No doubt that is a machine to drool over Pokey, but the end result is a computer that costs 3 times as much, that will not deliver 3 times the performance. Go to your favorite computer review site, an pay attention to the benchmarks. The performance is more like 25-30% better and no more. Sli vid cards alone will give you less then a 10% increase in frame rate, but yet you just shelled out twice as much money. Top of the line computers are for people with enough money to buy a new 3 grand computer every year. For those of us that have to actually count our money, they are a pipe dream. Jay i bought a DFI mother board because of there top rated support forums. www.Dfi-street.com My system was designed by Angry_Games a moderator there. My first build, and im so happy with it. Any time i had a ?, i posted the ? and it was answered within 24 hours every time. I would recomend you go there, and post how much you have to spend in "off topic" and ask for recommendations. Be aware that DFI mobo's are geared towards overclockers, so there forums sorta lean that way alot. P.S i bought everything from newegg.
I do drool over it, but I had to settle for the Duel-X Gamer's Edge with some upgrades in it instead. Don't have the money :-(
Alright, thank you for all your help and comments. Here is what I'm thinking right now. I looked them up on newegg as well. If you know something at the same or relative price, please tell me... ESC KN1 Extreme Socket 939 Nvidia nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $97.99 ATRIX CSCI-L8005-C43 Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 400W Power Supply - Retail $55.99 Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM $55 (I have another 300GB with me) e ECS KN1 Extreme Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $97.99 eVGA 256-P2-N386 Geforce 6800GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail $205 CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model VS1GBKIT400 - Retail $80 Please tell me what you think. It costs total including shipping 780. I don't want to spend more than 800$ because I gotta buy a monitor. Do you know where I can get the cheapest price for monitors? preferrably a 17"? Also Do you think I'll need another power supply?
I think the mobo is close to good enough, but for another $40 or less you can get a sli version that will make upgrading in the future to 2 video cards quite easy. Easier to just move some jumpers and plug a card in, then replace mobo later. Your buying a sli ready card, would be a shame to never put it to the test later on. Card looks pretty good by the way. Im sure that is a good hard drive, but this drive is loved by us guys at DFI forums http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822145082 3gps transfer rate for $51. I just ordered 4 for my build. They are also 80 gig. Building any system now should require a minimum of 2 gigs of ram. BF2 rewards 2 gigs of ram with smoothness. otherwise it could be a herky jerky experiance. Have you decided on a cpu yet. If you can swing a x2-4400, you will love life. Anything slower then that puts you back at 512mb onchip secondary cache. 1024 for x2-4400 on up. I was gonna get myself a new monitor as well, but decided to spend the money on hard parts instead. Shipping Method UPS Ground Invoice Date 1/10/2006 10:33:19 AM Item Description Quantity Unit Price Extended Price 13-136-157 MB DFI LP UT nF4 SLI-DR NF4SLI 939 (Serial#: U54801045) 1 $169.99 $169.99 DFI (510)-623-5010 20-227-066 MEM 1Gx2|OCZ OCZ5002048ELGEGXT-K R (Serial#: 0C1JAY04000000W) 1 $249.94 $249.94 For Tech support call: 408 986 8400 or email support@ocztechnology.com 17-711-002 PSU OCZ | OCZ520ADJSLI 520W RT (Serial#: 0AJLWA040000072) 1 $139.99 $139.99 For Tech support call: 408 986 8400 or email support@ocztechnology.com 11-119-039 CASE COOLERMAS|STC-T01-UWK RT (Serial#: 06MBI70A000000R) 1 $158.50 $158.50 22-145-082 HD 80G|HITC 7K 8M SATA2 0A30356 % (Serial#: S6RV34VM ,S6RUP3KM ,S6RV5PZM ,S6RVRS3M) 4 $50.99 $203.96 19-103-546 CPU AMD 64 |4400+ ATHLON X2 939P RT (Serial#: 1340217J50401) 1 $497.00 $497.00 For Retail AMD processor, please call 408 749-3060 for service after first 30 days. For OEM AMD processor, we will service for 30 days only. Please verify the Processor matches your order Prior To installation. IMPORTANT: Always pack your CPU well for return. We will refuse your RMA if we received it as DAMAGED! Subtotal $1,419.38 Tax $0.00 Shipping and Handling charge $60.60 Amount Paid $1,479.98 Im waiting for a bfg 7800gtx oc to get back in stock so i can buy it. Then later down the road when the prices of these cards drop, ill get another one to complete my system. Ill be playing some good games till then thou.
ps mine is on kitchen table right now. Im hiding as many wires as i can till everything gets here. I just need the drives, and vid card to finish er off. The extra gig ram actually just aids in game load time. The 4 drives i have will be put in a raid array, to esentialy give me 12gbs. transfer bandwidth. This sucker is gonna sream speed.
your cpu: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ ClawHammer 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3500ASBOX - Retail (limit 10 per customer) 64 bit Support: Yes Cooling Device: Heatsink and Fan Hyper-Transport Support: Yes [bold]L1 Cache: 64KB+64KB L2 Cache: 512KB[/bold] Mine: AMD Series Athlon 64 X2 Model ADA4400CDBOX CPU Socket Type CPU Socket Type Socket 939 Tech Spec Core Toledo Name Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Operating Frequency 2.2GHz FSB 1GHz [bold]L1 Cache 128KB+128KB L2 Cache 2 x 1MB [/bold] Those are the next most important #'s in the cpu buisness. The cache is what gives the CPU the overhead to pre-fetch, pre-calculate, pre just about anything. Ive never understood why you have to buy a faster cpu to get the higher memory. Seems like they would sell a hell of alot more chips if they offered differant caches for each chip.
wow it costs way over 300$...there's no way I can buy that with my current. I don't want to go over my budget...
I'm having a hard time finding the costs on tigerdirect.com of my parts to see if there is a better cost. I've typed the search but can't find some of the parts like my motherboard processor/cpu
what's better btw these two graphic card? They cost the same. Do you know any that are better about the same price? XFX http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150118 Gigabyte http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814125218
The xfx card is built with a fast clock speed, and supports 2.0 glide. The other card is basically a stock card. The reviews look good, but be aware that the newer xfx cards are having problems that are not being solved by the manufacture in a timely fashion. If the card works, which i think it will judging by the reviews, then the xfx is the card u want. Back to the cpu. i know the sticker shock is hellabad on my cpu, but that cpu will take me at least a year, before i even think about overclocking anything on computer. If i were you, id wait till i had the extra change to get the better cpu. There are lotsa places you can skimp when building a system, but the cpu will remind you how much you skimped every time you use it. I gave up on getting my BFG 7800gtx oc512 mb card, as its never in stock. Settled on the BFG 7800 GTX 128 mb version. I should get a seriously good jump on building my sytem this weekend.
Why is it better to get a 1gb of ram instead of a 2X512mb? I mean would having more than 2gb be useful?
Here's an update. I decided to get the 1gb ram instead of the 2X512mb one corsair cuz there's only 1 $ difference. If any of you thinks it's a bad idea tell me... The CPU AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3700BNBOX - Retail Model #: ADA3700BNBOX Item #: N82E16819103539 (223$) I invested 20$ more for it. Video XFX PVT42GUAD7 Geforce 6800GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail (195$) Because the other video card sold out. DVD Burner NEC Black IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner Model ND-3550A - OEM Model #: ND-3550A BK OEM Item #: N82E16827152058 (39$) Tell me what you think...I don't think I can invest any more money...i'm flat at 1030$ right now...
About the ram. I changed it back to a 512mbX2 because the dual thing is supposedly better than the normal 1gb. Also the 1 gb is 15% slower performance. Correct me if I'm wrong... Also I got this 17 inch moniter. Are there better ones or specs for about the same price? (has mail in rebate) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824218002
Well...I got my comp built and it's up and running on XP pro. (Corp version...I love college...they give freebies! ) I updated my sig with the latest components but forgot to include an extra 300GB Sata HD. Thank you all for contributing and helping me get this!
