Help me with a new setup please

chocobaR

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Sep 17, 2001
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Hey! Can you guys rate this setup and make some suggestions?

Athlon XP 2600+ 333 MHz
Thermaltake Volcano 7+
Kingston 512 MB PC2700
Maxtor 80 Gig 8 MB
CD-RW LiteOn 52x32x52
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Antec SX835-II
Viewsonic E90f
Sapphire 9800 Pro 128 MB
MS Windows XP Home OEM

All this for about ~$1400 Canadian.

Thank you for your time.
 

dmw16

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Make sure you get the 256bit Radeon 9800pro.

And if it all costs about the same, get PC3200 memory instead of PC2700, incase you later decide to upgrade you can resuse your RAM.
 

RussianSensation

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Originally posted by: chocobaR
Big difference between the 256 MB and 128 MB models?

not for ram, but it's better to get 2 sticks of 512 nowdays or 1 x 512 for Athlon XP since later on you can reuse the 512 stick instead of getting stuck with 2x 256 sticks that will most likely leave you little room for reusage and you'll discount them later. Get PC3200 for sure.

But for a videocard 256bit memory vs. 128bit memory on 9800Pro makes a huge difference.

Where are you buying from? See if you can get a better deal at NCIX.com or PCCanada.com
 

chocobaR

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Think I should get a 9600 Pro or something for now and wait a bit for newer cards? I'm planning on playing HL2 but I'm not a 1600*1200 @ Max Details freak. I'm usually on ~1024*768 @ High Details.