! Congrats! When you get around to it, post some SANDRA/3DMark scores for that bad boy!

 

[rbV5]

Congrats on the new comp!

 

[schmoe]

The 2 different brands of memory is because:

I ordered the corsair memory before crucial came out with PC2100. Then the package was delayed because the memory wasn't ready (so my CPU and mobo were delayed). Then Crucial started shipping PC2100, so I tried to cancel the Corsair and I ordered the Crucial.

Well ... they shipped the Corsair that day and I tried to cancel the Crucial... but they were "too far along in the process". So instead of refusing the shipment I just kept the extra memory, so I have 512MB of memory

 

[schmoe]

Interesting, I downloaded 3dmark 2001 and ran some tests.

Here are the results:

800x600x16: 1859
1024x768x16: 1717

800x600x32: 1694
1024x768x32: 1358

They seem low, but I think it might be because of my Geforce SDR.

I will run some other benchmarks and report them here.

 

[schmoe]

Sandra:

CPU
3698 MIPS
1824 MFLOPS

Mem
Int ALU/RAM Bandwidth: 578 MB/s
Float FPU/RAM Bandwidth: 732 MB/s

HDD
Drive Index 30999