Alright I know you guys don't need another one, but hey it's fun right?
I'm spending my christmas money on a new compy, cause it's been 3 years and I want to do it right soo...check this out...
Processor: I want dual core and the 3800+ is the lowest and seemingly most reasonably priced. If i can save a bunch of money and go single core and not lose a bunch of performance let me know, but i love doing ten things at once, and definitely forsee making use of that power. Is the 4200+ worth an extra 80$ or so?
Video Card: I want it to rock now and last a while so the 7800GT from eVGa for 299$ seemed like a great price and I know it's a kick ass card. I much favor nvidia, i'm pretty sure about this one, is there anything i'm missing?
Motherboard: I could use some help here, I'd love to spend about 100$ and I certainly dont NEED SLI. That does not seem like an upgrade path for the future in my opinion. I am looking at the Gigabyte - GA-K8N Pro , i'd love to get the nForce 4 chipset, for no other reason than I like (trust) nvidia.
Harddrive: I picked out the WD Caviar SE 16 WD3200ks, 320gigs and it's SATA 3.0g/s sounds fast and big, 155$ not a huge worry for me, just one question how can i make sure i get fast performance, will a normal SATA mobo ensure me the 3.0g/sec? Aagain, the HD is not a big deal, but let me know if theres a screamin deal...
Case: I was just bumbling around and saw this: COOLER MASTER Ammo 533 RC-533-SWN1 Black/Silver Aluminum+Plastic front bezel; SECC chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail - I think it looks wicked, anyone had any problems with it?
That leaves the power supply and ram? I've been building my own computers for years and Ram has always just kinda baffled me. I know that the lower timings are better but is it worth an extra 100$? I want 2 gigs of nice ram, but i can't see paying too much more than like 150-200max is that...possible? any reccomendations?
Powersupplies used to be just psh...whatever you get you throw together, whatever you have laying around or from an old computer, but now it's like a huge deal to get a nice one, and it's just important. I really dont know anything other than i want like 450 watts or more..and that you can spend a bunch of money if you want to. It makes me cringe to think about spending 100$ on a power supply but i guess if that's how you do it these days I want to make sure all my other expensive hardware is getting what it needs. So, i just need reccomendations, i dont need fancy, i just want pure reliability for as little money as possible.
That was a long post and i appreciate you enduring another "this build" post. Thanks in advance for any helpful reccomendations.
-Chris
I'm spending my christmas money on a new compy, cause it's been 3 years and I want to do it right soo...check this out...
Processor: I want dual core and the 3800+ is the lowest and seemingly most reasonably priced. If i can save a bunch of money and go single core and not lose a bunch of performance let me know, but i love doing ten things at once, and definitely forsee making use of that power. Is the 4200+ worth an extra 80$ or so?
Video Card: I want it to rock now and last a while so the 7800GT from eVGa for 299$ seemed like a great price and I know it's a kick ass card. I much favor nvidia, i'm pretty sure about this one, is there anything i'm missing?
Motherboard: I could use some help here, I'd love to spend about 100$ and I certainly dont NEED SLI. That does not seem like an upgrade path for the future in my opinion. I am looking at the Gigabyte - GA-K8N Pro , i'd love to get the nForce 4 chipset, for no other reason than I like (trust) nvidia.
Harddrive: I picked out the WD Caviar SE 16 WD3200ks, 320gigs and it's SATA 3.0g/s sounds fast and big, 155$ not a huge worry for me, just one question how can i make sure i get fast performance, will a normal SATA mobo ensure me the 3.0g/sec? Aagain, the HD is not a big deal, but let me know if theres a screamin deal...
Case: I was just bumbling around and saw this: COOLER MASTER Ammo 533 RC-533-SWN1 Black/Silver Aluminum+Plastic front bezel; SECC chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail - I think it looks wicked, anyone had any problems with it?
That leaves the power supply and ram? I've been building my own computers for years and Ram has always just kinda baffled me. I know that the lower timings are better but is it worth an extra 100$? I want 2 gigs of nice ram, but i can't see paying too much more than like 150-200max is that...possible? any reccomendations?
Powersupplies used to be just psh...whatever you get you throw together, whatever you have laying around or from an old computer, but now it's like a huge deal to get a nice one, and it's just important. I really dont know anything other than i want like 450 watts or more..and that you can spend a bunch of money if you want to. It makes me cringe to think about spending 100$ on a power supply but i guess if that's how you do it these days I want to make sure all my other expensive hardware is getting what it needs. So, i just need reccomendations, i dont need fancy, i just want pure reliability for as little money as possible.
That was a long post and i appreciate you enduring another "this build" post. Thanks in advance for any helpful reccomendations.
-Chris