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Post June 7th, 2004, 1:06 am

I'm getting ready to build myself a new rig here pretty soon as I've put it off for long enough now. Here's what I've come up with so far:

Antec P-160 Aluminum Case
Antec 480W TrueBlue Power Supply
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (Socket 754) *
MSI "K8N Neo Platinum" nForce3 250Gb Chipset Motherboard OR ASUS "K8V SE Deluxe" K8T800 Chipset Motherboard *
Kingston 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 x2
ATI RADEON X800 PRO
Western Digital Special Edition 120GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive

The first question I have is do you think I should go ahead and get a socket 754 chip or move to a new socket 939 chip?

The second question I have is on the motherboard for the 754. The two that I chose seem to be the two that I hear people raving about the most and I'm just wondering what you guys think.

I come in search of almighty wisdom. Any thoughts, comments, suggestions you may have are appreciated.

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Post June 7th, 2004, 1:31 am

Nice setup dude especially the case and AMD 64. I have no recommendations.
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Post June 7th, 2004, 6:45 am

looks like a mint setup :)
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Post June 7th, 2004, 6:52 am

great looking setup! but if it were me i would go with 1 gb of ram.
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Post June 7th, 2004, 8:39 am

i thought the 64-bit systems needed registered Ram?
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Post June 7th, 2004, 12:17 pm

SSH-Raj wrote:
great looking setup! but if it were me i would go with 1 gb of ram.

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Kingston 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 x2

Nucleo wrote:
i thought the 64-bit systems needed registered Ram?

As far as I know only the FX-51 and -53 require registered RAM.

Which motherboard do you think I should go with?
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Post June 8th, 2004, 4:26 pm

Im liking the set-up you won't regret the jump to 64 bit specially with the new Windows Xp 64 bit coming soon/due for release/released depening on when you read this lol!
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Post June 9th, 2004, 12:27 am

Then the new version of Widows comes out codenamed Longhorn, I’ve see some screen shots and WOW.
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Post June 9th, 2004, 7:19 am

No sorry I was reffering to the new windows XP designed for 64 bit machines. Not longhorn.
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Post June 9th, 2004, 8:58 am

i remember a review about longhorn in the beta stages....
their flagship computer stuggled to open paint lol
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Post June 9th, 2004, 12:54 pm

Hey jnacool I knew you were talking about XP 64 bit I was just saying that longhorn should run nice on that when the final release comes out.

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