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Originally posted by: shady06
yeah, get a fan. thats only gonna cost you, what, $5? or you can get a slk800U which should be under $35 with a nice fan
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What fan would you recommend me?
 
I'd make a few changes:

-First off, you can get an mx700 for pretty cheap nowadays.. Get it.. You won't regret it...

-I believe cd burners are slowly fading away and becoming last years tech..I know the liteon drives are nice but I wouldn't pay $57.99 for something that'll be obsolete soon - spring for a low end dvd-r (you can probably get a 2x dvd-r for below $100... Of course, 4x and dual format's nicer but even 1x dvd-r will be more useful than a cdrw)...

-Monitor.. I like LCDs and probably will get one soon.. But for gaming, I'm still not sure if it's the way to go.. I know that response times have increased but I like the ability to switch resolutions and honestly have not seen an LCD that's as beautiful as my sony fd trinitron 21" (paid $180 shipped for a refurb).. Now, if space is an issue than get an LCD-I'm still waiting a year or so before taking the leap

-Motherboard, memory, and CPU are fine.. Maybe up the ram even more.. I believe that you can never have too much ram, but 1gb is a safe bet (I have 512mb and some programs hog it up, including games)... One note though - I believe that the I865 is a dual channel chipset (I may be wrong) so your best bet is to get a matching pair of identical memory chips, not 3... There was a test showing different memory combinations and their effects on performance - too busy to look it up but they configuration DOES have an impact .. Use the money that you saved on getting a CRT over an LCD for 2x512mb chips 😉 - PS no real reason to get an I875 motherboard (as suggested by someone here)

-Speakers: Do you want 2.1? I mean, why not go for 4.1? If it's a space issue than I understand.. If it's price then there are plenty of great 4.1/5.1/6.1 sets for the same price as those 2.1s.. Here are a few: Altec Lansing 5100, Logitech Z-560 (4.1), Klipsch refurbs... Too lazy to add more.. You can even get the z-640's by logitech for less than $100 (not in the same league as klipsch but lots of bang for buck).

-Video Card... Don't really listen to what anyone says.. No one really knows for sure... What is true is that the game will probably run fine on a geforce 4 level card but with a lot of goodies turned off.. What I would do is wait.. Either find an old card in your closet and use it until a either the games are launched or the 9800 successor is named.... If you must play the game at highest quality and must get something NOW then I suggest simply the most powerful card that you can afford...

-Sound card - If you can afford it get the audigy 2 if you listen to music.. I've heard that there's a significant difference..

Hope this helps! I would wait a tiny little bit before spending any money.. The athlon 64 should launch soon and, regardless of that processors performance, will cause the P4's price to shift dramatically...
 
Originally posted by: Tret
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: Tret
no more changes?
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I listed a few
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I have a ti4600 laying around the house but I find it slow
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So? Use it until one of the two things that I mentioned happens (save the money that you allocated for a video card for later)...The ti4600 is a great card and will hold you over until a 9800 pro successor or the actual games come out (the 9800 was a stop gap card in my opinion - great but a relatively minor improvement over the 9700 pro.. I can't wait to see what they cook up next)..
 
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Dude.. stop bumping yourself ever 10 minutes. It's freaking annoying..
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use the Ti4600 and put that money to what is the next big video chipsets.

Then you will probably know what specs to need to play with everything turned on 😀

Koing

 
Intel Pentium 2.4C 800MHz - $169
Thermalright SLK-900-U /w Panaflo fan (what fan?) - $46.99

ABIT IS7 865PE - retail - $108
2x512mb Corsair XMS3200 DDR SDRAM - $280

Geforce 4 Ti4600 until new videocards come out or ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
CL SoundBlaster Audigy2 - $78

WD 80GB WD800JB 7200RPM 8MB $86.00
Sony DRU510A DVD-/+RW drive - retail - $254.99

Antec LifeStyle Series Sonata Piano Black /w Antec True380 PSU - $97

NEC MultiSync LCD1760V-BK 17" LCD - $399.99

Logitech Elite Keyboard - black - $34.99
Logitech MX700 - $63

Creative Labs Inspire 6600 6.1 - retail - $86

Maybe if you put THIS in the main post instead of that garbled up stuff it might attract more people...
 
keyboard - ms natural multimedia keyboard. logitech doens't make split keyboards, well not a good one atleast😛

mouse - logitech mx 500 or 700. superior resolution/refresh/build quality to ms🙂

i think the sonata can take a 2nd 120mm
 
My MS works fine. Besides, they'll replace it for free if there's something wrong with it.

BTW, the newer Natural Elite keyboards aren't so good as the original Naturals.
 
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