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Does this system have the right stuff????

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G35

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Hello,

Building a computer for myself and then one for the wife. First my computer, so tell me how this all sounds. Will it all work together and be stable.

Enlight 7237 case with 300W power supply
Iwill KK266 mother board
AMD 1.0GB Thunderbird CPU
256 meg of Micron PC133 memory 1 stick not 2 (good or bad idea?)
IBM Deskstar 75GXP 45GB Hard Drive
ASUS 50X CD-ROM
Generic Floppy
ASUS 7100 GeForce MX video card
Samsung 753DF monitor


Tell me what's good or bad.
 
What? Nothing? Not a single comment?

You can do it, yes you can. Tell me all about it, good system or not.

What can be improved on.

Thanks
 
Pretty much any system could be improved, included that one. It is pretty solid system though. Maybe a slightly better vid card? Otherwise, pretty darn good.
 
I think you can do better than that one gigabyte AMD hard drive 🙂 Maybe it'll go nice with a 1 ghz processor.
 
Yeah, IzzyD's suggestions are pretty much what I would have said. The one stick is better because it saves a spot on your motherboard for more future RAM (saves a DIMM slot). More memory on one stick = better, as well as being slightly (negligibly) faster (still, faster is faster 😀).
 
Be sure to get something to cool that 1 Ghz monster. A better heatsink fan from Alpha, GlobalWin, Taisol, etc would be nice. 🙂
 
Thats for the info guys.

Capt...you might want to reread the post. CPU and hard drive are on diffrent lines. It's a IBM hard drive and AMD processor.

The video card is one of my big problems. I don't know much about them and not sure what to get. I'm not a hard core gamer but I do like to play Quake 2 and 3 once and awhile. So if you have any recommendations lets here them. I don't really want to spen more the $125.00 for a video card.

Whats a good CPU cooler?

Thanks
 
i'd recommend the globalwin fop32-1 over the alpha...tho i'd recommend the thermaltake volcano over both - it cools quite well and is definitely a lot quieter...quietness is a paramount virtue in system building..in my opinion

everything looks perfect, tho i'd have to suggest a DVD drive as well, as they can be had for slightly more than a cd-rom, and believe it or not, some software (not just movies) are coming out on DVD...

one last thing, i'd recommend a radeon LE over the geforce MX...enable hyper z for D3D and it outperforms the MX easily...also bump the clock to retail default no prob (183 core/mem)...plus it can be had for less than an MX..

is that a curved 17" samsung shadow mask?...if so, i'd recommend getting a relatively cheap curved 19"...they're quite cheap at the moment..i.e. KDS VS 19"

rest looks great.
 
The MX cards can be had online for under 90 bucks. I know alot of people are using alot faster card but bang for the buck factor on the geforce 2 mx cant be beat in my opinion. Maybe a the new cheap radeon le (i think its le) would be an alternative. but the voodoo 5 are like 125 now too like that earliy post mentioned.

also, Ive got an MX but I'm limited to 16 bit colot because of the speed I want out of my card the Radeons dont take a performance hit in 32 bit like the nvidia cards

Edit looks like nortexoid stole my thunder and said it better too boot. 🙂
 
Nortex, the Samsung 753DF is a dyna flat model which basically is still a flat monitor using invar shadow mask.
 
Who makes the Radeon LE cards?

I want to read up on them.

Is the 753DF a good monitors? I can get a 19" for about $100.00 more but I think I want to stay with the 17".

Any other ideas for a video card?
 
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