system reccomendations

[tinydancer]

tinydancer
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Joined: 11/03/2004




I am new to this forum, but I was hoping to get some advice. I'm a mac user. I love my mac, but I want to build a PC for Gaming. I don't know much about computers though. I want to build a PC that is a great bang for my buck, but I'm leaning a little more to the Bang side...if you follow. My questions to you all are as follows:

1. Shoud I wait a coupe of moths to get a mobo with PCI express, nforce 4 to accoumodate a Nvidia 6800 GT? (by waiting for PCI I will have upgrade potential)

2.) Whats a good LCD display for gaming? (Ive heard samsung 213T)

3.) Any reccomendations? Things to stear away from? Things that I should definetly get?

Help me out.. I want a good machine ASAP, while still taking into consideration the trends in gaming. If I need to wait for PCI express I will. Here's what I've come up with so far:

AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 1MB L2 Cache, 64-bit Processor
XFX nVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Video Card
Seagate 160GB Barracuda 7200.7 7200RPM SATA II with NCQ Hard Drive, Model ST3160827AS, OEM
ANTEC Silver Aluminum Performance 1 Series ATX Mid-Tower Case
Antec 430W Power Supply, Model "TRUE430"
2 x Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, Low Latency 184 Pin 1GB DDR PC-3200 PRO
Monitor ????????
Mobo ????????

Please comment on any of my ideas and make suggestion also.

Thanks

 

[tjaisv]

hi and welcome to the board

to answer your questions...

1) i'd recommend buying now, as the performance benefit of PCI express with only 1 Nvidia 6800 GT is marginal...however upgrade potential is definitely something to consider

2) Dell UltraSharp 2001fp 21" 1600x1200 16ms LCD

3) mobo - MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (Socket 939, nForce3-250gb chipset) ($140 @gameve.com)

you have a nice system in the works

 

[davidjaii]

if you plan to oc .. stick with the ram... if not a value ram would work.. and you should wait for dual channel mobo for a64

 

[Comparisonman]

Definitely wait for the Dual Channel mobo for Athlon 64, and go with some good Value select. You might think about getting a WD Raptor hard drive for speed, but that's if you want to spend more on the power.

 

[tinydancer]

Whats the dual channel Mobo? When will that come out? So I need to be looking for a nforce 4 , dual channel, PCI express Mobo. Right?

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: tinydancer
Whats the dual channel Mobo? When will that come out? So I need to be looking for a nforce 4 , dual channel, PCI express Mobo. Right?

The 939 mobos ARE dual channel. You will need to substitute a 3200+ 90nm 939 or a 3500+ 90nm 939 pin cpu to use the board recommended above.

 

[tinydancer]

You will need to substitute a 3200+ 90nm 939 or a 3500+ 90nm 939 pin cpu to use the board recommended above.

So are you saying the Athlon 3400 won't work with a dual channel 939 mobo? And do you mean that any 939 mobo will be duaql channel?