New PC Build - Opinion's Please

Anonymous

I will be building the following system. It will be used for some gaming, hosting a winmx chat room, hosting a server, encoding movies, burning dvd's & cd's.

Intel pentium 4 Prescott 3.0GHz HT Technology 800MHz FSB
KingMAX Turbo 512MB (2x256Mb) Dual Channel DDR400
Asrock Mobo (AGP 8X, 64MB 3D Integrated)
Seagate 80GB 7200RPM HDD

Thats the basic spec, of course i have a case, cables and already have cd drives. Will the 512mb dual channel ram be good enough for some gaming? Later on I will add a radeon 9700 pro or something simular.

Thanks

MentalMadness

Guest wrote:

I will be building the following system. It will be used for some gaming, hosting a winmx chat room, hosting a server, encoding movies, burning dvd's & cd's.

Intel pentium 4 Prescott 3.0GHz HT Technology 800MHz FSB
KingMAX Turbo 512MB (2x256Mb) Dual Channel DDR400
Asrock Mobo (AGP 8X, 64MB 3D Integrated)
Seagate 80GB 7200RPM HDD

Thats the basic spec, of course i have a case, cables and already have cd drives. Will the 512mb dual channel ram be good enough for some gaming? Later on I will add a radeon 9700 pro or something simular.

Thanks

If your planning to run a server, you better buy a more expensive mainboard. Asrocks are low budget boards. better buy a quality board. I've had some good experiences with Asus, DFI, Gigabyte, chaintech and Epox.

BOD

also, if u are on a budget i would reccomend an AMD CPU, apart from being cheaper they also seem to be faster....

Anonymous

this pentium 4 will kill any amd athlon/duron/sempron with ease. Athlon 64's are supposably about the same speed. This processor is also

NitricAcid666

AMD owns intel, but get some water cooling in that case

Q

I've had good experiences with MSI boards, so you might look @ them if you wanted to.

-Q

Ka0s

Guest wrote:

this pentium 4 will kill any amd athlon/duron/sempron with ease. Athlon 64's are supposably about the same speed. This processor is also

Slash

Very little HDD... for me all under 0.2TB is terrible. Get at least 0.2 or 0.3 TB HDD.

Q

HeH, that's because you're on OpnNetwk! Not everyone is... I have a .3TB (AKA 300 GB) and I'm nowhere NEAR filling it up.

-Q

RN

Guest wrote:

I will be building the following system. It will be used for some gaming, hosting a winmx chat room, hosting a server, encoding movies, burning dvd's & cd's.

Intel pentium 4 Prescott 3.0GHz HT Technology 800MHz FSB
KingMAX Turbo 512MB (2x256Mb) Dual Channel DDR400
Asrock Mobo (AGP 8X, 64MB 3D Integrated)
Seagate 80GB 7200RPM HDD

Thats the basic spec, of course i have a case, cables and already have cd drives. Will the 512mb dual channel ram be good enough for some gaming? Later on I will add a radeon 9700 pro or something simular.

Thanks

80gb is a bit small if you're planning to do THOSE things.

SurfinShell23

Are P4 Extremes that good, Fish?

RN

yeah. They're better than regular P4s with HT, 1mbL2 and 800fsb.

Slash

I have one 0.08Tb HDD, two 0.12Tb and one 0.2Tb's
But now I have less that 500Megs of free space!

Q

What do you fill it with?!

-Q

Slash

100Gb of apps 50 Gb of Linux distros
50 gb of movies
20Gb of music
100Gb of games

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NitricAcid666

Q wrote:

HeH, that's because you're on OpnNetwk! Not everyone is... I have a .3TB (AKA 300 GB) and I'm nowhere NEAR filling it up.

-Q

i wonder how win 98 would run on 300GB, or if it would recognize it.

BOD

without a patch i think 98s limit is 64GB or sometihng like that. anyways the limit with a patch would have to be 2TB cos thats the max FAT32 size....

Slash

nope. windows 98 can handle almost any fat32 drives, up to 2TB

Q

Actaully it's 8TB, according to Microsoft. But we all know that if it's any large size now NTs will force NTFS.

::arrow: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184006/EN-US/

-Q