Sponsor for PC Pals Forum
« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Building My First!  (Read 1647 times)

Offline Stormy

  • Regular Member
  • **
  • Posts: 58
    • http://plainfolkauctions.com
Building My First!
« on: May 24, 2004, 14:02 »
Building my first new pooter.  Am I missing anything or should I change anything?  Wanna get your opinions before I start buying the parts.  I do web developement and need a good system for that.  :)

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Video Card / 128MB DDR / AGP 8X / TV Out & DVI

Asus - A7N8XE-Deluxe - nVIDIA nForce2 Socket A ATX Motherboard with Audio, AGP 8X, USB 2.0, FireWire, WiFi, Serial ATA, RAID and Dual Gigabit Ethernet LAN Support

Intel® Pentium® 4 2.4Ghz / 512k Cache / 800Mhz FSB / Socket 478 / HyperThreading / Processor

AOC LM720NB 17" 1280x1024 Black LCD Monitor

Powmax Black & Silver ATX Mid-Tower Case with Handle, Clear Side, Fan and 400Watt Power Supply

16x DVD-ROM Drive / PowerDVD Software / OEM
 
Sony CD Burner / 52x24x52x CD-RW / Nero Software / White Box

1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive (Black)

Premium 256MB PC2100 DDR 266MHz Memory

Premium 512MB PC2100 DDR 266MHz Memory
Logged
amp;quot;Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have? The question is what shall we do with it.
-Anna Robertson Brown-".

Offline Sandra

  • Ultimate Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 12155
Re:Building My First!
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2004, 14:49 »
Unfortunately Stormy that mobo is for an AMD cpu not an Intel one so you would have to use an AMD cpu.

AMD's Athlon XP 3200+ and all follow-up CPUs now support 400MHz FSB for increased office productivity and enhanced digital media experience,(The Asus sites words not mine  ;) )

As that mobo has a 400 FSB then you are losing performance by using 266 pc 2100 DDR, you should be thinking of DDR400-PC3200.

Unless you specifically want an Intel cpu you would probabbly find that the difference in price between the latest/fastest AMD and Intel cpus would pay for the difference in the 266 and the 400 DDR ram  :)
Logged

Offline Stormy

  • Regular Member
  • **
  • Posts: 58
    • http://plainfolkauctions.com
Re:Building My First!
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2004, 17:22 »
Should I change the Mobo or the cpu?
Logged
amp;quot;Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have? The question is what shall we do with it.
-Anna Robertson Brown-".

Offline Simon

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 77921
  • First to score 7/7 in Quiz of The Week's News 2017
Re:Building My First!
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2004, 17:47 »
You tend to get more 'bang for your bucks' with AMD CPUs, i.e., an AMD CPU would usually be cheaper than it's equivalent Intel.
Logged
Many thanks to all our members, who have made PC Pals such an outstanding success!   :thumb:

Offline Dack

  • Established Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 831
Re:Building My First!
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2004, 19:09 »
I'd just add that it's probably worth you getting a DVD-Writer instead of the seperate units as:
a. it works out about the same price £60 or so.
b. You'll get a better capability i.e. you'll be able to write dvd's

NEC2500 is probably the best about now (especially as a hacked dual layer firmware was recently released :))

Graphics card is pretty good and can be bought for about £130 from http://www.lowestonweb.com/Products/DisplayInfoMain.asp?e=2F99A0AD-B9A8-470B-B643-2A672531F699

A very good motherboard is the DFI one on sale in PCWorld (honest!) for £48 - its this one http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=2141

Barton core Athlon 2500 is about £55 from ebuyer - remember to buy a fan and heatsink though if you get the OEM version.

As Sandra said, get the best memory you can - definately PC3200.
Logged
hey promised the earth! Then delivered mud.
Technically it did meet the spec.

Offline Stormy

  • Regular Member
  • **
  • Posts: 58
    • http://plainfolkauctions.com
Re:Building My First!
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2004, 01:17 »
I was gonna get a dual dvd unit but then I thought about it that if one broke down I'd still be able to use the other so I went with the two instead.  On the NFII ULTRA INFINITY mobo, what wattage is it?  I'm wanting to have a 400 watt but I can't find any info on that with this board.

 :)
Logged
amp;quot;Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have? The question is what shall we do with it.
-Anna Robertson Brown-".

Offline Sandra

  • Ultimate Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 12155
Re:Building My First!
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2004, 01:37 »
Specifications and a revue on that mobo here Stormy :

http://www.mbreview.com/nf2inf.php

A 400 watt PSU should be fine  :)
Logged

Offline Stormy

  • Regular Member
  • **
  • Posts: 58
    • http://plainfolkauctions.com
Re:Building My First!
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2004, 03:38 »
That works Sandra!  ;D
Logged
amp;quot;Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have? The question is what shall we do with it.
-Anna Robertson Brown-".

Adept

  • Guest
Re:Building My First!
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2004, 19:06 »
Quote from: Dack on May 24, 2004, 19:09

(especially as a hacked dual layer firmware was recently released :))


By anyone we know ? :P ;D
Logged

Show unread posts since last visit.
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
Sponsor for PC Pals Forum