Been a while since I've put together a new system...

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Skraggy_UK

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And now I'm planning 2.
I've just been adding, and upgrading, and hoping.
But now is the time.
I feel the pain of my missus, her Duron 750 groans with even fairly old games.
And the GeForce 4 MX440 that we used to replace her ancient and burnt out TNT2 has just croaked with a burst Capacitor after only 10 weeks (can see the burnt brown goop oozing).

And if she is getting an improvement, so am I. The most powerful PCs we have is my Duron 1.3.

The box that sits in the corner and routes/serves is a dual Compaq Pentium Pro with 1meg cache and that gets too hot to run with the case on. I've got a Compaq EN SFF 1ghz to replace it, when I get round to installing it.

So, I'm looking at bringing the hardware upto date, reduce the number of harddrives in my system, improve cooling, get some better cases (quite fancy a Lian-Li V2100 for me)

Any suggestions as to what might make a better system, as an uptodate entry general PC/gaming system.
I've already got a single layer DVDR I can use in my new system, but I'm probably looking at new cases, HDDs, Graphics cards, Mobo/CPUs, and memory.

open to suggestions. Won't be starting the build straight away, will be working things out, and saving some cash, instead of splurging the plastic and hoping prices don't plummet.

Was thinking about Semprom 3000+ or Or Athlon 64 3200 CPU and MSI motherboards as a starting point.
 
What kind of budget do you have?

Which socket are you going with?
 
NewGuy said:
What kind of budget do you have?

Which socket are you going with?
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Probably arround £500GBP per machine (and it doesn't get as much as $800USD would suggest), maybe upwards if I wait longer to save, and definatley more if I know I have cash coming and can CCard it while I'm waiting for it.
 
Have you thought about which socket (A, 754, 939) you'll be using?
 
S939 Venice 3000+ $125 ish
MB: $125
Videocard: $200 ish
RAM: $200ish for 1gig
HSF: $30-40 ish
use old HD's, case

~100$ for whatever else you want

USD
 
Cheers Danbanger, Sounds a good base point.
Last week, 2 of three of my HDDs started to fail.
So they got replaced.
Out
8 gig Samsung
8 gig Fujitsu (failing)
30 gig Seagate Baracuda ATA (failing)

In
120gig Samsung
120gig Samsung
160gig Samsung

Not fast, but plenty of storage space, and they were in the cheap "brownbox" component section, normally for system builders. Just listed by speed, size, interface, and Cache rather than brand.

Now those drives have been swapped it works so much better (cloned th system), I think a case upgrade maybe next because it gets a little hot and is too noisy with all the small fans whizzing away.
 
danbanger said:
S939 Venice 3000+ $125 ish
MB: $125
Videocard: $200 ish
RAM: $200ish for 1gig
HSF: $30-40 ish
use old HD's, case

~100$ for whatever else you want

USD
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Ram can be had for $130-150 now actually..don't know if you already went through we your purchase but ya. For motherboard I would go with the DFI lanparty or msi neo4 ultra plat
 
Haven't moved on with anything other than the HDDs.
As usual, things start to fail, they get replaced, and just when you are getting ready to make the next big spend, what comes along but a load of money problems, life in general problems, work problems and everything else.

As things stand, I'll probably be using this PC now until the next century, or until I get my head straight, whichever comes first. And I wouldn't bank on it being getting my head straight.
 
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