New Asus Motherboard

[Rob Ramm]

I am buying a new asus motherboard and wanted to ask all those who
have gone through this before if I am putting the proper components
together. I can't afford the 400MhzFSB cpu now,

Will this be a good gaming machine? Any suggestions?
Thanks, I am not too good with this stuff.



AMD Athlon™ XP 2500+ Barton @ 333Mhz FSB

OCZ 2x 256Mb PC3500 Dual Channel EL DDR Performance Series

Asus® A7N8X-DX, Socket A, NVidia® nFORCE2 w/ 8X AGP and Serial ATA

80 GB SERIAL Seagate Barracuda V SATA-150 7200RPM 8Mb 9ms OEM

Asus® v9560/VS GeForce4 - GFX 5600 w/128Mb DDR & 8X AGP Retail Box

Asus® I-Panel Deluxe Monitoring System

 

[Nick Ginger]

I don't believe the ipanel works with the A7N8X-DX motherboard, I have both
and couldn't get it to work. The ipanel is also a notoriously bad piece if
hardware.

 

[Wookie]

Looks pretty good .. you didn't mention the Power supply used.

 

[Thomas Andersson]

I am buying a new asus motherboard and wanted to ask all those who
have gone through this before if I am putting the proper components
together. I can't afford the 400MhzFSB cpu now,

Will this be a good gaming machine? Any suggestions?
Thanks, I am not too good with this stuff.



AMD AthlonT XP 2500+ Barton @ 333Mhz FSB

Def, run it as 400!

OCZ 2x 256Mb PC3500 Dual Channel EL DDR Performance Series

Everyone keps saying no gain in dual chan so save money and don't get a
matched set. Might also wanna check out Kingston HyperX and TwinMOS ram for
lower prices. (But still good ram)

Asus® A7N8X-DX, Socket A, NVidia® nFORCE2 w/ 8X AGP and Serial ATA
80 GB SERIAL Seagate Barracuda V SATA-150 7200RPM 8Mb 9ms OEM
Asus® v9560/VS GeForce4 - GFX 5600 w/128Mb DDR & 8X AGP Retail Box

Maybe add $10-30 and get a generic 5600 Ultra v2.. (with vivo as you've
selected the vs version).

Asus® I-Panel Deluxe Monitoring System

Why? You ahve to be by the computer to use that monitoring anyway so then
you might as well use MBM, or am I missing something important?

Best Wishes
Thomas

 

[Barry Watzman]

Don't go AMD. Get a good system with the best Intel-based motherboard
taht you can afford, and to save money, get a Pentium 4 Celeron (you can
get the Celeron 2.4 GHz in the $80's, and it's a Pentium 4 Northwood CPU
with a smaller cache). Then, as your finances permit, you can upgrade
just the CPU without having to replace your entire system, or reinstall
the OS, later.