Hello, i am in the process of building a computer and i currently have:
Case (480W)
ASUS A8V-E Deluxe
Corsair CMX512-3200XLPT (2x512MB)
Lite On 16x DVD+-R/+-RW
Standard Floppy Drive
Saphire x850XT Platinum Edition w/ Dual DVI and VIVO (PCI-E x16)
Now i currently have 3 problems...
1 - My first problem is, should i get the AMD Athlon 4000 or the AMD Athlon FX-55...now i know that the FX-55 is better, but is it really worth it to get it? Its about $250 more, but should i spend that much more or not? I will be using this computer for video recording/editing and for gaming...
2 - I know nothing about hard drives, but there is one thing i know that i want to do...i would like to get two different hard drives, one that is really high quality, but i dont need that much space...and a secondary hard drive to record all my videos on, and editing videos on ect, which is a hard drive that has a lot of space, but is very crappy...the reason i want to do this is, i have had 3 laptops in the past, and all three times my laptops hard drives have crashed, and i know it is because of the constant recording and erasing of all the raw videos that are recorded and are about 5GB each...my friend told me that i should use SATA, which is better, but he also told me there is somthing specific i need to do with making a floppy disc, i was not really sure what he meant...and should i get a 10,000rpm hard drive for my primary, i mean, is 10,000rpm worth it? one friend said it was a lot better, and the other said i wouldnt notice a difference...
3 - My case that i bought doesnt fully match up the wiring with the motherboard...first, the case comes with 2 USB ports built in, and i found where i should put them on the mother board, and it supports both, BUT each has its own ground wire coming off of it, but there is only one ground pin, because it has 9 pins, and not 10...should i buy some kind of connector to ground both, or does it not really matter? Also, i am having problems connecting the IEEE1394 port, Headphone port, and Microphone port on the case into the motherboard...the pins in the motherboard booklet dont match with the words that are on the pins for the case...is there some place i can take this to get help, or some kind of adapter or something that i can buy to get these to work...
If anyone can help me with any of these opinions/questions, i would greatly appreciate it...thank you
Case (480W)
ASUS A8V-E Deluxe
Corsair CMX512-3200XLPT (2x512MB)
Lite On 16x DVD+-R/+-RW
Standard Floppy Drive
Saphire x850XT Platinum Edition w/ Dual DVI and VIVO (PCI-E x16)
Now i currently have 3 problems...
1 - My first problem is, should i get the AMD Athlon 4000 or the AMD Athlon FX-55...now i know that the FX-55 is better, but is it really worth it to get it? Its about $250 more, but should i spend that much more or not? I will be using this computer for video recording/editing and for gaming...
2 - I know nothing about hard drives, but there is one thing i know that i want to do...i would like to get two different hard drives, one that is really high quality, but i dont need that much space...and a secondary hard drive to record all my videos on, and editing videos on ect, which is a hard drive that has a lot of space, but is very crappy...the reason i want to do this is, i have had 3 laptops in the past, and all three times my laptops hard drives have crashed, and i know it is because of the constant recording and erasing of all the raw videos that are recorded and are about 5GB each...my friend told me that i should use SATA, which is better, but he also told me there is somthing specific i need to do with making a floppy disc, i was not really sure what he meant...and should i get a 10,000rpm hard drive for my primary, i mean, is 10,000rpm worth it? one friend said it was a lot better, and the other said i wouldnt notice a difference...
3 - My case that i bought doesnt fully match up the wiring with the motherboard...first, the case comes with 2 USB ports built in, and i found where i should put them on the mother board, and it supports both, BUT each has its own ground wire coming off of it, but there is only one ground pin, because it has 9 pins, and not 10...should i buy some kind of connector to ground both, or does it not really matter? Also, i am having problems connecting the IEEE1394 port, Headphone port, and Microphone port on the case into the motherboard...the pins in the motherboard booklet dont match with the words that are on the pins for the case...is there some place i can take this to get help, or some kind of adapter or something that i can buy to get these to work...
If anyone can help me with any of these opinions/questions, i would greatly appreciate it...thank you
