What to buy with $500, what barebone.....

96redformula · 08-24-04, 01:38 AM

I am going to be spending ~$500 in a month or so and would like to know what you all reccomend I do with that money to get the best bang for my buck. I was looking around and it seems that www.unitedmicro.com would be a good place to get a barebone system. I am wondering if it would be worth the money to buy an Athon 64 3000+, 512 DDR 400MHZ, unknown on motherboard. I would like to get it to be $500 with cd rom/dvd rom and a small hard drive, but i doubt that will happen. What motherboards do you all reccomend and which system shall I get?? My 9800 Pro will be the video card and 420w Thermaltake PSU.

Oh and I have not used anything besides ide Hard drives....anybody care to explain the whole SATA ATA hard drive thing, the new mothermoards come with them from what I am reading, no controller needed?

David · 08-24-04, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by 96redformula

Oh and I have not used anything besides ide Hard drives....anybody care to explain the whole SATA ATA hard drive thing, the new mothermoards come with them from what I am reading, no controller needed?

The current IDE standard is Parallel ATA - long wide ribbon cables.

SATA is Serial ATA, using thin cables, and a different power connection.

SATA is just a faster interface, although it doesnt provide much benefit as drives are nowhere close to saturating Parallel ATA as it is.

itshondo · 08-24-04, 08:05 AM

you might want to look at the barebones avail at Newegg, they have a lot of them

96redformula · 08-24-04, 10:07 AM

All I see at newegg are some little compact size towers that I definatly don't want............

KnowlesTech · 08-24-04, 10:27 AM

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08-24-04, 01:38 AM	Thread Starter #1
96redformula Member Join Date: Aug 2004	What to buy with $500, what barebone..... I am going to be spending ~$500 in a month or so and would like to know what you all reccomend I do with that money to get the best bang for my buck. I was looking around and it seems that www.unitedmicro.com would be a good place to get a barebone system. I am wondering if it would be worth the money to buy an Athon 64 3000+, 512 DDR 400MHZ, unknown on motherboard. I would like to get it to be $500 with cd rom/dvd rom and a small hard drive, but i doubt that will happen. What motherboards do you all reccomend and which system shall I get?? My 9800 Pro will be the video card and 420w Thermaltake PSU. Oh and I have not used anything besides ide Hard drives....anybody care to explain the whole SATA ATA hard drive thing, the new mothermoards come with them from what I am reading, no controller needed? Last edited by 96redformula; 08-24-04 at 01:55 AM.
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