Ordering Parts: Final Advice?

[akapaul]

Please take a look at the signature :) I already purchased 2 items :)

[wecaughtyou]

Go for a GF4 Ti4200 64MB - GREAT performance vs price :thumb:

I've heard you can OC it to 4600 performance (never needed any more performance on mine!)

They outperform the 128MB model in almost every catagory. I love mine... good product. Forget Radeon or the MX series(just a weaksauce pumped GF2!::thumbs do )

$131 (free shipping!) BUY IT HERE

I would also strongly suggest that you take a long look at an Athalon CPU. I honestly don't know why anyone buys intel chips... why don't you just bend over :snip:

What HD are you going for? There are some killer hard drives at great prices out there!

:bounce2:

[akapaul]

I already have a BARACUDDA 40gb 7200rpm, I will get a bigger one as soon as I will get the budget for it :)

[HackofDestruct]

good setup but you should go for thew athlon though or you can start stretching for your toes

[akapaul]

ABIT TH7II INTEL 850 ATX MOTHERBOARD - RETAIL Supports Intel Pentium 4 socket 478 processor. Supports up to Four 184-pin Direct Rambus RIMM modules up to 2GB (PC600/800). Supports 400MHz system bus. NO OnBoard LAN - NO RAID. Model#: TH7II

This means that the only type of RAMBUS I can put in is PC600/800?

[akapaul]

Does anyone know where I can get one?

[akapaul]

I see them on newegg.com but most of them have an AMD power supply. I will get the chieftec case without the PSU, and I will buy the psu seperately. Which one is the best bang for the buck? 350 watts...

[zeradul]

It is very often your best bet to get a PSU/Case combo. I just bought a case (that has the indentical case guts as yours - made by the same company) For only 40$ more than the power supply costs ALONE! Shipping included!.

Look at directron.com, they have alot of very similar cases, with different power supplies....

[Ehhe Yebeb]

Get the Abit TH7II w/ PC800 RAM, and a p4 1.8a. You will still get great performance out of that. Also as a video card, i would get either a GF3 Ti200 or Radeon 7500 but that is because i dont believe spending lots of money on video cards, anyway the human eye is not capable of seeing the difference between 75FPS and 175FPS, which makes any GeForce 4 Ti series card useless to me, thats just a personal opinion

[Ehhe Yebeb]

Bang for buck 350W probably something like Antec solution. The antec solution 350W are pretty decent. If you are looking for a little better then i suggest Antec truepower 330W or 380W.

[akapaul]

Thanks for the info guys :cheers:

Get the Abit TH7II w/ PC800 RAM, and a p4 1.8a. You will still get great performance out of that. Also as a video card, i would get either a GF3 Ti200 or Radeon 7500 but that is because i dont believe spending lots of money on video cards, anyway the human eye is not capable of seeing the difference between 75FPS and 175FPS, which makes any GeForce 4 Ti series card useless to me, thats just a personal opinion

What type of rambus? ECC or NON-ECC? I heard that ecc is for servers... What is the difference?

http://www.newegg.com/app/manufactor...alog=17&DEPA=1

[Wiggo]

EEC is an error checking circuit on the memory used in data servers mainly but it does have lower performance due to it and also costs more. ;)
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[Ehhe Yebeb]

Yeh you want NON-ECC and unbuffered

[akapaul]

Thanks guys, parts ordered :)

http://www.directgalaxy.com/pauly/CustomComputer.xls

[akapaul]

Just got the mobo today, rest of the parts will be here on monday. I can't wait, LOL.

I looked at the mobo, theres so many switches on it. I'm wondering if it will be hard to configure? I have to read the factory manual.

Also, when installing the p4 + heatsink on monday, do I have to use some kind of compound ? I heard people use something..