New PC

[Xeon SX]

I was thinking of finally upgrading my PC and have this problem with compatibility soI thought someone here might know this:

Plan on using Pentium 4 670
and Geil 6400 1Gb memory
Now I dont know which motherboard will work with this memory. I also need motherboard to have at least 6 Sata ports. Will use only 1 graphics card
Another question i how many watts does 1 SATA HDD needs and which PSU would you recommend that is quiet and looks good in windowed case?

Thanx

 

[Z102]

For the wattage problem try searching "PSU calculator" in Google, and you will get quite a few pages where you can calculate what wattage you need depending on the components your computer has. <a href=http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/>This one</a>, for example According to it, the average consumption of a SATA disk is 25W. After this, you can go get your PSU. Zalman had a fanless PSU which looked great (all black, with blue glow coming from inside). Wasn't cheap, but it was as quiet as you could get and looked awesome

 

[hokiethang]

Re: New PC

I was thinking of finally upgrading my PC and have this problem with compatibility soI thought someone here might know this:

Plan on using Pentium 4 670
and Geil 6400 1Gb memory
Now I dont know which motherboard will work with this memory. I also need motherboard to have at least 6 Sata ports. Will use only 1 graphics card
Another question i how many watts does 1 SATA HDD needs and which PSU would you recommend that is quiet and looks good in windowed case?

Thanx

I don't know the compatibility with the RAM, but I would suggest looking at Intel motherboards with the 945 chipset (i'm not sure if its compatible with the 670, I know it is with the 830). I think you want to steer clear of anything with the 915 intel chipset, as people have had problems with those.

 

[Xeon SX]

For the wattage problem try searching "PSU calculator" in Google, and you will get quite a few pages where you can calculate what wattage you need depending on the components your computer has. <a href=http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/>This one</a>, for example According to it, the average consumption of a SATA disk is 25W. After this, you can go get your PSU. Zalman had a fanless PSU which looked great (all black, with blue glow coming from inside). Wasn't cheap, but it was as quiet as you could get and looked awesome

Zalman PSU that looks nice? didnt find any here http://www.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/code_list.asp?code=015

 

[Xeon SX]

anybody else has something to add?

 

[bone]

my brother has a zalman CPU cooler, 120mm

its huge!

 

[fareway]

I have one of those, works great, most definitly the most silent cooler you can buy....... which of course is mainly because it doesn't actually spin