Sounds impressive and I'm going to file your parts list for future
reference. Your comment about the ZA firewall raised a question in my
mind about the need for firewalls which I'll bring up (along with other
security related questions for the networking gurus) in another post.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/17/2014 1:38 AM, Moose wrote:
> It appears I bought this computer in mid 2007. It's served me very well, and
> 6 1/2 years seems to me a good run.
>
> It still runs flawlessly; only one part ever went bad, a DVD drive, and that
> seems mechanical, so I might be able to
> fix it. But it's IDE, so I probably won't even bother opening it up.
>
> But technology has left it behind, 32 bit, so only 3 GB of useful memory,
> SATA 1.
>
> In the past, I bought Systemax semi custom boxes from TigerDirect, but that
> is gone. Searching for custom built boxes,
> it seems they are all gamer oriented. A couple won't even configure a system
> without a video board, or two, or three.
> For PS, one needs no more than the video GPU on the processor chip. The
> spread between component costs and completed
> price seems to have skyrocketed.
>
> So I bit the bullet, and ordered a bunch of bits. In the past, much would
> have been from Amazon. Now that they collect
> CA sales tax, cherry picking a couple of items to save a very few $ didn't
> seem worth the trouble.
>
> I ordered everything from Egghead, and wow, they sure deliver! Order
> completed about 1:47 pm Tuesday. Boxes sitting
> inside my front gate before 5:45 pm Wednesday. Less than 28 hours!!
>
> We were leaving for the evening when we found the stuff. I opened the boxes
> last night, but didn't really get going til
> about 12:30 today. I took my time, and only made a couple of very minor
> errors in order that meant undoing anything. I
> did stop for things like eating, checking email and my daily meditation.
>
> Booted up first try! By about 9 pm, I had a fully functioning Win 7 machine,
> with antivirus and ZA firewall installed,
> browser and internet access. Since then, Windoze has been installing updates,
> like 130 of them. Installing updates is
> taking longer than installing Windoze, which was quick and easy.
>
> I'm not sure when I last built a box from scratch. I've done everything else,
> updating adding, replacing everything up
> to a motherboard over the years. It seem that the process is actually easier
> than before. I bought box, power supply and
> front combo box with card reader, USB connectors and eSata all from Rosewill
> brand, and they fit together perfectly.
>
> There's still a long road ahead of installing software. I have an apparently
> endless list of stuff installed on this old
> box, and want to install only what I need now.
>
> I can hardly wait to use PSCC on the faster, four core Intel, Samsung 840 EVO
> SSD and 16 GB of memory!
>
> I was originally going with a 250 GB boot drive and 1 TB mechanical drive,
> but $60 off on the 500 GB drive meant I could
> simply go with one drive for normal computer stuff and have lots of room for
> the same price. I've gotten along with a
> 256 GB boot drive 'til now ...
>
> I also have a 128 GB SATA 3 SDD for PS cache and image files I'm working on.
> The 3 TB primary image storage drive will
> migrate when I get PS going. Other big stuff, scanned images, video, etc is
> on eSATA external drives. (I made sure to
> get a motherboard with 8 SATA headers, so I will have eSATA connectors front
> and back.) :-)
>
> Here's the semi-intelligible list of bits:
>
> MB ASROCK|Z87 EXTREME4 LGA1150 R
> PSU ROSEWILL|RD500-2SB 500W RT
> CPU INTEL|CORE I7 4770K 3.5G 8M R
> SSD 500G|SAMSUNG MZ-7TE500BW R
> CARD READER ROSEWILL | RDCR-11004 R
> MEM 8Gx2|GSKILL F3-1866C9D-16GXM R
> MS WIN 7 PRO SP1 64-BIT 1PK - OEM
> CASE ROSEWILL|CHALLENGER RT
>
> Faster Than A Speeding Moose
>
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