New Pc System
<div class="IPBDescription">Will it all work</div> Hiya, I'm wanting to build my own PC in the next few weeks and I've got a set of specs here. It would be great if someone could tell me if all of these components would work together and what I should change if something will not work
AMD Athlon 64 3000 (Socket 754) - OEM
Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP nForce3 150 (Socket 754) Motherboard
IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 40GB - OEM
Zalman CNPS7000A-AlCu Ultra-Quiet CPU Cooler - OEM
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI - Lite Retail
Samsung Original 256MB PC2700 CAS2.5
Samsung SM352-B 52x/24x/16x CD-RW/DVD Combo
CoolerMaster Centurion Case
All of these items I got from <a href='http://overclockers.co.uk/' target='_blank'>here</a>
I think this come in at just under £550GBP
Thanks in advance, Rue
AMD Athlon 64 3000 (Socket 754) - OEM
Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP nForce3 150 (Socket 754) Motherboard
IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 40GB - OEM
Zalman CNPS7000A-AlCu Ultra-Quiet CPU Cooler - OEM
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI - Lite Retail
Samsung Original 256MB PC2700 CAS2.5
Samsung SM352-B 52x/24x/16x CD-RW/DVD Combo
CoolerMaster Centurion Case
All of these items I got from <a href='http://overclockers.co.uk/' target='_blank'>here</a>
I think this come in at just under £550GBP
Thanks in advance, Rue
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Anyway, are you sure 256 ram would be enough?
Oh and does anyone know an internet shop that ships from the US to the UK? cause certain componentsare really cheap right now
I'm no computer expert, but that can't be right, can it?
An Althlon 3000 is about 2.6ghz, right? I thought that a Radeon 9600 XT was reasonably high-end?
If i'm wrong, is <i>my</i> gfx card a "bottleneck"? I have a Radeon 9700 pro with a 3.06ghz processor.
Anyway that card will play most of the games comming out in the next few months.
I have a 9600XT, and there are already games coming out that it cannot run on the highest settings at a decent framerate, while the only game I have played that taxes my athlon XP 2600+ is X2, and even that is bottlenecked by my video card unless I turn the details down.
I'm not saying that the 9600XT is a bad card, far from it, it's an excellent value, but it will become a bottleneck.
Huh? How does that work?
I understand that Athlon have a different system of measuring clock speed (e.g, an XP1800 is actually 1533mhz), but in the end doesn't it come down to clock speed?
I mean, I have an Intel 3.06ghz, you're saying an Althlon running at 3.06ghz is faster? How does that work??
I'm not saying you're wrong i'm just saying there's something i'm not getting here...
nForce 3 150 boards are garbage, either get a nForce 3 250 (expensive) or one of MSI's boards
9600XT from a better company with 128MBs instead of 256
More RAM at 3200
Bigger HDD, I bet you can double or triple the size of the deskstar for under $10 more
With the video card, I would try to salvage something out of your old computer to hold you over for a few months. The prices of current cards are gonna drop like bricks and new toys are going to be available.
That's the performance rating thing. That means that from AMD's point of view, a 1800+ even though it runs at 1533mhz, should be at least as good as an 1800Mhz P4
Also, note that different cores with same ratings don't always have the same clock speed
2800+ (2250 Mhz) and 2800+ Barton (2083 Mhz) should perform the same. Of course, that's just what they say; you can only actually trust benchmarks.
As a sidenote, Intel is going to go with performance ratings as well in their future generations of processors
Scrape the 9600XT if you can get 9800 pro with an additional 70. 9800 pro is a better investment in the long run. If not you can always get a vanila 9800 (non-pro) with 128MB ram. It is like 5%-10% slower than the 9800 pro.
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AMD cpus do more instructions per clock cycle. But don't take my word for it (or AMD's), take a look at some
<a href='http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTI0' target='_blank'>benchmarks</a>. Notice that the Athlon64 3200+, which runs at 2ghz beats the Pentium 4 3.2ghz in most of the benchmarks (if only by a small margin).
Right I'v change a few things now
MSI K8N nForce3 250
AMD Athlon 64 3000
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus8 40GB
Crucial 512MB DDR PC2700
Radeon 9800 128MB <- Not decided on brand
I was thinking of waiting a few months until PCI-X cards begin to come out but I have no idea when that will be.
Yeh the $ is really cheap at the moment that might be why the stuff looks expencive to you
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I would say get only 512 right now, the prices are abusively high. Unless you got absolute necessity for 1024, just go with one 512 stick and upgrade in a couple of months hoping prices go down...
Whatever you do, 256 IS way too small for current systems.
Right I'v change a few things now
MSI K8N nForce3 250
AMD Athlon 64 3000
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus8 40GB
Crucial 512MB DDR PC2700
Radeon 9800 128MB <- Not decided on brand
I was thinking of waiting a few months until PCI-X cards begin to come out but I have no idea when that will be.
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If I were you, I'd bump it up to an 80 GB HDD. 40 GB is getting to be too little these days.
Also, try to get built-by-ATI. Rather than a third-party manufacturer.
PCI-X isn't going to be too hot right now. The performance boost is almost nonexistant.
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if it does, then what do you do with your unused AGP slot.
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No no. PCI-X is a new slot altogether. You need to buy a new motherboard to get PCI-X slots, then you need to buy PCI-X cards.
It's like PCI, but new, better, much more expensive and quite worthless for video cards at the moment.
And PCI express cards will NOT be compatible with PCI. They use a new slot, also variable in size depending on the speed
I believe that PCI-X however, (PCI extended) is backwards compatible but don't quote me on that. However, PCI-X performances are just the double of PCI I believe, so they won't be sufficient for next gen graphic cards.