Shall I get it now or wait? - Page 2

MoJoe · #11 (**permalink**) 05-18-2004, 04:00 AM

what'd u get?

Alan Mills · #12 (**permalink**) 05-18-2004, 09:33 AM

teh spec is as discussed above pretty much but to recap....

3GHz Penitum 4 with HTT
1Gb RAM
2 x 80Gb drives
1 x 160 Gb video drive
Pioneer 107 (8x) DVD Burner.
Matrox Rt.X100 capture and rendering card which comes with Premiere Pro, Encore and Audition (the timing is I'll get freebie updgrades to 1.5 as well

)
Matrox GeForce Fx 5700 dual head graphics card in case I ever decide to have two monitors
XP Pro

oh and I'll be keeping my current 19" CRT monitor.

tongachutt · #13 (**permalink**) 05-18-2004, 03:02 PM

Heh- that thing should fly!

tonga

MoJoe · #14 (**permalink**) 05-19-2004, 03:39 AM

cool computer but a couple questions:
Are the two 80GB hdd's in RAID 0 (and are you sure they're not 74GB raptors?)
Is that CPU a Prescott or a Northwood and if it's a northwood is it a "B" or a "C"
Why didn't you just get a workstation capture card in the AGP slot
Do you play games? Because the 5700 is a bit expensive for just a dual-head grakka...

Looks pretty nice though

Alan Mills · #15 (**permalink**) 05-19-2004, 10:35 AM

The two 80Gb drives are NOT raid-ed. There are two because of the Matrox RT.X100 card. One of them is for the OS and the other is because the rtx100 'likes' a dedicated drive for realtime MPEG2 capture (I've still got a whole bunch of VHS home movies tapes of the kids growing up to transfer which I intend to leave 'un-edited'). It's basically why I went foir the RTX100 rather than the RTX10, because fo the realtime MPEG2 capture. The 160 Gb drive is the 'video drive'.

I've no idea what the implications of the CPU question would be, even if I understood the question

. I thought Intel made them all. what's with the Prescott bit? the spec says...

"3.0 GHz Pentium(r) 4 478 Hyper Threading (800FSB) Intel CPU"

I do play games sometimes, not too often. But basically, it is the 'standard spec card' from the vendor so I simply went with it. but i guess I'd rather have a card capable of more than I need in case I change the way i work or the work I do.

I found a vendor building the PC I wanted and went with it. I've no interest in building one from scratch (yeah, I know it would be a bit cheaper!). I'm a s/w guy and not h/w.

Marc Peters · #16 (**permalink**) 05-19-2004, 10:38 AM

Take a look at a whole host of P4s here: here

Essentially, Intel gives each new "range" of chips a name...[/url]

Alan Mills · #17 (**permalink**) 05-19-2004, 10:50 AM

If I make sure it is the Prescott will my taxes go up?

Marc Peters · #18 (**permalink**) 05-19-2004, 10:55 AM

Oh dear.

MoJoe · #19 (**permalink**) 05-19-2004, 10:22 PM

Prescott
90 Nanometer Manufacturing Process
1024MB L2 Cache
31 Stage Pipeline

Northwood "C"
130 Nanometer Manufacturing Process
512MB L2 Cache
20 Stage Pipeline

Unfortunately they're both labled as "Pentium 4 hyper threading 800Mhz FSB" by Intel. Basically did it say 3.0E or something else?

Alan Mills · #20 (**permalink**) 05-20-2004, 09:42 AM

Unfortunately they're both labled as "Pentium 4 hyper threading 800Mhz FSB" by Intel. Basically did it say 3.0E or something else?

Nope no mention of 3.0E. The line I quoted is thge full description of the CPU as I've got it.

When I get it I'll open it up and let you know which one it is. Presumably it will say so on the chip somewhere.