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Custom PC Review
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I am posting here because I have questions on building my own pc, and searched around for a forum where I might ask my type of question. I’ve gathered some parts up - but before doing anything I wanted to ask someone who could be considered an expert… would it all work together? Quote:
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12-29-2005, 03:49 PM
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Everything looks good except for the RAM and psu. I personally have never heard of either A-Data or A-Top. You could check toaster's(i think its his) thread on recomended PSU's. Also make sure that your psu is ATX 2.0 since you have a pci-e card and an AMD 64.
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12-29-2005, 04:16 PM
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Certainly change the power supply to a quality ATX 2 Unit.
Go for Corsair Value Select for your RAM. I'd also question what this system will be used for? If it's for gaming purposes, then the X300 video card is quite low powered, and will not perform well on the latest games. Improving this would give you a more balanced system. Freakitchen
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12-29-2005, 07:13 PM
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Well, I just went with the reviews of some of the items, I don’t know what the name brands of most computer products are. Especially ram, graphic cards or power units. I am not building it to be a ‘gaming machine’ as I hardly ever play games that much. But I don’t know too many people who own a computer and haven’t played at least one game on it. I might play Battlefield 1942 or Return to Castle Wolfenstein once in a while or the occasional Quake 3… but I’m mostly building it because my store bought Windows ME Compaq sold out to HP piece of crap crashes all my design software and can’t run multiple programs that I need.
So yeah I’d like to have a nice graphics card but not one that is too expensive at the moment, because I don’t even have a video card now… it’s all on-board. If you can suggest a better card that isn’t a $100 x the one I got, I’d gladly switch. But I’ve just been thinking about upgrading video cards in the future when its more cash-wise to do so. Check below for the items I replaced as per your instructions. I couldn’t find any post by a toaster about power supplies. -Memory- (This memory is actually cheaper... what the heck?) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145505 -Power Supply- (Saw this in another post, I got no idea about power supply… what is ATX 2.0, none of them say it.) http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16817189003 |
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12-29-2005, 07:18 PM
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Whatever you do, don't get that video card with HyperMemory - it steals memory from the system RAM.
You should get a dual channel kit (2 x 512MB) instead of a single gig module. Power supply should be fine.
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12-29-2005, 07:23 PM
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For light gaming, consider an ATI X600, if it fits your budget. Perhaps look for one with 256MB of memory for your graphics programmes.
Good choice of memory, and power supply. The ATX2 refers to the 24 pin motherboard connector that your board requires. The XCLio PSU has that. Freakitchen |
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12-29-2005, 07:53 PM
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145440
...to replace the RAM with the dual channel kit - suposed to be faster? -Video Card- DIAMOND Radeon X600PRO 256MB 128-bit DDR PCI Express x16 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814103164 Is that one any good? My search for X600 was all that it yielded. Also, is there a difference between using the 1GB stick instead of the 2 512MB ones to equal 1GB, in performance or something? I was thinking that down the road I might want to have somewhere around 4GB, should I need it for some ungodly reason and figured instead of wasting two slots I’d simply take up the one and have three left over. I’ll have to search for more on this… as well as keep looking at video cards. My eyes are running together. Edit: I did find one on the ATI website, but it might be a bit more than i wanted to spend. I will have to think about it. http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2594349 Last edited by Redneck; 12-29-2005 at 08:09 PM. |
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12-29-2005, 10:29 PM
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2 sticks would enable Dual Channel; while not as noticeable with AMD systems, still something you might consider. I don't see why you'd need 4GB, even in your line of work.
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12-30-2005, 01:14 AM
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Well you never know what lies ahead in the future with technology advancing like it is, 4GB might be considered necessity in ten or so years. But I doubt if I would ever need it. Which is why I am the one taking your advise - instead of you taking mine.
Anyways thanks for the help. Been appreciative. |
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12-30-2005, 10:47 AM
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Ten years? In ten years, the CPU will be like a 30MHz CPU is today...
But if you think you might upgrade to at least 2GB sometime in the near future, you might go ahead and just get a single stick now. |
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