For all those budget users, Great PC under $1000 shipped

[wuzzapiman]

All from newegg.com. With a little overclocking this thing can break 20K 3D2003 marks.

ASPIRE Blue Voice Active Cold Cathode Flourescence Lamp,
$8.00

RAIDMAX Silver Mid-Tower Gaming Case with 350W Power Supply
$35.00

Lite-On Black DVD-Dual Drive, Model LDW-811S/LDW-851S, OEM
$70.99

Arctic Silver 5 Premium Silver Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound,
$7.49

Vantec "Stealth" 92mm Smart Case fan, Model "SF9225L"
$7.05

Thermalright "SLK900A" Copper Heatsink for AMD
$42.99

(3) Speeze 80mm DC Case fan, Model "FD08025S1M4"
$3.87

SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive, Model MPF920, OEM
$10.99

Western Digital Special Edition 120GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive
$85.00

LITE-ON SK-1788/BS Standard Black/Silver Keyboard PS/2 104keys
$5.00

Geil Ultra Series Value Dual Channel 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 w/ Blue Heatspreader - Retail
$189.00

ABIT "NF7-S" nForce2 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU -RETAIL
$85.00

Logitech MX500 Optical Mouse USB/ PS/2 -RETAIL
$32.00

AMD 45 Watt Mobile Athlon XP 2500+, 266 FSB, 512K Cache - OEM
$88.00

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack SP1a - OEM
$90.00

POWERCOLOR ATI RADEON 9800PRO Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV Out, 8X AGP, Model "XR98-C3" -BULK
$199.00


Subtotal » $ 959.38

So, wudyall think?

[David]

Looks nice. I would probably save money by losing the floppy drive and going for just 512MB (I rarely need the full 1GB I have in my rig) RAM.

Apart from that looks pretty darn good! :)

[KOXC2003]

I'm not sure if this fits in your budget but a better PS might be a great idea. 1 Gb of ram.. hard to say, soon games and other programs will probably use it more, but right now not completely necessary for games. Plus you could put that money towards a better power supply.

[Cow2kie]

I'm not sure if this fits in your budget but a better PS might be a great idea. 1 Gb of ram.. hard to say, soon games and other programs will probably use it more, but right now not completely necessary for games. Plus you could put that money towards a better power supply.


ut2k4 and farcry take advantage of more than 512mb a lot.. dunno about others.

[ajrettke]

Were right on the changeover IMO of having a 1gb standard. For games it's needed big time, I think it's fine, I like the choice of going with a nice high end video card and not a 9600p and A64 like I see of lot of people doing (worst mistake that could possibly be made next to using 256mb of memory).
Also a 9700p is around 130-140 in newegg refurbs, that might give you enough room to pickup an A64, which I think would be equal in terms of performance for gaming and give you 64bit capabilities.

[wuzzapiman]

Its not for me, just for the masses of people (like all my friends) that want a sub 1K PC. My next computer is a A64/X800P/1GB/Raptor all on TEC watercooling under 2K :)

[PCGUY112887]

Your going to want 1gig of memory... you may not right now but by Christmas you will!

EDIT - And there are a few things you can change on there and make the comp much better... and still under 1k :)

[Teger]

Ugh... I just built one helluva Athlon 64 system with a 9800pro flashed to XT for less than all of that. Better case and power supply and everything =/

[BeerHunter]

Not bad at all.:)



But where's your monitor and speakers?

Here's what i'd build.

-NEC/MITSUBISHI FE991SB-BK 19" SuperBright Diamondtron CRT $235
-Logitech Z-340 2.1 Speakers -$35
-CASE Antec slk3700w/ 350 w PSU $60
-Sony Black 52x32x52x16 Combo Drive, $40
-SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5inch $11
-Samsung 120GB 7200RPM $80
-Microsoft Black Multimedia Keyboard & Wheel Mouse $36
-1024mb 2x A-DATA 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 cas 2.5 - $152
-AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2500+ OC to 2500Mhz $88.00
-Shuttle AN35N $54
-POWERCOLOR ATI RADEON 9800SE softmod to PRO $145.00
-Dynatron Copper HSF for Socket A "BH-625LED" $12


= $948

[Chowdy]

Not bad at all.:)



But where's your monitor and speakers?

Here's what i'd build.

-NEC/MITSUBISHI FE991SB-BK 19" SuperBright Diamondtron CRT $235
-Logitech Z-340 2.1 Speakers -$35
-CASE Antec slk3700w/ 350 w PSU $60
-Sony Black 52x32x52x16 Combo Drive, $40
-SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5inch $11
-Samsung 120GB 7200RPM $80
-Microsoft Black Multimedia Keyboard & Wheel Mouse $36
-1024mb 2x A-DATA 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 cas 2.5 - $152
-AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2500+ OC to 2500Mhz $88.00
-Shuttle AN35N $54
-POWERCOLOR ATI RADEON 9800SE softmod to PRO $145.00
-Dynatron Copper HSF for Socket A "BH-625LED" $12


= $948


better pray that 9800 softmods w/o artifacts :p

[bradleyland]

That's awesome. Good work.

As for the RAM... Just about every game I play (except for Tribes 2 :) ) works so much better with a gig of RAM. Especially when you try to exit the game to see the load screen.

Games like:

BF 1942
BF1942:Desert Combat
BF Vietnam
CoD
America's Army
...

[treepop]

I have found for games like Everquest and BF:Vietnam I get better performance with 1 gig of ram at 166fsb compared to my 512 at 225! which is very frustrating seeing as I traded my 1 gig for 512 of faster :(..............but alas I will live....and when I can afford to get another 512 stick that I hope can stick with my 2x256 BH-5 ram :santa2: but I doubt I will be able to afford that anything soon :(

[speed bump]

well I am just about to order my new parts and have a couple questions. First why the Uber expensive heatsink for mild OC. Second why a dvd writer. Third why an PATA hd instead of a SATA, the samsung 120gb SATA hd is only 11 bucks more and is very quiet from what I hear. Fourth why Geil ram I haven't heard to many great things about recently. finally why a 2500 when you can get the 2400 for a bit less, it should do just fine at mild OCs.

[elec999]

Not bad at all.:)



But where's your monitor and speakers?

Here's what i'd build.

-NEC/MITSUBISHI FE991SB-BK 19" SuperBright Diamondtron CRT $235
-Logitech Z-340 2.1 Speakers -$35
-CASE Antec slk3700w/ 350 w PSU $60
-Sony Black 52x32x52x16 Combo Drive, $40
-SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5inch $11
-Samsung 120GB 7200RPM $80
-Microsoft Black Multimedia Keyboard & Wheel Mouse $36
-1024mb 2x A-DATA 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 cas 2.5 - $152
-AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2500+ OC to 2500Mhz $88.00
-Shuttle AN35N $54
-POWERCOLOR ATI RADEON 9800SE softmod to PRO $145.00
-Dynatron Copper HSF for Socket A "BH-625LED" $12


= $948
Hey
Sorry to kick in, nice setups is see here. Just curious to see if any guides to go about doing the radeon 9800se to pro mod.
Thanks

[PCGUY112887]

Just curious to see if any guides to go about doing the radeon 9800se to pro mod.

There is a SE to Pro mod??
If I was you, I would just save up for the pro... the SE's aren't too good... and if ATI gets off their lazy bum soon the price should drop very soon.

[BeerHunter]

Ya I've never heard of failure with powercolors SE.

http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=101&var2=0

Or just download the softmod driver from here http://softmod.ocfaq.com