First build.

[Moonsabie]

My first build going to be a Movie/gaming/tv Goal to run Battlefield 2 nicly at low cost to me.(i hope i put this in the thred in the right place.)

NewEgg.com

HITACHI Deskstar 7K80 HDS728080PLA380 -0A30356 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA II Hard Drive
$63

KWORLD VS-LTV7131R(RF W/FM) PCI Interface TV Tuner Card
$32

Rosewill TU-155 Black Steel/Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 400W Power Supply
$66

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Integrated into Chip FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor
$146

ECS NFORCE4-A939 (1.0) Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard
$81

mushkin Value 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory
$81

SAPPHIRE 587L Radeon X600PRO 128MB 128-bit DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card
$82

ASUS Black 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model DVD-E616P3BLK
$30



Total: 581 with shipping

would like to hear your input. thanks.

 

[MrCodeDude]

I don't like third class powersupplies.

 

[BadAcid]

If you want to run Battlefield 2, get at LEAST a 6800 vanilla or X800 vanilla. I'd say go with an X800.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102560
156$ shipped after MIR. It's 70$ more but you'll be SO glad you got it over the X600 Pro, I'm on a 2 year old 9500 pro myself and I can only play the game at 1280x0124 with all settings turned off or low, and 9500 pro is slightly faster than a X600 Pro if I recall correctly.
For the motherboard, people will probably tell you that a EPoX 9NPAJ is better, 89$ at newegg.com.

 

[angstsoldat]

Get an X800XL instead for video card and the RAM is like the minimum for BF2 I'd get 2 gigs

 

[kleinwl]

Bad Acid / angstsoldat,

I think there is a reason this unit is sub $600. I agree that's it's not going to run BF2 worth a damn... but maybe it would be better to slip in a nforce 3 (w/ AGP) and buy a 9800 Pro.

 

[Moonsabie]

can i get by with a GeForce 6600GT?

i can probly up my ram by 1gb at a later date but right now i poor man.


Yes and i will have to also hold out on geting a New PSU money agin.

aye that might be a good way to go AGP i have a 9800Pro on the comp i runing now that i could then... take out.. and mabie put it in with this board. ASRock K8 COMBO-Z would save me some money.

i realy feel like i am rummaging this the bargin bin to build this comp in a way its kind a fun but lets hope i can pull her off

 

[BadAcid]

6600 GT or 9800 Pro would still be loads better than the X600 Pro, heck, even a X700 Pro would be (but I'd get a 6600 GT over that anyway)

 

[kleinwl]

Moonsabie,

If you already have the 9800Pro go with a Nforce 3 board and spend the $70 on a real PSU. That should be good for a while... once you saved up the $300 for a new MB/GPU you can upgrade to Nforce 4/PCI (or wait till the M2 socket is out, but then you will need a new CPU... aii the joys of progress...).

 

[Moonsabie]

considering i will probly be buying all items over Thanksgiving break i bet i will be able to get that 6600 GT without breaking the bank. hopefull prices fall out of bed =P

kleinwl that would be a good option sence i keep crying about money but it seems my bro wants this comp as a hand me down.. =( mabie he give me a few bucks for it .. =)

 

[kleinwl]

You will have to remeber to remove the SATA drive and go with an ATA drive if you downgrade to nForce 3. I'm kind of against this, even though ATA is very similar in performance to SATA/SATA 2, since tearning out a $80 motherboard and throwing it away seems kind of silly to me.

I would recommend waiting... maybe upgrading your current box with the tv tuner until you've saved up another $200 or so for a 6600GT and a decent 400W+ PSU.

Good PSUs: Forton Source, Antec, Enermax, OCZ, Sparkle, Ultra +

 

[shoRunner]

Originally posted by: kleinwl
You will have to remeber to remove the SATA drive and go with an ATA drive if you downgrade to nForce 3. I'm kind of against this, even though ATA is very similar in performance to SATA/SATA 2, since tearning out a $80 motherboard and throwing it away seems kind of silly to me.

I would recommend waiting... maybe upgrading your current box with the tv tuner until you've saved up another $200 or so for a 6600GT and a decent 400W+ PSU.

Good PSUs: Forton Source, Antec, Enermax, OCZ, Sparkle, Ultra +

nforce3 has sata