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New rig
I am building a new computer so far i have the following
Thermaltake V1000D Xaser III ATX Case in Blue with Side Panel
Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" 3.0GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail
Abit IC7-MAX3 "Canterwood" (Socket 478) Motherboard
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 Serial ATA 80GB 8MB Cache
MSI DR8-A 8x DVD±R/±RW (Black)
nvidia fx 5600 256mb graphics
samsung 52-32-52 cdr
lookin for PSU thought about thermaltake butterfly + RAM thought about Corsiar xms pro 1gig dual pc3200
Any advice welcom
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im not playing the system down at all but I see u have decided not to splash out on what is really the most important piece of hardware for gaming, that gfx card doesnt match up to the cpu+mobo combination uve came up with.
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lmao, i see so many of these threads, it's crazy
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Sorry Kezzer just trying to get a little help here.
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my 2cent,
get a enermax psu with manual fan control, but if you after BLING then the new butterfly PSU's are fine..meant to be quiet I think.
Forget about 1gb of ram, get 512 ddr400ll or ddr500, sell off your current GPU, with money saved from ram get yourself a 9800pro.
This solution should give you better all round performance, cos atm that GPU is big time bottleneck.
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Setting up a new rig is a big deal. It makes people nervous, so it's understandable that they they seek a little affirmation here. Kezzers right though, so perhaps some kind of sticky " Hexus users recommended " Sticky could be in order.... like the A-list from Pc-pro etc. I understand there would be some disagreement between egos....but with proper categories i think it could work. ( high end / mid / Value + intel / amd / amd 64) It would at least give people an idea of what they should be looking at....
On the other hand some people love giving advice :) ...... and the mods do have to have GF's too......
My advice - keep the graphix card - it'll be fine for a couple of months until the big boys (doom III etc) come out. use that time to put some money aside then help yourself to a next gen card.
As for ram....1gb will be handy for games pretty soon....upp to you whether you get it all now, or wanna get 1 stick of 512 now, another in a couple of months along with a GFX card.. That way would let you get a faster stick. But then Memory prices go up as well as down.....aint life a bitch?
In posts like this it helps if you mention what you will be using the rig for and how much you intend to spend....
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CHEERS FOR THE ADV.I HAVE ORDERED THE BUTTERFLY and the dual mem got till june to get gfx and monitor
I appreciate the advice thks funnelhead Ady168uk and Korky
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lol, you have no monitor :D ?
good luck with everything though..
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Looks good apart from the GFX card, get atleast a 9600XT 128, much better than the 5600.
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I have a monitor .My son gets my old rig in June
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I wish my dad would give me a rig, he just complains about all the clutter I make on his desk, as well.
As most people have said, your video card will certainly be the bottleneck, but if you don't game much then it ain't a problem. Also, as someone else has said, the new ATi's (R420's) will be coming out in April (I hope!!!), so wait until then to get a video card. Imagine the price of the 9800xt's when the new cards come out, they are already fast approaching the £300 mark, lovely.
Steve
ps IMHO the more RAM the better, when I built my last rig everyone told me that I didn't need a gig of RAM, they were wrong, in the end I upgraded to 1.5 gig...
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People are gonna laugh at me here but for the same money and a little waiting i'd swap the CPU for a prescott version. Same price but more features and better hyper threading, Should be available first week of March
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lol, prescott !!
performance is roughly similar between then 2 cores, with the enhancements barely compensating for the longer pipeline.... but you'll get less heat and a higher overclock out of a northwood.
If thats your bag baby
if not it wont make much differnce at all which core you get...
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i complain about my sons clutter aspecialy old games filling up my hd
and not being able to get on the computer
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hehe, I can imagine that would get annoying. Luckily my dad has gotten a Dell X600 on the company, so he can't sit in front of the tv and do whatever he does on there...
Steve