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Offline brady

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« on: May 16, 2004, 02:24:27 PM »
Hi, I am going to be building a new sys from scratch, I Intend to use it for AH2 and WW2 online and IL-2(and it's add on's). So to those more knowledgable than I what do you sugest? I dont want to get the Brand new right now stuff, but rather somthing just below that, I gues to be prescise, for a grand what can I do, I would like to stay with IBM though and avoid AMD if posable.

 Note, I dont nead a monitor, just the Computer.
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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2004, 07:23:10 PM »
This one was about a grand, maybe a bump over. ( less than a month old ) AH2 gives me about 80fps flying around with the graphics sliders on max ( ground detail 2 miles ) I had the soundcard, just reused it. Setup was a snap. This was my third Epox setup, every setup with their boards went without a hitch. Highly recommend the case also, Antec's full tower cases are the best. And those intel chips run cool ( retired AMD user )

Win XP rocks, what took me so long ??

@ Newegg.com

Epox INTEL865 EP-4PDA2+
800 FBS Hypertheading
INTEL P4/3.0GHz CPU
2 x 512MB Crucial PC 3200 Ram
Western Digital SATA 80gig hard drive
7200RPM 8MB buffer
Chaintech FX5900XT Nvidia card
DirectX 9.0B
Soundblaster 512
Misc DVD-RW, DVD, floppy
Antec Plusview 1000AMG case ( three extra 80mm fans )
Antec Truepower 430watt power supply
XP Home

after checking my receipts it comes to 1179.00 plus tax and shipping..

..but I didn't reuse anything, put in the sound card cuz I didn't like the tone of the onboard sound even though it worked well. If your reusing the misc stuff it's doable for your price range.
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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2004, 11:20:07 AM »
Gigabyte K8N Pro $116
AMD Athlon64 3200+ Retail $282
2 x 512MB DDR400 $198

After next day shipping ($25.55) the total was $621.55

I used the onboard sound and already had a 40GB ATA-133 and a 80GB ATA-133 sitting around along with my GeForce4 Ti-4400. The only thing I really need for the future at the moment is a bigger power supply over the 350W I have now.
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2004, 10:34:06 AM »
Thanks guys I appricate it, food for thought:)
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2004, 07:09:14 PM »
Get an intell P4 2.4 and overclock the snott out of it.

It is at stock settings an 800 mhz FSB
By raising your FSB to 1000 you are bumping up your CPU to 3.0

Very cheap horse power:D

Pick any good mother board I really like the Asus .
I have the Asus P4P800 and love it.

Very easy Bios to work with almost idiot proof really.

Heck I did it after all LOL:aok
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« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2004, 07:26:20 PM »
For help check out ExtremeTech, click on the Build It tab. Theres specs for a $1000 AMD and $1000 Intel gaming systems. http://www.extremetech.com
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