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Been looking at computer parts and sites for the last couple of weeks and thought I join Anand as it looks like an excellent site
I've been getting away from big corp built computers for awhile now, started with a Dell 486 and P90 in college and went to a little shop built PIII 500 100FSB with 384MB ram, 32MB ATI Rage Fury, 10G WD HD, and both a DVD Rom, and CD-RW drives back in Jan 2000 which is still my current desktop. Needless to say its time to upgrade and I think I can do a better job putting together a computer than Dell or others. (ex my PIII blew a capacitor out of the PS)
I need a new machine for web surfing, e-mail, office stuff,image editing, the occasional game (when I'm not busy with my honey do list), and I liked to get into some video and multimedia stuff. I'm aiming for around $1000.00 of hardware.
So without further ado here's what I found at newegg and searching places like Anand, THG(don't shoot please
), Hexus, Sharkey, and others:
Chip: Intel 2.8C HT 800 FSB
MoBo: ASUS P4P800 E Deluxe - finally found a review of this new board here
Case: CoolerMaster Praetorian Black PAC-T01-EK
Video: ASUS ATI Radeon 9600XT TVD (comes with VIVO)
PS: Coolmax 400W Black CX-400B Taurus Silent Power Supply
HD: WD 120GB SATA 7200RPM, 8mb Cache
Cooling: Stock Intel HSF / Arctic Silver 5 / Vantec Nexus NXP-201 Fan Controller
OS: WinXP Pro
Memory: 512mb (256mb x 2)Geil Golden Dragon PC3500/DDR433
OP Drive: Lite On Black 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive
Thats about $1000 on newegg minus the OS
I'm looking for some recomendations on the whole thing and also specifically the ram and optical drives.
I'd like 1GB or at least 512mb of decent high speed ram with good (not necessarily great timings) so I can do some small overclocks . If for budget reasons I only get 512 now, (256 x 2) can I get another 2 sticks for 1 GB latter and still do at least %10 overclock?
With the Optical drives I'd really like a cheap DVD ROM and decent 8x DVD burner with dual layer support but its probably not in the budget right now. I'll most likely get the combo drive and get the DVD burner later.
Your thoughts would be welcome.
Thanks,
Paratus
I've been getting away from big corp built computers for awhile now, started with a Dell 486 and P90 in college and went to a little shop built PIII 500 100FSB with 384MB ram, 32MB ATI Rage Fury, 10G WD HD, and both a DVD Rom, and CD-RW drives back in Jan 2000 which is still my current desktop. Needless to say its time to upgrade and I think I can do a better job putting together a computer than Dell or others. (ex my PIII blew a capacitor out of the PS)
I need a new machine for web surfing, e-mail, office stuff,image editing, the occasional game (when I'm not busy with my honey do list), and I liked to get into some video and multimedia stuff. I'm aiming for around $1000.00 of hardware.
So without further ado here's what I found at newegg and searching places like Anand, THG(don't shoot please
Chip: Intel 2.8C HT 800 FSB
MoBo: ASUS P4P800 E Deluxe - finally found a review of this new board here
Case: CoolerMaster Praetorian Black PAC-T01-EK
Video: ASUS ATI Radeon 9600XT TVD (comes with VIVO)
PS: Coolmax 400W Black CX-400B Taurus Silent Power Supply
HD: WD 120GB SATA 7200RPM, 8mb Cache
Cooling: Stock Intel HSF / Arctic Silver 5 / Vantec Nexus NXP-201 Fan Controller
OS: WinXP Pro
Memory: 512mb (256mb x 2)Geil Golden Dragon PC3500/DDR433
OP Drive: Lite On Black 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive
Thats about $1000 on newegg minus the OS
I'm looking for some recomendations on the whole thing and also specifically the ram and optical drives.
I'd like 1GB or at least 512mb of decent high speed ram with good (not necessarily great timings) so I can do some small overclocks . If for budget reasons I only get 512 now, (256 x 2) can I get another 2 sticks for 1 GB latter and still do at least %10 overclock?
With the Optical drives I'd really like a cheap DVD ROM and decent 8x DVD burner with dual layer support but its probably not in the budget right now. I'll most likely get the combo drive and get the DVD burner later.
Your thoughts would be welcome.
Thanks,
Paratus