Hey everyone !
it's been a while, but i'm now looking to build a new computer. I want something fast, something that will last me like 2 or three years. because of this i'm looking towards a athlon 64. my current system is..
P4 2.6c
Radeon 9800 pro (128)
512 megs of ram (OCZ)
Gigabyte motherboard (generic)
Soundblaster Live
The new system i was considering was something to this extent
My Budget is about $2,000
Athlon 64X2 3800
2 Gigs of ram DDR400
Motherboard with Nforce4
DiamondMax hard drive (300 gig with 16 meg cache)
Geforce 7800GTX (256 meg GDDR3)
Soundblaster audigy 2
thermaltake case
i'm trying to get some advice on the ram and the motherboard. I want a motherboard and ram that i can overclock as well. Perferably a motherboard with auto overclocking features so i don't risk any damage. The motherboard i was looking at was a
ABIT Fatal1ty AN8-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD
PCI Express x1: 2
PCI Express x16: 2
or
ABIT AN8-ULTRA Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard -
PCI Express x1: 2
PCI Express x16: 1
as far as ram i havn't found anything in particular, so suggestions are highly
welcome.
also i don't understand some of the things on the motherboard, for example
PCI Express x1: 2
PCI Express x16: 2
does the above mean that the motherboard has 2 pci express that both run at X16 if you have SLI, i just don't quite understand the ratio compared to
PCI Express x1: 2
PCI Express x16: 1
Any help is greatly appreciated
Also i'm not sure what the standard is for hard drives, is it ATA133 or now ATA 150, and is ATA the same as SATA (Serial ATA) ?
if you can recommend a hard drive that would be great as well, i was reading the specs on a motherboard and it says
PATA 2 x ATA 100 up to 4 Devices
PATA RAID NV RAID 0/1/0+1 JBOD
SATA 4 x SATA II
SATA RAID NV RAID 0/1/0+1 JBOD
Additional SATA 4 x SATA 150
i know Pata means parallelATA, and Sata means SerialATA, so looking at this motherboard it has 2 connectors for up to 4 PATA hard drives, and it has
4 connectors for 4 SATA II hard drives, and is SATA II equal to ATA150. as you can see i'm totally lost, lol :giddy:
it's been a while, but i'm now looking to build a new computer. I want something fast, something that will last me like 2 or three years. because of this i'm looking towards a athlon 64. my current system is..
P4 2.6c
Radeon 9800 pro (128)
512 megs of ram (OCZ)
Gigabyte motherboard (generic)
Soundblaster Live
The new system i was considering was something to this extent
My Budget is about $2,000
Athlon 64X2 3800
2 Gigs of ram DDR400
Motherboard with Nforce4
DiamondMax hard drive (300 gig with 16 meg cache)
Geforce 7800GTX (256 meg GDDR3)
Soundblaster audigy 2
thermaltake case
i'm trying to get some advice on the ram and the motherboard. I want a motherboard and ram that i can overclock as well. Perferably a motherboard with auto overclocking features so i don't risk any damage. The motherboard i was looking at was a
ABIT Fatal1ty AN8-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD
PCI Express x1: 2
PCI Express x16: 2
or
ABIT AN8-ULTRA Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard -
PCI Express x1: 2
PCI Express x16: 1
as far as ram i havn't found anything in particular, so suggestions are highly
welcome.
also i don't understand some of the things on the motherboard, for example
PCI Express x1: 2
PCI Express x16: 2
does the above mean that the motherboard has 2 pci express that both run at X16 if you have SLI, i just don't quite understand the ratio compared to
PCI Express x1: 2
PCI Express x16: 1
Any help is greatly appreciated
Also i'm not sure what the standard is for hard drives, is it ATA133 or now ATA 150, and is ATA the same as SATA (Serial ATA) ?
if you can recommend a hard drive that would be great as well, i was reading the specs on a motherboard and it says
PATA 2 x ATA 100 up to 4 Devices
PATA RAID NV RAID 0/1/0+1 JBOD
SATA 4 x SATA II
SATA RAID NV RAID 0/1/0+1 JBOD
Additional SATA 4 x SATA 150
i know Pata means parallelATA, and Sata means SerialATA, so looking at this motherboard it has 2 connectors for up to 4 PATA hard drives, and it has
4 connectors for 4 SATA II hard drives, and is SATA II equal to ATA150. as you can see i'm totally lost, lol :giddy: