gto-pontiac's computer recomendation October2005

[gto-pontiac]

this is only a recomendation. not what you should buy
and i made it simple 3 recomendation

System 1 (Strict budget)
Case: Antec SLK1650 $97.00
PSU: w/ 350W included
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice $199.00
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 $140.00
Memory: 1GB (2x512MB) Generic $112.00
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 120GB $104.00
Video Card: Sapphire X800GT $205.00
CD/DVD-RW: BenQ DW-1640 $60.00
$914.00
you can drop the Videocard to lower PCI express card if it you want something lower

System 2 (Best value for money)
Coolermaster Centurion (CAC-T01-EK no PSU) $69.00
Antec TruePower 2.0 480W $115.00
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice $309.00
MSI K8N neo4-F $135.00
1GB (2x512MB) OCZ PC3200 Value $143.00
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 160GB $118.00
Sapphire X800GT $205.00
BenQ DW-1640 $60.00
$1,154.00

High-End PC

Case: Antec P180 no PSU $215.00
PSU: Antec TruePower 480W $115.00
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ $788.00
Motherboard: Asus A8V-E Deluxe WIFI $155.00
Memory: 1GB (2x512MB) OCZ PC3200 Performance $187.00
HDD(Boot Drive): Western Digital 74GB Raptor $259.00
HDD (Storage): Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA 250GB $172.00
Video Card: Leadtek 7800GTX VIVO $699.00
CD/DVD-RW: BenQ DW-1640 $60.00
$2650.00

[timbo]

Thx gto

Very helpful for me

[bladesmaster]

Are these prices based from msy?

[gto-pontiac]

Are these prices based from msy?

Yes
that's the cheapest place, but price may change

[epiglottis]

Top post GTO-P. My system to be will look a lot like your high-end PC.
I upped system memory to 2GB (2×1GB), while going for a lesser video card. NVidia 6600GT (PCIe of course).
My motherboard is the Asus A8N-SLI premium which is probably $100 more than your spec, but leaves the door open to a SLI setup in the future.
I like the idea of the fast Raptor for managing data, and even contemplated (but didn't go with) having twin WD 10K Raptors in RAID 0, as well as a WD SATAII 16MB cache 250GB HDD for serious storage.
I didn't in the end, but the WD SATAII drive only cost about $20 more if your board can handle it.
Processor chosen was the AMD X2 3800+ which saved a little money for me. Other system specs were similar.

Nice thread, keep it up.

Epi.

[gto-pontiac]

wow epiglottis thats a nice system you got thire.

[bladesmaster]

while going for a lesser video card. NVidia 6600GT (PCIe of course).

For most mortals, NVidia 6600GT is not "lesser video card". 6600GT would be considered middle of the range. I was hoping to get such card, but I went for something "less" than 6600GT, mainly because I couldn't afford it, so I am at the low end.

But, I agreed with gto-pontiac. WOW!