new build

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819115005
ASUS P5NSLI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131032
G.SKILL 512MB DDR2-800 (2)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820231097
Radeon X1900GT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814102022
WD Caviar SE16 250GB HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822144701
HIPRO 500W PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817174023
LG DVD-ROM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16827136083
Samsung 18x DVD-Burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16827151133
Cooler Master Centurion 5 w/Window (Great Case ;))
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811119077
SCEPTRE 19" LCD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16824112002
Windows XP MCE
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16832116049

$1,124.40.
 
It's really who is telling you what. The E6300 is fine, and can OC well. It can EVEN oc well on the STOCK cooler. There are people that hit ~3 Ghz on the stock cooler with acceptable temperatures. The AF7 Pro is a GREAT compromise, ~20 bucks shipped for performance within a couple degrees of coolers 2-3 times its price.

You'll learn for yourself. :) Just have to read.
 
Considering the number of posts you've made on supposably building a computer or buying a laptop since you've been here, I figure the minimum specs will be an 8 core processor with 16 GB of RAM and a TB of HDD space by the time you actually do. :P
 
stuff happens

things change
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Well just post when you are sure then. You make like 3 topics at least a day, that are all related to ones you made just a few days earlier. Anything related to the same thing, keep in the same topic. Use one topic for your modding questions, one topic for building questions, etc.
 
jljhlhl said:
Well just post when you are sure then. You make like 3 topics at least a day, that are all related to ones you made just a few days earlier. Anything related to the same thing, keep in the same topic. Use one topic for your modding questions, one topic for building questions, etc.
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So THAT explains how he has like 450 posts since September. :) Haha
 
PC eye said:
AMD focused on performance over just having a large figure for the clock speed. Go Quad core go! :D
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I hope I am not tracking with you, because if I am....well.

Monkeysims said:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115005
ASUS P5NSLI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131032
G.SKILL 512MB DDR2-800 (2)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231097
Radeon X1900GT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102022
WD Caviar SE16 250GB HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144701
HIPRO 500W PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817174023
LG DVD-ROM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827136083
Samsung 18x DVD-Burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827151133
Cooler Master Centurion 5 w/Window (Great Case )
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119077
SCEPTRE 19" LCD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824112002
Windows XP MCE
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116049

$1,124.40.
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Just up the memory to two GBs, upgrade the graphics card to a X1900XT, and Please change the motherboard to a Gigabyte GA-965P DS3.
 
I would dump the G.Skill memory to go with Kingston or Corsair for the Asus model board if you go with that. In fact I give Kingston the edge over Corsair for use on Asus boards. Having 2gb of Kingston performance memory and the X1900 XTX will go well together if you don't hold out for one of the X1950 models.
 
Here is my config for you...
Syncmaster 931C-BLACK $334 Trust me, the best 19" monitor you can get - 2000:1 contrast and 2ms response.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 $220 Easily overclocks to at least 3.2Ghz
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 $143 Great overclocking motherboard
G-SKILL 2GB GBHZ Kit $300 Easily overclockable RAM
Seagate Barracuda 320GB 16MB SATA2 $95
PC Power and Cooling 610W PSU $160 One of the most stable PSUs that I've used
connect3D X1950XTX $410 The new ATI GDD4 card for a good price
= $1662
Plenty of room to choose your case, optical drives, and accessories.
 
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16824009100

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16827151133
(^^^^ getttinjg 2 of those....)



my graphics card iam keeping =/ along wiht the 500wat psu there both brand new)
 
You mean should you upgrade to 2GB? 2GB is always good..though unless you've got a high end card it's gonna go to waste. I'm not looking for your graphics card, so I'll dare to make a blanket statement: Unless you've got a 7600GT/X1800XT or better from either brand, you could probably spend the money on other things before spending it on 2GB of ram. But..you can never have too much ram, honestly. Unless you can't use it all, of course.
 
g4m3rof1337 said:
is the ram OC able?

could i oc to like 2gb or soethng
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Three easy items to dump there are the PNY memory, the Acer lcd, and the Samsung dvd burner. Now going with 2gb of Kingston, Corsiar, Crucial, or Mushkin makes more sense. A Sony or Lite-On dvd burner will be far more reliable and see less headaches. BenQ, Viewsonic, and a few others leave Acer in the dust for quality and performance alike.


Saurian said:
You mean should you upgrade to 2GB? 2GB is always good..though unless you've got a high end card it's gonna go to waste. I'm not looking for your graphics card, so I'll dare to make a blanket statement: Unless you've got a 7600GT/X1800XT or better from either brand, you could probably spend the money on other things before spending it on 2GB of ram. But..you can never have too much ram, honestly. Unless you can't use it all, of course.
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Just rushing out to buy the latest video card is far from being the only reason 2gb would be a plus. When you start getting into graphics intense memory grabbing games and even more demanding applications and multimedia it helps to have capacity there. I run 2gb of ram here along with a Radeon X1300 Pro and do quite well. A Radeon X1950XT would be a plus sometime I can imagine. :D
 
Here's a start platform


It's a multi-GPU friendly platform (although multiGPU would be a bad thing to throw money at right now as next gen cards are right around the corner) but most of all, this is a silent, very overclockable and stable platform (particularly so if you throw the HDDs into RAID5)

A Sony or Lite-On dvd burner
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Even though Sony drives are rebagged and Liteys have performance issues......
 
Over a good number of years the Sony drives have always reliable and quiet. Nec also makes some good drives. Here I would just drop in a pair of Seagate 750gb SATAs along with the two WD 250gb ide drives currently in use and call it a day. Of then the Antec TP II 480w supply would be swapped out for the TP II 550w currently onhand. I'll go with the Kingston or Corsair DDR2 800 on an Asus AM3 model board when it finally comes out sometime.
 
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