New PC

[squidlips]

hey, im 13 yrs old and have saved up $1500 hundred AU dollars by slaving my ass off mowing lawns and the like, can anyone recomend a good company to take my money, i have an idea of what parts i want but not who to get them off, or if anyone is selling good cpu parts (no intel crap) please reply.

Thanks, Squidlips

[alty29]

http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=359738

[squidlips]

see above.

Alty,you are a champion. Which ones, (if you know) ship to australia?

[ocps]

INTEL PENTIUM IIII P4 NORTHGATE 1.8GHz 512 CACHE 400FSB

ive seen people overclock those almost 1000mhz

[Hellsbellboy]

Originally posted by ocps
ive seen people overclock those almost 1000mhz

LOL taking a 1800MHZ P4 and underclocking it to 1000MHZ isn't overclocking.

[serpent star]

I think he said, he's heard of people getting an extra gig out of that setup.

2.8 onstead of 1.8.

[Vitalstatistix]

Originally posted by squidlips
hey, im 13 yrs old and have saved up $1500 hundred AU dollars by slaving my ass off mowing lawns and the like, can anyone recomend a good company to take my money, i have an idea of what parts i want but not who to get them off, or if anyone is selling good cpu parts (no intel crap) please reply.

Thanks, Squidlips

Where in Australia?.......I bought my system off Game Dude for $2600 Au.

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
64mb GF4 Ti4500
Epox 8KHA+
2GB RDRAM
Dolby Digital Surround Sound
Boston Acoustics In-wall Speakers (12 set)
Microsoft cordless optical
Microsoft cordless keyboard
Sony Headphones (Prolly the worst thing about my comp)
Modded case
19" Sony LCD

[ocps]

Originally posted by serpent star
I think he said, he's heard of people getting an extra gig out of that setup.

2.8 onstead of 1.8.

yea who would make it 1000mhz. dumBB
1 guys website he got it to run safely at 2700 mhz completly stable and not too hot, but he had to upgrade his power supply and cooling. but nothing drastic

[Gloomycus]

intel processors are good. i have a p4 2.4 GHz in my computer.

[Genesis F5]

www.vitalitycomputer.com


Excellant service/support/computers/prices/and QUALITY!...

I just got my Athlon XP(Athlon all the way... No overpriced Intels!) 1.8 from them and it runs like a dream.

Building your own is your best bet. It sometimes is much cheaper and you know what's in it.

I suggest Vitality's Barebone kits. All you have to do is add a hard drive. Do be advised however, this is only the tower with all included but hard drive, and if you want, you can downgrade to a 52/56 X Cd-rom instead of a DVD-Drive (who the hell wants to watch a movie on a little computer screen anyways...) or upgrade to a Cd-RW drive for now much more.


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Sorry, but they don't offer the kits anymore that include all but hard drive... It's just tower/floppy/board/Processor and a few other things...





-genesis f5 (genesis mx)

[squidlips]

at the moment this is what is planed...

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Western Digital Caviar WD800BB
EPoX 8K5A2+ with RAID
AMD Athlon XP 1900+
512mb PC-2100 DDR SD
64MB V8170 Asus G4 MX 440
Modem
Network Gear
Modded Case (realy cool and already made)
DVD Pioneer x16 slot
52x Sony
Diamond Data 40x32x10
17inch monitor, can remember name (trinitron clone)
Creative 256 live DE 5.1
Logitec Cordless Optical KB & Mouse

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if there is anythin in there prone to problems or components that will not work well together, feel free (obliged) to tell me

[halfshark]

ill come back later and check out your system, ill make sure you are getting the most out of your money. from the above comments, there are a few errors, for example, rdram with a amd setup, not possible. o/c a 1.8ghz to 2.8ghz, possible, but only with the right chip and setup, ie you cannot overclock in most manufacturers built computers, ie dell, compaq etc. but if you build it yourself as you are doing then you will be able to overclock. but if you dont know what fsb is, id recommend not overclocking and sticking to the base system until you have done some good research into overclocking, i can give you some links if you give me your email address.

[halfshark]

Originally posted by squidlips


Western Digital Caviar WD800BB
EPoX 8K5A2+ with RAID
AMD Athlon XP 1900+
512mb PC-2100 DDR SD
64MB V8170 Asus G4 MX 440
Modem
Network Gear
Modded Case (realy cool and already made)
DVD Pioneer x16 slot
52x Sony
Diamond Data 40x32x10
17inch monitor, can remember name (trinitron clone)
Creative 256 live DE 5.1
Logitec Cordless Optical KB & Mouse

the system you listed above is a good choice already, but are you going to overclock and do you wish to play some new games on your pc?

[squidlips]

I want to be able to play the newer games on it, and i can already overclock. I await your reply

[squidlips]

Hey, halfshark, are you gonna follow up on your post?

[serpent star]

www.tomshardware.com has occasional good overclocking tips...

[halfshark]

ah yes sorry, there is a new nvidia card thats going to be out, the nv30 or geforce 5, what ever they name it, that should be THE card to get, but its not going to be cheap, around £250. if you cant wait, get a radeon 9700 for around the same price, which is out right now.

if you are overclocking get a 2400+ athlon as these are clocking pretty well recently.

[squidlips]

only problem with those components is my budget is 1500 australian dollars... not much to work with i know, but thats all i got

[gdstudios]

Not sure if they ship to Australia, but I always get my parts from http://www.accessmicro.com. Just bought an Intel barebone system with a Gigabyte MB, Intel P4 2.7 GHZ CPU, and 512 DDR RAM. They also had a special on the Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600, so I picked that up too. Shipped from California to DC. Check the website and see what their international policy is. Excellent service I would say.