Advice for new computer

ok, I'm looking to buy a new computer. I'm most likely gonna buy it
from http://www.centrecom.com.au. I live in Australia so those are
Australian dollars.

Now the main use of the computer will be for school. The most
demanding programs will be Adobe Premiere and 3d studio max. I will
also want to do furhter video editing of my own.

Here is what I have chosen through centrecom's custom build section:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/gall01/CustomPC.jpg

I'm pretty happy with what I've chosen except I don't know a lot about
motherboards and kinda just picked out what I thought would be a good
one based on the price. I was told this motherboard is a bit overkill
so I'd be happy if someone would go to the centrecom website and
recomend a motherboard that would suit the specs I chose.

Also is there anything bad about internal modems? I use an external
one now.

bump....anyone?

(nemesis001) wrote in message . com...
bump....anyone?

Nothing wrong with internal modems. Well, it may take up a PCI slot,
but since you have a new tower case, you probably won't have a lot of
PCI upgrade cards sitting in your PCI slots. And it will take up less
desk/floor space than an external modem.

I have internal modems in all my desktops (4 currently). No worries.

Your price doesn't seem too bad (you could build your own and save a
few hundred $, though). However, it looks like no software comes with
it?

Only thing I would do differently is have two hard drives, maybe 120gb
each, set up for RAID 0 for speed (or RAID 1? if your data is
critical). I'd also buy a PCI lan card - they're cheap these days
($1~$10 US, after rebates and on sale. it doesn't look like the
motherboard has a built-in ethernet port, but I didn't look all that
closely.

nemesis001 wrote:
ok, I'm looking to buy a new computer. I'm most likely gonna buy it
from http://www.centrecom.com.au. I live in Australia so those are
Australian dollars.

Now the main use of the computer will be for school. The most
demanding programs will be Adobe Premiere and 3d studio max. I will
also want to do furhter video editing of my own.

Here is what I have chosen through centrecom's custom build section:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/gall01/CustomPC.jpg

I'm pretty happy with what I've chosen except I don't know a lot about
motherboards and kinda just picked out what I thought would be a good
one based on the price. I was told this motherboard is a bit overkill
so I'd be happy if someone would go to the centrecom website and
recomend a motherboard that would suit the specs I chose.

Also is there anything bad about internal modems? I use an external
one now.

Great pick. I think, though, that a slight performance boost would be
made if you got an E series P4 (prescott). Other than that, that system
should do great for anything you want it to do. But what about the
software? And internal modems are just fine.

(Anonymous Jack) wrote in message om...
(nemesis001) wrote in message . com...
bump....anyone?

Nothing wrong with internal modems. Well, it may take up a PCI slot,
but since you have a new tower case, you probably won't have a lot of
PCI upgrade cards sitting in your PCI slots. And it will take up less
desk/floor space than an external modem.

I have internal modems in all my desktops (4 currently). No worries.

Your price doesn't seem too bad (you could build your own and save a
few hundred $, though). However, it looks like no software comes with
it?

Only thing I would do differently is have two hard drives, maybe 120gb
each, set up for RAID 0 for speed (or RAID 1? if your data is
critical). I'd also buy a PCI lan card - they're cheap these days
($1~$10 US, after rebates and on sale. it doesn't look like the
motherboard has a built-in ethernet port, but I didn't look all that
closely.


I'm pretty sure that motherboard has an on board lan card. As for
software, I'll be getting that from somewhere else.

(Anonymous Jack) wrote in message om...
(nemesis001) wrote in message . com...
bump....anyone?

Nothing wrong with internal modems. Well, it may take up a PCI slot,
but since you have a new tower case, you probably won't have a lot of
PCI upgrade cards sitting in your PCI slots. And it will take up less
desk/floor space than an external modem.

I have internal modems in all my desktops (4 currently). No worries.

Your price doesn't seem too bad (you could build your own and save a
few hundred $, though). However, it looks like no software comes with
it?

Only thing I would do differently is have two hard drives, maybe 120gb
each, set up for RAID 0 for speed (or RAID 1? if your data is
critical). I'd also buy a PCI lan card - they're cheap these days
($1~$10 US, after rebates and on sale. it doesn't look like the
motherboard has a built-in ethernet port, but I didn't look all that
closely.


also I'm not sure if the motherboard supports raid.....i suppose it
should, it's the most expensive motherboard on the site. I also have
no idea how to set up raid oh and they only charge $50 to build it for
me.

I think you should rethink getting an OEM dvd copier, i did that
myself to save some money, and have found it hellish to be able to get
a copy of dvd burning software from anywhere that works.

IanSL wrote in message ...
nemesis001 wrote:
ok, I'm looking to buy a new computer. I'm most likely gonna buy it
from http://www.centrecom.com.au. I live in Australia so those are
Australian dollars.

Now the main use of the computer will be for school. The most
demanding programs will be Adobe Premiere and 3d studio max. I will
also want to do furhter video editing of my own.

Here is what I have chosen through centrecom's custom build section:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/gall01/CustomPC.jpg

I'm pretty happy with what I've chosen except I don't know a lot about
motherboards and kinda just picked out what I thought would be a good
one based on the price. I was told this motherboard is a bit overkill
so I'd be happy if someone would go to the centrecom website and
recomend a motherboard that would suit the specs I chose.

Also is there anything bad about internal modems? I use an external
one now.

Great pick. I think, though, that a slight performance boost would be
made if you got an E series P4 (prescott). Other than that, that system
should do great for anything you want it to do. But what about the
software? And internal modems are just fine.