New PC Spec

mapollo · 04-10-2006, 08:12 PM

A year ago I built myself a home PC with the help of several fine people from this board. Now my Uncle has asked me to build him a similar spec machine.

I built my PC around the "AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939 512KB".

I'm thinking of using the same processor for this newbuild with the following components.

Moby - Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Socket 939 nForce 4-4X PCI-E ATX

Case - Antec SLK2650BQE UK 350W 12v ATX

DVD/CD writer - NEC DVD+-RW/RAM 16x IDE Black LabelFlash Dual Layer

1 Gig of Ram ( i'll work that out later when I'm sure about moby)

Western Digital Caviar 160GB U100

Now where I have no idea is the PCI-e Graphics card so a little help would be appreciated. He would not do any gaming other than maybe chess etc (He is 70 years old I can't quite see him playing Quake for example

)

He is interested in Photoshop and the Internet mainly with a little CD/DVD copying /burning thrown in.

Any opinions on the build would be appreciated espiecally re-graphics card.

He (and I) would like it to be a little upgradable so I'm trying to give him options in future if reqd.So a couple of questions to finish.

Is PCI-e still the best way to go re graphics?
Is socket 939 still the best for future processor upgrades?

TIA David.... (sorry for the long post)

SlothX311 · 04-10-2006, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapollo

Is PCI-e still the best way to go re graphics?

yes

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapollo

Is socket 939 still the best for future processor upgrades?

yes

now as far as a video card ...... i would get him this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130270

still very current, but not too pricey

AMD gs player · 04-10-2006, 08:23 PM

ok i have a ati radeon 9250 it is a cheap card and is able to prosses most media aplicatiopns he would be able to play hsi chess ect and edit photos this is my dad computer and it is what he has it was about 80 cad and is about 60 now so i say go for that one

mapollo · 04-10-2006, 08:30 PM

Thanks for your recommendations I see if I can find the Card/s in the UK.

Is there any compelling reason why I should be looking at a Pentium processor. I have been very happy with my AMD Athlon 64 3200+ performance wise and it also runs nice and cool.

SlothX311 · 04-10-2006, 08:34 PM

stay AMD, if you want to i can write you a book on why you should har har

mapollo · 04-10-2006, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SlothX311

stay AMD, if you want to i can write you a book on why you should har har

OK. Would the book be finished by Thurs as I want to order the parts before the Holiday weekend..

SlothX311 · 04-10-2006, 08:45 PM

lol...
of course it depends what your doing with the processors but,

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.ht...=71&model2=329

notice how the top 25 or so processors are AMD.... your 3200+ beats a the best thing that intel has in that benchmark lol

mapollo · 04-10-2006, 08:57 PM

OK. Forget the book I believe you.

Thanks for your replies...

Quote:

Originally Posted by SlothX311

lol...
of course it depends what your doing with the processors but,

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.ht...=71&model2=329

notice how the top 25 or so processors are AMD.... your 3200+ beats a the best thing that intel has in that benchmark lol

liquidshadow · 04-10-2006, 09:21 PM

What GPU are they using?

**tweaker** · 04-10-2006, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapollo

A year ago I built myself a home PC with the help of several fine people from this board. Now my Uncle has asked me to build him a similar spec machine.

I built my PC around the "AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939 512KB".

I'm thinking of using the same processor for this newbuild with the following components.

Moby - Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Socket 939 nForce 4-4X PCI-E ATX

Case - Antec SLK2650BQE UK 350W 12v ATX

DVD/CD writer - NEC DVD+-RW/RAM 16x IDE Black LabelFlash Dual Layer

1 Gig of Ram ( i'll work that out later when I'm sure about moby)

Western Digital Caviar 160GB U100

Now where I have no idea is the PCI-e Graphics card so a little help would be appreciated. He would not do any gaming other than maybe chess etc (He is 70 years old I can't quite see him playing Quake for example)

He is interested in Photoshop and the Internet mainly with a little CD/DVD copying /burning thrown in.

Any opinions on the build would be appreciated espiecally re-graphics card.

He (and I) would like it to be a little upgradable so I'm trying to give him options in future if reqd.So a couple of questions to finish.

Is PCI-e still the best way to go re graphics?
Is socket 939 still the best for future processor upgrades?

TIA David.... (sorry for the long post)

Whats the budget? You might be able to fit a 8/920 dual core box in there.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SlothX311

stay AMD, if you want to i can write you a book on why you should har har

Go ahead, it would be interesting to hear what advantages you think there is with a 3200+ in these tasks.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SlothX311

lol...
of course it depends what your doing with the processors but,

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.ht...=71&model2=329

notice how the top 25 or so processors are AMD.... your 3200+ beats a the best thing that intel has in that benchmark lol

Congrats posting a totally irrelevant gaming benchmark. This would have been more suited as were talking office tasks.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.ht...=58&model2=329

04-10-2006, 08:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
mapollo Bronze Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 89	New PC Spec A year ago I built myself a home PC with the help of several fine people from this board. Now my Uncle has asked me to build him a similar spec machine. I built my PC around the "AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939 512KB". I'm thinking of using the same processor for this newbuild with the following components. Moby - Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Socket 939 nForce 4-4X PCI-E ATX Case - Antec SLK2650BQE UK 350W 12v ATX DVD/CD writer - NEC DVD+-RW/RAM 16x IDE Black LabelFlash Dual Layer 1 Gig of Ram ( i'll work that out later when I'm sure about moby) Western Digital Caviar 160GB U100 Now where I have no idea is the PCI-e Graphics card so a little help would be appreciated. He would not do any gaming other than maybe chess etc (He is 70 years old I can't quite see him playing Quake for example ) He is interested in Photoshop and the Internet mainly with a little CD/DVD copying /burning thrown in. Any opinions on the build would be appreciated espiecally re-graphics card. He (and I) would like it to be a little upgradable so I'm trying to give him options in future if reqd.So a couple of questions to finish. Is PCI-e still the best way to go re graphics? Is socket 939 still the best for future processor upgrades? TIA David.... (sorry for the long post)

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04-10-2006, 08:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
AMD gs player banned Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: embrun ontario Age: 18 Posts: 475	ok i have a ati radeon 9250 it is a cheap card and is able to prosses most media aplicatiopns he would be able to play hsi chess ect and edit photos this is my dad computer and it is what he has it was about 80 cad and is about 60 now so i say go for that one

04-10-2006, 08:30 PM	#4 (permalink)
mapollo Bronze Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 89	Thanks for your recommendations I see if I can find the Card/s in the UK. Is there any compelling reason why I should be looking at a Pentium processor. I have been very happy with my AMD Athlon 64 3200+ performance wise and it also runs nice and cool.

04-10-2006, 08:34 PM	#5 (permalink)
SlothX311 Platinum Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Canton, Ohio Age: 21 Posts: 705	stay AMD, if you want to i can write you a book on why you should har har

04-10-2006, 08:45 PM	#7 (permalink)
SlothX311 Platinum Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Canton, Ohio Age: 21 Posts: 705	lol... of course it depends what your doing with the processors but, http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.ht...=71&model2=329 notice how the top 25 or so processors are AMD.... your 3200+ beats a the best thing that intel has in that benchmark lol