[alex]

Originally Posted by theoldman

NO I dont have to have that many drives, its just that i've seen some motherboards that support that many, ive got two large ata I think they are called from my old PC, was thinking I could use them for storage, and sata 2 for system, I have built before but that was an AMD athlon system, This new stuff is hard to get me old head round.
Or is it gonna be as cheap to get ready built system. No I dont need monitor, got 22" tft

Okey doke.

Regarding the drives you currently have, you could put them in enclosures. I use Icybox enclosures for my old drives, cost about 30 quid each.

500gb sata2 drives will give you a good cost per gb, so I'll spec them. The 750gb and 1Tb drives are well overpriced at the moment in comparison.

Come back to you as soon as i can. On a related point i also do a lot of filming/editing, mainly of mountain biking and work related things, so I can understand where your need for storage comes from.

[theoldman]

I store a lot of Family Photo's which I store as large bitmaps, and I have got an external drive now, but I want to try and clear desk clutter, I have got a brand new OEM XP Home,32 bit, never opened, will I need the 64bit version

[alex]

Right, havn't spec'd a case or a monitor.

Considering your quoted usage I completely agree over the 4gb ram, and whilst you've said you're not a gamer you're still going to need a lot of ram on the card for what you're using the pc for, (and taking into account the 1680x1050 resolution),at least 256mb. Hence the card quoted. Plus it's the largest card that will fit in the case without causing too much hassle for the airflow.

The optical drive is lightscribe and labelflash capable as well making storing any discs you create easier to find.

The motherboard is spec'd on a bang for buck basis and also taking into consideration the case you're getting, hence only supporting 6 sata2 drives.

I've only quoted 2 of the hdd's, add to this as you see fit. But you won't find better at that capacity than the one's quoted.

Asus P5K-E/WIFI-AP, iP35, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 1066/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £114.55

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750, S775, 2.66 GHz, 1333MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache, Retail £129.24

Samsung S182M-RSMM 18x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, DVD-RAM x12, IDE, Multicolour, Retail, LS £20.32

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - P4 up to 4.4GHz - S775 Dual Core / Core2Duo Ready £15.97

320MB EVGA 8800GTS, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1600MHz, GPU 500MHz, 96 Streams, 2x Dual Link DVI-I/HDTV £189.16

500 Gb HGST (IBM/Hitachi) 0A33437 Deskstar 7K500, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5 ms, NCQ £139.80

2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, EPP £166.78

620W Enermax Liberty Modular Series SLi - ELT620AWT aPFC ATX2.2 2xPCI-E 12cm Quiet Fan £97.40

Havn't quoted a souncard because of the decent onboard sound. But if you need this give me a shout.

Total cost is just over 880 quid. All spec'd from www.scan.co.uk

[alex]

Originally Posted by theoldman

I store a lot of Family Photo's which I store as large bitmaps, and I have got an external drive now, but I want to try and clear desk clutter, I have got a brand new OEM XP Home,32 bit, never opened, will I need the 64bit version

Nope, won't need 64bit XP.

[alex]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Wow oldman you must have a lot of data. :D

It's not that fella, most video is taken from DV tapes. This can take upto 2gb for every 10 minutes of footage on a hdd, quality dpendent.

[Hybr!d]

I was just messing. :D

Even so, 8x 750GB drives, be a bit overkill no?

[theoldman]

So I will need to double price for 4gb of the ram you put in list or will 2gb do, ie 2 gb now and 2 later if I need it "I take it the M/B has 4 memory slots.
thanks for all of you who have given me advice, will keep watching post, gotta put me nappy on now and go to bed lol

[alex]

Depends how much you do, and if you back it all up.

[alex]

Originally Posted by theoldman

So I will need to double price for 4gb of the ram you put in list or will 2gb do, ie 2 gb now and 2 later if I need it "I take it the M/B has 4 memory slots.
thanks for all of you who have given me advice, will keep watching post, gotta put me nappy on now and go to bed lol

2GB should suffice considering your o.s is XP, see how you go. Yup, the mobo has 4 ram slots.