Building 1st Computer Opinions Needed!

[Niko1337]

I'm building my very first system and I have the follow parts so far:

Soyo Dragon Platnium

Western Digital Special Edition Hard Drive with 8 MB Buffer

What I'm planning on getting tomorrow are:

Antec Full Tower Case with 300 Watt Power Supply

512 Stick of DDR 2700 RAM

AMD XP 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, or 2.0 Processor

What I want to know is, since AMD CPU's are good at over clocking if i should just get a 1.7 XP and use the money I saved to invest in some rounded cables and some good fans. I'm pretty much using this system for games only but I don't want to have to keep upgrading the CPU so should I just buy the best I can afford now or should I get a lower end and just overclock it when I need to? Will 1.8 still run any game on the market at the highest setting or does that pretty much depend on the videocard?

Also I was wondering will 300 Watts be enough for a CD-RW, DVD-ROM, and 1 Hard Drive, and a video card or should I go to the 400 Watt?

Any help would be great! Thanks in advance!

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Niko1337 on 07/05/02 06:05 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Matisaro]

Amd chips can overclock, but intel cpus overclock much much better, if your going into this looking to overclock, you should get a northwood 1.8a and overclock it to 2.4-2.6ghz.

Be sure to get rdram and a good board(which others can suggest if you need).

If you dont wanna overclock the 1800+ is the best bang for the buck out there today.

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[Vince0000]

What I'm decideing to do is slightly different...

I'm getting a Asus P4S533 Motherboard (533 Mhz Bus)
2.2 Ghz 533 processor
512 Meg 2700 DDR Ram
80 Gig 7200 RPM Drive
MSI Gforce 4 TI4400 Video Card
19" Monitor (Trying to land Black Components still)
CD Rom, Burner, etc
Audigy Xgamer Sound Gard
Logitech Optical Cordless Mouse and Keyboard
and a nice set of speakers either Megaworks 510D or Inspire 5700
This is going in a case with a 350 Watt power supply which I've been told will be fine, but I would like to move to a 400 Watt if possible...

I would go with a 2.0A northwood but I want a 533 CPU to get the full effect of the Asus Motherboard and the 2700 Ram on a 533 FSB..

Just my thoughts, any critism would be appreciated as it will only help my future purchase.

Thanks,
Vince

 

[Quetzacoatl]

I have the 1800+, and it overclocks pretty well after you unlock it. Not a huge gain in Mhz, but the higher gains in FSB give it better performance than just increasing the multiplier anyway. Personally, if he's overclocking though, he might as well look for a 1.6a or 1.8a then Oc it with RDR.

"When there's a will, there's a way."