New PC for Cam

[tristanm]

Time for Camc to get a new PC.

Mother Broad
G-B KNNXP255MSY
Processor
Athlon64 3400445MSY
RAM
1 Gig Hyper X401Centre Com
HDD
WD 34gig 10k156Centrecom
WD 200gig201MSY
Video Card
6800GT764CentreCom
DVD Burner
LG Dual Lay160MSY
Sound Card
Audigy ZS181Centre
Total2582

Thoughts anyone? Price cant go over 3 grand

Comments

[anonymous]

Don't get HyperX. Go 2GB of Corsair TwinX. Audigy is fine as long as a) he buys creative digital speakers, or b) doesn't bother with digital. Processor is a good choice, these other two must be either jealous or on the Intel payroll ;-). The rest looks nice, just make sure you get one BEHEMOTH of a power supply (at LEAST 400W, preferably 550W, BRAND-NAME WITH WARRANTY!). Another thing is cooling. I can personally recommend:

http://www.pccasegear.com/prod1337.htm

Also you might want to take a look at:

http://www.pccasegear.com/prod1577.htm

Good hunting. Out.

[noisymime]

I'd have to agree on the RAM call my anonymous. Its too damn proprietory. The 1gb is enough if you go for fast stuff, I'd say twinx.

[ctudball]

Hatred of AMD is born of familiarity, not jealousy.

The power supply is sound advice, and definitely worth focusing on. I would almost say that the 550w is a requirement, given the amount of juice a 6800 likes to suck down.

Interesting that you talk cooling Mr Anonymous since I have never had a need for cooling anything, although I have only goine up to a P4 3.2ghz. Must be one of theose AMD things ;)

[camc]

I have a good quality 19" flat screen. I have no wish to spend the money necessary to get a similar quality - and size - flat screen monitor.

To get one with a decent refresh rate is just still too dear. I want a new PC yeah, but I don't want to spend too much just now.

[camc]

btw, is AGP still the go, or should i wait on pci express?

[ctudball]

While the lure of PCI-Express is great, AGP is still the safe and cheap option. By all means go the PCI Express, but I think you can safely wait until the next upgrade :)

As long as you have a decent montior it's cool. We're just looking out for you best interests!

[tristanm]

AGP, PCI Express I dont think you'll see as much of a performance difference as you will a price difference, it all depends how much power u wanted from it.

I dunno why you guys hate AMD I've never had a problem with them.

The Audigy should be good, its got by far the best sound quality of anything in its price range the real downfall is the weird non-digital digital output, apparently it uses a weird 3 phase system developed by Creative, works fine with THEIR hardware but not with anything else. So if u want digital sounds then either use the onboard soundcard or u have to use creative speakers (Which I've found are quite good anyway).

2 Gig of Ram is probably a good idea and yeah definitly dont go with the hyper X apparently there are some issues with getting hold of it in Australia at the moment. 2 gig of corsair would be pretty nice ;)

[camc]

1gig should be fine to start with yeah...

Well, update the spec list for me :) Cookie says he can get stuff cheap so i might run it past him and see what $ he comes up with.