New PC

qwertyup

Just looking for opinions on this PC, if possible. Also, I'm not that technically literate, so please dont flame me for it :P

Anywho, my PC is on its last legs, in so far as fulfilling the functions I desire of it. It chugs away at all but MP3 but thats about the extent of it.

This was a rig I was considering, sort of.

2.8GHz Intel PIV with 800Mhz Core
4DIMM Sockets in 2 Banks with two 256 PC-3200 400Mhz DDR DIMM RAM
Intel D865GBFL Desktop Motherboard with SATA support
Intefrated Inter Etherexpress Pro 100 VE LAN Adapter
Integrated Audio using Analogue Devices SoundMal 4 Xl
Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2 Display Adapter
Universal .8/1.5V AGP 3.0 connector supporting 1x, 4x, and 8x AGP cards or a GP Digital Display (ADD) Card
Keytronic KT2001 PS2 Keyboard
Microsoft PS2 Optical Wheel Mouse
Mitsumi 3 1/2" Floppy Disk Drive
Schaefer Midi Tower ATX Chassis
Fortron Source 300W 12V Power Supply
6 PCI Slots
6 USB 2.0 Ports
2 3 1/2" Bays External
Norton Antivirus 2003
Windows XP/Linux
120Gb Hard Drive
NEC DVD RW/CD-RW Drive

This totals roughly 1,300 euro IIRC.

I plan on picking up a GFX card when the next generation appear (and this gen become cheaper). I currently have a decent monitor.

Any opinions, or suggestions?

Raskolnikov

Seems reasonable, although if you're into creating your own music etc, you might want a sound card. You could pick up a Ti4200 gfx card for E120 to use in the interim, it's generally regarded as the card that gives good bang for buck. Also I'd throw an 512 MB's of RAM in there while you're at it, the stuff is going fairly cheap these days.

Raz

He ( <-- I'm presuming here) does have 512MBs of RAM Raskolnikov.

4DIMM Sockets in 2 Banks with two 256 PC-3200 400Mhz DDR DIMM RAM

Unless you maen to get an extra 512MB.

Looks like a good PC. plenty of power. I've never heard of Fortron or Schaefer. As a matter of interest where did you source the PC?

BKtje

As you said you aint computer literate but if you ever become it and want to overclock you should steer clear of Intel motherboards. If you dont plan to ever give it a go tho then that machine looks fairly nice

toughbuk

I have an AMD 1700 +, would it cause any harm if i started to overclock it by a small bit,plus where is the best place in dublin to buy cheap ram( 256 kb).I know peats are having a closing down sale as thery are moving

Venom

IT Direct has cheepish ram prices.

Where are Peats moving to?

Gerry

toughbuk, better off ordering from komplett, they deliver in 2 or 3 days. No, it won't cause any harm to the chip, unless your chip is almost overheating at the moment.

conZ

Peats moved right accross the road from what I heard on the radio commercial.

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by Raz

Unless you maen to get an extra 512MB.

Opps, I meant that

qwertyup

I reason I'll pick up more RAM when it comes down in price by about half. That's what I did last time around with my PC, though that is not today or yesterday.

I've got a reasonable soundcard as is, so I was just going to stick with it.

As for where I am getting it from, its sourced through work.

ozt9vdujny3srf

hehe unfortunately ram prices tend not to go down a lot with age. I think you would e best off getting 2 512 sticks, it'll work out cheaper in the long run. Where are you getting you parts?