New Computer

[The_Ancient]

I am looking at buidling me a new PC

What do you think

Asus A7V333 Mother Board
Asus CDRW5224A 52x/24x/42x CD-RW Drive
Memorex DVD r rw drive
Western Digital 120GB Hard Drive
Keyboard2000 Keyboard and mouse
Crucial 512MB DDR Ram
CTX 19in Monitor
Pine 6ch Sound Card
ATI All In Wonder Radeon Video Card
FoxConn 400W Mid Tower Case
Dynotron CPU Fan
AMD Althon XP1900AGOGA CPU which is as fast as the Normal XP2100

anything wrong that you can see with this set up?

Going to cost about $1200 plus shipping

[bonne-man]

i don't know anything about building computers, but sounds great and powerful, and CHEAP, less than i bought my lees- than that powered gateway a year and a half ago. sounds kool

-dan

[BlkX]

That sounds pretty good Mike. I just built one for just over $500 that consists of:

ECS Mobo
XP1700 CPU w/ cooling fan (big ass fan too)
GeForce MX 440 video card
Samsung 80GB 7200RPM HD
Benq 48x16x48 CD-RW drive
256MB DDR RAM (Generic)
Onboard sound and network

I already had a monitor, KB, and mouse so i didn't need any of those. Your setup consists of name-brand stuff which'll add cost. The setup i've got consists of mainly generic or cheaper components but i don't regret it a bit. The machine is plenty fast and extremely stable. In other words, i believe you might be able to get the same performance for less.

[The_Ancient]

Originally posted by BlkX@Nov 11 2002, 02:16 AM
That sounds pretty good Mike. I just built one for just over $500 that consists of:

ECS Mobo
XP1700 CPU w/ cooling fan (big ass fan too)
GeForce MX 440 video card
Benq 48x16x48 CD-RW drive
256MB DDR RAM (Generic)
Onboard sound and network

I already had a monitor, KB, and mouse so i didn't need any of those. Your setup consists of name-brand stuff which'll add cost. The setup i've got consists of mainly generic or cheaper components but i don't regret it a bit. The machine is plenty fast and extremely stable. In other words, i believe you might be able to get the same performance for less.

I know I could get Cheap Stuff but In my experace the Cheaper Motherboard are less stable, and offer less performace
so I want to buy Asus, or Gigabyte. I have a Shuttle Now and I dont like it at all

the Crucial Ram is only a Few Dollars more than say Kingston, so I would rather have the Better Crucial

Your GEforce is in the Same Catagory as the ATI I want only the ATI has a Built in tv Tuner and TV On Demand, and TV Out cababilites

That Asus 56X WRITE speed Drive is only $85... I could get a 40X for $51

the DVD-R is $$$ at over $260 but it is new Tech so I have to pay for it, but it will payfor itesle when i start Burning DVD Movies I rent

I have a Little 15in montor so I want somehting better
and I just like that Key Board

[piperazine]

Sounds like an awesome setup, but I'd go w/ a Lite-on CDRW.

That's just personal preference, tho-. And they tend to kill the compitition's similarly rated drives in read speed tests.

Does the asus have a burn-proof write buffer?

[Alan]

i built myself a computer.....
similar to that one, i had an asus board, and 512mb of ram.....
it still hasn't started up yet, and i'll tell ya right now asus has pretty poor customer service
i guess i'll just pay a shop to look at it... Gay.

[The_Ancient]

Originally posted by Alan@Nov 11 2002, 02:29 PM
i built myself a computer.....
similar to that one, i had an asus board, and 512mb of ram.....
it still hasn't started up yet, and i'll tell ya right now asus has pretty poor customer service
i guess i'll just pay a shop to look at it... Gay.

Asus has some the the Best boards that I have heard about


As for not starting up,

What exactly is it doing,

Have you Tersted the Power Supply in insure it is functioning right?

Do you have the ram FULLY plug'ed in?

Is the Ram Good? (try puttting a new Ram Chip in)





I have "built" 5-6 PC, but this one is going to be the first "all new" PC I have built

most of the other were eith CPU, Mother Board or Hard Drive Upgrades or peiceing together old PC's in to one lol

[Civic96]

Wow Mike you will have a sweet ass machine.

You can play any game you want on it.

[Alan]

mike....
what it does, is it powers up
all the fans start spinning etc etc......
lights are on....
i get no post though, and someone tells me that is because of a bad cpu, and someone else says that is caused by a bad MOBO.
I also get no video.... the screen turns on, and then flickers itself off into "NO SIGNAL" mode.....
its not the video card, or the AGP slot, because i tried a PC slots style video card with the same results. Any other ideas?
and yes everything is plugged in correctly and firmly, i have taken it apart and redone it several times.

[The_Ancient]

Originally posted by Alan@Nov 12 2002, 04:56 PM
mike....
what it does, is it powers up
all the fans start spinning etc etc......
lights are on....
i get no post though, and someone tells me that is because of a bad cpu, and someone else says that is caused by a bad MOBO.
I also get no video.... the screen turns on, and then flickers itself off into "NO SIGNAL" mode.....
its not the video card, or the AGP slot, because i tried a PC slots style video card with the same results. Any other ideas?
and yes everything is plugged in correctly and firmly, i have taken it apart and redone it several times.

To my Knolwege only 3 Things will cause that

1> Bad CPU
2> Bad Mother Board
3> Bad Ram


Proablly your Best bet is to have a Shop check all three, as unless you prepared to Buy another of each and swap them one at a time

Your Cheapest Route is to have a shop test each of them