With the advent of Vista (not that I'll jump immediately to it when it's out), I have started thinking about configuring a new machine. It's been 2 years this month since I put my last machine together:
Micro-Star International (MSI) K8N Neo Platinum MS-7030 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Central Processing Unit (Newcastle AX Revision)
(Retail Version) Aluminum Heat Sink and Fan
Two Corsair VS512MB400 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CAS2.5 Value Select Memory Chips
Sapphire (ATI) Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis AGP Video Card (128M, 8X)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) 320GB Hard Drive [ST3320620A]
Vantec NST-360U2-SG 3.5" Silver Nexstar 3 USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure
Seagate 200GB ATA Hard Drive [ST3200822A-RK ULTRA DMA100]
Two Western Digital 160GB IDE HDDs (8MB Cache)
BenQ 1640 DVD-ROM Drive
Plextor 708A DVD-ROM Drive
3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Enermax EG465P-VE 460W Power Supply (+3.3V@35A; +5V@35A; -5V@1A; +12V@33A; -12V@1A; +5VSB@2.2A)
Kingwin KT-424-S SL RT Aluminum Case
Windows XP Professional Operating System (Service Pack 2 with All Patches Current)
D-Link DI-604 Router
I am wondering if I should wait some more before diving in and buying a new system I make, and even if my current configuration will itself be "good enough" to run Vista.
I don't want to spend much more than $1K (maybe $1,500) when I do it again.
Any suggestions? (Aside from switching to *nix). ;-)
Micro-Star International (MSI) K8N Neo Platinum MS-7030 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Central Processing Unit (Newcastle AX Revision)
(Retail Version) Aluminum Heat Sink and Fan
Two Corsair VS512MB400 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CAS2.5 Value Select Memory Chips
Sapphire (ATI) Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis AGP Video Card (128M, 8X)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) 320GB Hard Drive [ST3320620A]
Vantec NST-360U2-SG 3.5" Silver Nexstar 3 USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure
Seagate 200GB ATA Hard Drive [ST3200822A-RK ULTRA DMA100]
Two Western Digital 160GB IDE HDDs (8MB Cache)
BenQ 1640 DVD-ROM Drive
Plextor 708A DVD-ROM Drive
3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Enermax EG465P-VE 460W Power Supply (+3.3V@35A; +5V@35A; -5V@1A; +12V@33A; -12V@1A; +5VSB@2.2A)
Kingwin KT-424-S SL RT Aluminum Case
Windows XP Professional Operating System (Service Pack 2 with All Patches Current)
D-Link DI-604 Router
I am wondering if I should wait some more before diving in and buying a new system I make, and even if my current configuration will itself be "good enough" to run Vista.
I don't want to spend much more than $1K (maybe $1,500) when I do it again.
Any suggestions? (Aside from switching to *nix). ;-)