Posted: 2/3/2009 5:44:41 PM EDT
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I posted in here yesterday or 2 days ago about building a new computer, and here's what I put together. I thought I'd see what you guys think...
Processor: Here AMD Phenom 8450 Toliman 2.1GHz Socket AM2+ 95W Triple-Core Processor Model HD8450WCGHBOX - Retail $89.99 Motherboard: Here GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $74.99 GPU: Here BIOSTAR VA4352NH56 Radeon HD 4350 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Retail $37.99 Case w/fan: Here COOLER MASTER Centurion 534 RC-534-KKRB-GP Black Aluminum & Mesh bezel / SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 460W Power Supply - Retail $89.99 Memory: Here Crucial Ballistix 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model BL2KIT25664AA80A - Retail $47.99 Hard drive: Here Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $74.99 CD/DVD Burner: Here LG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner w/ SecurDisc Tech - OEM $20.99 Total with shipping: $466.47 I can get Vista Ultimate from my school for around $14 and I already have office as well as Kaspersky Internet Security. I mostly want to just run pictures, music, and movies with no problems whatsoever, and also maybe play some older games like Age of Empires II, Starcraft, and Command and Conquer Generals. That'd be about the extent of my gaming, this would do me pretty well right? |
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The system I linked you to in the other thread will blow the doors off of your build for $100s buck more or so.
The video isnt as good but Core 2 Quad 8300 is mucho better than AMD # Intel® Core 2 Quad Processor Q8300 # 4GB DDR2 SDRAM # 640GB 7,200RPM Hard Drive. # Labelflash SuperMulti Double Layer 18x DVD±RW Drive # 15-in1 Media Card Reader # Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 # 10/100 Network # Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium |
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I always use Gigabyte motherboards. ASUS and Intel boards have let me down in the past.
I won't use anything other than Western Digital drives. It was a WD utility which alerted me to an imminent drive failure and also informed me that the issue was under warranty. Sent them the drive and got a new one back from them. I suggest that you buy another WD drive. Smallest SATA sive you can get (80gig I think). Then you can install Windows and your programs on the 80gig 'C' drive and keep your 500gig 'D' drive for all your data and for the windows swap file (virtual memory). Once a year you can format the 'C' drive and reinstall the programs - data is safe on the other physical drive. I've had bad luck with Crucial memory. G-Skill is my personal preference. If it were me, I'd get an nVidia based graphics card rather than Radeon but again that's just a personal preference. Is your power supply going to be 'enough' for what you are building? There are a few power supply calculators online to give you a rough idea. Good luck! -J |
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I always use Gigabyte motherboards. ASUS and Intel boards have let me down in the past. I won't use anything other than Western Digital drives. It was a WD utility which alerted me to an imminent drive failure and also informed me that the issue was under warranty. Sent them the drive and got a new one back from them. I suggest that you buy another WD drive. Smallest SATA sive you can get (80gig I think). Then you can install Windows and your programs on the 80gig 'C' drive and keep your 500gig 'D' drive for all your data and for the windows swap file (virtual memory). Once a year you can format the 'C' drive and reinstall the programs - data is safe on the other physical drive. I've had bad luck with Crucial memory. G-Skill is my personal preference. If it were me, I'd get an nVidia based graphics card rather than Radeon but again that's just a personal preference. Is your power supply going to be 'enough' for what you are building? There are a few power supply calculators online to give you a rough idea. Good luck! -J In addition, get an external drive and back your stuff up to it. ALWAYS have your irreplaceable data in at least TWO places!!! |
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I always use Gigabyte motherboards. ASUS and Intel boards have let me down in the past. I won't use anything other than Western Digital drives. It was a WD utility which alerted me to an imminent drive failure and also informed me that the issue was under warranty. Sent them the drive and got a new one back from them. I suggest that you buy another WD drive. Smallest SATA sive you can get (80gig I think). Then you can install Windows and your programs on the 80gig 'C' drive and keep your 500gig 'D' drive for all your data and for the windows swap file (virtual memory). Once a year you can format the 'C' drive and reinstall the programs - data is safe on the other physical drive. I've had bad luck with Crucial memory. G-Skill is my personal preference. If it were me, I'd get an nVidia based graphics card rather than Radeon but again that's just a personal preference. Is your power supply going to be 'enough' for what you are building? There are a few power supply calculators online to give you a rough idea. Good luck! -J I went ahead and changed the memory from Crucial to G-Skill for another $2, it has a CAS Latency of 4 rather than 5 on the Crucial (I have no idea what that means but I hear 4 is good). What would you recommend for an nVidia graphics card? And are the mobo and processor going to work fine? Is there a certain graphics card I should match with it? I'm going to look into the power supply, I don't really know anything about them though so I don't know what enough would be... As far as the hard drive is concerned, couldn't I do something similar with a partitioned hard drive? I never used one before, but my MIS professor was telling me how he partitions his quite a bit and if one partition goes bad from a virus or something the rest are just fine. And if I were to get an extra hard drive instead of just this one what would I have to do differently when installing my OS? ETA: Link to G-Skill memory |