My first computer

[rymaster]

Processor: Amd 64 3500
Hard Drive: 120gb Hitachi
Video Card: Saphire Radeon x600 pro 256mb pci express
Power Supply: Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480W
Optical Drive: Sony 16X DVD+R / Double Layer/DVD+RW Drive
Memory: Mushkin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200
Case: Thermaltake SViking
Motherboard: The last part I need, don't know if I should go with the gigabyte or chaintech nforce4 ultra, will they be moderately the same price?

Your opinions and suggestions would help out as this is my first computer I'm building. Is my video card suffice? I didn't feel that i needed to go crazy with it. Thanks

 

[Corporate Thug]

6600 GT > x600 pro

 

[ZL1]

Originally posted by: rymaster
Processor: Amd 64 3500
Hard Drive: 120gb Hitachi
Video Card: Saphire Radeon x600 pro 256mb pci express
Power Supply: Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480W
Optical Drive: Sony 16X DVD+R / Double Layer/DVD+RW Drive
Memory: Mushkin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200
Case: Thermaltake SViking
Motherboard: The last part I need, don't know if I should go with the gigabyte or chaintech nforce4 ultra, will they be moderately the same price?

Your opinions and suggestions would help out as this is my first computer I'm building. Is my video card suffice? I didn't feel that i needed to go crazy with it. Thanks

cant tell you about the v-card, not too familiar with the new ati line, but in the nvidia realm Id say 6600GT or higher would be quite nice
Id say consider a different powersupply, antec or enermax, they may be more expensive but there is a reason for that
in the motherboard section, Id say neither, but if you have to choose one of these two chose the gigabyte
the motherboard is the most important part in the computer, dont be affraid to sped a bit more on it
havent built an amd in a while, but I say go with asus, its hard to miss with them


D

 

[raildogg]

perfectly ok. these guys will bash and batter your vid card, but its perfectly fine

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: raildogg
perfectly ok. these guys will bash and batter your vid card, but its perfectly fine

why would he want the slower card?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: ZL1

Originally posted by: rymaster
Processor: Amd 64 3500
Hard Drive: 120gb Hitachi
Video Card: Saphire Radeon x600 pro 256mb pci express
Power Supply: Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480W
Optical Drive: Sony 16X DVD+R / Double Layer/DVD+RW Drive
Memory: Mushkin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200
Case: Thermaltake SViking
Motherboard: The last part I need, don't know if I should go with the gigabyte or chaintech nforce4 ultra, will they be moderately the same price?

Your opinions and suggestions would help out as this is my first computer I'm building. Is my video card suffice? I didn't feel that i needed to go crazy with it. Thanks

cant tell you about the v-card, not too familiar with the new ati line, but in the nvidia realm Id say 6600GT or higher would be quite nice
Id say consider a different powersupply, antec or enermax, they may be more expensive but there is a reason for that
in the motherboard section, Id say neither, but if you have to choose one of these two chose the gigabyte
the motherboard is the most important part in the computer, dont be affraid to sped a bit more on it
havent built an amd in a while, but I say go with asus, its hard to miss with them


D

speaking out of personal experiance, that PSU is ROCK SOLID

 

[ZL1]

Originally posted by: raildogg
perfectly ok. these guys will bash and batter your vid card, but its perfectly fine

did I bash his v-card ? I said I am not familiar with the new ati line

 

[ZL1]

Originally posted by: shady06


speaking out of personal experiance, that PSU is ROCK SOLID

I may be out of date, but my last experiences and last info I heard about Tt in general wasnt too good (only explaining my previous recomend, not bashing Tt)



D

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: ZL1

Originally posted by: shady06


speaking out of personal experiance, that PSU is ROCK SOLID

I may be out of date, but my last experiences and last info I heard about Tt in general wasnt too good (only explaining my previous recomend, not bashing Tt)



D

i have been pretty satisfied with their PSUs atleast, dont really care for their cases and heatsinks

 

[Budmantom]

Originally posted by: rymaster
Processor: Amd 64 3500
Hard Drive: 120gb Hitachi
Video Card: Saphire Radeon x600 pro 256mb pci express
Power Supply: Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480W
Optical Drive: Sony 16X DVD+R / Double Layer/DVD+RW Drive
Memory: Mushkin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200
Case: Thermaltake SViking
Motherboard: The last part I need, don't know if I should go with the gigabyte or chaintech nforce4 ultra, will they be moderately the same price?

Your opinions and suggestions would help out as this is my first computer I'm building. Is my video card suffice? I didn't feel that i needed to go crazy with it. Thanks

Perhaps you should let us know what you will be doing with the computer.

If all you plan to do is surf the net and burn some DVDs that system is overkill.


Tom

 

[nick1985]

get a better video card

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: nick1985
get a better video card

Don't tell him to get a better card, he will get the one that fits his budget. It's all to easy to say "hey get a x800 Platinum, 'cause the x800xt aint that good" well that's easy to say when it is not your money to spend. If that were the case I would say call falcon-nw or voodoo pc and forget building your own.

 

[Googer]

Personaly I would go with the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI or if that is too much $ i would recomend Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP or ASUS A8V Deluxe.
The other thing I would ditch is that sub-par Power Supply Unit (PSU) in favor of PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 510 SLI. Thermaltake does not make a PSU very well. Also look in to crucial ballistix they perform better than mushkin and offer better compatabilty with various motherboards. Also Hitachi is a fine choice for a Hard Drive make sure it is the model with an 8mb cache, since they offer two differant 120gb 7k250 models the other haveing a performance hurting 2mb. All else looks great.

Crucial makes their own ram chips unlike mushkin, corsair, kingston, and ocz. Many of those companies buy chips from micron (aka Crucial) and attach them to their own circut board.

Crucial is the name of the store run by micron technology. http://micron.com/

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: ZL1

Originally posted by: rymaster
Processor: Amd 64 3500
Hard Drive: 120gb Hitachi
Video Card: Saphire Radeon x600 pro 256mb pci express
Power Supply: Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480W
Optical Drive: Sony 16X DVD+R / Double Layer/DVD+RW Drive
Memory: Mushkin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200
Case: Thermaltake SViking
Motherboard: The last part I need, don't know if I should go with the gigabyte or chaintech nforce4 ultra, will they be moderately the same price?

Your opinions and suggestions would help out as this is my first computer I'm building. Is my video card suffice? I didn't feel that i needed to go crazy with it. Thanks

cant tell you about the v-card, not too familiar with the new ati line, but in the nvidia realm Id say 6600GT or higher would be quite nice
Id say consider a different powersupply, antec or enermax, they may be more expensive but there is a reason for that
in the motherboard section, Id say neither, but if you have to choose one of these two chose the gigabyte
the motherboard is the most important part in the computer, dont be affraid to sped a bit more on it
havent built an amd in a while, but I say go with asus, its hard to miss with them


D

speaking out of personal experiance, that PSU is ROCK SOLID

HOW CAN THAT THING BE ROCK SOLID WITH A 5% VOLTAGE FLUCTUATION?

 

[imported_Beavis]

Cool Rig

Like most people said, get the gigabyte motherboard. Its $149 at Newegg.com
GIGABYTE "GA-K8NF-9" NVIDIA nForce4 4X Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 939 CPU -RETAIL

It's Also $149 at Monarchcomputer.com
Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Audio/GB-LAN/USB/IEEE/PCI-E/SATA/DDR/ATX 939

There is a MSI PCI-E Board on Monarchcomputer.com for $169
MSI RS480M2-IL Audio/Video/LAN/USB/PCI-E/IEEE/SATA/DDR/U-ATX AMD 939

I don't know if you want to do SLI yet, but on Monarchcomputer.com The asus a8n-sli its $274
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe nForce4 SLI Audio/GB-LAN/IEEE/USB/PCI-E/SATA/DDR/ATX 64 939

 

[rymaster]

Thanks for the input everybody, I suppose I should have mentioned what I will be doing with the system. I want to build a descent gaming rig knowing that I will be upgrading parts in the future, ex. video card. I see the nforce4x is $150 does anyone know how much the ultra costs? And what exactly are the main differences between the 4x and ultra?

I haven't really done any research on the new ati chipset, I will have to start on that. Is the new ati chipset comparable to that of nforce4?

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: ZL1

Originally posted by: rymaster
Processor: Amd 64 3500
Hard Drive: 120gb Hitachi
Video Card: Saphire Radeon x600 pro 256mb pci express
Power Supply: Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480W
Optical Drive: Sony 16X DVD+R / Double Layer/DVD+RW Drive
Memory: Mushkin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200
Case: Thermaltake SViking
Motherboard: The last part I need, don't know if I should go with the gigabyte or chaintech nforce4 ultra, will they be moderately the same price?

Your opinions and suggestions would help out as this is my first computer I'm building. Is my video card suffice? I didn't feel that i needed to go crazy with it. Thanks

cant tell you about the v-card, not too familiar with the new ati line, but in the nvidia realm Id say 6600GT or higher would be quite nice
Id say consider a different powersupply, antec or enermax, they may be more expensive but there is a reason for that
in the motherboard section, Id say neither, but if you have to choose one of these two chose the gigabyte
the motherboard is the most important part in the computer, dont be affraid to sped a bit more on it
havent built an amd in a while, but I say go with asus, its hard to miss with them


D

speaking out of personal experiance, that PSU is ROCK SOLID

HOW CAN THAT THING BE ROCK SOLID WITH A 5% VOLTAGE FLUCTUATION?

enough of the caps already...

 

[Edward Lee]

You're spending all your money in the wrong places. You'll notice a much greater difference if you went with a 3200 instead of a 3500 save yourslef some money and invest in a better graphics card.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Edward Lee
You're spending all your money in the wrong places. You'll notice a much greater difference if you went with a 3200 instead of a 3500 save yourslef some money and invest in a better graphics card.

i agree. get a 3200/3000 and get a real video card

 

[ts3433]

Originally posted by: raildogg
perfectly ok. these guys will bash and batter your vid card, but its perfectly fine

No. The X600 is the same thing as a 9600 with a different interface, whereas a 6600GT would perform better than the 9800XT in most situations.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: ts3433

Originally posted by: raildogg
perfectly ok. these guys will bash and batter your vid card, but its perfectly fine

No. The X600 is the same thing as a 9600 with a different interface, whereas a 6600GT would perform better than the 9800XT in most situations.

ownage

 

[live2game]

double that ownage