elninyo821
Member
hey guys,
i have like $500-$600 to build a new system for college. even though this is for "school" im of course gonna want to do a lot of gaming, as well as video encoding etc... heavy duty stuff...
but like i said i only have about 500-600 to work with...
naturally i'll wanna go with an Athlon XP to get the most for my money.
basically, i wanna know if its worth the money to go to a kt333 system, or just take a step back to the kt266a?
what's the best motherboard for both chipsets? overclocking isn't that big of a deal to me, as i have never done it, but i would like to keep my options open. but i do want a stable, fast board, with some good features on it too...
i like the kt333 boards because of their usb 2.0 support... onboard sound isnt a problem for me, and the onboard lan is just fine. i'm gonna want to get a decent video card... i have a gf3 ti200 on my current system, and it works more then well enough for me, so that's probably the way im gonna go for video.
so basically, here are the things im going to want on the system, whether i can get it down under 600, thats the real challenge
Athlon 1600+ or above
kt266a/kt333 mobo
512 MB DDR PC2100
GeForce 3 Ti200
40GB HDD
24x burner or above
12x dvd
any thoughts? more importantly, reccomendations for motherboards?!
i have like $500-$600 to build a new system for college. even though this is for "school" im of course gonna want to do a lot of gaming, as well as video encoding etc... heavy duty stuff...
but like i said i only have about 500-600 to work with...
naturally i'll wanna go with an Athlon XP to get the most for my money.
basically, i wanna know if its worth the money to go to a kt333 system, or just take a step back to the kt266a?
what's the best motherboard for both chipsets? overclocking isn't that big of a deal to me, as i have never done it, but i would like to keep my options open. but i do want a stable, fast board, with some good features on it too...
i like the kt333 boards because of their usb 2.0 support... onboard sound isnt a problem for me, and the onboard lan is just fine. i'm gonna want to get a decent video card... i have a gf3 ti200 on my current system, and it works more then well enough for me, so that's probably the way im gonna go for video.
so basically, here are the things im going to want on the system, whether i can get it down under 600, thats the real challenge
Athlon 1600+ or above
kt266a/kt333 mobo
512 MB DDR PC2100
GeForce 3 Ti200
40GB HDD
24x burner or above
12x dvd
any thoughts? more importantly, reccomendations for motherboards?!
