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In the hardware market: (P1) CPU Memory Motherboard oh my!(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)
Posted by: Simest
Greetings, I figured it was about time to rebuild my rig. It has done it the job for quite sometime but Cedega and the games I am currently playing are showing my rigs age. Since Im not a noob at this my current system specs:
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Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon-PECM, 800 MHz (4 x 200)
Motherboard Name Freetech P7F200A (3 ISA, 4 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM)
Motherboard Chipset AMD-750 Irongate
System Memory 256 MB (PC100 SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Modular (04/13/01)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1)
Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 (64 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200
Monitor Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (1041200000581
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative SB PCI128 (Ensoniq ES5880) Sound Card
Storage:
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive WDC WD200BB-00DEA0
Optical Drive IDE-CD R/RW 4x4x24 (4x/4x/24x CD-RW)
Optical Drive MATSHITA DVD-ROM SR-8582 (2x/20x DVD-ROM)
Network:
Primary IP Address 24.1.204.228
Primary MAC Address 00-80-AD-01-24-83
Network Adapter CNet PRO200 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (24.1.204.22
I know I will be upgrading most everything there given time (the cd-rw and dvd-rom being third). As of right now I have a budget of $300.00 USD with s/h (for Mobo combo). I have already got a rough idea of what I want but would like my fellow geeks suggestions, opinions and thoughts. I already know I want to get an AMD 64 though I am debating for range between 2800 - 3200. I do know I have a limitation of having to getting it all bundled with addons (memory, video, audio, etc) not to far behind. Further more I personally do not like on-board anything (video, audio, lan, one failing device at time kthx) due to their annoyance's. I am quite willing to flex on range of the amd 64 but not with memory (would like to be sitting at motherboards max when I am finshed upgrading), my minium being 256Mb at this time. I also know in the future I will need to get a Pci-E (or is that X?) and was hoping to hold onto my existing 4xagp gf3ti200 and my pci audio card for another month or two (they are next on the list). Yeah I know I placed many limits on what I can get but I am willing to flex on some of the stuff and as a a side note the cash limit is my only stop gap (my bank has a security limit of 300 a day).
Posted by: The Warden
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http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merc...egory_Code=AMDC
Posted by: Mike
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