Building A New PC

sikes

can any1 please give me some advice on the components i am planning on buying? I know there are many threads like this but i hope you wont mind another!

Processor:Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0 GHz Boxed Socket LGA775, 1MB cache

MB: Abit AG8-3rd Eye Mainboard for S775 I915P,SATA,ATX,GbLAN,Dual-DDR,PCI-Ex16

HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB IDE ATA/100 8MB cache 7200RPM

GC: Gainward GeForce PCX 5750 128MB PCI-E PCI Express,"Ultra/860PCX TV-DVI,Retail

Mem: Crucial PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512MB CL3 5ns Unbuffered, Non-parity, 2.5V, 64Meg x 64

Case: Chieftec CX-04 Blue/Aluminium w/USB and Firewire. (without PSU)

PS: Q-Tec PSU ATX 400W Dual Fan PSU for PIII/AMD/P4 CPUs

CD/DVD: MSI DVD recorder DR12-A IDE Retail DVD+R/+RW and DVD-R/-RW

total 974e from komplett.

Just wondering if there are any better combinations or components for the price. I wont be playing graphic heavy games on it and wont be overclocking.

also am i leaving anything out? hope not!!!

cheers for the advice

Big Nelly

sikes wrote:

PS: Q-Tec PSU ATX 400W Dual Fan PSU for PIII/AMD/P4 CPUs

Dont buy Q-tec power supplies....I was told not to but thought I knew better! less than 6 months and it has stopped working! now have to buy a replacement...install it and then send back broke one to Komplett.....wont give me a refund now because 2 long so can only get a replacement!! its useless to me so will just use for a backup!! buy a power supply from Elara or someone else!

BloodBath

Order your parts from www.jes-computer.de and you will probably save another 100e.

Use the money you save to buy either one of these two psus.

tagan

thermaltake


Both very good psu's although neither one is great for overclocking but as your not overclocking they are good.


BloodBath

Venom

As has been said dont go for a Q-tec as there ****e. Go for a Antec or a TT psu. Do you need to buy now tho as the 775 is new and expensive with very little gain over current P4 chips and mobos. If you can, wait till later in the year when dual pc-e mobos come out and the newer P4 775 chips.

Jammer

AMD 64 is the way to go... :rolleyes:

sikes

im a bit behind on all of this but is there a 64 os released yet? if not surely that means the benefits of 64 is not yet available. i think i will be buying my stuff through jes now..thanks for the advice.

BKtje

im a bit behind on all of this but is there a 64 os released yet?

Windows XP 64 is in beta. You dont need a 64bit os however as it runs 32bit perfectly. You may ask yourself why go for a 64bit then? Well when it does go 64bit ul be ahead of the races. Also the 64bit performans better than the 32bit at the same speed. Not sure the price difference between amd 64 and intel 32bit.

A 2.5ghz amd is equivalent to a 3.8+ intel so a 2.2ghz amd64 would be similar to a 3ghz intel (especially if your getting a 1mb ver). That said its hard to say without knowing more about what your gonna use the pc for.

Nukem

Venom wrote:

As has been said dont go for a Q-tec as there ****e. Go for a Antec or a TT psu. Do you need to buy now tho as the 775 is new and expensive with very little gain over current P4 chips and mobos. If you can, wait till later in the year when dual pc-e mobos come out and the newer P4 775 chips.

Hey was turned off a socket 775 because i was told that the 478 was better at the moment. If there is a better line of 775 parts comin out do you know when,is it the end of the year or 05?

sikes

the computer is basically just a family computer. a lot of championship manager will be played, internet, office apps, a bit of image editing, and maybe of digital video stuff but would buy the card at a later date.

quite tempted by the a64 now...

Azza

Well I always throw in my 2 cents on AMD 64. Its hard to exactly compare one AMD 64 chip to an Intel chip. For example in 32bit amd 64 is faster for gaming by a reasonable margin so a 2.2Ghz AMD 64 would be faster than a 3.2 P4. Intel has several smaller advantages in 32bit such as encoding etc. The 64bit potential of AMD 64 is unknown but most linux OS that have both 32bit and 64bit version of the same OS state in that most apps the 64bit OS is 15-20% faster (on average I said some thing preform worse) benchmarks seem to bare out the fact that under 64bit in linux all intels advantages are reserved. Again windows xp 64bit is an unkown quanity this point due for a release early next year. Overclocking wise the Intels are probably slightly better. A 2.2ghz amd 64 and a 3.2ghz overclocked to there full potential on air preform about the same.

BloodBath

I'd go s775 if I was buying an intel machine right now. It has more upgrade potential in the future with higher speed processors and new pci-e cards that actually take advantage of the bandwidth. You have the option of sli with nidia cards as well. Why go s478 when s775 has more going for it?

A64 is really good now as well though but that doesn't have much upgrade potential either unless you get the new socket.

It's fine if you plan on changing the whole machine in a couple of years though.


BloodBath

Azza

Yeah but that like anything you get stuff now there is always better stuff around the corner. Next major thing cpu wise will be the change to dual core meaning no matter what format you going for your probably gonna have to change again. Most people don't upgrade often except performance freaks so those dual cores will probably be out long before an average user will buying now ill upgrade again. However this socket 775 looks the part with the higher fsb and other features. Will wait and see what performance is like I have not heard much.

jessy

sikes wrote:

HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB IDE ATA/100 8MB cache 7200RPM

This isn’t exactly the fastest 7200rpm Disk You buy, Try the WD 7200rpm I think it’s the better option.

Other than that It’s a very nice spec.