Building my own PC - Here are the specs, please comment!

Terry · #1 10-01-2005, 02:56 PM

Sounds great. I'll mention one more thing that is much better than stock. http://www.thermalright.com/

Spaded · #2 10-01-2005, 05:26 PM

System update!

Processor: AMD athlon 64 X2 4200+ dual core
RAM: GeIL SDRAM DDR400 (PC3200) 2x1GB
Power: Antec SmartPower ATX 12V 500W
Video: GeForce 7800GTX 256MB
Mobo: ABIT socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 250GB

Neuge · #3 10-02-2005, 06:34 AM

If you're already buying a 7800GTX you might as well get this.

MyMindIsGoing · #4 10-02-2005, 06:53 AM

The abit+athlon 64 combo is something I would never use. Abit beacuse it is very low quality and athlon beacuse of some nasty driver problems. Go with an intel mobo and cpu instead.

#5 10-02-2005, 11:56 AM

"The abit+athlon 64 combo is something I would never use. Abit beacuse it is very low quality and athlon beacuse of some nasty driver problems. Go with an intel mobo and cpu instead."

I respectfully disagree with both these points.

MyMindIsGoing · #6 10-02-2005, 12:44 PM

Sure you can, everyone can have their own opinion. I just seen (and had several myself) abit mobos, none were stable. Some of my closest friends also (we used to love abit) had abit mobos, the did not survive over time, some caps busted, some voltageregulators burned, and had to be replaced. I also have several friends who bought athlon 64 (even though I recomended against it), all of them have trouble of one kind or another, mostly driver related. They [according to one of them] also are very picky about memory if you want a stable system. I for sure will not buy an abit again, and I would never even consider an athlon again.

Spaded · #7 10-02-2005, 09:56 PM

Thanks everyone, i went with the specs in the "system update" post. Also, 90%+ of the customer reviews i read on newegg were positive on both the abit mobo and the athlon 64 X2. People tend to take the time to comment on their purchases only if they had a bad experience, so seeing all those positives and only a few negatives made me decide to go with it. And most of the people who put up negative reviews had driver problems that were only corrected after reading their instruction manuals and installing the latest drivers and/or flashing the BIOS. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Jordan · #8 10-03-2005, 07:23 AM

one thing to keep in mind is that newegg purges negative reviews from their site.