Please give me your comments/suggestions for the following system from umart. I don't need dvd drives as I already have some I'll use. I don't really know anything about motherboards and videocards so if I've made a bad choice let me know. I don't really play games anymore, but I like having a decent system. Ta.

AMD Athlon™ 64 3200+ Processor Retail (939))(Venice) $233.00
ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 nForce 4 Motherboard $146.00
1024MB (2x 512MB) Value Select PC-3200 DDR RAM Corsair $135.00
Albatron 128MDDR PC6600GT PCI Express Video $185.00
BENQ FP91GX 19inch LCD 550:1 Silver/Black monitor 4ms DVI $499.00
Antec Top Quality Sonata II Quiet Black Case $175.00
Samsung SpinPoint 200GB 7200RPM 8Mb Cache HDD $111.00
Gigabyte GN-WP01GS Wireless PCI Network card 802.11b/g (54Mbps) Instock $35.00
Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard USB with PS2 $49.00
Logitech MX-518 Performance Optical Mouse(USB only) $59.00

Total $1627.00


ta

Looks ok. Even though you said that you don't play games much, I'd still consider getting a 256 Mb card over a 128 mb one.
Tried looking for a mobo that has it's own wireless slot onboard? I've seen some ASUS boards that had that (at least with Socket 478's based boards) ~ no real reason for that though.
Also, any particular reason why you chose Samsung as your disc drives?

looks good but id get a 7600 GT series cards, you also might want to get a sli board so you can drop another 7600 in down the road for future proofing.


last edited by 0z at 14:34:39 18/Mar/06

Basically an entry level gaming system (what you need to play s*** properly). Looks fine to me. Future proofing is bulls***.

The guy at umart wanted me to get the SLI version of the board, but I don't see how that is useful, because wouldnt it be better just to upgrade the single video card rather than buying a 2nd out-of-date one?

I chose the samsung HDD because it's designed to be quieter (see thread on Page 2 of QGL "hard drives that dont 'tick'")

I'm really not keen to spend more than this unless I have really gone wrong somewhere.

Basically an entry level gaming system (what you need to play s*** properly). Looks fine to me. Future proofing is bulls***.

SLI rocks check out the benchmarks and its worth spending extra 50+ dollors.

a single 6600GT will barley be payable with 800x600 with new gen games, you be better off getting a single 7800GT or GTX or a x1900, dont waste your moneys.

a 7800GT costs $500 and a GTX costs $675.

I don't want to pay that much for a video card, especially since they devalue so quickly anyway. I don't mind paying for an expensive monitor. As I said I don't need a top of the line v/card. If I play a game it's usually just quakeworld or counterstrike heh.

Anyone know if this m/board can handle DDR2 ram?

a 7800GT costs $500 and a GTX costs $675.

I don't want to pay that much for a video card, especially since they devalue so quickly anyway

get the 7600..


it's the new 6600GT+