Critique new rig

[human2k]

Building a "light gamer" for a friend.......here's what I decided for the soup so far:

Chieftec Workstation Chassis w/Turbolink 420W PSU

Gigabyte GA-8IG i845G Chipset
Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHZ Northwood w/Retail Heatsink

Mushkin PC3000 512MB RAM
Radeon 8500LE 128MB
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200RPM
Sony 3.5" Floppy

Total w/S&H + Tax = $901.44

had a budget of $900......wasn't able to squeez it in...but $1.44 over aint badd.

 

[Duvie]

He must already have a cd-rom, right??? Got to load those games....

Looks pretty good...Goin to try to OC a bit????

 

[human2k]

Originally posted by: Duvie
He must already have a cd-rom, right??? Got to load those games....

Looks pretty good...Goin to try to OC a bit????

This is a BIG upgrade for him.........his current system is an AMD k6-2 300......he already purchased a lite-on 24xcd-rw which he is happy with.........hopefully with some luck we can break the 2.0 barrier.

 

[Stealth1024]

Mid ATX case with 300 watt power supply
ABIT AT7 KT333 RAID/LAN/Firewire DDR motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with fan/heatsink
512MB DDR2700 (333) Samsung memory
WD 80GB 7200 hard drive
1.44MB floppy drive
Creative Labs 5.1 sound card
Leadtek GeForce Ti4200 64MB AGP
1 year parts and labor warranty

Total: $852.00 from monarchcomputer.com


yep I'd say you're price is pretty close...

 

[Rimnet]

i WOULD NOT call this a 'lite gamer' setup...

 

[Stealth1024]

if its under $1200 I'd classift it as light anything... lol

$2200 appears to be the sweet spot for a really nice well rounded machine... not including the dual 18" LCD monitors of course

 

[human2k]

quick question......radeon 8500 suppose to have better 2d quality over nvidia cards right? or was it FSAA quality??