Help me buying a new computer!

[Rasbelin]

Good that we agree.

Pekka,

just go for a Radeon 9000 based card. Here's the one I recommend on Verkkokauppa.com. And when it comes to the Matrox Parhelia accelerator, I do recommend that you wait and see how things develop as you can't take out all the power with the current games and as new cards do enter the market.

7322 - Hercules 3D Prophet 9000 Pro 128MB

[Pekka]

It's nice to hear you are thinking about my wallet .

As I said earlier, I'm not experienced with these modern cards at all, but it still looks like my choice will be Radeon 9000 Pro. I also consulted my relative, who is a graphic designer, he said to get either 9000 Pro, or GF4. I won't be getting that Matrox since it's a bit too expensive. And I said I'd wait for a while to see what others think about it when people are having more time and experience with it, so I can make my mind again about it. Things will be different in 6 months..

[Rasbelin]

So what about the audio then?

[Pekka]

I'm going through your list of links about them. The one with FireWire option seemed good, but I'm still checking the others infos.

[Rasbelin]

And I forgot to mention that information about the Hercules Digifire 7.1 can be found here.

[Pekka]

Rasbelin, I'm about to order today .

What do you think about that MB you recommended? Verkkokauppa recommends Epox 8K3A-series with that CPU. What do you think about it? It wouldn't effect the cost. 1769 Epox 8K3A+ check it out and say what you think?

[Rasbelin]

Here's 4 different reviews about it...

http://www.socketa.com/reviews/epox/8k3a+/

http://www.tweakers.com.au/articles/motherboard/epox_8k3a/page1.asp

http://www.tech-pc.co.uk/gibbo.php

http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?ArticleID=186

BTW, it doesn't look bad at all.

[Pekka]

Onko sillä muuten väliä jos emolevyn ja muistin käyttämä väylänopeus on eri? Eli tuossa sun ehdottamassa emossa ois 266, mutta sun ehdottamat muistit ois 333...
taidan tyytyä toistaseks kylläkin 256 muistia.. hommaan sitten myöhemmin lisää jos on tarvis.

[Pekka]

ups. That came in finnish.. well you ignorant furriners, learn finnish if you want to know what I said.

Yeah Rasbe, I'm maybe getting that Epox 8K3A+ with your recommended CPU. It's even cheaper, so it doesn't really do any harm. But now I'm having a bit of hard time with memory issue. I'm maybe ordering today so that's why .
I think 256 will be enough for this packet, I'll get more later if I need. Recommend me a new memory that suits that Epox .

[Rasbelin]

Here's the cheapest alternative of 256 Mb DDR-333 RAM memory. I have one 256 Mb DDR-266 memory module in one of my PC's and it has been working just fine, so it's not that bad quality after all.

6319 - Verkkokauppa.com memory 256MB DDR 333MHz PC-2700, 88 €

And the positive thing is that you get 14 days time to return it free of charge if it's not suitable or working.

[Rasbelin]

BTW, could you put up the rest of your shopping list? Just asking of curiosity.

[Pekka]

Sure. This is what I have gathered so far as what to get (95% sure):

1769 Epox 8K3A+
3493 Amd Athlon XP 2000+
7313 Hercules 3D Prophet 9000 Pro 128MB AGP
6319 256MB DDR 333MHz PC-2700
8536 Western Digital Caviar 80GB EIDE 7200rpm
1569 Aopen H600A/ST 300W ATX

So I'm still figuring out the sound system stuff, keyboard and mouse, and DVD/CD-R stuff..
But those are quite easy..

[Rasbelin]

This far it looks very good. If you could add the missing parts when you have ordered, it would be nice too.

[Pekka]

Yah, I just put them together as well..here we go:

1514 Lite-On LTD-163 16X DVD
2762 Plextor Plexwriter 40X/12X/40A
1346 Samsung/Nec 3.5" 1.44MB
1393 Hercules Digifire 7.1
2120 Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical

I have cd-r already, but it's very bad quality and it's slowly dying, and I've heard only good things about plextor plexwriter. What do you think about this set?
I think it matches what I'm looking for at the moment, and it's easier to update from there when you don't have to buy the whole set from almost scratch .

[Pekka]

I will buy those speakers later, I'll just have to do with my crappy current ones, because I can't afford any good stuff for few months.