new pc

[HaZze]

Processor
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4000BNBOX) (CP-120-AM)
£252.57

Motherboard
Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£76.32

Memory
Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2 (MY-079-CS)
£211.44

Graphics
BFG GeForce 7800 GTX OC 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-009-BG)
£370.07

Cooling CoolerMaster AquaGate WaterCooling System (WC-000-CM)
£117.44

total cost
£1026 = 1,518.75 EUR

this is the sort of thing i am looking for, my mind isnt totally made up but i am sure it will be something similar


hi reefy

 

[Me__2001]

get a better motherboard, the A8N-SLI deluxe is about £30 more or get a DFI lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D for an extra £20

i take it you have all of the other bits ?

 

[HaZze]

i have a case allready, which came with a psu which i will probably need to change
and i have an audigy 2zs from my older computer

i saw you can get
AMD Athlon 64 (ADA4200BVBOX) X2 4200+ socket 939 Dual Core 2.2ghz 512kb and 512kb Cache for only a little extra and people said you can get like an 80% performace increase.

hmm about the DFI mobo, i dont really know alot about them, except for the fact they are better for overclocking (which i dont do anyway)

 

[Me__2001]

even if you dont overclock they perform better than most boards, if your just gaming which by the looks of it you are then a single core with a 1MB cache will give better performance than the X2, if however you want to try and future proof a bit and you do other CPU intensive tasks then a dual core is worth getting

80% increase sounds a bit optomistic but you will certainly see a big increase in performance on multi threaded tasks like video encoding

 

[HaZze]

AMD (San Diego) Athlon 64bit 4000+ 939pin 1mb L2cache Retail Boxed Processor With 3 Year Warranty and Fan Included.

so like that

i am not really know that much about hardware, i just want to build the best pc i can for 900 (i know the price i posted goes over but i get alot discount on gfx card)

 

[Me__2001]

if you can get the extra £20 or £30 for one of the other boards then get either one if not what you have picked will be ok, that CPU is fine as is the rest of it

 

[HaZze]

ill take a look into it, thanx for the help

 

[PotGuy]

Linky Linky Link

http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0

Athlon 4000+ for £233

lovely processor - only £20 more than 3800+

 

[HaZze]

the new pc (this month or early next month)

Processor - AMD Athlon 64 4000 1MB cache
Motherboard - DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-D
Graphics Card - BFG GeForce 7800 GTX OC 256MB/Connect 3D ATI Radeon X1800XT 512Mb
Memory - Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1)
Sound Card - Audigy 2 ZS (softmodded ->Audigy 4)
Hard Drive - Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740GD 10,000RPM
CD/RW - Some cheap ****™
Watercooling - Cooler Master Aquagate
Mouse - Razor Dimondback Magma
Monitor - 17" CRT (2x if i can be bothered)
Case - "Light Fusion"

i need to check benches before i choose gfx card..

 

[Me__2001]

that all sounds good to me

 

[Reefsmoka]

Get a nice Tagan, Enermax or Antec PSU and it will be one hell of a monster .

 

[PotGuy]

x1800xt completely shatters the 7800gtx 256mb - oc or not.

the only thing faster than x1800xt is the 7800gtx 512mb which is about £550/£600 last time i checked

 

[HaZze]

took the first bench from every game.


there is around 50pound in price difference. 7800 being the difference

 

[PotGuy]

lol sorry im a bit out of date

lowest i could find

http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0

that is cheaper than some of the 256mb 7800s!

 

[Me__2001]

lol sorry im a bit out of date

lowest i could find

http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0

that is cheaper than some of the 256mb 7800s!

that site is a bit weird, the specs say its a 9200SE !??

 

[PotGuy]

wow

forget that :/

wtf? Its changed over the last 2 days! A few days ago i was snooping around anyway and the description then was for the x1800xt :/

 

[PotGuy]

I found this

apparentaly ati is realeasing new flagship card that will be significantly faster than the x1800xt (r520)

ive been following this story for a while and it looks like this is going to be a hugely powerful card that may knock prices of all the other cards down a bit

unfortunately it will not be realeased until early 2006

this is one of the many articles relating to this if your interested

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/11/24/ati_to_intro_new_gpus_early_in_06/