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littletank

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Hi everyone I just purchased a new comp.. Bought all the parts myself and going to have friend build for me. I basically built it for playing Diablo II and also World of Warcraft.. I just wanted to know if this setup is suffiecient for even the high intense graphic games like the 1st person shooters unreal. doom etc.. here is what i purchased and also could you tell me for the price i paid was it good ? So is this a nice system? Thank you for everyones reply.

MOBO- Asus K8N-E DELUXE nForce3 250Gb Athlon 64 Skt754 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA $123

RAM- Corsair VS1GBKIT400 1GB Kit DDR400 PC3200 CAS2.5 Value Select Memory $151.90

PCU- AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Processor Socket 754, 1MB Cache $224

HardDrive- Western Digital Caviar WD1200BB 120GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive $75

Video Card- ATI Radeon 9800 PRO AGP 8X 128MB DDR Video Card $239

DVD/ROM Writer- Liteon SOHW-1633SBK 16X DVD 48x CD Dual Drive (Black) $68

DVD/ROM Drive- Lite-On 16X DVD-ROM 48x ROM read, Model SOHD-167T Black $24.75

CASE- CASE TT| V5000A XASERV DAMIER ML Full Tower $96

Power supply- Thermaltake W0009RUC Silent PurePower 420W $34

Total price $1,035.65
 
I think you might have overpaid on that vid card, only because it is 6months from being almost ancient; however, it is gving pretty decent performance on HL2, so depending on how many games use the source engine, you cold be ok. Vampire the Bloodlines uses that engine, so if you like RPGs (you mentioned that stone age game Diablo II, so I am assuming yes).

All in all, you did a good job. For a budget/midrange system, good job. If I were to change anything, dump the 9800pro and get a regular 6800.
 
Ty for the replies..Yes my girlfriend and I play diablo II for like 3 years now.. and I had to get new system for the new World of Warcraft game so i was hoping it would handle this game nicely .. and maybe the new shooters out right now .... MOre replies thanks everyone for the support 🙂
 
WoW isnt really that system intensive, if your system played diablo II or say everquest; wow would run fine, the intense games are like far cry, doom3, hl2, everquest2, etc , etc

good system i'd agree go nvidia 6800GT if you can the rest is great choices
 
6800GT
try a SATA drive, i just bought a 200GB WD HD and the SATA was only $2 more than the high preformance ATA
 
That's a heck of alot of money to spend on a 9800 Pro. You can get one brand spankin new off of outpost.com for $60 less.

That PSU is also a little weak on the 12v rails (18A if I remember correctly) but should run that system well enough.
 
Originally posted by: aixenv
WoW isnt really that system intensive, if your system played diablo II or say everquest; wow would run fine, the intense games are like far cry, doom3, hl2, everquest2, etc , etc

good system i'd agree go nvidia 6800GT if you can the rest is great choices
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yeah but I played the beta, run fine and look good are very diffrent 🙂
 
sorry to say but you messed up. 754 fading out shoulda got socket 939. nf4 or new ati chipset. ram shoulda got ocz el plat. rev 2. bad video card shoulda got 6600gt or 6800gt. also if u were going with 754 dfi nf3 is way better, or msi. and dont worry what that one guy said about ata 100 and ata 133 its a marketing gimic.
 
Everything looks decent except for the video card. For that money there is no reason to get ATI. Get nVidia 6600 or 6800.

Plus, I probably would go socket 939 also. Prices have come down very low on the lower end cpu's. You should be able to oc to similar 2.2ghz-2.4ghz speeds with no problems.

Just my opinion 🙂


Jason
 
I agree with everyone's input on the video card, but I also think you should get a sound card. Maybe an Audigy, doesn't have to be too pricey though.
 
i would spring for a new HD. For not much more money you can get an HD with an 8mb cache as opposed to the measly 2mb the WD1200BB offers. I dunno what you did with the HD you bought, but id suggest buying a new one with an 8mb cache OEM, you dont really need all that fancy packaging and manuals (especially since your friend is building it and probably can set it up without the bundled software)
 
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