Tell what motherboard please

cranoo

Hello All.

Im new to building computers, so far I have just installed bits and pieces and done reboots of windows, but I want to give building one ago :eek: can someone in the know tell me what is the best motherboard to pair with this processor AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.4GHz Socket 754, 1MB, also the board needs to take an ATI 256mb 9800se graphics card, 2100 ddr ram, ATA-133 hard disc, and fit in an ATX case.

PS.I have a ASROCK K7VT2 Mb with an AMD 2.2Gig processor approx 2 Yrs old, would the above processor upgrade be worth it?, its mostly for gaming.

Regards Cranoo.

Jammer

cranoo wrote:

Hello All.

Im new to building computers, so far I have just installed bits and pieces and done reboots of windows, but I want to give building one ago :eek: can someone in the know tell me what is the best motherboard to pair with this processor AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.4GHz Socket 754, 1MB, also the board needs to take an ATI 256mb 9800se graphics card, 2100 ddr ram, ATA-133 hard disc, and fit in an ATX case.

PS.I have a ASROCK K7VT2 Mb with an AMD 2.2Gig processor approx 2 Yrs old, would the above processor upgrade be worth it?, its mostly for gaming.

Regards Cranoo.

I have a MSI Neo 754 a while ago, and i'd recommend it.

You wont be able to use 2100 RAM. 2700/3200 is the least, or better if you want to overclock.

The rest will work fine.

juliuspret

Take a gawk:

http://www.komplett.ie/k/kl.asp?bn=10125

All are very capable at utilising your current hardware...make sure you get one with your current gfx card i/f in ming...AGP/PCI Express!!!

cranoo

Yeah its for gaming and I have an AGP ATI 9800se card, will that board do, it seems abit on the cheap side

www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=300050&cks=PLC
what about that board also what is RAID.

Mac daddy

cranoo wrote:

also what is RAID.

Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks. :rolleyes:

Very simple tutorial for the newb

Means you have multible hard drives or singles setup in fault tolerant config

example -

Raid 1 - Stripping 2 disk recommended requirement

data is stripped over two disk at the same time by the controller
loose one disk your screwed as your data is spread over two disks

Raid 1 - Mirroring
Minimum 2 disks needed

Two disk setup in a fault tolerant situation
controller writes data on disk one and writes the same data on disk nr 2
if a hard drive fails your data is safe on the other one.
add the replacement drive rebuild takes place it copy the data back to disk nr 1 if that was the disk that failed

Raid 5 - Parity
minimum three disk required
the data is written on 2 disk and the parity on the third disk
next write data is written on disk nr 1 and 3 and the parity is written on disk 2 this time.
Max you can loose one disk - the parity is spread over three drives rebuild is done from the parity data.
also you have three disk each is lets say 100Gigs with raid 5 you will loose one disk well not realy a physical disk but the space this is used for the parity.

Raid 6 ooooohhhh yeeeesssss Or raid ADG for all you storage wannabee newbs
same theory as raid 5 BUT you can loose 2 disk instead of one and still rebuild from the parity!!!

Vraid want me to go on My territory in work
For example created on high end fiber storage systems normally 30 terabytes +
hard drives are fiber not scsi not sata not ide BUT fiber,
Vraid sets are all virtual baby.

Won't bother going into raid o+1 or raid 10 because they are crap
cheap nasty solutions only really used in desktops........

cranoo

Well I take it I wont be needing RAID then

Mac daddy

lol it is handy for certain things :cool: