Yo!
The time has come
i've got to make this post quick, on my way out the door to work..
The Task:
I've decided on an Athlon 64 system, seems to be a good value.
We are on a budget!!@!
Total should be no more than 500$.
(not including keybo, mouse, monitor, hdd's, gfx card (agp). these things i already have or have already decided on what to purchase)
We need:
CPU
Mobo
Mem
Case
PSU
DVD-ROM
DVD-RW
I want/hope to get a silver case/build a silver puter.
that would limit my optical drive options , to an Asus dvd-rom, and the NEC 3540 burner.
I still need to shop around, so far been mostly to newegg, which is a bitch-and-a-half to browse on my mom's ancient macintosh, which is what i'm using for the time being.
anyways:
socket 754 or 939?
I'm thinking a 3000+ proc, which right now on newegg the 939 is cheaper.
I will be getting a budget board, not sure how good it would be if i want to upgrade proc later if i go with 939 (dual-core etc).
mem - the corsair valueselect 1 gig ddr 400 package on newegg looks good. am i wrong?
board - msi makes a cheap one, eh, i'll need to get back to this one research wise unless someone's got a suggestion offhand for a board under 100$
PSU - newegg has a Sparkle 350W for 30$. afaik a decent brand ... not sure what wattage i'll need.
i'll be powering 2hdd's for now, and may likely be adding 1-2 sata disks in the future, i will need more storage, just can't invest now.
case - i figure under 40$ should do me. silver. because it's sexy.
allright, i'll submit now, will be working on this alll weekend, i hope i can get some helpful advises.
Update to post : More Infos!!
The things I remembered that I forgot to mention -
Use
Mostly need a machine capable of ordinary multitasking .. which i know most any will do (1-2 firefoxes with a few tabs, a text editor, irc client, im prog, winamp, watch video, run download programs (azureus, emule plus, newsleecher, soulseek) ... thats what i tend to have going on most always.
But!
I do fairly often
re-encode video! (usually dvd -> xvid). That's one of the main reasons i want a proc that can handle occasional heavy loads. I may want to re-encode while using my computer. I may want to compress/uncompress some files while re-encoding. maybe make/check some sfv's too. All at once. Oh, and I do play with photoshop sometimes as well.
So - that's the main reason I want a proc with balls. I don't want to get annoyed/impatient/whatever ...
I want something that can handle whatever I may choose to throw at it.
fwiw .. the last computer I used was a 2.4 P4, 400 fsb, 768 mem ... and I want something that really feels like an
upgrade.
Video card
Eh, it is shameful, really. but I knew I wouldn't get outta this one without admitting my pos gfx
Radeon 9550 128 MB.
yeah yeah...
As of now, I would like to be able to do some gaming, don't know what games yet, have not played many games so far in my life, but I've played a bit of WoW and C & C games, and UT 2k4.
That's about as much as my card can handle, afaik ... I am open to
eventually upgrading my card to a better AGP one... I don't know exactly what my upgrade plans are in general with this computer, but I'm sure I will .. at some point. of course.
Allright - I hope this helps a bit on the advises.
duh, sorry i posted in a hurry before
