Video Card

[PRIVATEpastry 10+ year member]

no ones talking about a celeron:crap: im talking about the pentium d dual core

Hah, thats what I meant to say... Celeron D?? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/redface.gif.62fdbfe1a101588a808c4cff71bcb942.gif

 

[JoseMCeee 10+ year member]

I'd look into an AMD 64 based CPU. Either a Venice or San Diego core, 3200-3700+...
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yea I just recently updated my pc from a Athlon 1800+ - had it for like 6 years - to a Athlon 64 3700+ I believe Clawhammer core. Pretty freaking tight.

And for the video card. I would probably just get a dedicated video card. They are only like $60 bucks. And then just buy a better video card. Theres no point getting a cheap tv plus gaming card if its only going to be a half assed card.

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

i thinkim going to try and get the ATI all in wonder x800xt or xl dont remember comes with all the remotes and everything for like 300

still looking though

i NEED to know a good motherboard company,

somethings i know are DDR2 ram, pentium d, 1 pci x16 slot and at least 2 extra pci slots(is regular pci just pci x1, because express is x16)

and ram i know u have to get what is required by the motherboard what is a good company for this? corsair? how much is a good price for 1gb ive seen around 80 so i guess thats right and is 1 1gb better than 2 512? or what?

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

DFI Lanparty...

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[noob with an RS 10+ year member]

get a DFI Lanparty mobo a san diego athlon 64 and a gig or two of dual channel DDR RAM. dont get ddr2.

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136145

here is the only one with pci express and intel, but it dosent say pentium d, and why do u want me to get amd never used it before?

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=2980&CATEGORY_TYPE=LP&SITE=NA

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

Just about any moboard made by ASUS will be solid as a rock. Their upper end models may arguably be the best you can get. I run ASUS boards in most of my home machines including my main hot-rod, plus dozens of high-performance customs at my company.

But there are certainly very nice moboards from Abit and a couple other popular brands as well.

I gave a top-o' MSI 875p FIS2R a shot for my last high-performance OC'ing rig, but one day it wouldn't boot, and the replacement that MSI sent me was a turd with problems on the SATA controllers too, so bah on MSI (for me).

For a good cheapo' moboard, you may want to look at Albatron stuff. I'm a member of an overclocking forum and read a lot of user reviews on Albatron being the budget OC'er's best-kept-secret, so I bought one to try it out for myself. Man, am I impressed! It has been absolutely rock-solid, great compatibility, excellent performance, and tosses in some great features and overclocking capabilities for good measure. I'm currently running it on my main (home) server and experience absolutely zero unscheduled down-time. I gotta' say, I'm a little impressed.

Another budget consideration may be boards from Asrock, which is a subsidiary company of Asus. They have some pretty interesting offerings. A tweaker geek buddy of mine has one and loves it. I haven't run one personally, so I can't in good concience go as far as to endorse it.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

DFI Lanparty with Socket 939, PCI express, and get what I said. An AMD64 Venice or San Diego core 3200-3700+

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[noob with an RS 10+ year member]

DFI Lanparty with Socket 939, PCI express, and get what I said. An AMD64 Venice or San Diego core 3200-3700+
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yep. amd > intel for gaming IMO

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

i dont really know if im going to be OCing much but i do want a fast MB for about 120$ i need at least 3 PIC slots with one being express what is the difference between ddr2 and regular ddr , im seeing more MB with DDR2

i dont really know anything about amd but but im assuming they read their speed differently or what because the fast AMD are like 2.2ghz and such i dont really understand i just want a intel or amd that does the best at doing different stuff at once thats why i wanted the dual core

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103539

here is one AMD

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116237

intel^

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811156173

here is the case i want, but i dont know if the psu in it will do really good

anyone know a good computer forum? i could search but you dont know what kind of forum i might be in //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

and i found XP media center edition on new egg so im gonna get that, dosent media center have programs for tv recording and all so now im just gonna get a cheaper tv card and a different graphics card

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

http://www.ocforums.com

I know you said you won't be doing much overclocking, but if you get a solid system capable of OC'ing, you know you'll be in good shape if you don't.

P.S. DDR2 RAM is much faster than DDR. The reason you see more moboard compatibility for it is because it's the new standard. You'll almost always see DDR2 on a board with PCI-Ex. It's the chipset.

 

[PRIVATEpastry 10+ year member]

http://www.computerforum.com

I personally don't like fancy cases. I prefer ones that are simple and clean. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811180043 Thats the one I have.

AMD has shorter pipes (information doesn't have to travel as far) and an internal memory controller that reduces memory latency. Clockspeed isn't everything.

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

yea i searched up computer forums and went to that one a little bit ago

i think i found a mb i like and i will probably end up getting the pentiumd d 920

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

so right now im at

pentium d 920

ASUS MB

1gb-2gb ram

250gb SATA HD(segate/western/maxtor? anyone)

1 DVD rom drive

1 DVD-rw

either nvidia 6600gt and get a tv tuner

or ATI x800xl all-in-wonder

and also found xp media center editon at newegg

im getting this case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811156173

im out for now