How does this look?

Ruu_Old

Finally going to get around to building a new machine here, this is what i have come up with, any suggestions would be helpful:

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ S939
Asus A8V Deluxe Mainboard S939
Crucial DDR PC3200 512MB RAM
Black Prelude Window Case + 400W PSU
Asus Radeon 9250 GamerEd 256MB
Maxtor 160GB SATA Hard Drive (i have another 160GB External Maxtor USB)
Black Lite-On 16x DVD ROM
Black Lite-On 16x16DVDRW
Mitsumi Floppy/7 in 1 Card Reader
Onboard Sound and Gigabit LAN
Intel v.92 PCI Modem
Black Logitech Internet Desktop (keyboard+mouse)
Altec Lansing v.2.0 Speaker Set
Viewsonic 17" Flat Monitor

Grand total of $1,053.06 unassembled

TerrorFirmer

If its gaming you'll be doing, you'll need at least 1gb of ram and a much better card then the 9250....

Ruu_Old

noted, thanks can you suggest a video card maybe? the next one up was the NVIDIA FX 5500 256MB DH AGP

Fionn_McCool

well if it is the newest games that you want to be playing on it, you should go for somthing along the lines of:

nVidea 6600 series or nvidea 6800 series

ATI x800 series

srdb20

RUU,

Where are you getting the viewsonic monitor, and how much is it costing ya ive been on the lookout for one of them?

nice one man

Ruu_Old

eek the ATI AIW x800xt 256mb agp costs $399 so thats a no-no

Im getting all the stuff at http://www.c-computer.com/
There are in town here, Champaign Computer Corp.
I think the one i picked was a flat CRT, $170

Fionn_McCool

k, if thats out of the question, go for something along the lines of the 6600gt, well worth especially when it is now for sale under 200 euro, which should work out to be less than $250, well worth it

Ruu_Old

hmm the only ones on the list are the
GeForce 6600GT 128MB 2xDVI AGP @$178
Asus GeForce 6600GT 128MB PCIE @$138

TerrorFirmer

Go for at least a 6600....

The 9250 will struggle at any new games, its a pretty old card. Not worth anything to be honest. You could also pick up a second hand 9800 pro maybe on the FS forum for about 80 quid, decent card.

But if you want it for gaming then the best thing to do is really fork out a few extra quid and get an x800 or x850 or a 6800....but on a budget a 6600 would be pretty good.

Definately you'll need 1gb ram, but again, that depends of course if you are playing latest games or not.

As for the fx5500....*shudder*

Ruu_Old

ok have 1024mb ram now and the asus geforce 6600 pcie, will do me. so works out around $1,200, not so bad

Rollo Tamasi

srdb20 wrote:

RUU,

Where are you getting the viewsonic monitor, and how much is it costing ya ive been on the lookout for one of them?

nice one man

You can get Viewsonic TFT 17" from PCScience for E195, they are a Mayo based PC part outlet store. I use them quite a bit.
http://www.pcscience.org/product.php?pid=8017&

Mr. CooL ICE

Woah, i might be looking at the wrong motherboard, but is that agp only? Dont get an AGP slot dependant motherboard, get one with PCI Express. AGP is being phased out now, so changing your mobo to having a PCI-E slot and your graphics card too, will make it more futureproof

jor el

The motherboard you're looking at doesn't support the graphics card you mentioned. You need a PCI Express mobo like the A8NE which is about the same price. Go for this graphics card "GeForce 6600GT 128MB 2DVI PCIE [XFX-PVT43GND] [PVT43GND]" for $172 or "Asus GeForce 6600 128MB PCIE [ASU-EN6600TD128] [EN6600/TD/128]" for $138. That should do the trick.