Re: Time for a new PC, which motherboard?
- From: coolsti <cool@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:34:46 +0200
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:16:22 +0000, Charlie Wilkes wrote:
Go to www.motherboards.org and do some searches. If you are satisfied
with what you've got and just want to upgrade your wife, I would go
for 1 or 2 gb of Corsair Value RAM, an ASUS board with 800mhz fsb,
another 2.4ghz p4, an ATI PCIE video card with 256mb of ram, an Antec
PSU. In US$ that would be about $75 per gb of RAM, $50 for the board,
$100 for CPU, $150-200 for video card, $65 for PSU.
The reason I suggest ATI is because nvidia cards seem to have lots of
problems these days, although I know there are some good ones and
satisfied users.
I think you can get a little more oomph per dollar (kronar) with an
AMD setup, but intel is good too. Here is one I built a few months
ago that I'm very happy with:
www.geocities.com/wilkes_charlie/new_system.htm
Charlie
Hi Charlie and thanks for the reply!
I am definitely satisfied with what I have now, except for the fact that
when I read the PC requirements for a game like Oblivion, I see that my 3
year old home-built is just at the bottom of what is acceptable to run the
game. So definitely when I upgrade my wife's HP Vectra 800 1.5GHz 400mhz
fsb with RDRAM, I certainly would like it to be able to play current and
future games well for a number of years.
So I think a move to at least 3ghz p4 would be wise, wouldn't it?
I have only experience with nvidia cards, so that is why I look in this
direction. It could be I should consider ATI. But the choice of
motherboard is not determined by the video card, or is the situation
different today? I am thinking of deciding on the video card later, after
I get the CPU and motherboard chosen.
Whether to go AMD or Intel CPU? Again, I only have Intel experience, and I
have read three years ago that building a PC with an Intel CPU is far
easier than with AMD (how the CPU is attached to the motherboard).
If Intel Pentium 4, is there a particular chipset I should go for?
Another problem I experienced 3 years ago is that once I chose the CPU and
chipset, I suddenly found that each motherboard manufacturer had not one
but several choices of motherboards, all with different "extra" features.
Very confusing! I can deselect all those that have onboard video, but what
of these other features? Obviously I want USB and firewire, but is there
anything else that I should make sure I include?
Thanks for any help!
Steve, Denmark
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