New Core2 PC, what to buy?

DSP ADD!CT · Post by **DSP ADD!CT** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:33 am

Hi all,

im buying a core2 pc next week and want some tips what to get.
heres what i had in mind:

Intel CoreDuo2 E6600
Asus P5B/Deluxe(is it worth buying the "deluxe" or stick to a normal P5B?)
2 x Maxtor 320 Sata2
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C3DF(thats 2 modules of 1GB)

I have no idea which Videocard to get, it must be dualhead.
And which powersupply do you guys recommend?

Cheers

DSP ADD!CT

kaju · Post by **kaju** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:19 pm

You sure have read these?

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20550

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21049

See also others by scope4live

Post by **garyb** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:22 pm

as to vidcards, i suggest nvidia.
i usually use evga, never a problem. just get a cheaper model, almost all are dual head. you should spend about $75.

i have been using intel d965ry and d965lt motherboards. you can get one for $100-130. these are stable and easy and cheap.

i use wd harddrives. i've had a lot of bad maxtors, but never a bad western digital. the wds have much longer warranties to boot. the price is about the same.

kaju · Post by **kaju** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:28 pm

I've also had a bad Maxtor, just recently.
I used to use them solely, now I have WD, which are the same price and very quiet.

DSP ADD!CT · Post by **DSP ADD!CT** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:28 pm

hi gary,

ive been looking for those d965 mobo's but they are harder to get here.
saw good reviews of the P5B series also, is it worth to get the "deluxe"?

i had quite a few maxtors and all still work

but im gonna have a look @ the WD's for sure!

cheers

Herr Voigt · Post by **Herr Voigt** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:01 pm

I've never made bad experiences with my Maxtors, they all worked fine.
Only with an IBM I had much trouble, but I could save all my data a little bit tricky: It worked only some minutes, so I connected it, copied as much data as possible and let it cool down a day, then the same procedure ... Nothing lost., but a little bit annoying ...

DSP ADD!CT · Post by **DSP ADD!CT** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:18 pm

yeah its just bad luck i think, can happen with any brand.
my mate had a bad maxtor once still in warranty.....he got a new one and they recovered the data that was on there

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:05 pm

Stay with simple motherboards. The extra's that Pulsarians desire are DSP's, not bells and whistles on motherboards. Your basic meat and potatoe Intel mobos w/ the E6600 will run SFP / Gigastudio 3 & GVI / and Sequencer package. No need to overclock. The 4MB on the E6600 is only noticed in Gigastudios convolution reverb, so the E6400 is a great buy in that case. If you buy AMD, we shall thank you also, as their sucsess is vital to us in keeping Intel fast and cheap.

Herr Voigt · Post by **Herr Voigt** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:14 pm

RA · Post by RA » Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:33 am

I've been a fan of Maxtor a long time, and I know of the problems. You know what the weird problem is.....(Garyb will like this

Cheers Gary

My friend with P4 and Maxtors.....had severe problems....with 3!!!!! maxtors......ticking, not booting, losing partitions......All three of them
ran absolutly flawlessly on my system.....an Athlon system......

I don't know if this is due to the board, chipset or CPU.....Cause his latest non-functioning 160GB is running in my PC as BACKUP!!!!! And it;s fast, and also not letting me down....

But i've used Seagate, WD, Maxtors and IBM, all worked fine for me.

Post by **garyb** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:09 am

DSP ADD!CT · Post by **DSP ADD!CT** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:18 am

so all the parts are in! time to assemble and install

so this is what i bought:
intel duocore2 e6600
asus p5b
corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C3DF
2 x maxtor 250gb 16mb cache sata2
evga 7600gt

i know i cant install windows xp in standard mode cause of the duocore processor.
but what about raid, acpi etc....
can anyone with a p5b tell what changes they made in the bios?

thnx in advance

cheers DSP ADD!CT

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:42 pm

Fuckin' A.

DSP ADD!CT · Post by **DSP ADD!CT** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:18 am

issues have allready begun after updating the bios

i updated the bios to 0806 and after that the pc wont reboot or startup.
after taking out the powerchord and try a few times it starts up but then the trouble starts again...
also i have overclocking messages when i didnt even touch that.

grrrrrrrrrr

any answers?

cheers

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:07 am

have you tried resetting all settings in the bios to default?

DSP ADD!CT · Post by **DSP ADD!CT** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:16 am

hi king,

yeah but it doesnt delete the 0806 bios update

cheers

DSP ADD!CT · Post by **DSP ADD!CT** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:53 am

bad mobo...goes for rma on monday.

bill3107 · Post by **bill3107** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:53 am

Here is my new computer which works like a charm :

Mobo Intel D975XBX2 (2 pci slots and many pciexpress)
DDRAM pc6400 Corsair mx2 (2x1Go)
Raptor 150Go HD
Noctua cooling system (unbelieavable perfomances without noise !!! the best choice in 2007...)
CPU : E6600
power supply seasonic M12 600W
scope pro 14dsp (last generation)

stable stable stable (all-intel system).... and more flexible than a Mac

......

Jo

DSP ADD!CT · Post by **DSP ADD!CT** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:05 am

got the new p5b in a few days ago, seemed like the other 1 was faulty.
all works very well now, super, super fast setup

i changed the corsair 6400c3df for the 8888c4df ram.

intel coreduo2 e6600
asus p5b
corsair 8888c4df
2 x maxtor 250gb sata2 16mb cache
asus 7600gt

its a beast!

cheers
DSP ADD!CT

Zero Creative Music · Post by **Zero Creative Music** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:13 am

The P5B seems to have some problems with more than one CW card / STS sampler combination. So Watch out.... http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21482

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New Core2 PC, what to buy?

New Core2 PC, what to buy?

maxtor bad?????