- Feb 23, 2005
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Hey all, first time poster here. After my many Dell laptop woes(Inspiron 5150, if anyone would love to hear my horror stories I'll be glad to share), I've decided that, hopefully, I'll try and sell it soon and use that money towards the building of a new computer. I'm thinking about spending about $1000, let me know what you guys think of this setup.
Note: All prices are from newegg even though I know I could get better deals elsewhere(like that insane deal at staples for the 200gb hard drive for $60 or something)
Case- Raidmax Black aluminum gaming case with 420W PS-$80
Optical Drive- Samsung DVD+-RW-$55
Hard Drive- Maxtor 200 Gb 7200 RPM-$110
Keyboard-Logitech Elite-$25
Memory-Corsair Value Select 512x2-$130
Monitor-Viewsonic Perfectflat CRT 17"-$134
Motherboard-ASUS "K8N-E Deluxe" nforce3 chipset-$125
Processor-AMD athlon 64 3400+ 512k L2 Cache-$219
Video Card-EVGA nVidia Geforce 6600GT-$198
Total-$1086.15
(Didn't include an OS, will figure that out later)
Yes, I finally have defected to the glory of AMD processors! I only have a few concerns about this setup, I've heard bad things about power supplies included in cases, are these rumors substantiated? I'm sure the 420W will be enough if it's a quality PS. Secondly, perhaps most importantly, the RAM. Hearing the term "Value Ram" makes me feel like I'm buying a second rate product. Is there really that much of a difference between this and the Corsair XMS? Third, is the stock heatsink sufficient if I plan on some mild overclocking. If there's a good alternative that is fairly cheap, please post a link. To avoid criticisms, I'll say up front that I know it'd probably be better to get the 939 socket, but I really am on a slim budget having to pay for college and all.
Edit: Would I be better served getting the ASUS "A8V-E Deluxe" and perhaps an AMD athlon 64 3200+ instead? Will there be a noticeable difference between the 3400+ socket 754 and the 3200+ socket 939?
Finally, I'll ask this here since Dell tech support is totally clueless. I plugged in my new mouse(logitech mx510), didn't work so I figured it was the mouse, but then my old mouse and printer wouldn't work(both USB ports dead, essentially.) So I go out and buy a pcmcia card, open it up only to find it it needs power from a usb port. So, not expecting it to work, I slide it into the PCMCIA card slot and plug it into my usb port in futility, yet it works. How could the port be dead if power's still coming from it?(I tried removing the usb root hubs from device manager and letting windows recognize them all over again, didnt help. Diagnostics also came up normal.)
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by joeshmo1985 on 02/23/05 11:02 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
Note: All prices are from newegg even though I know I could get better deals elsewhere(like that insane deal at staples for the 200gb hard drive for $60 or something)
Case- Raidmax Black aluminum gaming case with 420W PS-$80
Optical Drive- Samsung DVD+-RW-$55
Hard Drive- Maxtor 200 Gb 7200 RPM-$110
Keyboard-Logitech Elite-$25
Memory-Corsair Value Select 512x2-$130
Monitor-Viewsonic Perfectflat CRT 17"-$134
Motherboard-ASUS "K8N-E Deluxe" nforce3 chipset-$125
Processor-AMD athlon 64 3400+ 512k L2 Cache-$219
Video Card-EVGA nVidia Geforce 6600GT-$198
Total-$1086.15
(Didn't include an OS, will figure that out later)
Yes, I finally have defected to the glory of AMD processors! I only have a few concerns about this setup, I've heard bad things about power supplies included in cases, are these rumors substantiated? I'm sure the 420W will be enough if it's a quality PS. Secondly, perhaps most importantly, the RAM. Hearing the term "Value Ram" makes me feel like I'm buying a second rate product. Is there really that much of a difference between this and the Corsair XMS? Third, is the stock heatsink sufficient if I plan on some mild overclocking. If there's a good alternative that is fairly cheap, please post a link. To avoid criticisms, I'll say up front that I know it'd probably be better to get the 939 socket, but I really am on a slim budget having to pay for college and all.
Edit: Would I be better served getting the ASUS "A8V-E Deluxe" and perhaps an AMD athlon 64 3200+ instead? Will there be a noticeable difference between the 3400+ socket 754 and the 3200+ socket 939?
Finally, I'll ask this here since Dell tech support is totally clueless. I plugged in my new mouse(logitech mx510), didn't work so I figured it was the mouse, but then my old mouse and printer wouldn't work(both USB ports dead, essentially.) So I go out and buy a pcmcia card, open it up only to find it it needs power from a usb port. So, not expecting it to work, I slide it into the PCMCIA card slot and plug it into my usb port in futility, yet it works. How could the port be dead if power's still coming from it?(I tried removing the usb root hubs from device manager and letting windows recognize them all over again, didnt help. Diagnostics also came up normal.)
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by joeshmo1985 on 02/23/05 11:02 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
Why i say to go lower on the CPU is because, i feel the pain for people with anything smaller than a 19" monitor. So go a little lower on the system, and get a 19" monitor, Samsung 955DF is what i'd recommend if they're still around. But whatever you do avoid Samsung's 997DF, it blows.
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