thinkin of building a new pc - some issues :(

[khizman]

how is this setup
Shuttle SN95G5 Mini Aluminium Barebone system for AMD Socket 939, Gigabit LAN, USB2, Firewire, RAID, SATA RAID, 6ch. Audio.
Memory - which one is cheapest and best?
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 64 bit 512k L2 Cache Retail inc.fan Skt 939 (3 yr.warr.)
300 GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 SATA 7200rpm UDMA150 16MB Cache

Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 XT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E +DVI +VIVO Retail
Gigabyte Radeon X800XT 256MB PCI-E VIVO + DVI Retail
Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256MB DDR3 AGP +DVI +VIVO Retail
Connect3D ATI Radeon X800Pro 256MB DDR3 8x AGP + TV-out + DVI Retail
Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256MB DDR3 AGP +DVI +TV out Retail
which of these are best/ which other one is better for my 350ish budget
thanks alot
khizman

[Furton]

For memory I would get some Crucial Ballistix. If your going to overclock, then PC4000, if no overclocking get 3200 stuff.

GFX card, the first 2 are PCI express so no good to you.

Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256MB DDR3 AGP +DVI +VIVO Retail

That would be the best out of them lot as you have the potential to unlock the other 4 pipelines to get 16 full ones. Although I would recommend a GeForce 6800GT.

[khizman]

ok i am not gonna overclock
6800gt - ne specific model etc?
what does "unlock the 4 pipelines " mean?

[SilentDeath]

Dont get PC4000 ram, it has high latencys which is not good for an AMD system (but for p4's it is). You want low latency pc3200 or pc3500 ram.

Pipelines are the parts of a gpu where allthe work is done. The more you have, the faster. ATI/Nvidia lock pipelines on there lower range cards, to limitthe performance of them.
A good percentage of them have faulty pipelines, which is why they are disabled and sold as the crapper model, but a lot have good pipelines and will run fine as the faster version. It depends a lot on demand, and how many cards they make have bad pipelines - if theres not very many, they will downgrade good cards, asreduced pipelines.