Guest helloimtim Posted April 15, 2005 CID Share Posted April 15, 2005 I am gonna order a new barebones system next week. I found the case and mother board and chip and power supply I want. I will rob from this junk computer my harddrive, monator, keyboad,mouse speakers. My mother board is going and to replace is 150.00 bucks and that still not with agp slot which I want. Yes I know pci e is the next step for video cards. I will ride that agp pony for a few years then slap in a new mother board. My new system barebone will cost a shade over 300.00 bucks. Kinda cashy I guess but upgradeing will not be near as expensive and pain in the butt. Im gonna run a 3 gig mother board with 3 slots for ram. My chip will will be an atholon 3200 or 3.2 if your a intel fan. Case is really nice, transparent sides, blue lights, expansion slots out the ying yang. Even has a cool tem guage in the front and fan in the back and side panel. Ok any ideas on the other stuff I need?? Yes I am going with a new copy of xp on my harddrive after its wiped clean........thanks..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted April 15, 2005 CID Share Posted April 15, 2005 I would buy an OEM version of Windows XP PRO and save money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted April 15, 2005 CID Share Posted April 15, 2005 damn....u kind of confused me on what u want there LOL sorry but all in all, i think its worth considering pci-express especially if u plan on upgrading it AGAIN later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest helloimtim Posted April 15, 2005 CID Share Posted April 15, 2005 Thanks peeps. Did some checking. Found a place for xp pro oem. Cost on that was 110.00. Yea I was real careful and read allot. Made sure it was not not like a dell oem disk. I thought about going pci express. Gonna give that a few years see how it works out. Let them get the bugs worked out first. By then I will just slap another mother board in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cak46 Posted April 21, 2005 CID Share Posted April 21, 2005 Might be a bit late, but you might want to consider an ew hard drive, especially if your old drive is 2 or 3 yrs. old. That'll be a bottlneck for access speed. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorne Posted April 21, 2005 CID Share Posted April 21, 2005 Personally i would get the 2500 mobile and OC it to 3200 speed. It will OC to that speed at 1.6 vcore which is lower than the stock vcore a 3200 runs, so a stock heatsink is all you need. The price of the 2500 mobile is around 1/2 the price of the 3200 Oh yeah i heard ATI released the x800 series in AGP, haven't checked that out yet though, if true AGP is good for awhile yet.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted April 26, 2005 CID Share Posted April 26, 2005 I am not sure what the point of have 3 gigs of ram.. It is for a practical app like video editing.. The memory is going to be expensive as hell 1 gig chips.. You could cut your cost by getting 3 512 chips and then putting some more money into the motherboard so that you could get PCI-E or a better processor.. I do believe that the X800 is going to be out later this month.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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