I made a custom/budget/gaming computer for xmas and i want to be sure that the parts are good/ work properly lol. heres teh list. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127147 128MB Vid Card - $75.00 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822135106 WD 80gig HD SATA - $54.01 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131530 ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 - $109.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811144103 aspire Case - $58.00 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145026 DDR SDRAM 512MB - $39.50 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103535 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ - $152.00 ========================================= AMD Athlon 64 3200+ - $152.00 corsair Ram 512MB PC 3200 - $39.50 corsair Ram 512MB PC 3200 - $39.50 WD 80gig HD SATA - $54.01 ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 - $109.99 128mg PCI Express x16 vid card - $150.00 Aspire - $58.00 total - $603 no OS And what would be better for the 64bit, windows xp home edition or the windows 64x thing? and last question. Does a SATA 150 harddrive work with a SATA 2.0 mobo? thats all =D
Yep, should be fine, however you show the link at "75 dollar vid card" link takes you to a 6600gt thats 145 bucks. Shouldbe pretty find to game on, my 9600pro, 2200+amd xp and a gig of ram run most games at decent fps with med-high details (cept fear) EDIT: You'll need a psu also, I recomend antec and any other namebrand's dont be fooled by the 610watt 49.99 dollar cheap cpu, most of the time, a brandnamed 350watt is more powerfull!
k thx for the comments and i forgot about the psu... lol is this one ok? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103937 and wich os should i get?
that psu will do the treat nicely, as for the OS, windows XP home would be fine for the sake of saving some cash, unless you want XP-64, but id recommend against that, as in my experience it has been a pain
All looking good (nice choice on the PSU). SATA is fully backwards compatible, so I wouldn't worry about that. As for OS, just get the bog-standard Home. Pro has features you are probably not going to need (Domain-based networking? Policy administration? I didn't think so) and x64 lacks the driver support to justify the small performance increase.
hmmm... read the customer reviews on that site... I'm not sure if it's silent and I saw some bad things about the 5v lines among the customer reviews
