New rig evaluation

[yjacket12090]

Please just look at this and give a little imput even though you don't want to. I am building a machine for occasional gaming and for work on <$600 budget. I already have a AMD athlon 3000+ proccessor, a dvd-rw and cd, and a sufficient PSU. I don't want to go over this price, but if I can get more bang for the buck, please inform of what bangage is neccessary.

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[Bobthelost]

The sound card is probably a waste of time, you have onboard with that system don't you?

Perhaps save money and only get 1GB of RAM for now, otherwise looks fine to me.

 

[imported_fx]

Why s754 motherboard? I'll suggest earn more money and ready to buy Conroe or AM2 in the summer. It's worth a wait for one month or so..

 

[SparkyJJO]

Just like BTL said, there is onboard sound. Actually it would probably be better than that soundcard because it has more output channels and would probably be more supported. I can't say I've ever heard of PPA Int'l. save $16.

Why do you have 2 zalman VF700 GPU coolers and only 1 vid card to go with them?

 

[yjacket12090]

The only reason I added a sound card was because I read that the onboard audio has some problems. For example, I read that the mic input doesn't work real well, and there is sometimes a humming from the speakers. I was hoping that cheapo PPD int. card would do the trick because the one guy on newwgg said that it is alright.

Do you think I am better only buying 1 GB ram? I thought 2 gigs would make everything much more smooth.

I can't wait any longer to buy an AM2, but I wish I could.