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Originally posted by SureShot@Mar 16 2004, 10:18 PM
I need help with the mobo ... any suggestions i would appreciate... Also should i get 1024 mb ram or is 512mb ok ??... Is that a good processor .... or should i get a diff one....
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ok, 512 MB ram will be fine for today's games, but just keep in mind that within a year you'll probly want to buy another stick of 512 so u get 1 gig of ram. I only recommend crucial ram because they have a lifetime warranty on all their ram.
For a mobo, I recommend A7N8X Deluxe it's made by ASUS and u should check out newegg.com for that. for ram, u could get it from crucial.com or newegg. The good thing of the A7N8X board is it has dual-channel DDR which makes ur ram go super-fast when u get ur 2 sticks of 512. It'll kinda of use them both at the same time, double data tansfer or some thing anyways all i know is it's a good feature on the board. I also have the board so I HIGHLY recommend it. It also has AGP 8X It has onboard sound and the sound is GREAT, best onboard sound I've ever heard great sound all i can say (which may save u money on since u wont need to buy a sound card). The board will run around $100 or so on newegg give or take like $10-$15.
For video card, I say u stay away from sapphire. expecially a SE card. You'll be much more pleased with a card that doesn't say SE on it. TRUST ME, I bought an ati card with SE and it SUCKED. I looked online and I see they are very cheap like $100. Don't be misguided by the "9800" part because SE means "Sucky Edition" so you'd really be better off with a 9600 Pro. I have a TYAN G9700 Pro card. The only difference between my card and the ATi brand ones are that TYAN puts big heat sinks on the card, which means BETTER COOLING. So I can only recommend a TYAN card aside from ATi. Don't spring for any sapphire or powercolor crap.
Here's a listing of ATi's prices (but i'm sure you can get them a lot cheaper from other sites, just search a little.)
http://buy.ati.com/shopati/find.asp?find%5...sc=&country=USA
If you haevn't got a lot of extra money, you should just take a 9600 XT because it's DirectX9 compatible so doom3 and HL2 will run fine on it. Check out the ATi cards, check out the TYAN cards and decide for yourself.
Here's some pics of the ATi 9600 card, and TYAN 9600 card so you can see the difference in heatsinks so you know how much cooler the tyans run, which will reduce overheating.
ATi 9600 XT
TYAN G9600 Pro
I have a barton 2500+ also but you can see my specs below in my sig. Hope I helped you, post any questions also.