The Shadow
Member
I started a thread earlier this year (May? June?) about building a new PC. Quite a number of you suggested I wait because of PCI Express boards and what not. FU! I loaned out my PC upgrade money thinking it'd be a good way to prevent me from blowing it too soon and now I finally got it back. GUESS WHAT PCI EXPRESS AIN'T HERE YET FUCKERS
Anyway, Doom 3 is out and Half-Life 2 should be out soon. I need to upgrade. This is a general idea of what I'm going to build.
CPU:
AMD Athlon 3500+ socket 939
Mobo:
Asus A8V DELUXE VIA K8T800 Pro Chipset
Video:
Currently Undecided. I may wait until some Half-Life 2 retail benches are out which means I'd be waiting for another couple of weeks. Maybe anyway
Mem:
1GB (I know how much, undecided on brand or anything else)
HDD:
~40gb 10k rpm HDD (Any drive will do. Probably go with Seagate though)
Everything else I'll probably just transfer over. I have an Audigy 2, a Samsung DVD-ROM, and a NEC DVD-/+RW drive that'll go into the new PC.
As you can see, most if not all of this is pretty much undecided yet. I'd really like to get an Athlon 64 of some kind though. The 40gb 10k may have to be SATA because I have two 120gb PATA drives I'd like to transfer over along with the two DVD drives. That's five drives total when most motherboards only support 4 PATA devices.
Any help is greatly appreciated unless it's really, really stupid advice.
Anyway, Doom 3 is out and Half-Life 2 should be out soon. I need to upgrade. This is a general idea of what I'm going to build.
CPU:
AMD Athlon 3500+ socket 939
Mobo:
Asus A8V DELUXE VIA K8T800 Pro Chipset
Video:
Currently Undecided. I may wait until some Half-Life 2 retail benches are out which means I'd be waiting for another couple of weeks. Maybe anyway
Mem:
1GB (I know how much, undecided on brand or anything else)
HDD:
~40gb 10k rpm HDD (Any drive will do. Probably go with Seagate though)
Everything else I'll probably just transfer over. I have an Audigy 2, a Samsung DVD-ROM, and a NEC DVD-/+RW drive that'll go into the new PC.
As you can see, most if not all of this is pretty much undecided yet. I'd really like to get an Athlon 64 of some kind though. The 40gb 10k may have to be SATA because I have two 120gb PATA drives I'd like to transfer over along with the two DVD drives. That's five drives total when most motherboards only support 4 PATA devices.
Any help is greatly appreciated unless it's really, really stupid advice.