Few Questions For You Techies

[-Sh1Ft-]

Im looking for a
(1) Motherboard Supporting them
(2) The Proccessers themselfs, AMD-64 Bit Ones.

(3) 512mb Stick x2
(4) Case < 60 Preferably, With a Window and Some LED Lights.
(5) Graphics Card For Gameing, Currently useing my 128mb Nvidia GeForce-4FX And its just not up-to-date enough for me. Im wondering if i should stick with Nvidia, or setup up to ATI Radion 9800 Pro.

Exactly how smooth will my system run with 1512Ram Dual 64bit Proccessers AND The ATI Radion Pro, Or any 256mb Memory Graphics Card?

I Don't really have a Price Range, Accept for the Case, as i don't think the others are cheap.


I'm also in need of a Keyboard/Mouse/Moniter Switch Box Supporting 2-3 Machines. ( I need to use 1 Moniter, 1 Mouse , 1 Keyboard over 2-3 Machines) And a Decent 8Port Router.

I also need a USB Share Device that allows me to Share USB Printers, Scanners, Ect over a Home-Network or What ever.



Just looking for Links to buy from, Price Estimates for each product ect, hope you can help.

 

[AxL]

Originally posted by -Sh1Ft-

Giving us a budget will help everyone else help you. Other wise I could recommend you some pretty expensive stuff. A budget is always good.

Also do you plan on overclocking at all?

 

[-Sh1Ft-]

No overclocking, and i really don't have a budget, lets just say mmm >1k



And is the AMD-64bit chipset really worth it?

im about 100% sure i want to go AMD tho.

 

[Iliaran]

Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP-939 Motherboard ($220 or so)
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 processor ($780 or so)
Zalman TNN 500A Case ($1400 or so)
2 gigs of Corsair's DDR 3200 ram (two 2 1 gig dimms) ($760 or so)
4 western digital 250 gig harddrives (at 7200 rpm) ($920 or so)
^^^connected through Promise's FT S150 TX2 Plus raid controller ($150 or so)
Antec TRUECONTROL 550 power supply ($200 or so)
Plextor Plexwriter (cdr) ($250 or so)
PlextorPX 708A (dvd-r) ($170 or so)
Sony GDM-C520K screen ($1800 or so) (for games)
Sony PREMIERPRO 23 screen ($2600) (for everything else)
Generic Floppy drive ($15 or so)
Creative soundblaster Audigy 2 ZX pro ($240 or so)
Logitech MX900 mouse ($100 or so)
Logitech Z-680 speakers ($400 or so)
Asus x800 xt graphics card ($650 or so)

Total: $10655-ish

K mr. I dont have a budget, get that.

(hey...someone had to go 'all out')

Edit: oops, didnt see your $60 dollar budget for the case, so just forget the $1400 case I suggested and go for a cheaper one, k?

 

[-Sh1Ft-]

i changed by budget to < 1k their, but now its 650 (I have HD, Drives, Ethernet cards ect ect, i just need proccesser, motherboard, ram video card and case)

 

[COTA-GoD]

shift i recomend you upgrade to the 10,000 RPM 80 Gig harddrives, some people can load into windows XP in <2 seconds

 

[Forged]

And is the AMD-64bit chipset really worth it?[/quote
No probablly not.

 

[COTA-GoD]

it will get cheaper, but everything does. 64bit processors will not be outdated for a long time unless some super duper nano tech comes out, 200thz (terahurts) processors, w00t? lol

 

[TheHybrid]

Originally posted by Forged

And is the AMD-64bit chipset really worth it?[/quote
No probablly not.

For the Performance? Yes

 

[-Sh1Ft-]

I thought a 32bit operatingsystem wouldn't take advantage of the 64bit proccessing power?

 

[AxL]

Case: ASPIRE X-Dreamer II ~$54

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 2800+ ~$149

Mobo: ASRock "K8S8X" ~$77

RAM: Corsair XMS Extreme Memory PC3200 (256x2 ~$155

Video: ASUS ATI RADEON 9600XT ~$184

Total: $619

 

[COTA-GoD]

Originally posted by -Sh1Ft-
I thought a 32bit operatingsystem wouldn't take advantage of the 64bit proccessing power?

it doesnt :rolleyes

 

[-Sh1Ft-]

Hmm... Well thats for all the suggestions, im still open to more, i'll prolly use AxL's Setup.

 

[TheHybrid]

Originally posted by COTA-GoD
it doesnt :rolleyes

True.

It's not the 64-bit that makes it powerful. It's the CPU itself; High Cache, Hypertransport memory controller, etc.