New Computer Purchase!

[Photo-John]

You got the same board? I've alwasy bought Asus, when I was choosing my own parts. I have a lot of confidence in them. What's the deal with the sound jumper? The case has built-in sound on the front and I plugged those cables in, last night. I'm not aware of any sound-related jumpers. Can you tell me more?

Part of the reason I went with this board and not a sweet kit I found on Tiger Direct, was I thought I could use the old AGP card you gave me. Not so, I discovered this morning. That card is a different AGP than the board. Doesn't make sense to me. But I bought a new, ATI 128 MB 8x AGP card this morning, for $61. This machine is getting scary for me. This is wayyyyyy more power than I'm used to.

Your suggestion about the drive is a good one. I know the system supports RAID and I was thinking about it. It's easy enough to copy the data from the old drives. And the 80 Gig was cheap.

Think I'm gonna have to pass on LED fans, though

[Peter_AUS]

John, the Video Card, might have been a 4x AGP card hence why it won't work on the new motherboard.

Have a look in the manual about the sound, it should have a diagram in there showing the jumper settings.

[Lionheart]

You got the same board?. This machine is getting scary for me. This is wayyyyyy more power than I'm used to.

Speed/power you'll get used to real quick. A week from now you'll be thinking your PC seems too slow.

[Photo-John]

Speed/power you'll get used to real quick. A week from now you'll be thinking your PC seems too slow.

I'm sure. Then I'll hate my office machine. If this goes well I'm planning to build another machine for the office and do a step-by-step stor on building a computer.

Thanks for the CPU fan suggestion. I'm going to look into that. I'm no expert in this area and I'm open to all kinds of advice.

One thing I forgot to buy is a built-in card reader. I'm going to order one and put it in, though. That's a basic component for any imaging machine.

[Mig]

Congrats John! I just ordered some goodies myself - 2 200GB SATA drives, a RAID card and an NEC Dual Layer DVD burner.

Have fun!

Danielle