Building in a month! Feedback wanted :)

rox1co · 01-30-2006, 04:22 PM

delete plz

**Praetor** · 01-30-2006, 04:26 PM

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Building in a month!

Lots will change in a month.

What's your budget?

Antiodontalgic · 01-30-2006, 04:27 PM

I would go with DFI motherboards they are really great. They give you all you need and more..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

**Praetor** · 01-30-2006, 04:59 PM

Well it shoudlnt come as a surprise to you that things will change

Since you dont have a zillion dollars, its prolly a good thing because the new socket coming out for AMD will be on the expensive side of things i would imagine

A thing about LCDs and gaming:
- LCDs have what is called a native resolution and any resolution other than that will make the image look like crap. For the LCD you've chosen, the resolution is 1440x900
- Now a logical progression would indicate that when playing games, if you use any resolution other than 1440x900, the image quality will suffer. There are two issues with this
[1] Games dont often support "wierd" resolutions like 1440x900 (thank goodness

)
[2] Even if they did, 1440x900 is a fairly high resolution, which means your videocard is going to need to be able to power its way through the game at that resolution .. now whether or not the one you originally picked is up to the task or not, i dont know

Here's an alternative
-Buffalo Major 2x512 CL2.5 ($71.95)
Viewsonic VA1912WB 19" 1440x900 500:1 8ms ($299.99 after $50.00 MIR)
eVGA 7800GT 256MB + SLI Mobo ($329.99 after $20.00 MIR)
AMD Athlon64 3200 [Venice(DH-E3), S939, ADA3200DAA4BP] ($164.00)
Hitatchi 80GB 8MB SATA3.0 ($53.00)
NEC 3550A DVDRW ($39.75)
Logisys Area51 Case + 450W [12V@25A] ($37.50)
Subtotal: $996.18

Add $100 to the budget or so and you can get a dualcore rig.

**Praetor** · 01-30-2006, 05:24 PM

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Would you say its better to get 2x1gb of RAM rather than 4x512MB? i read that it runs slower and would be better having just 2 sticks rather than the Mobo having to run 4

You should have read the other way around

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i was comparing the 3200+ (Venice) to the 3700+ (San Diego) and it seems that the 3700+ doesn't give that much of a performance increase

Well dont bother with San Diego boxes, the extra 512K isnt worth it (i.e., you should be considering the 3500). Of course Id shoot for the X2-3800

Ctcoyote16 · 01-31-2006, 12:33 AM

so this budget, the 1000$, do you need a monitor with it? if you do that would be tough. otherwise, you can build a pretty good rig for 1k

liquidshadow · 01-31-2006, 02:08 AM

Yes, the 3200+ will bottleneck the 7800GTX but then again, even the 4000+ will.

ReturnToEmpire · 01-31-2006, 03:56 AM

where are you getting these things? ncie buys though. a little jealous.

ReturnToEmpire · 01-31-2006, 04:18 AM

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Originally Posted by rox1co

my counter-strike friend

my friend also got a ABIT Fatality A8N SLI for 50!!! (its like 167 on newegg.com)

lmao

and he bought me my 1GIG ram for 20 bucks (85 at newegg.com)

comes in 3 days, tell you how it goes

jesus i am jealous now, just get him to buy you a whole bunch of great stuff and build from there im sure he knows what hes talking about.

liquidshadow · 02-01-2006, 12:24 AM

The Fatal1ty isn't a great motherboard, just average.

01-30-2006, 04:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
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01-30-2006, 04:59 PM	#4 (permalink)
Praetor Administrator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 25 Posts: 19,954	Well it shoudlnt come as a surprise to you that things will change Since you dont have a zillion dollars, its prolly a good thing because the new socket coming out for AMD will be on the expensive side of things i would imagine A thing about LCDs and gaming: - LCDs have what is called a native resolution and any resolution other than that will make the image look like crap. For the LCD you've chosen, the resolution is 1440x900 - Now a logical progression would indicate that when playing games, if you use any resolution other than 1440x900, the image quality will suffer. There are two issues with this [1] Games dont often support "wierd" resolutions like 1440x900 (thank goodness ) [2] Even if they did, 1440x900 is a fairly high resolution, which means your videocard is going to need to be able to power its way through the game at that resolution .. now whether or not the one you originally picked is up to the task or not, i dont know Here's an alternative -Buffalo Major 2x512 CL2.5 ($71.95) Viewsonic VA1912WB 19" 1440x900 500:1 8ms ($299.99 after $50.00 MIR) eVGA 7800GT 256MB + SLI Mobo ($329.99 after $20.00 MIR) AMD Athlon64 3200 [Venice(DH-E3), S939, ADA3200DAA4BP] ($164.00) Hitatchi 80GB 8MB SATA3.0 ($53.00) NEC 3550A DVDRW ($39.75) Logisys Area51 Case + 450W [12V@25A] ($37.50) Subtotal: $996.18 Add $100 to the budget or so and you can get a dualcore rig. __________________ ASUS P5K Premium WiFi-AP, Q6600@3.7 / ASUS P5ND, E6400@3.8 4GB OCz Platinum XTC 8500 / 4GB CorsairXMS2 6400 5x500GB Seagate 7200.10 / 2x500 Seagate 7200.10 OCz 8800GTX 768MB @ 630/800 / 2x Galaxy 8800GT SLI

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