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drfish · 11-25-2003, 11:47 AM

The A7N8X is a great board, I don't have one myself, but I've built 3 systems that use them. Did you get the deluxe version with SATA? (sorry, I just have to say this) If you did, I'd consider getting a pair of the new 72gig Western Digital Raptor drives when they come out (soon) and running them in RAID 1... They're insanely fast, quiet, run cool, and have a 5 year warranty because they're enterprise drives. The only thing you'd have to worry about if you ran them in RAID 1 would be off site backups...

Ok, that's it, no more comments on your new machine... Nope, I won't ask if you got 2 sticks of 512 so you could run dual channel with your memory, or why you went with a 2200 when a 2500 only costs a tiny amount more and has twice as much L2 cache, or why you got a FX 5200 and not an ATI card? Ahh! Sorry, stopping now... Forgive me please?

11-25-2003, 11:47 AM	#325
drfish the Doc Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Zeeland, MI Posts: 5,354	The A7N8X is a great board, I don't have one myself, but I've built 3 systems that use them. Did you get the deluxe version with SATA? (sorry, I just have to say this) If you did, I'd consider getting a pair of the new 72gig Western Digital Raptor drives when they come out (soon) and running them in RAID 1... They're insanely fast, quiet, run cool, and have a 5 year warranty because they're enterprise drives. The only thing you'd have to worry about if you ran them in RAID 1 would be off site backups... Ok, that's it, no more comments on your new machine... Nope, I won't ask if you got 2 sticks of 512 so you could run dual channel with your memory, or why you went with a 2200 when a 2500 only costs a tiny amount more and has twice as much L2 cache, or why you got a FX 5200 and not an ATI card? Ahh! Sorry, stopping now... Forgive me please? I don't watch commercials.