Building new AMD system from ground up , need ideas and sources

viper007

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OK.

Global Win FOP38 HSF
MSI Mainboard
128MB Cas 2 SDRAM
40GB 75GXP IBM HDD
Sound Blaster Live DE 5.1
Hercules or Leadtek GTS 2
Aopen 52X CD Drive

That is a pretty decent system!


 

Insomnium

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Ewww.....avoid Fic! The k7t pro2a is a much better motherboard. And if you don't plan on overclocking you can get a quieter HSF than the fop38.
 

TheBlondeOne

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HSF= heat sink fan? Quite by audio or by electrical? No overclocking for me, not smart enough to work out the bugs.

Who makes the K7t pro2, MSI?

What about monitors? Whats a good 17" (Good quality and cheap price)
 

Mem

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Don`t forget good AMD approved 300w PSU,also decent ram like Crucial,Taisol heatsink/fan CEK733092 will do a good job,since you are building from scratch no shortcuts ;).

:)
 

Insomnium

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Quiet by audio, some fans aboard heatsinks can be really loud so you can get a quieter fan/heatsink combo cause you're not overclocking. I'm pretty sure the AMD standard retail Taisol heatsink/fan will fit on the Pro2A so you can get that.

MSI makes the K7T Pro2A. You can also wait ~2weeks and get the K7T Turbo based on the KT133A which will give you better performance.
 

Shu8

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build my comp [sig]

comments:

-i also have monsoon mm-700 flat panel speakers. they're good speakers but i think i should've went w/ the klipsch [$200-250] or cambridge soundworks fps2000 [$100].
-go for the 45gb ibm [$150]
-the reason i have the creative annihilator2 is because it was $186, cheapest name branded geforce 2 card at the time. i dunno what good geforce2 pro video cards are good but if you wanna save some money, go w/ the elsa gladiac's fro around $160 or so.
-go get the 1.2ghz for around 260 or less
-get the tdk 12x/10x/32x or wait for the 16x's drop in price [has burnproof]
-get the microsoft intellimouse optical...it's a great mouse
-my system w/out monitor and speakers was about $1300
 

TheBlondeOne

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I've got Bose Media Mate speakers already. What's the difference between the 133 and 133A? I want somthing that will support the DDRAM. What about a power supply? Is AMD power hungry or just picky? Does it require something special? If so, what?
 

viper007

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Aopen makes good power supplies..They are ATX 2.03 and AMD certified, so you might want to give them a try!
 

Haribo

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Yepp, get the Aopen HQ45 case, it's a very good and cheap case (quite good looking to)!

You don't need a 300w PS... you only need a high quality 250w one which the HQ45 has!
 

JimMc

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If you are relatively new to builidng PC's, I would suggest looking at a place like CompuCheap for your parts. You'll save on shipping by buying everything from one place and you won't get the run around if something doesn't work. Here are the Reseller Reseller Ratings for them--wherever you end up going be sure to check their ratings.