computer madnes :) what to buy ?

[Calintz]

hiya
this computer wich i'm working on now is a litlle outdated
500 mhz
27 gb
voodoo 3
128 ram
....
and some more outdated stuff
some i'm gonna buy something new
but i dunno what
so i thought i guy might know
i've got a budget of 680 euro = 650 dollars (i think)
i'm aware that it's not much but it is the best i can afford

what i really need in the computer is Dvd-combo reader and a normal CDRW-writer
i was also thinking about the lines of 2 gHz
and a realitve good grafic card

[DrKupo]

You won't be able to get a 2 gig box for that little money, even if it didn't have a burner.


EDIT: Oh wait. Here you go: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod...=19&l=en&s=dhs

[jerome187]

Dell sucks, just build you own athlon XP box

[Lord Riff Raff]

Okay I'm using some quick aprox with 1 euros = 1.5NZD. Which gives 1020.

DVD Combo will cost ~200
GF FX 5200 will cost ~300
512 mb ram will cost ~200
NForce2 motherboard will cost ~300
Athlon @ 2.4 ghz will cost ~150

Total ~ 1150 = ~ 767 Euros

So I suggest getting one stick of 256mb DDR now and getting another later. Also dropping down to about 2ghz. Other than that you should be able to do it. If you have a combo you won't need a CD-RW.

[jerome187]

I would get 2 seperate drives, one DVD-ROM and one CD-RW. It makes copying disks MUCH faster and easyer BTW. I think it might be cheaper that way too.

[Calintz]

behold:
AMD ATHLON XP 2600+ AMD-cooler (makes practicly no sound)
Geforce FX-5600 256mb
Main bord: Asus A7N8X-X(=NForce2 Chipset)
512MB RAM DDR 400MHZ
160GB Harde Schijf
10/100 Mbit Netwerk
1.44 Floppy Drive
CD-rom 52x
Stereo Digital Sound
400WDesign Midi Tower Case met 2 Front USB
4 USB-gates: 2x USB in the back en 2 USB-poorten in the front
for 594 euro's
no cd writer or dvd-rom thought but thats about 60 euro's here

found in on belgium ebay and i can pick it of on the store of the owner 7 km from here

[jerome187]

Not bad, looks like a good deal to me.

[Calintz]

yup

[Lord Riff Raff]

Wait, Don't get a FX5600, get a FX5700 as they are built from the FX5950 core and not the older one, if you can get one. As they beform well above the GF4 4200.