I'm finally scrapping my old 1800++ machine, and I want to get it right this time! On my old soltec motherboard the batteries around the cpu have started to melt due to an insufficient cpu cooler I had for the first year (cpu ran at about 75+ degrees celcius at the time, a fact that I was blissfully unaware of), my GPU was GF4 (now r9800) but didn't work for games (stupid mx 440 series, my old GF2 was better). I have a 512 and a 256 mb memory working side by side ( I didn't know better! ) After having studied THG for bout a year now I've come up with a blueprint for my next computer. Just wanna run it past the pro's to make sure I get it right this time. Please have a look:
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4 GHz Socket 939, 1MB cache, BOXED
Zalman CNPS7700B-Cu CPU-Fan Socket A/478/775/754/939/940
Corsair TWINX1024-3200XL DDR-DIMM 1024MB Kit w/two matched CMX512-3200XL DIMMs
Cooler Master Stacker Chassi Svart (Inget nätagg)
Antec NeoPower 480W ATX 12v 2.0 PSU
Asus A8N-E, nForce4 Ultra, Socket-939, ATX, S-ATA, GbLAN, Firewire, PCI-E
Xtasy Radeon X850 XT Video Card, PCI Express, 256MB GDDR3
Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB S-ATA 8MB cache 10000RPM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB S-ATA 8MB cache 7200RPM NCQ
LG Electronics GSA-4160 Dual-Layer DVD -R/RW +R/RW /RAM 16X DVD-R 4X DVD-RW 16X DVD+R 4X DVD+RW 40X CDR 24X CDRW black bulk IDE
Netgear GA311IS GB PCI-kort 10/100/1000Mbps
Figure I won't shell out a fortune for the FX-55, so that I might upgrade to a dual amd in the future. I'm not to sure bout the memories.
Here's what I plan to use my comp for:
games like Mafia 2 (still praying it will come before 2006),
HL3, CSSource, well you get the idea...
Windows applications like Office, Firefox, occasinal map making for games and the compilation that follows, some 3d modelling.
watching dvds, movies etc.
Oh and I don't plan to O/C...
Any opinion is much appreciated!
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4 GHz Socket 939, 1MB cache, BOXED
Zalman CNPS7700B-Cu CPU-Fan Socket A/478/775/754/939/940
Corsair TWINX1024-3200XL DDR-DIMM 1024MB Kit w/two matched CMX512-3200XL DIMMs
Cooler Master Stacker Chassi Svart (Inget nätagg)
Antec NeoPower 480W ATX 12v 2.0 PSU
Asus A8N-E, nForce4 Ultra, Socket-939, ATX, S-ATA, GbLAN, Firewire, PCI-E
Xtasy Radeon X850 XT Video Card, PCI Express, 256MB GDDR3
Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB S-ATA 8MB cache 10000RPM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB S-ATA 8MB cache 7200RPM NCQ
LG Electronics GSA-4160 Dual-Layer DVD -R/RW +R/RW /RAM 16X DVD-R 4X DVD-RW 16X DVD+R 4X DVD+RW 40X CDR 24X CDRW black bulk IDE
Netgear GA311IS GB PCI-kort 10/100/1000Mbps
Figure I won't shell out a fortune for the FX-55, so that I might upgrade to a dual amd in the future. I'm not to sure bout the memories.
Here's what I plan to use my comp for:
games like Mafia 2 (still praying it will come before 2006),
HL3, CSSource, well you get the idea...
Windows applications like Office, Firefox, occasinal map making for games and the compilation that follows, some 3d modelling.
watching dvds, movies etc.
Oh and I don't plan to O/C...
Any opinion is much appreciated!