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Don't forget that a monitor is going to be kick in the shorts, unless your keeping your current one. Printer? Ethernet controller? USB controller?

 

i'm keeping my printer and monitor...for now...17" monster...what is a usb and ethernet controller??

 

On your motherboard you will have PCI slots, one or two PCI-E. If you want USB ports and Ethernet (Broadband Internet interface, networking) you need those PCI cards, then the ports stick out the back of your case. Your mobo will include your Gb Ethernet, and some USB ports, but you will probally want more and more and more USB ports (I know I ran out and I have 12). USB ports will take a PCI slot, I doubt they make a USB controller for PCI-E, because PCI-E isn't parallel, it's a serial interface (So they would have to come up with a completely new card, R&D costs money), so I doubt it. That would be a waste of a PCI-E slot anyway, rambling...

 

i just realized that my video card (radeon 7000) is agp. does that mean it won't be compatable with the mobo i linked above?

also my sound card is Creative SB Live! - is this still better than the sound that comes on that mobo or should i not bother putting it in the new comp? this is the mobo spec for audio

Audio
• 7.1 channel audio codec RealTek ALC850
- Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec.
- Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.

 

Your graphics card won't fit being AGP, your new mobo is PCI-E, so you'll be wanting a new card or a NF3 mobo .... sound cards are usually better than on board sound

 

An SB Live! is much better than standard onboard sound. I was forced to buy a dedicated sound card for my PC because the sound quality on my Realtek AC97 was appalling.

 

hey,

ddp or anyone else, i found another computer site but its in another state

http://www.ticomputers.com.au/

What do you think ?

 

Well it depends on whats inside the better it is the more i we pay, well you already know that, i have found another site:

http://www.itwarehouse.com.au/

http://www.itwarehouse.com.au/warehouse/detail.htm?ProductID=SYS-GT-CEL2.6C

This case looks cool

 

this is the setup i plan to buy let me know if you think there is a problem or if i missed something
Floppy http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16821103203
Hdd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822144186
Psu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817101207
Ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820145524
Cpu http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103562
Gpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814122231
Mobo http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131540
I already have a case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811166003
A monitor mouse and keyboard and a the os
oops thanks i didnt notice that

 

Looks good, but the gpu link refers to a psu & theres no mobo link, unless you already have one

 

Regarding the 'intel make faster processors to start with, so you don't need to overclock them, and they don't overheat so they last longer' argument, I'd want to say a word beginning with B and ending in S, but i shant.

I'll just say absolute rubbish.

Anything above a rated speed of 3200ish, AMD will definitely be faster BEFORE overclocking, and cooler - just see how hot dual core LGA775 CPUs run.... Scary.

 

AMD sweeps intel with a lower clock rate with "branchy code" with a shorter instruction pipeline. Intel and AMD come out the smae dollar for dollar with any other type of code like media encoding.

This is why AMD is huge with gamers, the CPU is better, at a lower clock rate, giving you extensive room to move way way up.

Intel CPUs are better, but only at a few and relatively insignificant things, playing back media, wow, ok.

 

Yeah playback, but that's hardly intensive.
Encoding is kind of shared between AMD and Intel. In some apps AMD thrashes intel and sometimes vice versa.

However, given that that field's even, add the advantage AMD has in gaming, and i believe that makes them the winners, surely?

 

got most of my new system in, the rest should be in mon-tues. all i need is my ram and burner
check out my sig for the details

 

Hi havent posted in a while but....
I have done the worst thing i bought a emachines computer lol, 300 bucks refurb 1 yr gauruntee, new hdd and such.
anyway, i wanted to put in a ati 700 256mb pci-express-16.
the emachines only have a 300w power would i need to buy a new power supply in order to use the card or what?...
also am looking to add more ram, wondering if i could keep in the 2x 256 and add 2x 512 for 512+1024= 1636. or do they all have to match? one last thing also i hear that emachines tend to get a little warm should i try putting in a diff fan it comes with a 120mm rear and then a 80mm on the psu. thanks for all your help.

 

yes sure its a pc-e 16, on a 939 socket board. has built in 128mb x300 built in, that site doesnt seem to have any options for a x700 pci-e 16 board only agp and regular pci. maybe i missed it it also has a amd 64 3200

 

posted early but still lost, looking at that site not in detail, just glancing the page linked, and the page linked after clicking amd. no pci-express 16 cards to reference, no ps/2 links to reference, and no 400mhz ddrram to reference, is there a more uptodte site like this?