Gonna buy me a new computer

[carls]

AmigaOne G3XE Linux-only 7395:-
AmigaOne G3XE Earlybird 7895:-
Err... this is almost as much as my newly-ordered PC and this is just the MoBo!

Come on, this must be heavily overprized?

Pegasos PowerPC G3 5750:-

This is from the same store...  $789 vs. $575

carls wrote:
Linux and Win2K (for games).

My order is in now.
Athlon XP 2200 (1,80GHz), 512MB DDR, DVD, CD-RW, GF4 MX, 80GB (plus my "old" 40GB), 10/100 NIC (plus my _old_ 3Com etherlink 10/100), MoBo sound, 17" CRT. Cost: SEK 8025:- (US$ 800)

Which, along with my other savings, leaves me with a good base for an A1, should I wish to buy one :-)

We have 25% moms (vat) in Sweden :-(
Did you get an nforce or Via mobo?
That CPU should have great OC potential!

strobe wrote:
Most OS X beachballs weren't based on CPU anyway.

10.2 removes most of the beachballs.

You are right the OS is to blame, not the CPU.
Actually, 10.2 made me sell the Mac, because I didn't find it faster.

[RexxMast]

@carls

I have built two machines in the recent months, both of them are mainly used for AmigaXL. I am very impressed with the motherboard that I used. I liked the first one so much that I got the same motherboard for the second one. I have on these machines QNX and AmigaXL, Winblows XP, and Mandrake Linux.

It is an ABit KX7-333 RAID mobo, and it is very highly rated. You can also get the same motherboard without the RAID controller chip...KX7-333.

It is rated very high on http://www.motherboards.org and would be rated even higher but it has lost some points due to what some people consider features, but still a very good mobo. It isn't cluttered up with a bunch of junk. It is very straight up having no onboard sound or gfx, no useless risers, etc. It has 6 PCI slots, 1 AGP 4x, USB front and back with two additional headers, 1 Parallel, two Serial ports and PS/2 mouse and keyboard inputs, plus 4 memory slots. It can take up to 3GB unbuffered and 4GB registered. It uses DDR RAM, and I'm using PC2700 DDR on both machines. One machine has an Athlon 2200+ the other an Athlon 2400+.

It is a clean design, the BIOS is very good, plus if you're into overclocking it is very tweakable, basically an overclockers dream. I can highly recommend this motherboard, and it is not terribly expensive. I consider the lack of all the things it doesn't have like onboard sound, which can strip many fps off of games when it is being used, etc. a feature.

Anyway, it is a straightup motherboard, clean with no junk on it, and it still has some legacy support like PS/2, Parallel, and Serial. I did a alot of research on this motherboard and all the reviews I found rated it very high.

You can read the review at motherboards.org here:

http://www.motherboards.org/rank/AMD/total/motherboard-rank.html

Also, you'll find their other top picks here as well for Athlon processors. Again, this one lost points for not having onboard sound and gfx, etc., which some people consider a feature. I am of the opposite persuasion. I feel that the lack of this crap to be a feature.

Oh yeah, it doesn't have a built in ethernet card. Again, I find this to be a feature.

I forgot to mention that the motherboard is  made really well...very high quality, and the RAID controller can be disabled. Also, you can use the RAID connectors as additional EIDE controllers if you need them.

regards,

The KX7-333 sounds like a good board. But if you like to build a budget box get the Asus A7N266-VM.
This board has 1 AGP 4x and 3 PCI. It has built in ATA-100, NIC, GeForce2 MX200 graphics and 5.1 sound analog and optical/coax digital with dolby digital 5.1 encoder (nvidia APU, very low on CPU). You can only overclock the FSB (need to solder in an extra jumper) but I use the old pencil trick on my T-bred b to raise the voltage.
Sure, you will not get AGP 8x, ATA-133, SATA, USB 2.0 and IEEE1394. But unless you own USB 2/firewire equipment, you won't notice this. AGP 8x and ATA-100 are no bottlenecks yet.
The price is only 599 SEK ($70).
The KX7-333 RAID is 1425 SEK, and the non RAID is 975 SEK.
Even if you like a separate AGP-card, this mobo offers the best value.
A good budget CPU is the T-bred b XP 1700, will do 2GHz (XP 2400). Not bad for a 650 SEK CPU.
I got 7500 SEK for my old mac, and spent 2500 on this 2GHz PC. This includes the MSI tv-out card (conexant CX25871, one of the best tv-encoder chips), tower and memory.
The rest will go into my new Amiga!

[spiffydinosaur]

@ Carls

I hear ya!
Just built a new one my self. Amiga missed the boat again. Anyway here is what I used:

AOpen AX4B-533 Plus ( has combo DMAATA 133/ Serial ATA controller )
P4 2.4 Ghz 512K ( I know it's the bad guys )
Matrox G550 display card
Matrox RTX10 video editing card
1 Gb PC2100 ram
2 ATA133 60 GB drived as video RAID
1 40 GB system drive
USB keyboard
Jamstudio tablet ( driver needs more features ) I can't yell to loud it was $16.00 new.  If you run LINUX there are drivers for it out there, heck it's a good cheap tablet.
AOpen case model CS-PC3130
Then put my old CD burner and media reader in.  Much quicker than my old K62-500. If it only ran Amiga OS instead of eXcrement Project pro it would be acceptable.

This is were I got most of the stuff. Be shure to check ram prices.

Spiffy :-)

[carls]

The only problem as I see it with non-custom hardware is buying it.
Everytime you're going to buy a new PC you have to learn at least five new terms for memory standards, hard drives, motherboards etc. Frustrating!

Everything should be called slow, fast, faster and very fast :-)

[olegil]

I see some swedes here. Who's going to AmiGBG 2003?

[carls]

@olegil
I'll probably go there.

[carls]

It has arrived!
And it is ridicoulously fast.

:-D

(ed: sp.)

[SlimJim]

@olegil
 
> I see some swedes here. Who's going to AmiGBG 2003?

Do you need to ask? :-D
 
See you there, beard-man!
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SlimJim