PCchips 810 LMR

[DavLucMac]

Hey you all... I am putting together a really budget system for a business that I'm just beginning to start slowly from my house here at college. I do not have a lot of cash... and though I know the merits of really high technology when it comes to building a webserver... I do not have the dough to pour out on it. Here is what I came up with:

PCChips 810 LMR w/ onboard sound, video, lan and modem
Duron 850
56x CDRom
30Gig maxtor
256 Dimm of Crucial
InWin micro ATX case from newegg
floppy
WinME

okay... so the question is... will this motherboard with all this stuff plugged into it work with a 145W power supply that comes with the InWin? If not, is it worth it to waste a nice 300W ps that I have laying around? I just dunno how much power this motherboard is going to suck... and i dunno how to figgure that out. thanks for your help!

Davlucmac

 

[DavLucMac]

PS - for all those that care, the total for all this shipped comes to 484.99.

HD, WinME, InWin, Floppy, Duron 850 from newegg
mobo, HSF from ccraft.net
256 dimm from crucial
the cdrom I have (and the ps too... but I wanna try to use the 145W)

 

[rogue1979]

Durons use less power than a thunderbird, but socket A uses a lot of juice. 250-watt minimum for stability, the 300 would be better. I would also suggest the ECS version of the socket A SIS based chipset, no modem but a better performing board. The 800 is $14 cheaper than the 850, not much difference in speed. For $32 you can get 256MB of PC-133 that is AMD compatible, you really don't need Crucial unless you plan on overclocking the fsb. Chrome Orb is more than enough cooling for a stock 800MHz Duron. Pricewatch shows a $12 difference between a 20GB and 30GB hard drive, do you really need that much room? Just some friendly input, good luck. You have made a good choice for processor power vs. price!

 

[DavLucMac]

rogue... thanks for the input on the power and the mobo. one of the reasons that I went with the 810 was the onboard video. Does the 850 have that? as for the rest... no i do not need all that room for the HD, and I don't need the extra 50mhz... I was just going with newegg because they are a very reliable vendor with reasonable shipping. Is there anyone out there you would reccomend?

 

[mcveigh]

personally I wouldn't go with pcchps, if this is a server of some type.
wait until you have to track down some weird poor-hardware bug.

With that note I have a pcchips board in a book PC from directron that is working like a champ at work

maybe ASUS A7VI-VM? I think it has onboard video and sound.

and ditch the power supply no matter what

 

[bevo]

Invest a few more bucks in a decent motherboard...

 

[rogue1979]

Yes, the ECS SIS 730 board does have onboard video, 32MB of Diamond Savage S4 4X AGP, and it goes for $75 on pricewatch. I have used many ECS boards for budget systems, and they are reliable with above average performance and usually alot of features for the price. As for reliable vendors I have personally found that pricewatch does somewhat screen the vendors, and while some are better than others I have used at least 30 different ones so far and haven't got burned. I usually go with the cheapest after shipping. And yes I do highly rate newegg.com, they do kick ass in shipping and service. I have only tried one PcChips board and the performance was terrible. The new 810LMR board seem to have decent performance, and works well for some, while others are already complaining about problems...

 

[Netopia]

Funny, I just built a VERY similar built around the Amptron board with the SIS chipset. (M810LM)

I put it in the InWin V-500. I use a lot of In-Win S-500's and usually put an Enermax 300W in those, so I took out the 145W uATX PS and put in one of the 250's that came with an S-500. I have a D-700 for the chip, an IBM 7,200 RPM ATA/100 15Gig HD, a Samsung 52x CD Rom, floppy and 128 Meg Infinion memory. The Bios has two settings for "overclocking"... the default multiplier X100 or X133 and seperately, the memory at 100 or 133. I'm running it at 700 (7*100) and the memory at 133.

I've yet to try the modem (on a riser card) but so far, the video, sound and network card (DSL) work flawlessly. It's really damned fast little machine! Cute to... in it's little case. I built it for a some friends who are retired missionaries (in their 70's) who can't afford anything. It looks to be a VERY, VERY capable little machine, so long as one isn't into much in the way of gaming. The only negative so far is that the 2D (desktop) video isn't super crisp.... it isn't horrible, but jumping back and forth on the same monitor between it and a GeForce2, it is noticable.

Joe

 

[mp3turbo]

hello,

netopia, try to overclock your chip. I have had durons 650 and 700 on this 810-everything-integrated boards and they're doing excellent for three-four months, 650 overclocked to 866, 700 to 933. All that needs to be done is "penciling" opened L7 bridges (all closed means 1.85V, needed for overclocking) and setting CPU speed in bios (in CPU PnP menu, CPU Speed line).

Big drawback of this boards: lack of SIS IDE driver support for NT4. Win9x/ME/2000 are fine, they use their own generic SiS driver. Having 933MHz (OCed duron700) with this board for that price is big deal of pleasure!

bye, mp3turbo.

 

[joewang]

Hello, I have a machine with the SIS chipset. PCChips 810 LMR w/ onboard sound, video, lan and modem, Duron 850, 52x CDRom Samsung, 20G Quantum, 256M Infinion memory, InWin micro ATX case and floppy.

I love its speed (vs price). It works very stable on last 2 months. It's really damned good.

SiS did not support its own SiS IDE drivers on Win9x/WinNT/WinME/Win2000. It runs default IDE driver provided by Windows. In the earily, it had provided its own SiS IDE driver (need seperate install) for Win98/WinNT. The purpose is to provide DMA function (during that time Windows IDE driver only support PIO mode) to get more speed than PIO mode on default driver. It removed its own IDE driver support after DMA function was provided as standard Windows IDE function by WinNT service pack.

Joe Wang