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On 6/27/06, Dave Phillips  wrote:

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> Greetings:

>

>   Massive thanks for the assistance ! Of course, questions engender more

> questions, so :

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>     I can get an Antec P150 with 430W power supply for 0, that seems

> a good price. Is the PS sufficient for the CPU (2.4 GHz) ?

>

>     Which Zalman CPU fan should I buy ?

Generically I use somethign like this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118112
The pure copper ones are more expensive and probably not needed unless

you are really going to push the machine hard. I'm upgrading my wife's

machine to a Zalman copper as it does commercial flagging for MythTV

and works hard pretty much all day long. I don't think it's nevessary

for audio apps though.
>

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>     I forgot to ask about HD recommendations. I have two aged 15 GB

> drives I'd like to replace. 80 GB seems like a good start, but I haven't

> bought a drive for a long time. Suggestions ?

160GB Serial ATA as a starting point, I'd guess. I assume this

machine's chipset has SATA support? Much better/faster/etc. More disk

space is good if you want to do anything with video or even ripped CD

collections. I am so out of disk space all the time and I have over a

terrabyte on the network now. Haw can that be? ;-)
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>     Any specific recommendations concerning RAM ?

I cannot imagine better customer support than you will get from

Crucial. I had a machine go bad a while ago. My Crucial DRAM was over

2 years old. They replaced it over the phone, no questions asked, for

free. They really stand behind their products. Great company, good

prices.
My 2 cents,

Mark