Please comment on this system

[kaptainkikote]

I might have to upgrade my MOBO and processor due to damage to my current one. After reading around i was thinking about this:

- P4 2.4 GHZ Socket 478, Bus 533 Mhz
- MOBO Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Intel 865PE chipset

Now a few questions:

- mobo specs say it supports DDR 266. I have 756 MB of this memory with my current ABIT B7 mobo. Does anyone now if I can reuse them with this mobo?

- my graphics card is AGP 4x - since this board AGP 8x, i understand that i need to upgrade to a new card. what is a good choice for a medium range card?

- what do you guys think of this choice. anything significantly better for same budget?

Thanks!

 

[sirrion]

heya,,,

your ram will work fine in the new board, and you dont need to buy a new video card, your agp 4x card will work fine.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by sirrion on 07/14/03 08:51 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[ad_rach]

Why not go for an 800MHz fsb processor?

no matter how hard you try, you can't polish a turd. :]

 

[JeanLuc]

Yeah just like mine;

P4 2.4C 800FSB
512MB 2700 Crucial Ram
MSI Neo FIS2R Mainboard
2 x 60 gig ATA100 Seagate Barracuda 2MB cache on a RAID 0
Liteon 52X12X52 CD-RW
MSI GeforceFX 5600 Ultra 256MB
Antec Plusview 1000 AGM (anyone who wants a new case, I would higher recommed this case)
Antec 320Watt PSU
19" Iiyama Vision Master Pro 454
I alot of people are saying the 5600 ultra is crap. But form the benchmarks it can easily keep up with the radeon 9600 pro. Also when I go to the grpahics card forum theres always a thread were someone has got a problem with their Radeon.
I've just brought the parts and the GPU was only £135 where as the Radeon was £140, for a 128MB version.

And by the way get the 800 FSB P4 the extra few dollers (or in my case £'s)it costs is well worth it for the preformance it gives over the old 533 FSB. Plus it also comes with Hyper threading.

 

[JP5]

You ought to use even pairs with 865. Just use 512 of the RAM.