The computer that €477 built.

mp3guy

Pentium 4 Prescott 2.4GHz S478
MSI PT-8 Neo-V Motherboard
80GB Seagate 7200RPM Hard drive
512MB PC3200 Twinmos DDR Ram
Geforce 3 Ti 500 64MB Graphics card
Sony CRX320E CDRW/DVD 52x32x52x16
Cheapo case and 400w PSU

Its good enough for me, first build

KdjaCL

No cd or KB or mouse

All new parts?




kdjac

mp3guy

oh yeah, Sony DVD/CDRW Combi, and not all new parts.

The Real B-man

not bad is it a 800mhz p4?

mp3guy

No, only 533Mhz

Lump

That's quite expensive in my opinion.

John

tman

aye. especially if they're not all new parts.
did you buy them in a shop or source them online?

TerrorFirmer

Lump wrote:

That's quite expensive in my opinion.

John

As happy as you probably are about this new system you built, its not reflected in the price I regret to say

Its not too bad, apart from the Geforce 3 ti - thats not going to play any new games at all

mp3guy

Eh, i don't mind. Its better than my last comp. I wanted to build a comp rather than Dell it, good experiance.

TerrorFirmer

mp3guy wrote:

Eh, i don't mind. Its better than my last comp. I wanted to build a comp rather than Dell it, good experiance.

Well, good for you, at least you have a sense of acheivement! But - haven't you defeated the purpose by making a pc that won't run any new games...?

peterk19

Did he say he wanted to run games on his pc?

TerrorFirmer

peterk19 wrote:

Did he say he wanted to run games on his pc?

If not, then why would one bother getting 512ram or 2.4 ghz?

If its a simple general pc for work or music, I have a p3 700mhz that does that job more then adequate...

mp3guy

eh, casual gamer, ie emulation and such, video editing too

TerrorFirmer

mp3guy wrote:

eh, casual gamer, ie emulation and such, video editing too

Pecular choice of hardware for it, but eh...whatever keeps you happy, I remember one time my friend got 50+ ancient computers for free, old company ones, we spent an entire weeked making just ONE good one (compared to the others) each from all the parts. It took so damn long sorting through everything, finding proper cards, motherboards, etc, my fingers were almost bleeding from so much work

I ended up with a 300mhz, 32ram, 52xcd, 12gb hd, 8mb graphics.

It was a piece of shít, but I was just so proud

kasintahan

As the lads said, you probably paid a little too much (not by much mind).

But it's the guts of a workhorse machine.

512 MB is what would regard as the optimum amount in a 2000/XP machine if you're on a budget. 2.4GHz is fine for pretty much everything, including new games. Even the graphics card WILL play all the new games at 800x600 minimum. I'd find an 80GB hard drive a bit limiting but it depends on how much multimedia you have and how much video editing you're doing.

The General

mp3guy wrote:

Pentium 4 Prescott 2.4GHz S478
MSI PT-8 Neo-V Motherboard
80GB Seagate 7200RPM Hard drive
512MB PC3200 Twinmos DDR Ram
Geforce 3 Ti 500 64MB Graphics card
Sony CRX320E CDRW/DVD 52x32x52x16
Cheapo case and 400w PSU

Its good enough for me, first build

:rolleyes: you should have asked around here, you could have gottn a better deal. I got a:

pentium 4 3.2GHz
1024MB Ram
80GB*2 Hard Drives
16* DVD writer
Wicked mouse
**** keyboard
5.1 surround sound speakers

for €510 delivered

The Real B-man

The General wrote:

:rolleyes: you should have asked around here, you could have gottn a better deal. I got a:


for €510 delivered

not bad a dell?

odie

Jaysus give the guy a break....he did damn well building that lot for less than most lads would take a chance on....Nice build there mp3guy...I would love to have gotten those parts myself for that money.

U could be around forever looking for a better deal.

uberpixie

mp3guy wrote:

Eh, i don't mind. Its better than my last comp. I wanted to build a comp rather than Dell it, good experiance.

Cool. Glad it worked out for ya.

But to be honest you really can build better for the money.

People prolly seem like they are jumping down your throat but they mean well.

The real skill in building a pc is not the putting it together.

It's in the part selection: getting the best bang for your buck with a good upgrade path as possible and of course trouble shooting when it won't work :-)

A little research could have gotten you a better speced machine.

You really should have had a look at getting a socket 754 mobo with a semperon cpu in amd and you could have squeezed in a modern mainstream card in that would be much better than the gf3.

At least with 754 you could have upgraded to a very fast amd64 in the future.

Hind sight is always 20/20 of course! :-)

Congratulations on a sucessful build and better luck next time.

mneylon

MobileInfantry wrote:

If not, then why would one bother getting 512ram or 2.4 ghz?

If its a simple general pc for work or music, I have a p3 700mhz that does that job more then adequate...

512 MB RAM for Windows XP, KDE or Gnome is not a huge amount of RAM.

Lump

Yea XP it's self uses about 200 Megs, stick video editing or games and a few background apps onto that and you're up to 512. I'm thinking of getting a second gig in my box ...

John

mp3guy

Yeah, my last comp had 256MB ram, and multitasking was a no no. I'm happy with this build, runs FarCry at 1024x768 w/ Quincunx AA at a very playable 30 fps.

peterk19

MobileInfantry wrote:

If not, then why would one bother getting 512ram or 2.4 ghz?

If its a simple general pc for work or music, I have a p3 700mhz that does that job more then adequate...

Sure thats just a base amount of ram nowadays ive got 1.5 gig of ram and Athlon 64bit 3400+ and im not happy with the performance to be honest so im gonna get a couple of Western Digital raptors in raid and see if that makes any difference and i dont even play games its just for general use, web, dvd burning and a little video encoding,
Pete

mp3guy

peterk19 wrote:

Sure thats just a base amount of ram nowadays ive got 1.5 gig of ram and Athlon 64bit 3400+ and im not happy with the performance to be honest so im gonna get a couple of Western Digital raptors in raid and see if that makes any difference and i dont even play games its just for general use, web, dvd burning and a little video encoding,
Pete

Are you serious? Something might be broken, or your system is full of software

peterk19

mp3guy wrote:

Are you serious? Something might be broken, or your system is full of software

Na its a fresh instal of xp pro on a ide 7200 Western Digital Cavier have just the essentials installed Firefox and antivirus dvd decrypter Gordian Knot bitcomet and some codecs nothig else on the syatem disc wich is a 120 gig i had winxp 64bit but i couldnt get my wireless card working that was ok speed wise sure ill get a larger case the raptors and some good cooling and see how i feel might be forced to overclock then, its not that its not fast its is i just want quicker access speeds
Pete

The General

The Real B-man wrote:

not bad a dell?

nope

TerrorFirmer

mp3guy wrote:

Are you serious? Something might be broken, or your system is full of software

Yeah, hes right - if you find 1.5 gig ram insufficent for general usage then you got one fucked up pc

I only have 1gig, plays any game, and any amount of software fine with no slowdown that id notice...

Mac daddy

blacknight wrote:

512 MB RAM for Windows XP, KDE or Gnome is not a huge amount of RAM.

it is :rolleyes: recommended by mickysoft is 128 and the minimum is 64 specs

kde and gnome know linux use cli gui is for wimps

peterk19

MobileInfantry wrote:

Yeah, hes right - if you find 1.5 gig ram insufficent for general usage then you got one fucked up pc

I only have 1gig, plays any game, and any amount of software fine with no slowdown that id notice...

Na i just want faster access times to my Hard drives which im gonna fix with a nice pair of Western Digital Raptors in raid, i dont play games on it at all so ive no idea what it can play plus ive got a sh1t graphics card so i wont attemt to play them
Pete