Antec Mid Tower w. 380 watt ps [black]
NEC 8X DVD Burner [Black
Black Microsoft Keyboard and optical mouse
Black CTX 17" LCD
Creative 5.1 speakers THX Certified
Soyo Pentium4 mobo [FREE] 70$- $70 rebate
Intel P4 2.8ghz with Hyper Threading
OCZ Dual Channel DDR Overclocking RAM [w. heat ------ers]
ATI Radeon 9600XT [runs anything out today and oc friendly]
Western Digital 10k RPM SATA HD [74gb]
Western Digital WD800 w. 8 mb cache 7200 rpm

and the price for everything from newegg is:

$ 1,347.00

Anything you think i should change? i would have don an athlon system but the motherboard is free, which meens 170$ gives me the P4 and a good motherboard. And all the other goodies, Please advise! Thanx.

 

I would prefer more GHz for your processor, and how much RAM do you have?

 

ram is 512. The 2.8 is VERY oc friendly, its going to be running around 3.2 ghz.

 

try www.mwave.com they are usually cheaper then newegg

 

Get a mobile 2600 xp and a a7n8x deluxe with the MCP-T southbridge and get some cheap 500mhz adata memory. ---- the p4 still to expensive for my taste. Also unless you are going to go on an agressive upgrading cycle i would opt on just getting a 6800gt video card because the 9600xt is way dated compared to the games coming this christmas.


Just to let in some insight my 2600 mobile barton is running at 2.5ghz 13 x 180 right now stable. My ram is queer as ---- though i need to just completely start out with a new socket 939 that is, when the new PCI-X boards come out on the AMD side.

 

AMD has always been my choice based on performance vs money. My budddy had a mobile and with my old watercooling setup in his rig it went 2800 and change.

 

Not too bad at all then man.. better than my P3-class Celeron with two hard drives.. one is 10 gig, the other 20 gig (Everything was free, who am I to complain? lol)

 

i could probably run in 2650 range but i'm all air. Watercooling is too exotic too me unless everything just falls into my lap from the air. My quiet 27$ volcano 12 is suffice

 

Intel...

 

Bad experience?