Critique my rig

[Reebdoog]

I need suggestions, and suggestions that would save me money

Case- Enermax CS-58661-PW - $58
DVD Rom- Lite on -$33
Artic Silver $7
Thermal Take Spark 7 $25
Floppy Drive- $6
HD- Western Digital 80 gb 8mb cache $83
Apacer 512mb ram pc3200 $76
Asus P4p800 $149
Intel P4 2.4C $175
Logitech 2.1 system $36
MSI TI4200 #136

total $800

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Reebdoog
I need suggestions, and suggestions that would save me money

Case- Enermax CS-58661-PW - $58
DVD Rom- Lite on -$33
Artic Silver $7
Thermal Take Spark 7 $25
Floppy Drive- $6
HD- Western Digital 80 gb 8mb cache $83
Apacer 512mb ram pc3200 $76
Asus P4p800 $149
Intel P4 2.4C $175
Logitech 2.1 system $36
MSI TI4200 #136

total $800

Dell..?

 

[Vonkhan]

MSI TI4200 #136 ???

a decent card but u'll need to upgrade soon! save urself the time and $$$z, get a 9500 or higher

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Vonkhan
MSI TI4200 #136 ???

a decent card but u'll need to upgrade soon! save urself the time and $$$z, get a 9500 or higher

Make it a 9500 Pro as the 9500 is beat by the 4200 in terms of performance.

 

[wetcat007]

the ti4200 is just fine unless u use fsaa and stuff, a very overclockable card and is about 40 bucks less than cheap radeon 9500's

 

[Jeff7181]

I'd keep the Ti4200 until ATI and nVidia get their new cores out in the mainstream for new DX9 games.

 

[paperfist]

Skip this money saving suggestion if you plan on o/cing or are against AMD. Abit NF7-S 2.0 $120 & AMD Barton 2500 $95. That'll save you 100+ bucks.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: paperfist
Skip this money saving suggestion if you plan on o/cing or are against AMD. Abit NF7-S 2.0 $120 & AMD Barton 2500 $95. That'll save you 100+ bucks.

Save $35 more and get an Epox 8RDA+ for $85

 

[Atlantean]

ditch nvidia and get an ati vid card.

 

[Chaotic42]

I'd get these instead:

Soltek Motherboard for AMD Processors, Chipset NVIDIA nForce2 (SPP + MCP) , Model SL-75FRN2-RL Retail- $95
AMD ATHLON XP 2500 "Barton" 333 FSB PROCESSOR CPU- RETAIL- $98

That would save you $131.