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Faeroon

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Jun 19, 2006
Hi :)

I'm thinking about buying some new hardware.
Nothing too fancy, nothing too hardcore-pricy, just
some decent stuff, because my roommate needs a new
pc badly and is thinking about buying my old one.

Sooo... I have roughly ~350Euros to spend on
a) Mainbord
b) RAM
c) CPU
d) GPU
and e) case.

I looked up some stuff and got a price for it from
a friend who works at a hardware store:

a) MoBo: MSI K8N Neo4-F (65€)
b) OCZ 2GB 2-3-2-4 DDR400 (199€)
c) AMD Venice 3500+ (98€)
with Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro (14€)
d) XFX 7600 GS XT (115€)
and
e) Arctic Cooling Silentium T3 (74€)


The questions is: is this configuration any good?
What about the case; has anyone had any experience
with it? Because my old case has practically zero
cooling (0 air flow due to 0 extra fans :p) and
it's damn loud - I'm hoping for something better this
time.

I can't spend too much money, thus no AM2 boards for
me - dual core is too expensive too :-/

As long as it'll be able to run WoW, Fear and such
it's ok. I don't need the best of the bunch, I'm
not pushing for the fps-limits here.

So, if anyone could tell me, if this is ok
or if I should for example get Geil or Corsair RAM
instead of OCZ, then please do so :)

If there is anything which could be replaced by
something cheaper and (in ideal circumstances) better
- don't hesitate to shout ;)

If you can see any bottleneck here, it would be
nice to give me a hint.


Thanks in advance.
 
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