Black Deatha
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I feel like a bit of a idiot posting a topic like this again, becuase I have made a couple in the past on the old board. And something always made me end up not getting the new PC yet. It usualy had to do with either money, or having someone here tell me about something cool that wasnt out yet, and I would read more about it and find I wanted to wait for it. One example of this was I kinda held off for Socket 939 (I am building an Athlon 64 system). Another factor in not getting it was I plan to order the parts on this site But I unfourtinatly untill just recantly didnt have my own credit card. Andf trying to convince my dad to use his card online is something I didnt want to really go through again. And also the s939 CPU I wanted was way expensive, so I was waiting for the price to drop down which it has now. And lastly Half Life 2 still hasnt released, but since it looks like it will soon...
I am Canadian, as are all these prices.
I have pretty much decided on the system I am planning to build and I'll list the specs now:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ s939
Asus A8V Delux motherboard
2GB DDR400 PC3200 RAM, for this I am thinking on buying 2 of these
I already own some of the parts:
ATI Radeon 9800 Peo
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
160 gig Western Digital hardrive
LG Dual Layer DVD burner
And than there's the case, that's one thing I am having a lot of trouble deciding on. I found one I really like, but it's quite expensive, and it's too big to fit on my desk, my current tower is just over 17" tall, and it barely fits under the hutch of my desk. This one I liked was a Coolermaster, it's called the Wavemaster, this is it here But it's like 19" tall or something.
Anyway the point is I need help in deciding on a case, I want a black case, and prefferably one with a dore/cover on the front. Especaly so now since unfourtinatly the LG DVD drive didnt come with a black swapable faceplate, in fact it doesnt even look like you can take the white one off. But the dore isnt imparitive, I may buy another drive down the road. But I still want it to match up. Here is a link to all the vases they have, so please help me by recomending me a decent case, I think they stock most major brands.
Also as for the RAM, I know a little, but not a lot about it, so please tell me if this is a good choice, from what I understand of timings, it seems to be good. but still, I would like to hear from someone who knows more about it.
And if I order a system from that site I can also buy a OEM version of Win XP Pro, but I am not sure what exactly they class as a system.
Anyway as of right now I know pretty much what I want, but I just have these few above questions. Oh and one other, I remember reading a while back (it may have been here) that someone had some compatibility problem with a similar setup to what I plan to build. I remember it being something along the lines of he wasnt able to play games or something becuase of the Asus board combined with his video card and CPU. I think the CPU was a 3500+. Since this is deffinatly going to be used for gaming, that would not bode well. So will i have this problem, or has it been resolved. I have heard that the Asus board is like a revision 2.0 or something, so maybe it's been fixed? That is assuming the problem I heard of was on the older model.
Anyway, any help you guys can give me is appreciated.
~Black Deatha
I am Canadian, as are all these prices.
I have pretty much decided on the system I am planning to build and I'll list the specs now:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ s939
Asus A8V Delux motherboard
2GB DDR400 PC3200 RAM, for this I am thinking on buying 2 of these
I already own some of the parts:
ATI Radeon 9800 Peo
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
160 gig Western Digital hardrive
LG Dual Layer DVD burner
And than there's the case, that's one thing I am having a lot of trouble deciding on. I found one I really like, but it's quite expensive, and it's too big to fit on my desk, my current tower is just over 17" tall, and it barely fits under the hutch of my desk. This one I liked was a Coolermaster, it's called the Wavemaster, this is it here But it's like 19" tall or something.
Anyway the point is I need help in deciding on a case, I want a black case, and prefferably one with a dore/cover on the front. Especaly so now since unfourtinatly the LG DVD drive didnt come with a black swapable faceplate, in fact it doesnt even look like you can take the white one off. But the dore isnt imparitive, I may buy another drive down the road. But I still want it to match up. Here is a link to all the vases they have, so please help me by recomending me a decent case, I think they stock most major brands.
Also as for the RAM, I know a little, but not a lot about it, so please tell me if this is a good choice, from what I understand of timings, it seems to be good. but still, I would like to hear from someone who knows more about it.
And if I order a system from that site I can also buy a OEM version of Win XP Pro, but I am not sure what exactly they class as a system.
Anyway as of right now I know pretty much what I want, but I just have these few above questions. Oh and one other, I remember reading a while back (it may have been here) that someone had some compatibility problem with a similar setup to what I plan to build. I remember it being something along the lines of he wasnt able to play games or something becuase of the Asus board combined with his video card and CPU. I think the CPU was a 3500+. Since this is deffinatly going to be used for gaming, that would not bode well. So will i have this problem, or has it been resolved. I have heard that the Asus board is like a revision 2.0 or something, so maybe it's been fixed? That is assuming the problem I heard of was on the older model.
Anyway, any help you guys can give me is appreciated.
~Black Deatha
