making a new system, salvaging most of the parts from my old PC and friend's stuff lying around. so basically what I'll be purchasing are just the new motherboard, CPU and VGA.
I'm gonna try and stick to the $500 Gaming PC article( http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-graphic-game,1810.html ), since I'm not really that versed in all these, but I do have a couple of questions...
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CPU selected was the Intel E2160. Price is awfully close to the Athlon 64 4400+ and from the old notion that more GHz the more processing power you have, what exactly was the deciding factor? Considering too that the 4600+ also almost as cheap...
I'm salvaging parts from my old computer and a friend is cool enough to give me a couple of sticks of RAM (512MB DDR2 667x2, I know... )
Now I can't purchase the CPU, Motherboard and VGA all in one go and gonna have to ditch the VGA card for the time being, researched and found out that the motherboard in that article did not have built-in VGA
■Anyone have something similar to that motherboard, but with built in VGA?
I assumed that built-in video/sound/lan was pretty much standard nowadays,
■do boards still have an IDE connection standard still? since I'd still be using two IDE hard disks and one CDRW...
I'm gonna try and stick to the $500 Gaming PC article( http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-graphic-game,1810.html ), since I'm not really that versed in all these, but I do have a couple of questions...
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CPU selected was the Intel E2160. Price is awfully close to the Athlon 64 4400+ and from the old notion that more GHz the more processing power you have, what exactly was the deciding factor? Considering too that the 4600+ also almost as cheap...
I'm salvaging parts from my old computer and a friend is cool enough to give me a couple of sticks of RAM (512MB DDR2 667x2, I know... )
Now I can't purchase the CPU, Motherboard and VGA all in one go and gonna have to ditch the VGA card for the time being, researched and found out that the motherboard in that article did not have built-in VGA
■Anyone have something similar to that motherboard, but with built in VGA?
I assumed that built-in video/sound/lan was pretty much standard nowadays,
■do boards still have an IDE connection standard still? since I'd still be using two IDE hard disks and one CDRW...