Sweet MBoard/CPu Deal! (but need lil help)

[Tomlo]

Well you should be atleast doubling the power anyway you go...
Just dont buy that epox AMD motherboard.

A 6600GT is much more powerful than a normal 6600 I belive it has almost twice the pixel pipelines and the ddr3 would make it (256-bit? or is it 128-bit? - not sure...) over the 6600's 64-bit (YUCK!).

The only difference between agp 4x and agp 8x is it offers twice the bandwith to the card the extra bandwidth allows textures to move from the main ram to the video ram faster, this only offers half as much time on loading screens. Their is a performance loss using 4x instead of 8x but it has been estimated by most experts at about less the 5% varying on different cards. The only thing that you would need to worry about is the CPU bottlenecking the video card.

I dont think that its your current videocard holding back on doom3 it should be able to play it at med-high settings and its not the amount of ram its the PC133 ram bandwidth, the mobo, and the cpu. After this upgrade you probally could play doom3 maxed out.

[RedKing14CA]

w00t!! THx..

I recently got my ASUS Mobo in the mail with the 2.93 GHz Celeron D (i know... YUCK-Intel, and Celerons SUX)

Im sending in the rebate today, and when i get it back i'll be buying the ram, and then the CPU fan...

[semicolo]

Don't be so hard with intel, their cpu's are good (but yes celeron are worse because of the fewer cache)

[RedKing14CA]

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23804

go here, i dont know if ill be able to build this, but thx for all you guys'z help!!

[RedKing14CA]

I went to a special chirpopracter dude, you know, holistic medicine... im ok, 'cept all the scars

I got my mobo and cpu like i said, i also have my Hardrive and a geforce 3 to hold me until i get my 6600 .. i got a copy of windows XP from my mum :P... and i'm buying a case from a local computer shop, along with the 1GB pc3200 400MHz DDR Ram that went up $30 cuz the damn PS3....

I bought this CPu fan
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=1520398

I'm going to pick up the case and ram and case on friday, there we will put it together the pc

[RedKing14CA]

i put it together months ago.. i oc'ed the cpu to 3.3GHz, i have a geforce 3 Ti 200, and a stick of 1024 DDR pc 3200 ram... 450 watt power supply, a 20 and 40GB hd (and a 12GB for storage) integrated 6 channel audio...

i was trying to upgrade my video card, but yes, it is true... AGP is dead....

i got this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1
and now im looking for a video card... after that, i'm getting a new mouse (dell wired optical, YUCK) and dvd burner...

coming along nicely.... coolign sucks.. after i get Vid card, DVD burner, and mouse, i'm going to get the Pentium D 805, so i can OC to 3.5Ghz, then i'm going water cooled to OC to 4.0GHZ!!!!

oh.. yeah!

[Tomlo]

lol I see you have gotten the addiction like all of us, Never happy with what you got and always have to go better...

[matthewmcg]

like i alwAys say avoid intel at all costs amd are better value, that memory aint too pretty neither high latency and low bandwidth. im guessing you on a budget so i'll sugest to yoyu the best way to get the most for your money. you must always consentrate mostly on the motherboard as it decides your computing future. i reccommend a 939 asus board a8n32, buy an amd socket 939 athlon 64 3200. be sure to give it decent cooling and with decent cooling you should be able to get 2.8 to 3.0 clocks with it and that will defeat anything intel can ever have on the budget front. on graphics i reccomend on a budget to go for a 7600gt because they can bet powerful on its own and always have room for adding another later to have sli. for memory i reccommend 2 corsair xms 1gbs twinx 2-3-2-6 or 2-3-3-6. you should go for at least a 500w power supply that has lots of connections for later. i reccommend a cold case with an exhaust fan at the back for a well cooled passive invironment. and remember if you need to know anything about computer assembly or components im the one to ask ok?

[RedKing14CA]

Yes, you know what your talking about, and YES i really wanted a 939 3500+ with pci-e, but i only had 80$ and all the deals for Athlons at the time were 99-120$ and came with crappy mobos.... and semprons were 85-90$ and also cam with crappy mobos.... my friend was going to sell me his 6600GT AGP 8x, but then when i said "ok.. so 100$" he freaked out and was like "WHAT, i cant sell it for that!!!" when they are 130$ on most sites... (with cool Doom 3 art! lol)

So right now, i bought and installed that ECS EliteGroup 915P-A Hybrid Mobo for 45$.... And i bought a BRAND NEW PCI-e 6600LE with 256MB DDR for 30$ to hold me until i can get the 6800XT or 6800GT...

I just bought a 80GB SATA Hard Drive (with my current mobo, it only has a place for 1 IDE cable, so im running without a CD-Rom.. and my IDE HD's go SLOOOW) next im going to buy an 80mm 4000RPM intake front fan (current is 2050RPM)

Then im going to put the 2050 RPM right above my video card until i can buy a 120MM with a blue LED to but above the card... all it has now is a giant heatsync, and with a fan, i figure i can OC it..

Going ok, plays source games fine at Max settings (23-36FPS with all settings, including anti-aliasing, and antistrphic 4x filtering whatever that is)
plays Quake 4 and Doom 3 great at high settings... (not so great at max)


Here it is, the BUDGET-MACHINA

MAIN
1GB PC3200 DDR RAM (x1 stick)
775 Celeron D 2.93 GHz (OC'd to 3.3GHz)
PCI-e GeForce 6600LE 256MB
450 Watt Macron low noise power supply

OTHER
Thermaltake Golden Orb II solid copper CPu fan
120MM 2700 RPM exhaust fan
80MM 2050RPM silent intake fan
10/100MBPS PCI VIA fast compatible Ethernet card

STORAGE
40GB Seagate 7200RPM IDE HD
20GB Seegate IDE HD

Coming soon- 80GB and 4000RPM front intake fan

Current Total Cost 320$ (including SATA HD)

Budget gaming