you should take your sadness out on him and hurt/kill him.
you should take your sadness out on him and hurt/kill him.
R.I.P Captain America.
he said it would cost more money. While it brings litle more performance.Originally posted by: AssertnFailure
You didn't go with 64-bit/pci-E and that makes me sad [img][/img]
Heh, Knives, when I first saw your post, I thought I'd clicked on the cat topic and I was like, "Holy crap Knives wants to kill the helmeted cat! He is teh Ev1L k1LL0R of k1ttEnz!!!"
So instead opted to bottleneck the whole system from being upgradeable in the future?Originally posted by: Turkish-S
he said it would cost more money. While it brings litle more performance.Originally posted by: AssertnFailure
You didn't go with 64-bit/pci-E and that makes me sad
Pretty soon it'll be worthwhile to switch to a 64 bit OS. Why, just the other day I noticed there's a 64 bit halflife 2 game out now. That's where the difference will become noticeable.
If you want to go any higher than what you have now, you'll have to go buy a whole new processor, motherboard, and video card. You'd probably want to switch over to SATA drives too, as those will be leaving ATA in the dust.
The point is to make purchases with the intent of future upgrades.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
Bump... now I am the one buying and building a new computer.
I am finally investing in a new system after like 6 years, and I could really use some advice regarding some aspects. I have tried to implement the advice you have already given in this thread, but working on my own will only get me so far. The prices are somewhat approximate, but electronics do cost a shitload here in sweden. Also if you have some general advice I'd be happy to take it.
CPU: Is it worth buying an Athlon 64 x2 in this day and age? The processors I'm looking at are.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0GHz Socket 939 1MB, BOXED - $400
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz Socket 939, 512KB, BOXED - $200
Graphic: I don't know really about this card, maybe it's a overkill for me. I'm guessing that SLi is pretty good to have and that pci-e is much better than agp. If you have some tip on a good cheap card please tell me.
XFX GeForce 6800GS 256MB GDDR3 XXX, PCI-Express, 485Mhz/1.1GHz, Retail - $290
Motherboard: Don't have much to say about this, this one looked good.
ABIT KN8-SLI,nForce4 SLI, Socket-939, ATX, 4xSATAII, GbLAN, Firewire, PCI-Ex16 - $150
HDD: Just wondering if it makes alot of difference wether you have 8mb or 16mb cache on a SATA-2 drive.
Ram: Do I need 2gb ram or will I manage with 1gb?
Display: I'm going for a 19" crt for $180 mostly because I hate flat-screens, since they have shitty image quality and you can't configure the resolution anyway you want.
CPU: Go with an Athlon 64 3200+ or 3500+, and just overclock the shit out of it. It'll get you performance that'll exceed any X2 processor in almost all applications. I personally suggest 3200+, but get the 3500+ if the price margin isn't so great.
Vid Card: Good choice, don't know how the prices are in your area. For all I know, the 6800GS is the best deal in my market.
Motherboard: No, get the DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D or SLI-D (they're the same board) because I suggest you overclock your CPU and this board is the king of overclockers. I'm talking from experience because I own the Ultra-D, and also because everyone else that has it raves about it. Look for the reviews, it always gets the highest rating (either Ultra-D or SLI-D or SLI-DR).
HDD: Pretty much no difference.
RAM: 1 gig should be fine. Get some brand name stuff, not some generic pieces of crap.
And last but not least, the power supply. Make sure you get a good power supply for this system. Antec, Enermax and OCZ are all reputable brands. Read some reviews on power supplies, it's the last thing you want to cut corners on. I simply cannot stress how important a good power supply is.
CPU: Thank you, this is exactly what I needed to hear.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img] I've had a really tough time in this particular matter.
Motherboard: Sounds good, but I don't know anything about overclocking. You think I'll be able to handle the board anyway? Does the Ultra-D have SLi support?
*EDIT* I looked around and found that the board I mentioned has these stats.
CPU Voltage up to 1.75V
DDR Voltage up to 3.4V
The site I'm buying everything doesn't carry those brands, neither does any other swedish site it seems. This is what I'm currently going with.
Tagan Easycon 430W, Modular Cables, 120m fan, 4xSATA, ATX/EPS, SLI, 20/24pin
Fortron Bluestorm, they have that? I'm surprised they don't have Antec because that's like the biggest company out there...
Whichever power supply you pick, make sure it's ATX 2.0 standard.
well while speaking of computer composant... better ask my question now ...
do you guys know a good website where i can buy online some NEW composant for my computer (like motherboard, memory, HDD, etc...)?
because all website i found only got stuff for 64bit... but i'm still on 32bit and i don't realy want to pay big money for a new processor...
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