Help me spend my money :D

[bioyuki]

600 dollar budget.

Current setup:

AMD 1800XP
Iwill KK266
512mb PC133
Ti4200 128MB
Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm
Live! X-Gamer
16x DVD
12x10x32 Burner
Asus TV Tuner
300watt PS
Full tower
Linksys 10/100

I want to keep my optical drives, tower, video card and tv tuner.

I'm thinking:

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
2500+ or 2600+ Barton (they still come unlocked right and which one should I get?)
2x512MB PC3200 (should I go with no name, CAS 3, RAM at 77 a stick or name brand, CAS 2.5 for 85 a stick?)
Seagate Baracuda SATA 120GB 7200rpm (possibility of adding one more in the future for a RAID 0 array)

Any comments will be appreciated. I've been out of the loop for a while so I dunno what's good anymore . I'll probably be relying on the nforce2 stuff for integrated audio and 10/100 as well.

 

[bioyuki]

Oh yeah, will I be able to OC to 3000+ with just the stock HSF?

 

[minendo]

Why keep the video card?

 

[goossedump]

he should keep the video card.

next gen video cards are comming out soon

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: goossedump
he should keep the video card.

next gen video cards are comming out soon

Next gen everything is always coming out soon.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: goossedump
he should keep the video card.

next gen video cards are comming out soon

Next gen everything is always coming out soon.

mobo, ram upgrade should come before upgrading that video

btw, get the 2500 cause its a barton, the other is a tbred (2600)

recommend

A7n8x deluxe
1 gb of corsair xms/OCZ/Mushkin/Buffalo PC3200 ram
Athlon xp 2500
WD Raptor the old one for speed for your OS and Games and the 40 gig to store you pr0n and warez

 

[goossedump]

yes but were are in the middle of the next ones comming out. waiting would be better

 

[JBT]

next gen cards arn't comming out till spring I thought? thats like 5 months... not like real soon but not tooo far off either esspecially if he want's to play games NOW.

 

[littlebitstrouds]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: goossedump
he should keep the video card.

next gen video cards are comming out soon

Next gen everything is always coming out soon.

mobo, ram upgrade should come before upgrading that video

btw, get the 2500 cause its a barton, the other is a tbred (2600)

recommend

A7n8x deluxe
1 gb of corsair xms/OCZ/Mushkin/Buffalo PC3200 ram
Athlon xp 2500
WD Raptor the old one for speed for your OS and Games and the 40 gig to store you pr0n and warez

There is a 2600 barton

 

[bioyuki]

Originally posted by: minendo
Why keep the video card?

600 dollar budget

The video card will make do for now, my current HD is pretty much full and my comp. lags when editing huge files in Photoshop. I'll be updating the video card sometime in the future.

 

[ThatDumbGuy]

If you really need to shave a few bucks, I highly recommend taking a look at the For Sale forum. Always alot of stuff running through there, and alot of it quite nice. I guess if I had to spend 600 right now here is where it would go:
This is all from newegg:

DFI Motherboard for AMD AthlonAMD Athlon XP 266/333/400MHz Model NFII ULTRA INFINITY - Retail- $99

2 x GEIL DDR RAM 512MB PC-3200 Value 400MHz Ultra- CAS 2.5, 2T Command With Extreme Performance Heat Spreader- $170 total

AMD ATHLON XP 2500+ "Barton" 333 FSB PROCESSOR CPU- RETAIL- $90

2 x Western Digital Raptor 36GB SATA WD360GD 10,000 RPM 8MB Hard Drive OEM- $218 total

All in all, $582 with free shipping.
Of course, if you really wanted more space, you could substitute those drives for some bigger 7.2k ones, but I would highly suggest that they have an 8mb buffer.

Good luck.