These machines soundz spiffy and all, I have run similar machines to these sans i840, but I have to disagree with your choice of video card and nic, If your not pushing any rendering through your video card i'd dump that gamer TNT2 and get a card which is far superior as far as usability goes, like a Matrox Millenium 2; i whould not use a 3com NIC in a military spec system, unless you have drivers I haven't been told about. I think your missing the boat on this one(j/k), Your spec is lacking TONS of detail in that, I would rather have a P3b-F BX motherboard from Asus than an Intel Spec i8440 Board from Intel. Also As far as storage goes you should at least consider the idea of a RAID, even if it is just a mirror, I've had the best luck with a 9 gig system, and 2 18 gig drives running a mirror(hardware). Last but not least the higher end board manufacturers are begging to ship the new Slot A(k7) motherboards with the new southbridge, I would really consider looking into this just from a performance perspective.
These machines soundz spiffy and all, I have run similar machines to these sans i840, but I have to disagree with your choice of video card and nic, If your not pushing any rendering through your video card i'd dump that lame old TNT2 and get a card which is far superior as far as usability goes, like a Matrox Millenium 2; i whould not use a 3com NIC in a military spec system, unless you have drivers I haven't been told about. I think your missing the boat on this one(j/k), Your spec is lacking TONS of detail in that, I would rather have a P3b-F BX motherboard from Asus than an Intel Spec i8440 Board from Intel.
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These machines soundz spiffy and all, I have run similar machines to these sans i840, but I have to disagree with your choice of video card and nic, If your not pushing any rendering through your video card i'd dump that gamer TNT2 and get a card which is far superior as far as usability goes, like a Matrox Millenium 2; i whould not use a 3com NIC in a military spec system, unless you have drivers I haven't been told about. I think your missing the boat on this one(j/k), Your spec is lacking TONS of detail in that, I would rather have a P3b-F BX motherboard from Asus than an Intel Spec i8440 Board from Intel. Also As far as storage goes you should at least consider the idea of a RAID, even if it is just a mirror, I've had the best luck with a 9 gig system, and 2 18 gig drives running a mirror(hardware). Last but not least the higher end board manufacturers are begging to ship the new Slot A(k7) motherboards with the new southbridge, I would really consider looking into this just from a performance perspective.
These machines soundz spiffy and all, I have run similar machines to these sans i840, but I have to disagree with your choice of video card and nic, If your not pushing any rendering through your video card i'd dump that lame old TNT2 and get a card which is far superior as far as usability goes, like a Matrox Millenium 2; i whould not use a 3com NIC in a military spec system, unless you have drivers I haven't been told about. I think your missing the boat on this one(j/k), Your spec is lacking TONS of detail in that, I would rather have a P3b-F BX motherboard from Asus than an Intel Spec i8440 Board from Intel.