Building a Machine in 3 or 4 weeks...

[5LiterMustang]

Guys I'm building my Machine in 3 or 4 weeks. Just wondered what you guys thought I should throw together. I've gotta get a monitor too and my budget is gonna be around 1200 bucks or so. Just wanted your opinions to see if what you guys are saying matches up to what I am wanting to build. I want something that'll be good to overclock, run games pretty damn good too...thanks in advance guys.

 

[amdskip]

Do you need everything? List your requirements and then we'll give you feedback. DVD burner, dvdrom, lcd, etc?

 

[5LiterMustang]

Well I'm planning on building a Barton 2500+ and overclocking it to 3000 or so. Put in a 9700Pro video card, corsair low latency dual channel 512 mb (total) memory. 80 GB WD hard drive (with 8mb cache) 1040IIB antec case, that is my tentative plan, what do you guys think? Suggestions on the MB or possibly a different processor or what?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I recommend:

Motherboard: A7N8X Deluxe or EPOX ER-8RDA+

- M4H

 

[optimistic]

You can buy a lot of rig for $1200 with no monitor. How about considering 1GB ram, 120GB + hdd, Aluminum casing, and what-the-heck, get a new monitor too!

 

[NoSpeed]

Based on this recent review here, I would give serious consideration to the ABIT BH7 mobo. Anand rates it tops for overclocking and you should be able to pick one up for under $100 US.

 

[5LiterMustang]

I have to get a monitor with the 1200 bucks. I was seriously considering 1gb of Ram but if I go dual channel 1GB then I can not afford to get the low latency memory from corsair which is supposed to make a good difference in performance.

 

[optimistic]

Oh, haha, I thought you said no monitor

In that case, what you got planned looks good so far!

 

[5LiterMustang]

Any reason as to why you guys would recommend epox or asus? I was leaning more towards the abit route at the moment, but I'm open to about anything. However, asus does scare me a little. I work on computers for a living and I see far more problems with their boards versus anything else. Just makes me a little nervous.