how does this gaming rig sound?

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

i told my mom about it and she hinted towards letting me get it for christmas. the specs are:

ECS nforce4 socket 939 mobo

MSI radeon x800 pci express

Maxtor 80gig hd

512x2 patriot ddr 400 ram

Rosewill 450watt power supply

AMD Athlon 3200 64 venice core

Spire blackfin ATX fulltower case

finally ill be able to play half life 2, cs source, doom 3, far cry, and all those othere games i only dreampt about playing. what do you guys think about this? oh and it comes out to ~$654 shipped, i just have to put everything together.

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[phoneman 10+ year member]

dupe

 

[brandontw 10+ year member]

id go for an nvidia video card...just becasue i like them better.i have 6600gt, but for the price of an x800 i think you could get something better

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Rosewill sucks, patriot sucks, what the hell is ECS?

Look into Kingston or Corsair value ram at least.

NG

 

[brandontw 10+ year member]

i told my mom about it and she hinted towards letting me get it for christmas. the specs are:
ECS nforce4 socket 939 mobo

MSI radeon x800 pci express

Maxtor 80gig hd

512x2 patriot ddr 400 ram

Rosewill 450watt power supply

AMD Athlon 3200 64 venice core

Spire blackfin ATX fulltower case

finally ill be able to play half life 2, cs source, doom 3, far cry, and all those othere games i only dreampt about playing. what do you guys think about this? oh and it comes out to ~$654 shipped, i just have to put everything together.

**** 654! wow stuff must be going down, i paid almost 800 for all of my stuff and its not even as good as your list...that was almost a year ago.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

But you dont have cd/dvd drives

and i have like more than .5 TB of storage:up2somet:

and i have a case and P/S that wont break...ever

and i dont have a cheap brand MoBo

...but is it all worth it..prolly not.

except for the storage, i have almost 500 gigs full..im gonna have to upgrade some more... YArr - the life of a pirate!

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Dfi mobo: $89

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136160

Or AS Rock: AGP and PCI express board: $68

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081

Asus Mobo: $69

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131525

Asus: $81

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131541

AMD 3200+ Venice: $166

I guess that patriot is ok: $76

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820220037

I'd look into a 6600: $107

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127191

HD: Maybe lil larger? They're pretty cheap...

Stock powersupply in a decent case would work. At least 450-500w.

NG

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

I would go with at least a 6600GT or X800 ... 6600 doesn't cut it for serious gaming ...

I think the 256/256 version of the 6600 works great. With a solid processor to back it up, and a gig of ram, all games out would run perfect on it. It's not like you're gonna build a $700 compy that will run al games at max res. and setting...

NG

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

well, ECS and Patriot are not generic brands, the x800 is only 139 and has 12 pipelines and a 256 bit interface same as 6800gt except little lower memory clock speed for 120 bucks less, i already have a dvd burner, in my pc right now i only have 80 gig hd and i still have 30 gigs left, i read nothing but good reviews on the rosewill power supply, and keep in mind i had to keep this thing cheap so i think its all worth it for my uses. and my friend has a ti420064mb, 768 mb ram, and a athlon xp 2400 and plays hl2 fine and medium settings so i think ill be ok.

 

[brandontw 10+ year member]

My rig:

Thermaltake case & 500W power supply

1 Gig kingston ram

EVGA Nvidia 6600gt

DFI Mobo

Amd64 3000+

dual 300 gig WD HD's SATA

Samsung DVDrom and DVDRW SATA

creative audigy 4 sound card(im really into my sound)

It tears through all thing i through at it, even though its a socket 754, HL2 runs awsome, as well as doom 3, and all my sound/photo editing programs scream, and autocad works great too

 

[///M5 10+ year member]

You need to get a real power supply, that one bites.

 

[brandontw 10+ year member]

well, ECS is not a generic brand, the x800 is only 139 and has 12 pipelines and a 256 bit interface same as 6800gt except little lower memory clock speed for 120 bucks less, i already have a dvd burner, in my pc right now i only have 80 gig hd and i still have 30 gigs left, i read nothing but good reviews on the rosewill power supply, and keep in mind i had to keep this thing cheap so i think its all worth it for my uses. and my friend has a ti420064mb, 768 mb ram, and a athlon xp 2400 and plays hl2 fine and medium settings so i think ill be ok.

i would say go for it, But yes, ECS is a generic brand, they are always ALOT cheaper than the other products with the same features...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif

But with the money you save on generic brands you can replace things if they break and if they dont...youll have some extra cash.

But if you only listen to one thing we say, at least get a quality P/S and case, nothing worse that a cheap case thats fallin apart all over, and i went through the cheap power supply phase and regreted it. I put all of my stuff together and nothing was working, and it turns out my POS powere supply was DOA

 

[///M5 10+ year member]

Get a better case too, cooling will help you tweak

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

the only thing im gonna be overclocking is my video card, cuz i have no clue how to oc the processor and dont wanna spend money to replace it if i screw up. and if i do have heat problems with the vid card i can just get a pci slot fan.

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

ya and about the case do you think this one would suit me a lot better

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119068

and how about this mobo instead of the ecs

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131569

 

[vosschs 5,000+ posts]

only thing i can see that i would change is get at leaast a 120 gig HD, games these days take at least 3 gigs, COD 2 takes 5+, i would also get a 6600Gt instead