While I'm waiting for the processor to arrive (this Saturday), they said I can still make some last minutes changes to my setup.
Here is some of the criteria I used in my decisioning:
- I have no interest in overclocking
- with regards to memory - I don't want to get something where I'm not going to notice the difference - Is the memory below good? Will I actually notice a 'big' difference with something else. Also, the guy at the shop told me that there isn't too much of a noticeable difference between DDR2 and DDR.. which is why I went with DDR.
- I'm using this system for video conversion and some gaming (half-life 2, farcry,etc.).
Let me know what you things of these components. Your comments / recommendations are much appreaciated.
Processor - Intel Pentium 4 550, 3.4G S775
Motherboard - Asus® P5GDC-V/DX, Socket 775, Intel® i915G Chipset w/ PCI Express x16 (ATX) - Onboard High Definition Audio, Serial ATA & IDE RAID, Gigabit Lan and Firewire. Hyper-Threading technology support. On-board Intel® VGA and PCI-Express x16 slot.
Memory - OCZ 1Gb PC3200 DDR Premier Dual Channel Series (2 x 512Mb) (OCZ4001024PDC-K) - Features double the cooling surface area on the heat sink - Timings 2.5-3-3-7
Video Card - Sapphire® Radeon? X800Pro - Radeon? X800Pro VPU w/256Mb GDDR3 & PCI Express x16 TVO OEM
Hard Drive - Maxtor 200GB 7200RPM SATA2 16M
PSU - Enermax Noisetaker EG495P-VE SFMA 485W ATX 12V Ver 2.0 Power Supply - Supports P4 - Dual Fan
Case - Still undecided
All the other stuff I'm re-using from my existing system (2nd harddrive, dvd r/w, cd r/w, keyboard, monitor, etc.)
Here is some of the criteria I used in my decisioning:
- I have no interest in overclocking
- with regards to memory - I don't want to get something where I'm not going to notice the difference - Is the memory below good? Will I actually notice a 'big' difference with something else. Also, the guy at the shop told me that there isn't too much of a noticeable difference between DDR2 and DDR.. which is why I went with DDR.
- I'm using this system for video conversion and some gaming (half-life 2, farcry,etc.).
Let me know what you things of these components. Your comments / recommendations are much appreaciated.
Processor - Intel Pentium 4 550, 3.4G S775
Motherboard - Asus® P5GDC-V/DX, Socket 775, Intel® i915G Chipset w/ PCI Express x16 (ATX) - Onboard High Definition Audio, Serial ATA & IDE RAID, Gigabit Lan and Firewire. Hyper-Threading technology support. On-board Intel® VGA and PCI-Express x16 slot.
Memory - OCZ 1Gb PC3200 DDR Premier Dual Channel Series (2 x 512Mb) (OCZ4001024PDC-K) - Features double the cooling surface area on the heat sink - Timings 2.5-3-3-7
Video Card - Sapphire® Radeon? X800Pro - Radeon? X800Pro VPU w/256Mb GDDR3 & PCI Express x16 TVO OEM
Hard Drive - Maxtor 200GB 7200RPM SATA2 16M
PSU - Enermax Noisetaker EG495P-VE SFMA 485W ATX 12V Ver 2.0 Power Supply - Supports P4 - Dual Fan
Case - Still undecided
All the other stuff I'm re-using from my existing system (2nd harddrive, dvd r/w, cd r/w, keyboard, monitor, etc.)
