Building new comp and would like some advise

[Remires]

So why did he ask for the advice when hes already ordered it

Hes just waving his e-penis in our faces

My e-penis? I didn't know I had an e-penis.

I was asking advise on actually building it. Thnaks for all of the advise but another quick question, I purposely didn't get a floppy drive, would I be able to use a USB key for the RAID drivers?

[unreal]

My e-penis? I didn't know I had an e-penis.

I was asking advise on actually building it. Thnaks for all of the advise but another quick question, I purposely didn't get a floppy drive, would I be able to use a USB key for the RAID drivers?

Just follow the motherboard, case manual and a few others, you can get it done in an hour or two - or more if you put lots of effort into how you want it configured, and if you do some wire management (which is what I advise)

A USB key doesn't work for the F6 thing I'm afraid, but luckily Windows Vista supports it (I've tried) so you might want to look for a cheap floppy drive for temp purposes, or an external one.


And OMG you have no e-penis! ;O

[Drago]

I wouldn't go for Windows XP 64bit thingy, since there is a lack of drivers and support - so far as I'm aware, a lot of applications don't work on XP. As for graphics card, if I had the money, I would go for the X800XL, which seems to provide the best bang for your buck at the moment.

Why? It depends on the hardware you are using... But if all drivers are available for Windows XP x64, why wouldn't you use it?

And again: Because of the lack of Pixel Shader 3.0 I wouldn't go for a X8xx card for ATI... And here is a ATI lover speaking...
Therefore I would wait for X900 series cards... In these days you cannot buy a graphics card without Pixel Shader 3.0 (my opinion).

Or you plan to change it soon...

So I'd take an nVidia graphics adapter at the moment...