Noob #8756 looking for advice

[renierh]

I'm Looking to buy a new rig, but the more i read, the more it confuses me.. should i buy now, or wait for PCI-e, 939.. will it make a lot of difference or is it just another hype?

USAGE:
the rig will be used as my main home comp. wich mains:

* 50% Office stuff (excel, visio, word, Powerpoint, websurfing)
* 30% Gaming (far cry, UT4, Doom3, HL2 should be possible with all eye candy)
* 20% Developing designing (simultanious running of Photoshop, dreamweaver ultradev, etc)

i already have a nice keyboard and screen, and intent to run the audio trough my own amp and speakers, so all i need is the comp itself and a nice mouse. i'm trying to stay around 1200 euro (about $ 1300), and this is what i have come up with.

CASE: Antec SLK3700AMB 350 watt, Metallic Bronze
MOBO: Asus K8V Deluxe
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Box 400 MHz, Boxed
HDD: Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 9 160 GB, 7200 rpm, 8 MB, Serial ATA/150
RAM: Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PT PC3200, 400 MHz, Kit of 2, 2, 1024 MB
VGA: Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB
Mouse: Logitech MX 510 Optical Mouse Retail
CD/DVD: Samsung SM-352BEAB OEM, black

Is this system suitable for my needs?.. i'm not planning on upgrading a lot for the next 2 years, so this will have to last unchanged for that period, and after that i would like to keep it for another two years without problems...

I could use a pro's opinion on this, so all comments are welcome!

thanx

 

[Scifience]

I would imagine you could do a lot better than that for $1300.

I just ordered this system for $800 from Newegg:
AMD Athlon64 3200+
Chaintech ZNF-250 Motherboard (nForce 3 based)
1GB Mushkin RAM (2x512MB DDR400)
500W Power Supply
Yellow 52x CD drive to match my case

I already had a case (Chieftec Matrix), video card (ATI Radeon 9800 NP), and hard drive, but if you've got $1300 to spend I would look into:

Adding a 74GB Raptor
Maybe getting an X800 ATI card

What you picked isn't at all a bad system, I just think you can do better for the money. 🙂

 

[Markfw]

I like that list. Have you checked the prices on newegg for comparison ? It looks a little high to me on price, but those are the components. Mushkin level1 PC3500 is also a good memory choice, or Kingston Hyperx PC3500.

 

[renierh]

hey, thanx for the quick reply. i took a look at your prices here, and i can image you spend a lot less indeed.. unfortunately i do not live in the US, but in the netherlands, and prices are slightly higher here. a radeon 9800 pro for example sells for about ? 230 here. wich would be $260. the products i selected add up to about 1100 euro here, so i have a margin of ? 100. , that means i could either spend that on the raptor, or on the x800... hard choice.. i just feel a little screwed paying moree then ?250 on a graphics card.. and the raptor would give me a better overal performance increase, right?

 

[Markfw]

Probably. Unless the last FPS and games with all the eye candy turned up is more exciting to you.

 

[renierh]

damn, i just checked Newegg, and let me tell you: you are a bunch of lucky bastards! the price difference between the US and Europe on the above mentioned parts is more then $250 in total..

ah well, I'll just have to live with it: you have cheap computer stuff, all the big movies first and low taxes, and we have really old buildings and softdrugs.

 

[Gusty987]

ah well, I'll just have to live with it: you have cheap computer stuff, all the big movies first and low taxes, and we have really old buildings and softdrugs.

Lol!

 

[dennisjai215]

get the a64 3200+ atleast i think thats the one that starts at 1mb cache u want that!