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[Particle Physicist]

.. and which parts would you downgrade if you needed to cut costs somewhere?

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 FX-53

Motherboard: Asus SK8V

Graphics Card: nVidia Geforce 6800 FX Ultra

Case: Koolance PC2-650BK

Power Supply: Antec TrueControl 550

CPU Cooler: Koolance CPU-300-H06 with Athlon64 Kit

Hard Drive: Western Digital WD740 (2 in RAID 0)

Optical Drive: Sony DRU-530A DVD+RW/-RW Drive

Audio Card: Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS Platimum

Memory: 512MB Corsair XMS3200 (2)

 

[Particle Physicist]

anyone?

im thinking about building a PC similar to this.

 

[element]

id personally get a x800 for that price

but id also wait a couple months until the PCI-E mobos come out.

 

[Mashing]

I think it would be a mistake to plop down money for a first generation PCI-E mobo... there's bounds to be growing pains

 

[Traumahound]

I'd prefer an ATI card, but this gen is much closer than last. If the MB is PCI-E, only ATI has a "true" PCI-E card.

The box definitely, definitely needs 1GB of RAM. There's no excuse to just have 512MB. (Edit.: Oops. Missed that (2))

I'd probably kick the CPU down to an A64 3400+ to save some big bucks.

 

[Hournda]

How much does it cost?

 

[Kefkaff]

Memory: 512MB Corsair XMS3200 (2)

It has a 1 GB of ram :O

 

[Bregor]

It's difficult to find a 6800 U currently. Nvidia appears to have paper-launched the product.

 

[Malakhov]

I'd get an ATI card instead.

 

[Slo]

If you want to cut costs, go with an Athlon 64 3200+ and a straight up X800 (not Pro) card. Also, you likely don't need 2 hard drives running in raid. Go get a 120-160 gb hard drive for around $110.

 

[Bregor]

a straight up X800 (not Pro) card.

I hadn't realised there was a non-pro version of the x800. Do you have a link to more information on it?

 

[The Shadow]

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 FX-53

I'd swap this out with a regular Athlon 64. FX cost a lot more money and I'm not sure the boost is worth it.

Graphics Card: nVidia Geforce 6800 FX Ultra

Pretty hard to find right now and I'm not too keen on it taking two slots. I'd probably go with a X800 Pro instead.

Optical Drive: Sony DRU-530A DVD+RW/-RW Drive

I'd definitely look into replacing this. A DL NEC drive can be had for much much less and it's probably compatible with more media than the sony.


This is the kind of PC I want to build. I asked for some PC building/upgrading advice about a month or more ago and I think the general concensus was to wait for PCI-Express. I haven't built a new PC yet but I'm starting to think that wasn't such great advice. The new boards probably won't be solid for a while and I'm sure there will be driver issues too.

 

[Slo]

Bregor: I am, in fact, n00btarded. I went to the article I thought I'd read that at and it proves me wrong. Sorry.

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjEw

http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTA4MzAzNjk0NGJ3UHFVM2NZQWJfMl8xMV9sLmpwZw==