guys,
planning to assemble a AMD box on my own.
Usage would be games,movies, music, photoshop,surfing.In that order.
After seeing the posts in the forum, feel that I am very back in the latest tech...so had been reading a lot in the past few days.(I used to follow up with all hardware stuff during college 2 yrs ago).
So hoping that you guys would help me out.
I am listing the comps waiting for suggestions:
Configuration Planned>
AMD 64 3200+ - 939(winchster or new castle, I have read in the forum that winc is better but tomhardware CPU results shows that newcastle has a edge over winc...is it true or I am reading it wrong)??
Mobo ASUS A8N-E
Ram 2X512Mb (which brand I am not sure,...help required)
HDD - maxtor, WD??? or Hitachi(for SATAII)(2X80 for RAID0)
GPU - XFX 128MB Geforce 6600GT
DVD-Dual - Litenon 1623S
Keybd,mouse - MS or Logi cordless - ?? any value models
sound card - creative audigy 2 zs
speakers - lansing or creative?? 5.1 or 7.1??
17" CRT monitor - brand??
power 450W+ . brand??model?
Cabinet - ATX mid tower apart from that completly lost.need a black one though.
UPS - I am lost here too.
all comps are listed !!?? or have I missed anything...
hope this gives a fair idea where I stand, the compos which I decided I have listed...is it fine? and many I am not sure...inputs please...
I am from Hyderabad...so prices would be great.
Thanks.
planning to assemble a AMD box on my own.
Usage would be games,movies, music, photoshop,surfing.In that order.
After seeing the posts in the forum, feel that I am very back in the latest tech...so had been reading a lot in the past few days.(I used to follow up with all hardware stuff during college 2 yrs ago).
So hoping that you guys would help me out.
I am listing the comps waiting for suggestions:
Configuration Planned>
AMD 64 3200+ - 939(winchster or new castle, I have read in the forum that winc is better but tomhardware CPU results shows that newcastle has a edge over winc...is it true or I am reading it wrong)??
Mobo ASUS A8N-E
Ram 2X512Mb (which brand I am not sure,...help required)
HDD - maxtor, WD??? or Hitachi(for SATAII)(2X80 for RAID0)
GPU - XFX 128MB Geforce 6600GT
DVD-Dual - Litenon 1623S
Keybd,mouse - MS or Logi cordless - ?? any value models
sound card - creative audigy 2 zs
speakers - lansing or creative?? 5.1 or 7.1??
17" CRT monitor - brand??
power 450W+ . brand??model?
Cabinet - ATX mid tower apart from that completly lost.need a black one though.
UPS - I am lost here too.
all comps are listed !!?? or have I missed anything...
hope this gives a fair idea where I stand, the compos which I decided I have listed...is it fine? and many I am not sure...inputs please...
I am from Hyderabad...so prices would be great.
Thanks.