Can someone give me advice on a Pentium system?

etecnifibre

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Sep 12, 2003
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I am looking at a 2.8Ghz Pentium (533Mhz FSB) and have no idea which motherboard or RAM to go with. I have been an Athlon person, so have no idea really about the different chipsets, etc with the P4's.

I have a Gigabyte board now, and would like to stay with Gigabyte, unless there is an equally good quality board in Asus or MSI. I would like the board to have the following:
At least 533 FSB
Dolby Digital 5.1 or AC-3
5 PCI
AGP 8X
Dual Channel RAM
Network (Not a must)
etc.

Also, which RAM would be good? I will be going with either Corsair or Crucial. Do I get Rambus 1066 or PC 4200? I honestly have no idea what the differences are.

Thanks a ton for the help. I really appreciate it. Have a good day.
 

OmegaRedd

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Sep 14, 2003
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How much do you want to spend and what are you going to use the pc for? If your only playing games I advise p4 2.66c has good speed plus oc's well and saves money and has hyper threading. For a motherboard the abit is7 w/865pe chipset oc's well and has all the feat's and is cheap but if you want gigabyte the ga-8penxp has feats up the ass with a price of about $190. memory get the fastest you can get corsair it's good and never has any compatiblity trbl new xms proseries w/leds on the ram,samsung is good cheap and oc's well you need 512mb I advise you to get 1gig if you can afford it. Any game system is trash without a good video card. I advise an ati card for dx9 games if you can get a 9700pro it's cheap and oc's well if not the 9800 pro is a good card. Now you need a hard drive the serial drives from maxtor are killing everyone and the space on maxtor drives is more than the others, my 2nd choice is ata drives from western digital the 120g jb are cheap and fast if you can afford it go for two drives in raid 0 a slow hard drive will choke your system if you decide to do dvd ripping ect. For a sound card audigy 2 is the only choice for quality speed game compatibility and driver stability or you try the crappy on board sound. NOW we get to the most important choice a monitor (lcd's suck for games). No matter how bling your system is if your monitor sucks you wasted all your cheese. Sony is #1 lets get that out the way first (the gdm series) but the price is crazy Nec/Misubishi is #2 almost as good dot pitch .22 vs .24 for playing games the diffrence is negible and you save hundreds. Last you need good speakers I was always a promedia man but changed to logitech for my new set (old set got beer in the amp don't ask). You need 4.1 to enjoy the sound in the new games also for mp3's and the anime/movies/dvd's/porn ect you will download from kazaa/suprnova/irc blockbuster (rent then rip). I bought the logitech z-680 5.1 system. I love these things trust me sound is a vitial part of your gaming system. On optical drives lite-on is cheap and fast like I like my hoes. You also need a good power supply if you plan on doing any upgrades/overclocking. This system should last you for about 1 year before you need to upgrade. The monitor/speakers/sound card are keepers.
 

AgaBoogaBoo

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Feb 16, 2003
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Originally posted by: OmegaRedd
How much do you want to spend and what are you going to use the pc for? If your only playing games I advise p4 2.66c has good speed plus oc's well and saves money and has hyper threading. For a motherboard the abit is7 w/865pe chipset oc's well and has all the feat's and is cheap but if you want gigabyte the ga-8penxp has feats up the ass with a price of about $190. memory get the fastest you can get corsair it's good and never has any compatiblity trbl new xms proseries w/leds on the ram,samsung is good cheap and oc's well you need 512mb I advise you to get 1gig if you can afford it. Any game system is trash without a good video card. I advise an ati card for dx9 games if you can get a 9700pro it's cheap and oc's well if not the 9800 pro is a good card. Now you need a hard drive the serial drives from maxtor are killing everyone and the space on maxtor drives is more than the others, my 2nd choice is ata drives from western digital the 120g jb are cheap and fast if you can afford it go for two drives in raid 0 a slow hard drive will choke your system if you decide to do dvd ripping ect. For a sound card audigy 2 is the only choice for quality speed game compatibility and driver stability or you try the crappy on board sound. NOW we get to the most important choice a monitor (lcd's suck for games). No matter how bling your system is if your monitor sucks you wasted all your cheese. Sony is #1 lets get that out the way first (the gdm series) but the price is crazy Nec/Misubishi is #2 almost as good dot pitch .22 vs .24 for playing games the diffrence is negible and you save hundreds. Last you need good speakers I was always a promedia man but changed to logitech for my new set (old set got beer in the amp don't ask). You need 4.1 to enjoy the sound in the new games also for mp3's and the anime/movies/dvd's/porn ect you will download from kazaa/suprnova/irc blockbuster (rent then rip). I bought the logitech z-680 5.1 system. I love these things trust me sound is a vitial part of your gaming system. On optical drives lite-on is cheap and fast like I like my hoes. You also need a good power supply if you plan on doing any upgrades/overclocking. This system should last you for about 1 year before you need to upgrade. The monitor/speakers/sound card are keepers.

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