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>
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>