Finalizing my New PC Build

[TheJoelster]

Alright guys I have my case, powersupply, dvdrw, hard drive, and lcd monitor. I of course still need a mobo, cpu, video card, and ram, and for that i need your guys help!!

Ok here was my thought but let me know what you guys think. I was thinking go for an AMD 2800-3000+ Socket 754. Now I was thinking of going for a mobo that support pci-e so I can get the Nvidia 6600GT pci-e card and was just planing on getting a stick of 512mb mushkin pc3200 ram.. What do you guys think?? Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks

 

[ComatoseDelirium]

go ahead, though.. I would get the best agp mobo I could, and get a 6600 GT AGP 8x though thats just me, either way it sounds good. and I'd get the 2800 over the 3000, but the 3200 is the best choice, i like it more than even the 3500, it has the same overclocking abilities.

 

[TheJoelster]

Thanks.. also I should say that this pc will be used for some moderate gaming, probably games like Battlefield 2 and The Sims 2. So I mean not grapgical powerhouses I guess you could say.. Also I totally forgot to mention this which is a big whoops but I am trying to get this all within a $500-550 budget!

 

[resStealth]

sorry bro, your not going to get an athlon 64, a decent mobo, and a pci express graphics card for that cheap im afraid. your best option would be to get a sempron mobo combo and an agp card

 

[imported_bum]

Do they even make pci-e 754 boards? I didn't think so...

Mobo : Soltek nforce3 (754) $89

CPU : Amd 64 3200+ $190

Memory : Corsair Value (or Mushkin if you want) $70

Video Card : agp 6600gt for around $200

Total comes out to 550.

I included the retail version of the cpu since it didn't seem like you would be doing an overclocking. In that case, the stock heatsink should be fine. If you want a better heatsink you, the OEM cpu is 20 dollars less that could be spent on a good heatsink.

 

[coejus]

Retail Athlon 64 2800+, $124
MSI K8N Neo Platinum (nForce3 250GB), $103
512MB Mushkin PC2700, $66.25
eVGA 6600 GT AGP, $213

That comes to $506.25, and it'll definitely meet your needs. You won't be able to get an entire PCIe setup for that much, but there's no real reason for you to. The memory is only PC3200, but that won't make a noticable difference. You could cut back on the video card or maybe the motherboard (different boards within the same chipset don't really make a difference unless you're going to start overclocking or something) and pick up another 512 MB of memory.