Good Setup?

[compdude99]

Cases: Athenatech A547 Mid-Tower ATX Case- Black
Power Supply: Cooler Master - eXtreme Power RS-430-PMSR
Motherboards: AOpen ATX VIA K8T800 Socket 754 Motherboard
Processor: Sempron 3300+ 2.0 GHz
Primary Hard Drive: 40 GB SE Caviar 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive
Secondary Hard Drive: Please choose...
Memory: Kingston PC3200 1g 2/512mb
DVD RW: BenQ 16x Double Layered Drive DVD+/-R bare,BLACK
CD R/RW: ASUS CD-S520/A5 52x Black
Video Card Slot 1: ATI 256 MB (9250)
Sound Cards: Siig 5.1 PCI Sound Card 16 bit

 

[jancz3rt]

Hmmm

Cases: Athenatech A547 Mid-Tower ATX Case- Black
Power Supply: Cooler Master - eXtreme Power RS-430-PMSR
Motherboards: AOpen ATX VIA K8T800 Socket 754 Motherboard
Processor: Sempron 3300+ 2.0 GHz
Primary Hard Drive: 40 GB SE Caviar 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive
Secondary Hard Drive: Please choose...
Memory: Kingston PC3200 1g 2/512mb
DVD RW: BenQ 16x Double Layered Drive DVD+/-R bare,BLACK
CD R/RW: ASUS CD-S520/A5 52x Black
Video Card Slot 1: ATI 256 MB (9250)
Sound Cards: Siig 5.1 PCI Sound Card 16 bit

Good in terms of what? I have several comments to make:

1. Preferably go for socket 754 with the Nforce 3 chipset.
2. I would suggest going socket 939 with Nforce 4/Ultra.
3. The Sempron is a decent CPU for most tasks that I can think of for a normal user.
4. Perhaps a better DVD burner (NEC 3520/3540 being a good choice)
5. What is that soundcard? SIIG? Never heard of that.

Get a better, larger, more modern HDD as the primary. I would suggest 160Gig HDDs as the best for the buck in most cases. However, if those are too expensive for you, getting 100GB or even 80GB should do just fine. The most imporatant thing is that it has 8MB of cache and 7200Rpms. Otherwise a good setup .

JAN

 

[ripken2004]

praetor i have to guess that this guy only has a few hundred of dollars for some microsoft office and internet computer, but if u can afford that ur right

also most ppl dont even get close to using a 40gig hdd, my dad only uses 4.5gigs of his 8gig hdd

 

[Praetor]

praetor i have to guess that this guy only has a few hundred of dollars for some microsoft office and internet computer, but if u can afford that ur right

Who are you talkin to?

also most ppl dont even get close to using a 40gig hdd, my dad only uses 4.5gigs of his 8gig hdd

True but if you consider 120-->160 is like $10 and 80-->120 is $10 ... its quite worth the $20 to go 80-->160