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Originally Posted by Lasereth
Try to find a 6600 GT or X700 Pro/XT for $200. It'll be hard to find one in AGP but it's worth it. If ya can't, the 9800 Pro is fine.
AHHH THAT CASE!! That's the stupidest, ugliest case I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of cases. That's just preference though.
I'd up the RAM past 512 MB. Don't buy that expensive Kingston unless you're gonna OC. If you were gonna OC I'd assume you were buying the 2500+ instead of the 3200+ though! I'd get at least 768 MB of RAM. I'd just get Corsair Value RAM...1GB for the same price as 512 MB of the OC stuff.
Other than that it looks great!
-Lasereth
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Heh. I know, I prefer simple cases myself... but I can't help but laugh when I see
NEMESIS. She wanted a Lian Li, too, but the pricetag was a little too high, especially once a PSU was added. Still under consideration.
And thanks for the suggestion on the video card. I didn't know that the 6600 was that cheap... for some reason I thought it was more expensive than the 9800. What brands are good for GeForce? When I buy ATI, I either buy Sapphire or Built by ATI, but I'm not sure who's good for NVIDIA cards.
Also, how much more expensive is it to get a PCI-express motherboard for the same setup? Can I yet, or do I have to wait for nforce4 before I can get an AMD/PCI-e system? Since the AGP version of the card is $30-40 more than the PCI-e, it may be worth getting a better motherboard and the PCI-e version.
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Originally Posted by fckm
Are you sure you want to go with the athlonXP? I believe that AMD is end-of-life-ing the socket A procs.
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Yeah, I know 939 is the new shiznit, if you will, but it's a little more expensive generally. I'm trying to keep the cost down. I'm still looking into it.
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Originally Posted by sashime76
That is a cool case! What games does she plan on playing? A bigger hard drive, at least 120GB in my opinion. A good sound card and a nice set of speakers should be included, a 2.1 system with a good power sub.
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I'm leaving a sound card out for now to save money, as it's not entirely necessary. It would be nice, yes, but cost is a premium. And she has some speakers, but generally for gaming headphones are better anyway. I'm not concerned with speakers at the moment.
As for the HD, again, 80 GB is just a starting point. If she runs out, she can always install a few new ones with no difficulty.
She's an RPG addict, but the main reason for the new PC is UT2k4. Other reasons include, but are not limited to, KOTOR II and HL2.
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Originally Posted by taylorspl
You can build an a64 w/ a 3000+ 939 chip, just use 1gb Corsair value ram and the price should be really close to what you have now. Also buy a good optical mouse and a good keyboard if its going to be used for gaming. Looks like a solid machine but the a64 will be about the same cost and be upgradeable. The nforce4 boards are coming out soon(one or two might be out now) so you will be able to get PCI-E too.
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It's possible, but I'm not sure of the benefit of getting a 64 bit processor for this machine, yet. It's not going to be upgraded frequently, so by the time 64 bit applications are mainstream, it would probably be time to get a whole new mobo, ram, and processor anyway.
Thanks for the input, everyone.