Barebone System.
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:37 pm
Thinking about getting a new system and just using some of the stuff on this old one to place into the new one. This won't happen for quite a while, so there's just a few things I need to know from anybody -good- with computers.
First part is for processors-
Lets say I have a 150 dollar budget on a processor, and I need one that is better than mine.
Mine currently is an 3000 AMD Athlon Processor at 2.2 GhZ. What I'm wanting is something a bit faster than that, for less than 150 bucks. It doesn't matter to me if it's Intel or AMD, I personally don't care. All I need is a name to look for when choosing my barebones system. I don't know the differences between names like Intel Centrino and Intel Celeron, or Intel Core Duo.
Second Part is for websites-
I need any and all websites that will let you CUSTOMIZE a Barebones PC. If it is possible, I would like a site to where I can customize my own PC to suit me, rather than selecting from individual barebones that have already been assembled.
So any of those are appreciated.
Third part, Video cards-
Nvidia and ATI have obviously been rivals for sometime, but usually they come out to about the same quality really, depending on the card itself. What I need here is an equation of the two types of cards. What ATI card is the equivelant of Some Nvidia card.
Example-
Nvidia FX 5500 is close to the power of an ATI Radeon 9200 (That's a wild guess btw).
EDIT** Preferrably, Nvidia 6200 equivelant ATI and above.
Reason being, if there is an ATI card that has the exact power of an Nvidia card, yet it's cheaper, I want the ATI. I have no personal preferences on ATI or Nvidia, as long as it runs the games I have and will have.
If anybody would be willing to inform me of that, that would be great. I'll be searching around the web for this on my own as well, as I won't be buying it until late february, but I'd like to get an idea of prices now and how much of a budget I'll be able to have and all.
First part is for processors-
Lets say I have a 150 dollar budget on a processor, and I need one that is better than mine.
Mine currently is an 3000 AMD Athlon Processor at 2.2 GhZ. What I'm wanting is something a bit faster than that, for less than 150 bucks. It doesn't matter to me if it's Intel or AMD, I personally don't care. All I need is a name to look for when choosing my barebones system. I don't know the differences between names like Intel Centrino and Intel Celeron, or Intel Core Duo.
Second Part is for websites-
I need any and all websites that will let you CUSTOMIZE a Barebones PC. If it is possible, I would like a site to where I can customize my own PC to suit me, rather than selecting from individual barebones that have already been assembled.
So any of those are appreciated.
Third part, Video cards-
Nvidia and ATI have obviously been rivals for sometime, but usually they come out to about the same quality really, depending on the card itself. What I need here is an equation of the two types of cards. What ATI card is the equivelant of Some Nvidia card.
Example-
Nvidia FX 5500 is close to the power of an ATI Radeon 9200 (That's a wild guess btw).
EDIT** Preferrably, Nvidia 6200 equivelant ATI and above.
Reason being, if there is an ATI card that has the exact power of an Nvidia card, yet it's cheaper, I want the ATI. I have no personal preferences on ATI or Nvidia, as long as it runs the games I have and will have.
If anybody would be willing to inform me of that, that would be great. I'll be searching around the web for this on my own as well, as I won't be buying it until late february, but I'd like to get an idea of prices now and how much of a budget I'll be able to have and all.
