[Pc_Support] Staying with 32-bit: PC3200 or PC4000, 166 or 200MHz Athlon?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> Or I'll need $150 PSU,

?!?!?!  Are you buying an SLI setup with dual-GeForce
6800Ultra or 7800GTX cards  ?!?!?!  You only need to spend
$150 for a P.S. with triple or quad +12V rails and (2) 6-pin
WS/PCIe connectors.

If not, then try about $50 for quality, split-+12V P.S.  If
you absolutely want the 6-pin WS/PCIe connector, then maybe
$75.

I'm running with an Athlon64 3200+, 1GB RAM, GeForce 6800GT
256MB DDR3 (100W!), (2) hard drives, (1) DVD-RAM/RW/+RW with
a _measly_ 300W power supply (around ~345W max) that is an
ATX2.0 with split +12V lines (only 15A and 10A).

> $150 CPU,

Okay, I agree there.

> $100 board,

Try $80 these days.

And with the SLI X16, the nForce4 Standard/Ultra mainboards
are going to drop to $60 very soon.

And if you go nForce3, you can use AGP instead.

> and $150 VC (-$100 Ebay'd value) versus $65 for a board,
> $100 for a CPU, and ~ $70 for a deal on paired 512MBx2
> PC3200.

Why are you upgrading your memory???
Didn't we discuss this?

> As I've probably made clear before, I am very cheap.
> I'll probably never even notice the difference between A64
> and an older highend A32 setup for the activities I perform
> anyway.

Why not Socket-754 because Socket-462 is _dead_?!
Socket-754 is still very much AGP.



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