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Technically this is your computer

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Maxil223

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Ive been searching these forums for the last week or so and Ive been writing down all
your opinions on all different parts. Motherboard is the only part that I picked myself asyou prolly can notice. Everything else was picked by the members of Anandtech. Thanks

A64 3200+

GIGABYTE GA-K8NS

3xCorsair Value Select

Kingwin HSF

Artec 56x CD-ROM / CD Drive

I actually got this HDD at Best Buy for 30.00

I sold my crappy BFG GeForce FX 5500 due to user opinions
and I bought a
SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON 9600PRO Video Card, 256MB DDR, 128-Bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model "100562-Green" -OEM


I just got to wait til friday which is when they come and which
is also when I will build it.
 
whats your motherboard??? As long as it supports DDR2 I believe DDR2 memory will work. Are you thinking or dual channel memory??
 
that board has a skt775. arent 775 boards for intel servers??
yep,
the P5AD2 Premium is the best choice to build a server at home. With its unsurpassed performance, the P5AD2 Premium also works perfectly as a high-end gaming machine or a task-intensive workstation.

but im guessing your using it for gaming?? whats your processor??
 
if you decided on spending that much on a motherboard, dont skimp out on the processor. Get the EE, and get a kick@$$ video card. I dont know much about PCI-e but I heard its taking over soon enough.
 
Well, the extreme edition is nearly $1000, and I just don't have that in the budget... However, I did have it in the budget to get an Asus ATI X800XT PCI-e graphics card. 3.4 GHz, the Asus card, and two gigs of RAM should do me right. Plus, I wanted to get the 3 PCI slots that the P5AD2 offers over the P5GD2. I'm going to be added a lot of add-on cards later on down the line, and have the slots is a must. Somehow I can't justify the $1000 for the Extreme Edition though.
 
Thank the leftovers from my student loan.

Oh, and the P5AD2-E has built-in Wi-Fi and Firewire-800...great for external hard drives. I know the P5GA2 has is also, but jeez, I just had to get the most expensive thing out there. If only I had the extra cash for the Extreme Edition....(although, does it really make THAT big a difference?).
 
im getting a job here soon enough, and im gonna go all out on my next system which will be next christmas.
Latest AMD CPU
Best OC/Gaming Motherboard
3 Vapochills
4-5 gigs of ram
Good VideoCard
1 terabyte harddrive.
 
technically its not. It seems that way because we arent at that technology stage yet. But by then my system will prolly seem outdated. Which is why technology is so hard to keep up with due to the idea of Faster, Easier, Bigger running through the brains of hardware/software technicians.
 
Yeah...that's computers for ya. This'll definately be the most powerful computer I've ever owned considering the level of the components I'm putting in it for its time. The system I'm on now (Pentium III 1.0 GHz, 512 MBs SDRAM, GeForce 3) is entirely SCSI and runs like a tank. I'll miss SCSI. :-(
 
lol, ill miss my
HP Pavilion XE783
700mhz
64mb ram
integrated graphics
integrated sound
directx 6
and thats the computer im on right now.
im running a 1.3mb/s internet though. fricken fast
 
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