Info and suggestions please !

[Zukatah]

I'll upgrade my old P3 500 computer for something more powerful, probably next month or at the latest in two months. I don't do that much of games (I'm more a Civ3 guy than a FPS guy...). I want to know when will the ti4200 board will come out and at which price because I can get a really cheap GeForce 3 Ti 200 now and I don't want to spend too much. I was looking to buy a 1700+ processor with a Soltek board (I was previously looking towards Epox 8kha+ but with the recent problems....). Do you know when will the T-Bred will come out and if it will perform much better than current Palomino's? I'll probably buy an Antec 830sx case with that.

Like I said, I mostly play strategy games (some racing games too) and I want a quiet system that performs well at a cheap price. I have a budget of $650 for a new CPU, Case, Motherboard, Vid card and some RAM. Thanks alot

 

[DrumminBoy]

Where is the GeForce3 Ti 200 from? Price? Ive been looking for a good deal on one.

 

[fatbaby]

well don't have your hopes on having the thoroughbred on march 20, the mobo makers are going to recieve the test versions, not us =0

If you have a frys nearby, you can get a xp1700+ with a fic an11 for $169

 

[Zukatah]

Well I live in Montréal so if you are from the region you can get a OEM one at 239 CAN and a MSI at 245 CAN.
I've also been looking around for a Radeon 8500 because it's relatively cheap and gives a good image quality. What do you think about it?

 

[Zukatah]

Should I go P4 of Athlon route? I've never overclocked a CPU before so I don't know about overclocking a Northwood (even if I read how to do it, I've never done it myself). Keep in mind I want the best price/performance ratio so I can't really afford going with the top of the line CPUs and fancy motherboards with lots of cool features that I won't use anyway !

Thanks