Budget Build

[LarryK]

Been messing around a lot with my build and ran across this. Seems like an amazing deal for the performance. I hope you enjoy if not don't hit me to hard =)

All Newegg accepted for the case that?s zip

Antec Solution Series SLK3700BQE

eVGA 133-K8-NF41 Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

eVGA 256-P2-N518 Geforce 7800GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1GHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor

Patriot Signature Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory

OR

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory

Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80GB 7200 RPM 2MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive

LITE-ON Black 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model SOHD-16P9SBLK

Total [with shipping]: $748 (without windows)

Opps forgot the $40 mail-in rebate ends on 10/3/05


ADD:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz FSB 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Dual Core Processor

Total [with shipping]: $979

Geting unsure about PS by now

 

[Stokes]

Looks like an extremely solid build, my only beef would be the hardrive not being SATA, and that it's only 80GB.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Stokes
Looks like an extremely solid build, my only beef would be the hardrive not being SATA, and that it's only 80GB.

what difference does sata make? if the op only needs 80GB, then that is all he/she needs. op - get the cheapest, newest sata/pata 7200rpm/8MB cache drive you can find. just recently bb had 160GB seagates for ~$40AR.

 

[Topweasel]

The Less IDE hard drives used the quicker they go away. I am so happy I got rid of that cable from my machine completely. Unless your good at hidding and folding cables in your machine then a IDE HDD cable will almost always affect your cooling.

 

[PingSpike]

You say budget build but that looks like a sweet rig to me!

As for SATA versus PATA. There isn't any performance difference. I'd just buy whatever was cheaper and get a round IDE cable.

 

[LarryK]

It seems i now have the funds so i like to get a PSU cheak 350W SmartPower ATX12V Power Supply No OCing no fancy stuff of any kind and will not run SLI for long time..