Cooling Fans And Thermal Compound

[dbs]

will I have to get an abit one for the vid card or will it not matter what kind I get?

[tesco]

Originally posted by dbs@8 May 2004 - 20:02
will I have to get an abit one for the vid card or will it not matter what kind I get?

any new motherboard out will support agp 4x and 8x cards, and all teh new videocards out are agp 4x or 8x, so your good.

[clocker]

Originally posted by dbs@8 May 2004 - 17:25
well so far this is all costing me $410 without the ram and the vid card and I have about 550 to spend so do ya guys have any suggestions on the ram and the vid card that i should get?

You are cutting it pretty fine now.
In order to OC at all, and really, just to have a decent, stable system, you are going to need at least 512MB of halfway decent RAM.
Depending on your choice, that may only leave you with pennies left from your remaining $140.
Do you have any sort of vid card that you can limp by with until you raise more cash?

If you try to stretch the $140 to cover RAM and video, you'll end end up with mediocre examples of both...hate life, be unhappy and ultimately, probably kill your dog.
We don't want that, do we?

[dbs]

lol clocker well i think ill get mediocre ram and will hold off on the oc'ing until my next paycheck. so I guess that'll work. hey clocker do ya think that the presscott 2.8e with ht is a good idea? whadda ya THink?

[atiVidia]

Originally posted by dbs@8 May 2004 - 19:08
oh yeah I forgot to ask what videocard I should use with the abit max3, but i would prefer one thats inexpensive as am running short on money after buying all of this, plus are you sure about the proccessor is that the best choice for me?

lol u willing to spend 400 bucks?

my local compUSA is gonna sell the X800 pro starting may 9 until may 12 (i dont believe they will receive another shipment untim late june )

anyhow, this may apply to all compUSA stores. so...


otherwise, pick up a 9800xt from newegg. i think theyre at 270 not

[atiVidia]

Originally posted by dbs@8 May 2004 - 20:18
lol clocker well i think ill get mediocre ram and will hold off on the oc'ing until my next paycheck. so I guess that'll work. hey clocker do ya think that the presscott 2.8e with ht is a good idea? whadda ya THink?

2.4e


when u get the chance to OC it, and u pick up a 7000cu, u can make it hit 3.2ghz

[dbs]

thanks atividia but wouldnt the 2.8e overclock even higher? And oh yeah Im getting the 7000A-Cu with the whole package

[Virtualbody1234]

Have you considered AMD instead of Intel?

[dbs]

yeah I have virtual but I just wanted to go with intel for some strange reason, why what would you reccomend.

[tesco]

Originally posted by dbs@8 May 2004 - 22:25
yeah I have virtual but I just wanted to go with intel for some strange reason, why what would you reccomend.

well amd is a lot chaeper for the same perforamnce of chip, or atleast close.

at the moment, 64bit is the best amd processors. but the best deal out there is to buy an athlon xp 2500+, i think they are $90 us, and some pc3200 ram, and oc the 2500+ to 3200+ speeds. It is possible using the stock heatsync, along with some arctic silver 5 thermal paste, and the bare minumum of fans (my opinion of the bare minimum; one intake, one exhaust) many members on this forum have done that, and i did it to my aunts computer. it wasn't hard at all. her temps are like 40 idle, 45 load.