benheaven1 Posted February 20, 2005 Posted February 20, 2005 Hello,Im going to be buying new parts at the end of the month. I would like to know if they are all good stuff and if you got any advice it would be great?CPU: AMD (Winchester) Athlon 64bit 3500+ 939pin 512kb L2cache 90nmMotherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 SKT939 NVIDIA nForce4 PCI-E DDR USB2.0 LANMemory: OCZ Premier Dual Channel Kit 2x256MB DDR400 PC3200 CL 2.5-3-3-7GPU: Sapphire Radeon X600XT PCI-EXPRESS 256MB DDR VIVO DVI-ICPU Cooler: Gigabyte PCU21-VG 3D-Cooler Pro P4/K7/K8 Cooler Media Kit Retail BoxAlso I Currently Have A Maxtor Diamond 9 160gb ATA 133 8mb Cache 7200rpm. Would there be anypoint in replacing this for a SATA drive?ThanksBen
epic Posted February 20, 2005 Posted February 20, 2005 CPU: AMD (Winchester) Athlon 64bit 3500+ 939pin 512kb L2cache 90nmMemory: OCZ Premier Dual Channel Kit 2x256MB DDR400 PC3200 CL 2.5-3-3-7Are you on a budget? Would there be anypoint in replacing this for a SATA drive?Depends on what your looking for. SATA does operate faster and you do see a slight performance boost. But if you were to go SATA you would want to go towards the SCSI lineup 10k or 15k rpm... WDRaptors do not run as hot as many say they do. I have 4x76GB and they all run between 24-28centigrade and thats stacked on top of each other.
benheaven1 Posted February 20, 2005 Author Posted February 20, 2005 No but i can't see the point in buying anything more than a xp3500+
epic Posted February 20, 2005 Posted February 20, 2005 It all depends on how long you will be using this particular system, if your that type of person that wants to upgrade and sit on it for 5yrs or upgrades every year or every other. OCZ, Munshkin, Samsung and Micron are the best to buy on the market.Have you considered sound, besides onboard hardware?
puntoMX Posted February 24, 2005 Posted February 24, 2005 @ benheaven1,I would not go for a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9, buy a ASUS if it’s in your budget.The Sapphire Radeon X600XT isn’t a good card, way to slow for new games. Sapphire (like Pine, XFX, club3D) isn’t a good brand. Look for other brands and go for a 6600 or a 6800 from nVidia, they can run pixel shader 3.0 games smooth.That’s all I want to say for now .
ripken204 Posted February 26, 2005 Posted February 26, 2005 wow, 350$ for that processor, and it will only go about 3.2 ghz, and just to let u know it is almost pointless to get a 64 bit processor until about 2 yrs from now when most companies start creating 64 bit programs.
bart of borg Posted February 27, 2005 Posted February 27, 2005 wow, 350$ for that processor, and it will only go about 3.2 ghz, and just to let u know it is almost pointless to get a 64 bit processor until about 2 yrs from now when most companies start creating 64 bit programs.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Actually...that is totally untrue.......Ripken, if your posting a ton of posts aking for hardware advice yourself, I don't think you should be giving any out! Especially when it's wrong.....no there is not much point in looking for 64 bit apps right now but the Athlon64 is much faster at processing 32 bit programming than a "similar" speed 32 bit CPU. I had an Athlon64 2800+ before I upgraded to a 3500 and I also own an AthlonXP 3200+. The Athlon64 outperformed my AthlonXP 3200 in every benchmark I could throw at it - by a wide margin!Both systems use 1 gig DDR400 too, as well as Geforce 5900XT's
puntoMX Posted February 27, 2005 Posted February 27, 2005 Just post things when you are sure about it , or say that you "think" that it is like that or say that you are not sure about it.You learned a lot in just a few time, i can see that
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