Let’s add more…

August 10, 2008 @ 10:22 pm · Filed under Personal, Technical

I completely forgot motherboard…

I haven’t seen much for these in a while…   Intel, Gigabyte, Asus, Abit?  Who anymore?

Sound card…  any reason to go PCI Express for one?  Or just PCI?  I’m leaning towards PCI…

Any other little cards worth the time?  Physics card?  TV Tuner?

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So many questions…

August 10, 2008 @ 8:33 pm · Filed under Personal, Technical

So, with all this extra overtime I’ve been getting, I’m debating on whether I will build a new machine or not.  I’m letting some get stored away for a rainy day, since I keep having bad expenses come up and drain my savings, but I’m starting to get comfortable enough that I might start buying a component or two here and there until I have enough to get serious and finish it off.

So I’m looking at re-doing the whole thing.  I might be able to save a sound card, hard drive, or optical drive, but otherwise, it’s the whole show.

Looking for any opinions for the following:

First purchases will most likely be the components that have the least chance of getting out of date:

Case

  • Thinking about an Antec 900, 1200, or P182.

Monitor

  • Thinking about a Samsung 22″ or 24″ widescreen.  Which one, I’m not sold on.  The size of the 24 would be nice, but getting into a nice 22 is the same money as an eh 24, so a nice 24 would be a little steep…


The rest of the components:

CPU

  • Thinking a Core 2 Quad, just determining clockspeed… 2.66 is the current thought, but I’d like the 3.0 if the price comes down.

Memory

  • 3 Gb will most likely what I get.  4 would be ok for getting 2×2GB, but I have no intentions of going 64bit for a while, so I hate wasting, but it really isn’t wasting…

Hard Drive

  • Probably do two, a 10k Raptor for OS and games, and a 500 or so for bulk data.  I’ve been a WD fan for years

Video Card

  • Looking at either a 9800 series or a GTX 260.  Probably in the 300 dollar range or so, depends on the price/performance numbers

Sound Card

  • Whatever Creative is putting out, I can deal with.

Optical

  • Cheap dual layer burner is good

Keyboard/Mouse

  • I really don’t know…  The G15 looks nice, but 100 bucks is a little steep.

Thoughts?

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