2004-01-13, 20:03 | Link #41 |
Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 43
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Probably has to due to the fact that Taiwan is so close to Japan, a lot of computer parts are fairly cheap in Akihabara (reference kakaku.com):
Asus P4G8X motherboard: 8980 yen (USD$83) Pentium 4 2.66G: 17700 yen (USD$165) Seagate 160GB IDE-HD: 7890 yen (USD$73) ATI 9600PRO: 12860 yen (USD$120) no-brand DDR3200 512MB: 4300 yen (USD$40) comes to a total of 51730 yen (USD$483). I know, I know, what about computer case you say? Computer cases over here a quite expensive...it's actually rare to find one less than 15000 yen (USD$140). |
2004-01-13, 23:00 | Link #42 |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Down Under
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hmm that's not a *very good* upgrade for that price.
I could certainly do better... What I would do is spend money on a better motherboard. Get the Asus P4C800 or P4C800-E Pentium 4 2.4 C (the 800 mhz quadpumped fsb) with HT remember that P4s run on dual memory bus, so you always want 2 sticks of IDENTICAL ram. So for 512 you'd get 2X256MB DDR400 generic ram. Run that in a memory divider of 5:4 set the FSB to 450mhz and get an instant 3.0ghz computer Might cost a little more, but you're not going with an olderchipset, and you're getting the benifits of hyperthreading, which if you have a P4 you want. For 500 Canadian, this is what I got: Athlon 64 3000+, Gigabyte KT8V800 Pro mobo. I already had the ram however...1 gig Kingston Hyper X PC3200 ram. I didn't need to buy a HD, or Video card however, since I got 500GB of space, and a radeon9700 pro :/ However it's not working atm, mobo is shorted, and it's on RMA. |
2004-01-14, 14:24 | Link #43 | ||
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Milpitas, CA, USA
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ameoba has a lot of good advice
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That being said, I want to try AMD Barton 2500+ Retail $90 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...103-379&depa=0 Abit NF7 $70 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...127-144&depa=0 2x256 PC3700 Buffalo $96 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...150-603&depa=0 WD 80GB, 8MB cache $75 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...144-122&depa=0 MAXTOP CSX-147K2F-GF-USB-GRAY case $25 (case is subject to your personal opinion. I thought this one looked good for a cheap but decent case.) http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...150-017&depa=0 Lite On 52x CDRW $36 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...106-199&depa=0 Mitsumi floppy drive $9 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...103-104&depa=0 Fortron ATX350GU 350W Power supply $20 (one of the more reliable power supply companies around... Antec is also good) http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...104-986&depa=0 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 Video Card $109 (Sapphire makes the ATI cards for ATI, so they're reputable) http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...102-305&depa=0 Total $530+26 s/h Ah well, couldn't quite get it under $500. I tried to keep it in one store for convenience. You could shave some money on the memory and hard drive, and maybe the video card. You could also probably get a better deal on the hard drive if you go with a local vendor/rebate. If you want to overclock, you need a couple more case fans, a better heatsink/fan (thermalright is a good brand), and some thermal compound (Arctic Silver Ceramique is good, plus nonconductive to boot). Keep in mind if you use 3rd party thermal compound on your CPU (AMD policy), or the instant you overclock, you void the CPU warranty. Edit: Hey p3psi, how about an update? |
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