800 dollar A64 System.

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So this is what's going on, my birthday is coming up in like 2 weeks, and my parents are giveing me 800 dollars to buy a new computer. After some research I've come up with this setup. Open to any comments or suggestions

Athlon 64 3000+ Venice - $150
CHAINTECH nForce 4 Ultra - $80
OCZ Performance Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) - $120
WD Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB SATA150 - $55
eVGA Geforce 6600GT - $150
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value - $60
Lian Li PC-65B Black - $120
THERMALTAKE TR2 430W - $40
Sony DL Burner - $35

Total - $810-ish
 
spacekeeter said:
So this is what's going on, my birthday is coming up in like 2 weeks, and my parents are giveing me 800 dollars to buy a new computer. After some research I've come up with this setup. Open to any comments or suggestions

Athlon 64 3000+ Venice - $150
CHAINTECH nForce 4 Ultra - $80
OCZ Performance Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) - $120
WD Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB SATA150 - $55
eVGA Geforce 6600GT - $150
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value - $60
Lian Li PC-65B Black - $120
THERMALTAKE TR2 430W - $40
Sony DL Burner - $35

Total - $810-ish
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take into account shipping and software.

In any case.
My 3000+ Whinchester Cost $129 new Retail. if its really 150 venice, then Ouch

You could go with cheaper memory. unless your playing with settings and o/cing, Look at value ram. Geil 1GB can be had for under 110, as well as Crucial and Corsair.

Vid card, if you dont mind used you can get a 6600gt for around 100. I'll be selling mine
once my 7800gt arrives.

Audigy, cant really comment since I hate creative. I would say go with a 24 dollar Chaintech AV710 with its Via envy HTs codec

If you buy some used parts on the forums you could easily get a better computer for the same price. a 6800nu, a 3200+, and so on.
 
I have that mobo and cpu but I have 2x1gb Crucial Value. OC @ 2.6ghz. That motherboard is pretty solid for the price, you should be able to hit 270+ HTT.
 
^Agreed, AMD dropped support for 754 I think..or if they haven't, they're planning to do so soon. I also agree with the suggestion of shopping around the FS/FT forums. There's a lot of good hardware to be had for cheap if you keep your eyes open. ;)
 
What does 939 have that 754 doesn’t? The only tings I count are Duel channel memory, and newer core revisions. And from what I can see, having those wouldn’t offer much of a performance boost anyway.

Go 754, save some cash, and wait it out for M2.
 
754 has no memory controller and its was a stepping stone for the 939. So go 939.
 
54YW4T said:
754 has no memory controller and its was a stepping stone for the 939. So go 939.
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Memory Controller's on the CPU, not on the socket :rolleyes:

My A64 has a memory controller onboard.
 
All S754 and S939 sockets have memory controllers on the CPU itself.

754 for price
939 for performance

The gap between on price isnt much unless we're talking X2.

Thats another benefit. 939 supports more chips, future chips(Sempron will eventually go 939, Opteron has gone 939) And you could always go X2.

I'd say get 939. I skipped 754 for obvious resons
 
From most imporant to least important:

-screw 754
-get a Fortron or Antec TPII PSU
-get a different HD
-Use onboard sound for now (price)
-get a cheaper case
-get a BenQ burner (or NEC... but not Sony)
 
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