**Opinions** - before i buy new PC tomorrow

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I might order tomorrow. I was going to do a nforce4 with a 3500 wincher \ zalman 7000b but the nforce4 chaintech mobo was out and it's 100$ more than this setup. Do you think it's worth it to wait for the nforce4 or go for this setup i have here?

Case: Antec Sonata with 380watt truepower
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=11-129-127&depa=1
$99.99

Motherboard: Chaintech nForce3 Model "VNF3-250"
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-152-043&depa=0
$76.00


CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Retail (socket 754)
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-484&depa=0
$227.00

Ram: Corsair Value Select 184 Pin 512MBx2 DDR PC-3200 - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=20-145-440&DEPA=0
$138.27

GPU: Leadtek GeForce 6600GT AGP
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-122-206&depa=0
$219.00

Optical: Samsung Black 52X32X52X16 DVD/CD-RW
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=27-151-051&DEPA=1
$35.99

HDD: Seagate 80GB 7200RPM SATA
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-019&depa=0
$69.56

Floppy: Sony Floppy - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=21-103-116&depa=1
$7.00

LCD: ViewEra V172D Silver 17" LCD
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=24-138-017&depa=0
$256.00

Mouse & KeyboardLogitech Cordless MX Duo
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=23-126-124&depa=0
$54.99

Speakers: Logitech X-230
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=36-121-123&depa=0
$35.00

Surge Protector: BELKIN 6-Socket SurgeMaster
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=12-120-218&depa=0
$6.49

Product total: $1,225.29
Shipping & Handling: $ 44.39
Total (Before tax): $1,269.68


How's it look?
 
if you want to upgrade your CPU in the future, your gonna need a 939 pin based motherboard... the MSI K8N Neo2 is a real good 939 pin MB
 
Looks fine to me. You might actually see the Socket 754 3400+ outperform the Socket 939 3500+ due to the 3400+ running 200Mhz faster. It's been proven that the dual-channel memory access does not increase performance as much as AMD claims it does. It does increase performance on memory benchmarks.

If you're looking to buy now, go fer it. That's a decent video card, just be aware that down the line, say 1-2 years, you may not be able to get a decent AGP video card to upgrade if that's your intention. I have that case and it's very nice, very quiet. All in all, I'd say go for it, unless you really *MUST* have the latest and greatest.
 
I would go with this motherboard:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=240155

I have it and love it. it's only a few bucks more, and includes free 2 day shipping. I personally think ABIT is a better company, and this mobo includes gigabit lan, IEEE 1394 as well as everything else the one you're looking at has. The ABIT boards also come with an awesome utility that lets you update the BIOS in windows through a "one click" interface. All you do is launch the program, click "update BIOS with one click" and it automatically connects to abit's server and checks for a new BIOS version for the board you have, backs up your current bios and flashes the new version. you can also do a step by step flash, which verifies each step with you before it happens. It is pretty freakin sweet. I think you be be much happier with the abit board. I think it is the best thing in my system.
 
mjz_5 said:
if you want to upgrade your CPU in the future, your gonna need a 939 pin based motherboard... the MSI K8N Neo2 is a real good 939 pin MB
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The Abit AV8 3rd-eye is a good 939 motherboard too :)
 
$30 more and you can nearly double your performance with a 6800nu

~Adam
 
6800nu is not worth the upgrade..

Here's some real world performance:

UT2004: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041119/geforce-6600gt-agp-04.html

Doom3 (high quality): http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041119/geforce-6600gt-agp-08.html
only real difference occurs at 4XAA+4XAF: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041119/geforce-6600gt-agp-09.html

Far Cry (very high): http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041119/geforce-6600gt-agp-10.html
same story with 4XAA+4XAF

I think the 6600gt is the better buy... The price/performance ratio is top notch... If you can actually find 6800nu's for less than 300, it might be worth the plunge. Otherwise, stick with the 6600gt.
 
How dare you post tomshardware reviews on hardocp's forum. Are you asking to get banned? o.o :eek:

Edit: ok so you wont get banned but I'd ban you for a few minutes if I was a mod just as a warning :p. :rolleyes: TH's reviews, such laff, read real reviews, like the ones in hardocp.com's review section.

~Adam
 
mjz_5 said:
a nice 754 pin motherboard is the DFI NF3 board... sweeeeeeeeeeeet. Well, from what i hear :)

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2198
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The board _is_ sweet. I was about to go the MSI route until I came here and I havent been more happy with the DFI board. Its only downside now is that its a s754. The feature set is awesome, and it _works_ as advertized, not as intended. You dont have to get bios update after bios update to do silly stuff like _have your memory run at cas2 in all three slots @ pc3200 speed_ Its well polished, awesome feature-set, I'm buying this board again in the s939/SLI combination this year as well.
 
6800nu will typically have a good amount of room to overclock and I would take it over a 6600, there have been deals all over the place for ~$200 lately. And I'd look to find a deal on a surge protector that includeds some spots for block plugs, or even a cheap UPS for around $30.
 
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