- Sep 10, 2001
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Ok so my computer is almost 2 years old I'd like to build a new one in anticipation of some new games coming out that I'm interested in (BF2 
). The one thing I may be keeping from the old system is it's seagate Cheetah X15 Ultra160 SCSI hard drive and of course it's Adaptec scsi controller card. Based on some input from another thread it seems I won't get any performance gain by buying the new SATA hard drives.
I'm thinking of going the SLI route, buying a single mid range video card now then later when prices drop even more I'll think about buying it's twin.
My goal is a PC that is not cutting edge because I don't want to pay the premiums involved, I just want the biggest bang for my buck, so if you can think of something where I could pay just a little more for somehting but get a big boos tin performance let me know. My second priority is noise... I never liked a PC that sounds like a jet engine.
So here's what I'm thinking of getting so far: (mostly from newegg)
Revised
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ ($152)
ASUS A8N-SLI mobo. ($175) - don't need the extra SATA slots of the deluxe version
2 sticks of 512 mb PC3200 DDR ram from Crucial ($67 each) - not sure if going for the Ballistix is worth the extra cost
XFX GeForce 6800GT PC-E Video card ($385) -can pair up another day
Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS sound card ($81 after $10 rebate)
Plextor PX-716SA Dual Layer DVD +/- RW drive ($124) - I'm a die-hard plextor fan
Enermax Whisper II 2.0 SLI 535W power supply ($109) - I'd love the PC Power cooling PSU but way too expensive
Alpha PAL8150-M81 HSF ($41) - don't plan on doing any extreme OC'ing
Antec SLK-3700 case ($59)
So, hit me with your suggestions. and don't worry I'll take no offense to any criticism- my old PC is the last one I built which was about 2 years ago, I may have gotten rusty on my decisions
). The one thing I may be keeping from the old system is it's seagate Cheetah X15 Ultra160 SCSI hard drive and of course it's Adaptec scsi controller card. Based on some input from another thread it seems I won't get any performance gain by buying the new SATA hard drives.I'm thinking of going the SLI route, buying a single mid range video card now then later when prices drop even more I'll think about buying it's twin.
My goal is a PC that is not cutting edge because I don't want to pay the premiums involved, I just want the biggest bang for my buck, so if you can think of something where I could pay just a little more for somehting but get a big boos tin performance let me know. My second priority is noise... I never liked a PC that sounds like a jet engine.
So here's what I'm thinking of getting so far: (mostly from newegg)
Revised
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ ($152)
ASUS A8N-SLI mobo. ($175) - don't need the extra SATA slots of the deluxe version
2 sticks of 512 mb PC3200 DDR ram from Crucial ($67 each) - not sure if going for the Ballistix is worth the extra cost
XFX GeForce 6800GT PC-E Video card ($385) -can pair up another day
Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS sound card ($81 after $10 rebate)
Plextor PX-716SA Dual Layer DVD +/- RW drive ($124) - I'm a die-hard plextor fan
Enermax Whisper II 2.0 SLI 535W power supply ($109) - I'd love the PC Power cooling PSU but way too expensive
Alpha PAL8150-M81 HSF ($41) - don't plan on doing any extreme OC'ing
Antec SLK-3700 case ($59)
So, hit me with your suggestions. and don't worry I'll take no offense to any criticism- my old PC is the last one I built which was about 2 years ago, I may have gotten rusty on my decisions
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