OK I will buy new computer I need some help on this.

[Enigma1982]

Spec base on performance/price
CPU AthlonXP 1.4 GHz / Is it good than P4 or TB ???
MB / I have no idea yet suggest me
RAM Kingston 266MHz 256 MB / Is it ok ???
GPU Nvidia GeForce 2 Pro 32 MB or 64 MB / Which one should I chose how differance between 32 and 64 ???
HD IBM DTLA 60.0 GB / Any other band or model suggest for me ???
SPU SB Audigy DE / Should I buy it ??? How much better than SBLive ???
Other I already have it.
Thank you for helping me :)

[Xeven]

Well if you buy that.. then we'll pretty much be with the same specs.. im satisfied with the performance.. But, you might just want to wait for the Athlon XP's even the one clocked at 1333Ghz (XP 1400) whoops the Thunderbird 1.4Ghz.. maybe a GF3Ti200 might also be a better choice..

[Ryos]

Xeven: um...the Athlon XP is the one Enigma mentioned in his post. And yes, it's significantly better than the P 4.

[Xeven]

Originally posted by Ryos
Xeven: um...the Athlon XP is the one Enigma mentioned in his post. And yes, it's significantly better than the P 4.

haha! sorry.. im quite sleepy for some damn reason.. its only 730pm where i am but around 1030am where i'm from.. hehe:D

[Ryos]

Originally posted by Xeven
haha! sorry.. im quite sleepy for some damn reason.. its only 730pm where i am but around 1030am where i'm from.. hehe:D That's just a tad bit different time zone...and hey, that's my time zone! :p

[Nightmare]

For the harddisk, i suggest quantum fire ball, and remember, dont buy seagate.

And for the video card, if u can afford, buy Geforce 3 instead of Geforce 2 gts/pro/ti if you are a hardcore gamer.I still feel a geforce2 gts pro is not enough for me...

[Xeven]

I'm in sillicon **** valley right now.. sj cal, and i haven't goten out.. geesuz.. :D

[Sylvan Sorrow]

Originally posted by Enigma1982
Spec base on performance/price
CPU AthlonXP 1.4 GHz / Is it good than P4 or TB ???
MB / I have no idea yet suggest me
RAM Kingston 266MHz 256 MB / Is it ok ???
GPU Nvidia GeForce 2 Pro 32 MB or 64 MB / Which one should I chose how differance between 32 and 64 ???
HD IBM DTLA 60.0 GB / Any other band or model suggest for me ???
SPU SB Audigy DE / Should I buy it ??? How much better than SBLive ???
Other I already have it.
Thank you for helping me :)

OIk, considering I build my computers all the time I know abit about this and pricing, my prices atre only estimates, and my recommendation is if you buy parts do NOT goto pricewatch.com and just get the cheapest thing found, ususally the people selling it to you are bogus, find places with some certificate, like if its CNET certified, trust me, thier service is woth the extra 10-15 dollars a part.

AthlonXP 1.4 ghz is very nice, about even with a P4 2ghz, but no wheres near as good as the Athlon XP 1.57 ghz or something (Athlon XP 1800) The 1.4 athlon XP is about $150 for the processor, and $100 for motherboard, 256 megs of RAM would be $40, for a P4 2ghx the processor is about $600 motherboard $150 and ram $80. Obviously go with the Athlon, it just makes so much more sense, plus, that XP motherboard is one of the nicest mother boards for under $200 I have seen.

Now with all that you save over a P4, you can easily buy a geforce3 TI 500, but if you don't need the good performance from that a geforce2 will do you fine, I recommend 64meg vid card, just because the price difference is not extreme at all.DEFINITELY, unless you want to spend a lot more on Firewire or SCSI go with that IBM HD, I have one and I love it.

Personally I haven't listened to the SB Audigy yet, and I and a sound buff too, have to have good sound, I do own a SB Live and hercules Game Theatre XP, and the game theatre has higher quality that then SB Live, and I believe it significant difference. Personally if I ( more like when) I buy a Audigy I will get the Platinum, but thats becuase I Have midi equipment to hook up through my compoter, and I also make use of the optical in for sounfd from my PS2 (its got everything my hercules game theatre XP has on the Platinum EX version, the regular Platinum doesn't have some extra ports, but take up less room cuz its internal. My recommendation to you is to look at your speakers, if you have really good speakers like Klipsh 400's go with the Audigy, if you have the mid range to low end Cambridge soundworks, you won't notice much of a difference.

[Enigma1982]

Thank for info Ryoga...........
GeForce 3 is too expensive for me so I decided to use GeForce 2 Pro
More about GPU I think I will join Winfast GeForce 2 Pro 64 MB.
BTW today I will go to the mall and check those stuff out.

[Sylvan Sorrow]

oh, forgot to mention something, DO NOT buy RAM in the stores, they charge like 3 times more than online, bnecause its electro sensitive to handle, ALWAYS get your ram online.

[Enigma1982]

BTW What mobo I should use ???

[Xeven]

Originally posted by Ryoga
oh, forgot to mention something, DO NOT buy RAM in the stores, they charge like 3 times more than online, bnecause its electro sensitive to handle, ALWAYS get your ram online.

really? i must be living in the paleolithic era then.. :D, btw Enigma.. are there any good online freaking stores in Thailand?

[404]

Get ABIT KG7 with DDR!!!!
or
wait for nForce to public available.

I still think that Aureal Cards have beter sound (specially Bass reproduction) tahn any of Sound Blaster Live! series ;)

[Sylvan Sorrow]

Originally posted by 404
Get ABIT KG7 with DDR!!!!
or
wait for nForce to public available.

I still think that Aureal Cards have beter sound (specially Bass reproduction) tahn any of Sound Blaster Live! series ;)

first off, by no means does the Aureal cards produce the best sound, infact the onboard one that came with an old computer of mine didn't even support bass sound, and they are out of businus, secondly, here is my dream sound card, go ahead and drool, its like $10000 I think http://www.lexicon.com/Studio/

[Xeven]

Originally posted by Ryoga


first off, by no means does the Aureal cards produce the best sound, infact the onboard one that came with an old computer of mine didn't even support bass sound, and they are out of businus, secondly, here is my dream sound card, go ahead and drool, its like $10000 I think http://www.lexicon.com/Studio/

okay.. so its not part of the options then..;)

[Enigma1982]

Nope,they are no any online store in thailnd.........
BTW thx for info I will go now seeya at evening

[Sylvan Sorrow]

Originally posted by Xeven


okay.. so its not part of the options then..;)

not really, but I still very much like it, and I forgot to say, Enigma, thats a good motherboard he mentioned, later tonight Ill look around and tell you my opinion, right now going to watch Shrek on DVD, its my fathers bday and I got it for him, not like I had a choice reall

me: So what do you want for your birthday dad?

dad: Shrek on DVD

me: anything else?

dad: Big Boggle

me: but the Discontinued big boggle

dad: then get shrek

me: ok.


later, big boggle might of been discontinued but now they have oggle deluxe, basically same thing, but my sister bought it for him, so back to shrek.


its ok tho cuz I love that movie

[Xeven]

err.. did we have to know bout that? .. :heh:

[Sylvan Sorrow]

Originally posted by Xeven
err.. did we have to know bout that? .. :heh:

sorry, in a sorta rambling mood today, can you tell?

[Takmadeus]

Originally posted by Ryoga


sorry, in a sorta rambling mood today, can you tell?

no prob...whats shrek (*ehem* pardon me, I don't have a very wide selection of anime nearby)

[Ryos]

takmadeus: Shrek is some fairly popular computer generated movie in the U.S. Look at http://us.imdb.com/Title?0126029

[Takmadeus]

Originally posted by Ryos
takmadeus: Shrek is some fairly popular computer generated movie in the U.S. Look at http://us.imdb.com/Title?0126029

ohhhh thanks for the advice....

well, it doesn't look so good to me....

doesn't mean it is not good

[Sylvan Sorrow]

I didn't think it would be very good either, but I think its just about the best movie released this year, yes I know thats not saying much, and hopefully lord of the rings saves this year.

[Nightmare]

Originally posted by Enigma1982
Thank for info Ryoga...........
GeForce 3 is too expensive for me so I decided to use GeForce 2 Pro
More about GPU I think I will join Winfast GeForce 2 Pro 64 MB.
BTW today I will go to the mall and check those stuff out.

try to check the price for geforce2 ultra, if it is not too expensive then the geforce2 gts pro and u have extra money, buy it.

[404]

Originally posted by Ryoga


first off, by no means does the Aureal cards produce the best sound, infact the onboard one that came with an old computer of mine didn't even support bass sound, and they are out of businus, secondly, here is my dream sound card, go ahead and drool, its like $10000 I think http://www.lexicon.com/Studio/

OK, so Aureal out of bussiness. That's because Creative bought the company - what an evil ******* -.

Secondly, NEVER trust any onboard sound. Onboard soundcard are pure Bull****. You said your old computer that has Aureal sound onboard didn't produce bass, so you can't blame anyone. Mobo company always cut the 'good stuff' out of a soundcard when they plant it onboard.

I've heard the comparison. Aureal vortex 2 vs SB Live! 5.1 - and the Bass sound is better on Aureal.
Ask the guys at MadOnion.com's Forum if you don't believe me.

Aureal made fine technology with A3D. nothing beats the original idea. Not even Creative.

[Enigma1982]

New Spec
CPU AthlonXP 1.4 GHz
MB MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU
RAM DDR Kingston 266 MHz 256 MB
GPU Winfast Nvidia GeForce 2 Ti 64 MB
HD IBM DTLA 60.0 GB
SPU SB Audigy DE
Monitor Philips 107T
Case 300 Watts + Others
Modem Explorer V.90 ext
How about now :)

[Xeven]

Originally posted by Ryoga


sorry, in a sorta rambling mood today, can you tell?

why.... no? o_O

[Xeven]

Originally posted by Enigma1982
New Spec
CPU AthlonXP 1.4 GHz
MB MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU
RAM DDR Kingston 266 MHz 256 MB
GPU Winfast Nvidia GeForce 2 Ti 64 MB
HD IBM DTLA 60.0 GB
SPU SB Audigy DE
Monitor Philips 107T
Case 300 Watts + Others
Modem Explorer V.90 ext
How about now :)

hey hey! looks GOOD Enigma! although if you have some cash to spare, you might want to consider going for at least a gf3ti200, your system will have better forward compatibility this way.. nonetheless, the current setup should rip through pretty much anything.. :)

[Shiori]

....WAAAH! my computer can't even rip its way out of a paper sack! :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Xeven]

Originally posted by Keiichi
....WAAAH! my computer can't even rip its way out of a paper sack! :cry: :cry: :cry:

yeah right! :p

[Sylvan Sorrow]

Originally posted by Enigma1982
New Spec
CPU AthlonXP 1.4 GHz
MB MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU
RAM DDR Kingston 266 MHz 256 MB
GPU Winfast Nvidia GeForce 2 Ti 64 MB
HD IBM DTLA 60.0 GB
SPU SB Audigy DE
Monitor Philips 107T
Case 300 Watts + Others
Modem Explorer V.90 ext
How about now :)

what speakers do you have?

[Enigma1982]

Originally posted by Ryoga


what speakers do you have?
Cambridge FPS 1000

[Enigma1982]

Originally posted by Xeven


hey hey! looks GOOD Enigma! although if you have some cash to spare, you might want to consider going for at least a gf3ti200, your system will have better forward compatibility this way.. nonetheless, the current setup should rip through pretty much anything.. :)
I can't go with gf3
GF3 series is too expensive.I really can't go with it :(
BTW In this case GF2 Ti is the best choice for me

[Sylvan Sorrow]

Originally posted by Enigma1982

Cambridge FPS 1000

rather low end sorround speakers, if your SB LIVE was without 5.1 the upgrade was worth it to audigy, if it had 5.1, you won't notice to much of a difference at all, even if your SB Live did have 5.1 you might now notice a huge difference.

these will prolly be ny next PC speakers http://www.klipschonline.com/store/product.asp?dept_id=1&pf_id=030

[Enigma1982]

My old computer I sell it to my folk.
Only left are monitor and speaker.

[Enigma1982]

One more question.I am not sure about buy GeForce2 Ti instead GeForce2 Pro.
Is it worth enough to buy it ???

[Sylvan Sorrow]

Originally posted by Enigma1982
One more question.I am not sure about buy GeForce2 Ti instead GeForce2 Pro.
Is it worth enough to buy it ???

don't know, search the web for some benchmarks.

[Enigma1982]

I decided go back to pro Ti is not worth enough to buy it instead pro.More info I decided go with mobo with via KT266A chipset too.

[Fury]

i like this one...

Atlhon XP 1800
512 ddr ram
mobo:AV7K266 chipset:kt266a
geforce3...or geforce3 ti500(this one is very expensive)
or gf gts 64mb
...
..

[cairey]

I think the best GeForce card to get from a performance/price point of view is the GeForce2 Pro. Although, I don't think I'll be buying a GeForce.