Design me a Monster $1500-2000

[kd5iiu]

1 Design me a Monster $1500-2000
If anyboby is bored today maybe I can get some ADVICE on a new mobo, gpu and mem,

I'm gonna start from scratch:

$1500-2000 to spend

INTEL HT? 3.2-3.4 or AMD?
water-cooled cases (pre-built) cpu h2o only?
x800 or 6800?
Dual channel DDR of course?
MOBO???
Any suggestions?

[craig588]

now isnt that great of time to buy if you want your system to last. Socket 939 is coming in just a month or 2 and it wont require regged ram and it should have better mobos avalible for it.

[Kanavit]

i wouldn't waste money on water-cooled cases. they don't really help temps much as air cooling nowadays, wc just offers more silent operation. i would either get a P4 3.2EE/ 6800 ultra system or an A64 FX-53/x800xt system. i guess getting an FX-53 is also future proof too. since it is the worlds 1st 64-bit windows processor.

[John Cena]

FX-53 Require Registered ram which will cost an arm and leg right? Besides Windows 64 bit won't be mainstream until atleast mid 2005.
I would hold out and wait a bit longer till Intell releases dual core Pentium 6 64 bit processors.Btw they will have SATA2, PCI-Express, and BTX.


Tiill then I would just buy P4 3.0ghz HT, Asus P4P800 Deluxe, Dual Chanel pc3200 ram.

[charlie]

Mach2 ST - $700
A64 3200+ $280
NF3-250 - $150
512mB BH-5 $155
x800Pro - $400
ttgi 520 PSU - $89
Liteon DVD-R 8x - $90
Liteon CD-R- DVD-ROM - $40
120gB sata HDD - $80

[bigjohns97]

charlie : where do you get that mach II price from?

[CrashOv3r1De]

X800PRO - $400
A64 3400+ - $420
Abit KV8Pro - $110
2x256mb KHX3200 - $169
LiteOn DVD 8x+-RW - $90~130
2x36gb raptors raid 0 - $240
TTGI 520W psu - $90
LianLi PC 75 - ~$180
Asetek Waterchill CPU/GPU/NB - $250

$700 for mach2 st at www.kit-tronics.com

The KV8Pro new bios will feature agp/pci locks. You will have 1.8vcore and 3.2vdimm plenty of headroom for overclocking without vmods. I dont really think you need a mach2st. Watercooling is silent and looks good. You should be able to do 2.5+ghz with that setup there

[Arkangyl]

Abit's coming out with a new BIOS with locks for sure? sweet,

[boshi]

umm, why was this moved to intel, if he's considering an AMD system?

[craig588]

he double posted

theres still another one in the AMD board.