Hello,
i'm new to this forum, first post, although i read posts here 4-5times a day. I have a decision to make -
I have been planning on setting up a new rig, i run my business online and pretty often i have excel (2 windows) calculator,word, internet explorer,mozilla firefox (5 wndows), windows media player, wndows explorer... all open at the same time. I game atleast an hour a day too, and its summer so pretty soon it will be 2 hrs a day. I was planning on getting
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice Integrated into Chip FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BPBOX - Retail 199$
ABIT AV8-3rd Eye Socket 939 VIA K8T800 Pro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail 120$
Those as my base. I need an OS too.
so thats looking at about 400-450$
This new Amd/microsoft deal has messed my plans up,in a nice way.
Now anyways i was planning on spending 500$ on cpu, mb, and OS.
1. Should i get the 250$ package and spend 250$ on a vid card(games like hl2, counter-strike source...)
2.or should i go with the 500$ (will it run games without a vid card, if not how much can i get a card for considering i dont think that mobo has slots for agp or pci)
All comments are welcome. Thank you very much
Ryan