New computer system recommendations...

[Leright]

so far I have ordered an Antec P180, 2 gigs of Corsair XMS PC3200, WD 16 mb cache HDD, and an Antec Neopower 480W PSU. What do you think of these choices?

Now I need to decide on a mobo, proc and video card (cards?). I have a budget of just above 1200 bucks to allocate toward thes three parts. I'm not so sure I want to OC...

Here are a couple configs I am considering....

config 1:
Opteron 175 (90nm core, dual core, 2.2 ghz clock, socket 939)
eVGA 7800gtx 256mb w/ACS3 cooler)
Asus A8N-SLI (I hope to add a second video card later on down the road...)

config 2:
Athlon 64 3500+ venice (2.2 ghz, 90 nm core, 512 mb cache
7800gtx 512 mb
Asus A8N-SLI

config 3:
Maybe something with an X2 or Athlon 64 3600+.




Basically, what is the best I can do for just above 1200 bucks?

 

[discochan]

so far I have ordered an Antec P180, 2 gigs of Corsair XMS PC3200, WD 16 mb cache HDD, and an Antec Neopower 480W PSU. What do you think of these choices?

Now I need to decide on a mobo, proc and video card (cards?). I have a budget of just above 1200 bucks to allocate toward thes three parts. I'm not so sure I want to OC...

Here are a couple configs I am considering....

config 1:
Opteron 175 (90nm core, dual core, 2.2 ghz clock, socket 939)
eVGA 7800gtx 256mb w/ACS3 cooler)
Asus A8N-SLI (I hope to add a second video card later on down the road...)

config 2:
Athlon 64 3500+ venice (2.2 ghz, 90 nm core, 512 mb cache
7800gtx 512 mb
Asus A8N-SLI

config 3:
Maybe something with an X2 or Athlon 64 3600+.




Basically, what is the best I can do for just above 1200 bucks?

I would definitely go the dual core route. Even though I dont know what your going to use the computer for, the dual cores will pretty meet all your computer needs. Sure the single cores will run games a little better, but the duals are the wave of the future.

I would go option 1. I'm not sure but Ive heard that the opt 175 hasnt been very popular because the lower models are cheaper and OC easily.

 

[Leright]

I am thinking I want to get an A8N32-SLI (230 bucks), and a 512 meg 7800gtx (750 bucks), but that only leaves me with 280 bucks for the processors....I am thinking about waiting until the 512 meg gtx drops to atleast retail price ($650) so I have more money to put into the processor. Also by that time prices of processors might be lower. However, I am only going to wait for a couple weeks.

 

[sc00ter]

What about going with config 2, except getting an Opteron 165? It's still dual core, and if you can manage to find one in stock, I've seen prices as low as $300. It'd be worth scraping together the other funds for.

 

[GForce64]

What about going with config 2, except getting an Opteron 165? It's still dual core, and if you can manage to find one in stock, I've seen prices as low as $300. It'd be worth scraping together the other funds for.

I'd definitely go with this plan, seems the way to go.