Any thoughts on posible new system?

[Dark4ng3l]

I can get this for about 2500$ canadian and wanted your opinions(I might wait til next gen because my comp is good enuf right now)

AMD athlon thunderbird 800
Asus a7v with audio
128 megabytes of generic pc-133 sdram
Maxtor 15.3 7200 rpm hard disk
Ati radeon 64meg DDR
Pioneer 16x dvd


I can get the above for 2500$ canadian is this a good upgrade or should I wait for next gen(my curent system is listed in my signature)

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Oh yea I would like coments on anything mobo/cpu video card what do you think would be better I need some feedback

 

[Dark4ng3l]

bump

 

[Bignate603]

keep the sound blaster live in there. my system is doing good. one word of advice... avoid the chrome orb cooler, i had a bad experience with it. There's a post about it in this board.

 

[Rudee]

$2500 Canadian for that system is a huge ripoff!

Those components in Canadian dollars add up to no more than $1500. Somebody is obviously trying to rip you off dude.

Go to Onvia.ca and price out the parts yourself if you don't believe me.

By the way, you can save a couple hundred dollars and keep your PC100 RAM instead of buying PC133 SDRAM. The performance difference is not noticable. Trust me.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

I forgot to mention I was geting a 17 inch monitor and windows ME(oops) any suggestions for the monitor?

 

[Madcowz]

I say wait just a little longer for the next gen AMD DDR chipsets... they should be out pretty soon and your system should serve you well for at least another half year... unless your a big gamer that is. Also look for the Aopeon 16X DVDROM rather than the Pioneer... faster, quieter, and has digital output which is important if you want to watch DVDs. my $.02

 

[Argo]

Actually the peformance difference between PC100 and PC133 is quite noticeable. I gained 7fps in Q3 after enabling it. Eitherway, why bother buying a new computer, if you're going to use old technology. I'd alos highly recommend dumping generic RAM and getting crucial instead. In case you want a comparison, I built myself a slightly more powerful system for around $1400 us dollars. That includes mouse, keyboard, speakers and etc. I paid $300 extra for 19" Samsung monitor.