Please help me and suggest parts for my new rig

[StrangeRanger]

K fellas and gals, help me pic out the meat for my new system. Yes, I have a budget but don't worry about that for now. I wanna build a decent all around rig that will do me right for some good gaming too. I need ideas for my main board, cpu, sound and video. I have ideas but wanna hear what you all have to say. I can go either way as far as intel vs. amd goes. I'm not looking for latest/greatest stuff either. Just good quaility and performance type deal ya know. Thanks,
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[murphy55d]

Athlon 1600+ retail $115

EPOX EP-8KHA+ $91 or SOLTEK SL-75DRV5 $109 (kt266a vs KT333)

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card $~70 NewEgg just died on me

Gainward GeForce 3 Ti200 ~$150, can be overclocked to Ti500 speeds...or wait for a GeForce 4 Ti4400, which will be ~$199.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Trident used to make some really great 1/2 MB vid cards. You can probably pick one up in FS/FT for the cost of shipping.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

I'd say stay away from that particular Epox board since it has been found to be a problem to fit certain video cards in it.

if you don't want to overclock I'd say:
- Athlon 1700+ retail, $10 more expensive than 1600+
- Soltek SL-75DRV4 (kt266A)
- Soundblaster Audigy OEM or Turtle Beach Santa Cruz depending on preference)
- GF4 4400 (~$300) or ATI Radeon 8500 if you don't want to spend as much (can be had for $135)
- 1 x 512 MB Crucial PC2100 DDR

If you do want to OC:
- Intel P4 1.6A
- Asus P4T-E
- 2 x 256 MB Samsung PC800 RDRAM
- Soundblaster Audigy OEM or Turtle Beach Santa Cruz depending on preference)
- GF4 4400 (~$300) or ATI Radeon 8500 if you don't want to spend as much (can be had for $135)

or for a little cheaper

- Intel P4 1.6A
- Asus P4B266-C
- 1 x 512 MB Corsair PC2700 DDR
- Soundblaster Audigy OEM or Turtle Beach Santa Cruz depending on preference)
- GF4 4400 (~$200) or ATI Radeon 8500 if you don't want to spend as much (can be had for $135)

 

[FishTankX]

P4S333
P4 1.6A@2130MHZ (The new Celeron 300A, I.E. 95% chance for overclock)
Wait a while for the Geforce4 Ti4200
SB Audigy
Corsair 256MB PC2700
Baracuda ATAIV seagate 40/80GB harddrive (Depending on budget)
Probably one of those Alpha P4 heatsinks setup with a silencer fan for added chance of overclock and stability
Nice case
Liteon DVD drive
Ricoh 20X10X40 or whatever you want (I own that drive so I reccomend it..)
Anything else people?

 

[FishTankX]

And what are you guys doing labeling the Geforce4 Ti4400 as 200$?! The lowest price i've seen is 275$, the retail price is 299$.

Not to be rude people, but you guys are *wrong*
The 200$ Geforce4 is the Ti4200.

That's delayed a month.

Strangeranger, please wait until the release of the Ti4200, you won't be disapointed. Dual monitor... Superb 3d acceleration, nice DVD playback, etc etc etc...

And *if* you wanna get the best performance pick the P4T-E but you're not guaranteed to hit 133MHZ FSB... with PC1066 speeds..

 

[DavemanUT]

What's the budget? Is that a ford ranger?!?

D.C.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

My bad on the Ti 4400 thing 😱, I saw murphy's post and just added it to mine without thinking :Q. ~$299 is the correct price

I'll edit my post accordingly

-Ice