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PawNtheSandman

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I am current running a AMD Athlon 2000+, 2x 512mb sticks of allcomponents ram.

I am waiting for PCI-X, DDR-2 and Win 64bit to have the initial kinks worked out, so I would like a system that can hold me over for 2-3 years at which point, I will just buy top of the line. I do not play the latest and greatest games. I play Americas Army mostly. I will buy a new video card when I want to play Far Cry. I do not overclock nor do I plan to.

Here is what I am leaning towards. Any help would be appreciated.

Soltek "SL-K8AN2E-GR" motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3000
Corsair XMS 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200
Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive
From new egg, these items would be around $600

I will use my old DVD-RW, Geforce 2 AGP and GeForce 4 PCI video cards, SB Live 5.1 Platinum sound.

I do not plan to run raid. The OS and basic programs will go on the raptor. All my movies, music, etc will stay on my current 200gb IDE WD HD.

I figure sometime down the line, I can get a 2nd higher storage raptor to replace the IDE one, I can also get a new vid card with dual out and tv-out, a dual layer DVD-RW.


Suggestions?
 
sounds like your current computer would suit you fine... why bother upgrading half way now... the things you are waiting on will be available end of next year, so just wait... there is no point in half-assing an upgrade that you want to last you 2-3 years... in order for a computer to last that long really you need to go all out... so just wait another year with what you've got and you'll be much happier... besides... your computer is more than servicable for what you are doing with it...
 
age is no reason to get rid of a computer :)... some of my favorite ones are old clunkers ;)... as long as a computer is doing what you need it to perfectly well, don't bother upgrading (and don't ever upgrade in anticipation of a new game/prog either, wait until the game/prog is actually out)...

in all honesty, you'd be pissing your money away to upgrade to that now... when what you have works fine... wait another year and then you'll start noticing your computer just can't keep up with what you need it to do... at that point... upgrade ;)
 
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