Brand new rig...

[Canon]

Alright... priced today, the rig is as follows:

$138.00 (3x) Kingmax SuperRAM Series 184 Pin 256MB PC-3500 - OEM
$219.00 Intel Pentium 4/ 3.0E GHz 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, Hyper Threading Technology - Retail
$66.00 ASUS "P4S800" SiS648FX Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU -RETAIL
$145.00 POWERCOLOR ATI RADEON 9800SE Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model "R98SE-C3" -RETAIL

$568.00 before shipping...

can anyone think of some decent swaps for competitive prices I can make on this list?

[edit] Just for fun I'm going to go price a comparable machine on dell and gateway... rofl

[sexyownage]

SPEND AN EXTRA AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR A 9800 PRO. THAT 9800 HAS HALF THE BANDWIDTH OF A REG 9800. that is all. oh and you are really cheaping out with that motherboard with the sis chip. get a motherboard with the intel 865/875 chipset.

[ferret]

Why in god's name is there a Pentium on that list of parts?

[blue]

heh me and spurty picked up a ati radeon 9800 pro this weekend. nice card :)

[Canon]

800mhz fsb vs 333mhz

[ferret]

And? I just built one, an Athlon 2500 Barton 333mhz FSB.. Guess what? Running it at 422mhz FSB. :P The extra memory bandwidth has traditionally helped P-4s ONLY in Quake3 based games, and not always. Traditionally by benchmark, if you're a gamer, you want AMD. Better performance in gaming, and cheaper.

If you did my system, Athlon 2500, you'd only pay $80 or so for the CPU, that's like $140 savings. Take that and get ASUS A7N8X motherboard, about $80-85. $120 savings still. Overclock that bitch the same way I have, 2327mhz with 211FSB. You've already got PC3500 ram listed so you won't be cut short there.

You've got $120 left to put back into that vid card now just by switching to AMD, and you won't do better unless you move to a Athlon 64 or P4EE.

[sexyownage]

techincally you are running 211fsb and hes running 200. but the p4 has a lot of overclocking potential. yours is very limited since its not a mobile. with a good cooler he can do 3.5+ ghz


but i would rather go with amd and get a 9800pro instead of the se

[acme420]

seriously if youre gnna get a radeon dont cheap out and get a 9800se you would be better off with a 9600 basic. the 9800 pro is so cheap now theres no reason not to spennd another 50 bucks for it.

and why did you get a p4 with HT then cheap out on the motherboard?

[@gent-Orange]

Alright... priced today, the rig is as follows:
$145.00 POWERCOLOR ATI RADEON 9800SE Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model "R98SE-C3" -RETAIL

If that is actually 256bit then there is potential to unlock all eight pipelines and make it a 9800PRO using the ATI Omega drivers. If you're lucky you won't have any artifacts.

[WangChung]

but, that's if he can unlock it. i heard benchmarks on the 9800SE default, were about as good as a 9600 or something. =x