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What would you do??

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Koslov

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I've got a serious dilemma
I sold my main system back in december 2003 because I had a good offer and I couldn't refuse. Since then i'm on a lame Intel Celeron 600mhz w/ 192mb PC100 ram and 15" Daytek Monitor and a S3 Trio 3D card hehe.

I wanted to hold until new generation hardware comes out.
At least R420 or NV40 and Nforce3 250Gb chipset based motherboard and socket 939 but with all the new games coming out this week i'm seriously thinking about ordering my new system parts today~!

Battlefield Vietnam
Farcry
Rainbow Six: Athena Sword
World of Warcraft beta (hope I get in eheh)

SO, I was thinking about buying the following hardware:
-Mobile AMD 2500+ w/ Thermalright Sp-97 w/ Vantec Tornado 92mm on Artic Silver 5
-Abit NF7 v.20
-2x512mb PC3200 CAS 2
-1x36GB WD Raptor
-Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
-NEC DVD-RW 2500a 8x
-Audigy2 ZS
-CreativeLabs 7.1 speakers
-Viewsonic P95+B 19" Monitor

Once the new next gen hardware comes out i could sell my "old" hardware and not loose too much I hope hmm....
What would you do?

thanks
 
Those are mostly quite cheap but still rather high-end parts, so why not? The processor OCs well and gives one hell of a bang for the buck. The 9800Pros aren't that much worse than the 9800XT, and a whole lot cheaper... plus you could probably get quite a lot for that rig even when new hardware is out.
 
I don't see anything wrong with that setup. It will get you through till the end of the year when the good stuff is ready to go.
 
Good parts. You might want to get a second hardrive for game/storage files and keep the raptor as an os drive.
 
Originally posted by MontyAC
Good parts. You might want to get a second hardrive for game/storage files and keep the raptor as an os drive.
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Why?
 
Originally posted by Eigtball
Why?
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Becuase 36mb of space isn't much for a gaming machine! Heck, some games/simulations take up more than 1-2 GB installed!

(Hell, Doom4 is on a DVD, hate to see what a full install of that is like!)

-Sky
 
I've never used 36 gigs of space in my life (not counting my backup hard disks), it depends on the person I guess. I play games, I have many installed, an MP3 collection, etc, and a linux partition. I have like 20 gigs used out of my 120. Maybe I'm rare, but I'd think he could get by with a 36 gig hard drive.
 
Originally posted by Eigtball
Why?
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34.4gb Raptor is nothing as far as installing everthing and games and stuff. I could fill that in a couple days.

I have a raptor, and 120gb harddrive thats 75%full and an 80gb harddrive thats 50% full. I guess just the raptor would be ok for awhile.
 
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