Building up a new computer, needs advices

[Scubar]

Venice are far better than the winchesters, Theres only 2 chips worth buying in the A64 3 series 3200+ Venice and 3700+ Sandiego all the others are just there for the muppets to buy thinking that the chip is better because it has a higher number.

[Camarade_Tux]

Thanks a lot for the info.

However, 3500+ Winchester beats 3200+ Venice in all tests at TH.

[ripken204]

that means nothing. the venice also overclocks way more. just trust us and get the venice.

[Camarade_Tux]

Ok boss(es).

[Camarade_Tux]

Installed, with 3200+ Venice.

Looks pretty cool ATM. I'll just buy a 12cm fan for the case. I thought there was already one. Since I only have one fan (CPU) in the computer, I'll get a silent model.

Graphic card is pretty big with its heatsink but it's OK.

Hopefully the case is clean : only a few cables.

I had a problem with the SATA drive though. ATM there is no partition on it (building an updated CD which will be tested and ready in a bunch of minutes).

And this lack of partition made the BIOS unhappy. I was wondering what was going wrong and everything until I understood : I used the boot menu to start from CDROM (default order is : floppy, HD, CDROM...) and everything went fine.

There was also another prob, maybe closely related or maybe totally unrelated : I used a standard HD alim -> SATA alim to connect the HD and this may cause a problem. I cant be positive ATM because of the problem I talked about just before. Now it is removed and I don't think I'll use it again because there is no point, it's only an adapter and the HD has both connectors.

And of course, I've cut myself. :/