Building new rig.....thoughts?
 

Ok, here's the dillio.
Arkan has a grand to build himself a new rig. Here's what i came up with so far.

Intel P4 2.6 Ghz (800 FSB)
Intel D875PBZ DDR 400 (i875 Canterwood) Mobo
Enermax ATX Tower Case (Full Tower)
Enermax 460W Power Supply
1GB (2 pcs 512) DDR 400 Corsair RAM
Western Digital 80Gig H/D 8MB Cache 7200
Asus 52x CD-ROM
Plextor 48X CD/RW
Mitsumi Floppy 7-in-1 USB card reader/s
24" ATA133 Round Cable

All components are black for that stealthy look. All other components like video card (Radeon 9500 Pro), sound card (SoundBlasterLive), etc, etc will come from my old system.

What do you think of it so far? I'm trying to get the best bang for the buck.

what im getting thursday, its gonna cost about 600-700 canadian

BOARD: ASUS A7N 8X - DELUXE
PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
MEMORY: 512 MB DDR 2700 RAM (one piece, Crucial preferred, but Kingston is OK)
CASE: Antec Mid Tower Case w/ 300W Power Supply

OEM xp

what kind of monitor you have?

[quote="Sargent_Scrotum":e4685]what im getting thursday, its gonna cost about 600-700 canadian

BOARD: ASUS A7N 8X - DELUXE
PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
MEMORY: 512 MB DDR 2700 RAM (one piece, Crucial preferred, but Kingston is OK)
CASE: Antec Mid Tower Case w/ 300W Power Supply

OEM xp[/quote:e4685]
finnaly you're getting rid of win98

[quote="Simo Häyhä":9377e]what kind of monitor you have?[/quote:9377e]

Me?, I have a 19" Sony CRT monitor. One of these days i'll get a flat screen.

[quote=Arkan]Me?, I have a 19" Sony CRT monitor. One of these days i'll get a flat screen.[/quote:fdebe]
i hear flat screens suck for gaming, my step dad has one and the game looks all choppy

[quote:1ed23]All components are black for that stealthy look.[/quote:1ed23]

We gotta be stealthy to steal hubcaps. oOo:

I need to upgrade in a bad way I think, but I'm so goddamned cheap that I cant justify a purchase if my shit is running fine - and it is.

Although I was tempted to get a 200gig WD HD for 120 bucks (after 150 dollar rebate).

video card ?

lol i wish i had money to soop up my computer but i cant get a job becasue im 12. my next up grade is a window, lights and fans in the case and a PNY FX 5200 AGP video card....woopidy-do

[quote="Sargent_Scrotum":c0df5]what im getting thursday, its gonna cost about 600-700 canadian

BOARD: ASUS A7N 8X - DELUXE
PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
MEMORY: 512 MB DDR 2700 RAM (one piece, Crucial preferred, but Kingston is OK)
CASE: Antec Mid Tower Case w/ 300W Power Supply

OEM xp[/quote:c0df5]
Ah, finally upgrading from that 350 mhz...

[quote="Simo Häyhä":d2357][quote="Sargent_Scrotum":d2357]what im getting thursday, its gonna cost about 600-700 canadian

BOARD: ASUS A7N 8X - DELUXE
PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
MEMORY: 512 MB DDR 2700 RAM (one piece, Crucial preferred, but Kingston is OK)
CASE: Antec Mid Tower Case w/ 300W Power Supply

OEM xp[/quote:d2357]
finnaly you're getting rid of win98[/quote:d2357]

its not windows that was bugging me...its the PII 350mhz proccesser thats bugging me cry:

[quote="Cool Fool":f3f6e][quote="Sargent_Scrotum":f3f6e]what im getting thursday, its gonna cost about 600-700 canadian

BOARD: ASUS A7N 8X - DELUXE
PROCESSOR: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
MEMORY: 512 MB DDR 2700 RAM (one piece, Crucial preferred, but Kingston is OK)
CASE: Antec Mid Tower Case w/ 300W Power Supply

OEM xp[/quote:f3f6e]
Ah, finally upgrading from that 350 mhz...[/quote:f3f6e]

yes! praise allah *fires ak47 into the air* hows your new pc running?

Well, just ordered my parts. They should be here next week. I'm gonna move the old system (Athlon 1.48 GHz, 384M RAM) into the den and hook it up to the net via linksys router. I'll then give my old Intel 650 to my Mom so she can e-mail and browse the net. (I'm sure i'll be over her place alot to teach her since she'll be a n00b)

As for the guy who asked about my video card, i posted in the original thread that i'm carrying over my Radeon 9500 Pro. I don't think it's necessary for me to update the card at this time. She runs just fine and i'm sure it'll handle HL2.

....now, it's a waiting game for the UPS guy !!

your new stuff is pretty good, are you over clocking the ram, and the processor?

0verclockiN
 

you mentioned overclockin the processor jdogsmooooth, how safe is it to do something like that, won't you need a big wind turbine to cool it down after overclocking?

Can anyone overclock, what about graphics cards?
just my processor is a P4 1.5GHz and got a geforce FX5200

*twiddles thumbs*

I ain't takin no unnecessary risks th0!

Good luck with your new system Arkan, tho i hear 1 in 5 UPS drivers crash and die during transport