Final specs for my new PC - your advice has been assimilated... Thanks and last minute opinions? :)

Posted by saint on 5, 2000 at 5:38 PM:

OK - thanks for everyone's help :) I'm going to order my new computer tomorrow. Here's the final specs after everyone's advice... I'm steering away from the P3C2000 motherboard due to all the Intel 820 problems and flaky memory design, and am not using the Intel 440BX chipset because I want AGP4x support, or I'd have gone with the ASUS CUBX. Am I missing anything here or making any bad choices?

Specs:

- ASUS P3V4X with the VIA chipset (not the Intel 820)
- Pentium III Coppermine 600eb
- 128 MB SDRAM @ 133MHZ
- Creative Labs Soundblaster Live Value
- ATI All-In-Wonder 128 PRO 32 MB agp4 video
- 20 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive (not maxtor or quantum or seagate), Ultra ATA 66 enabled
- Extra fans for cooling

Can someone suggest a set of decent speakers? I chose the video board because it seems to be a decent jack of all trades -- other video boards are better at video editing or at 3d, but none of them seem to do it all like the ATI... Am I right on that?

Purpose: General purpose, light video editing, emulation and other game play.

Thanks for all the advice!

--- saint

Follow Ups:

• Re: Final specs for my new PC - your advice has been assimilated... Thanks and last minute opinions? :) The Man 5/06/2000 (0)
• You forgot one VERY important thing... Just Michael 5/05/2000 (0)
• Speakers and Monitor Rocket2600 5/05/2000 (0)
• Re: Final specs for my new PC - your advice has been assimilated... Thanks and last minute opinions? :) Agent Davis 5/05/2000 (2)
  • Ah, oops. Missing components...Re: Final specs for my new PC - your advice has been assimilated... Thanks and last minute opinions? :) saint 5/05/2000 (1)
    • 4X AGP dosnt work ... Beware... xiaou2 5/06/2000 (0)

Post a Followup