Hi guys, long time lurker, first time poster, you know the deal. I've decided to go ahead and take the plung to the A64 754-socket cpu and was first of all wondering if anyone can offer a good argument as to why shouldn't I go for it and buy something else. I understand the 939s are going to be the standard soon, but does that mean these 754s are going to go the way of Cyrix? Yes, I'm showing my age...
Anyways, here's the system and yes I'm a gamer:
Case: Antec Sonata 380W PSU
Heatsink: Arctic Cooling Silencer 64
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 754
Motherboard: Abit KV8 K8T800
RAM: 2 x OCZ PC3200 512MB DDR400 CAS2 3-3-6
HD: Maxtor 160 GB SATA
VidCard: Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
SoundCard: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (I'm cheap)
DVD RW: LG GSA-4082B DVD +-R/RW/RAM CDRW
Monitor: LG Flatron E-Z T710BHK 1280 x 1024 0.20mm
With no softare packages included, it comes to $1620.00 in Canadian funds. More or less $1120.00 US dollars. You should know that this Canadian company is perhaps the closest equivalent we have of NewEgg.
Is this a good deal? Because the CPU alone is 70 bucks cheaper than the competition.
RAM, is that good enough for general gaming? I'm not a die-hard for top of the line stuff, but I want this to last. There's some CAS2.5 ram that's 20 bucks more per chip, will I see a huge increase in performance for say Doom 3 or Far Cry?
HD: I kinda dozed off when SATA came about, is there a resource somewhere where it'll talk to me like I'm five years old explaining this?
Motherboard: There's an Epox 8KDA3+ motherboard that's slightly more expensive but its NFORCE3 250GB.
DVD RW: Are these reliable? I want an all-in-one drive, I want to be able to use it for normal computing like as well as burning stuff because I do tend to accumulate a lot of stuff in my hard drives... there was a time when 1 GB seemed unreachable...
Monitor: I like CRTs for gaming, but are there reasonably priced good for gaming LCDs?
Your thoughts, comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Anyways, here's the system and yes I'm a gamer:
Case: Antec Sonata 380W PSU
Heatsink: Arctic Cooling Silencer 64
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 754
Motherboard: Abit KV8 K8T800
RAM: 2 x OCZ PC3200 512MB DDR400 CAS2 3-3-6
HD: Maxtor 160 GB SATA
VidCard: Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
SoundCard: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (I'm cheap)
DVD RW: LG GSA-4082B DVD +-R/RW/RAM CDRW
Monitor: LG Flatron E-Z T710BHK 1280 x 1024 0.20mm
With no softare packages included, it comes to $1620.00 in Canadian funds. More or less $1120.00 US dollars. You should know that this Canadian company is perhaps the closest equivalent we have of NewEgg.
Is this a good deal? Because the CPU alone is 70 bucks cheaper than the competition.
RAM, is that good enough for general gaming? I'm not a die-hard for top of the line stuff, but I want this to last. There's some CAS2.5 ram that's 20 bucks more per chip, will I see a huge increase in performance for say Doom 3 or Far Cry?
HD: I kinda dozed off when SATA came about, is there a resource somewhere where it'll talk to me like I'm five years old explaining this?
Motherboard: There's an Epox 8KDA3+ motherboard that's slightly more expensive but its NFORCE3 250GB.
DVD RW: Are these reliable? I want an all-in-one drive, I want to be able to use it for normal computing like as well as burning stuff because I do tend to accumulate a lot of stuff in my hard drives... there was a time when 1 GB seemed unreachable...
Monitor: I like CRTs for gaming, but are there reasonably priced good for gaming LCDs?
Your thoughts, comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
