Need feedback before i build this system

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redrovermine7

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I am going to build my son a mid range system, I see these parts are priced great at newegg.com. Would this make a good mid range system (to replace his old 1.6 pentium 4). Do any of you see any conflict or incompatible parts (since I'll build it myself?)


Proc: Intel P4 640 3.2.GHz 2MB L2 Cache
MoBo: Asus 925XE w/DDr2 slots
Memory:Corsair (ValueRam) 2Gb DDR2 SDRAM (2x1GB) 240 PIN 667 (PC5300)
Graphic Card:ATI X800XL 256MB
XP Professional


Thanks for any feed back. :D

Added: By the way I know AMD will out perform the P4, but my son insists on P4 because of some freak bad experiences with AMD (ie had one melt on him several years ago). My wife says if I get him an AMD anyway, then anytime he drops a frame or lags he will say "See if I had P4 this wouldn't happen" (Even though we know AMD would out perform). :dozey:
 
I would suggest going in the direction of AMD 64.

Plus, you call that midrange? I call that top of the line. :p
 
Shamrock said:
I would suggest going in the direction of AMD 64.

Plus, you call that midrange? I call that top of the line. :p
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I wholeheartedly agree with everything this great man has said. Go AMD64, you'll get much better performance for the same money (or the same performance for much less money, depending on how you look at it). But as far as those components go, they look fine, they should work beautifully together.

GO AMD!!! :cheers:
 
wow that's a pretty high end system. not mid-range at all. lol.

EDIT: is 2GB of RAM really neccessary?!
 
No, infact if I remember correctly 2gigs can actually slow down your system.
1gig is fine.
 
He shouldn't recieve any lag with that kind of system though. Show your son some benchmarks and try to explain to him what they are.

Even though the AMD and P4 difference is slightly marginal, everyone I know would insist on AMD, but P4 are good too. :p
 
Looks impressive, although I do agree with the others in saying that you will only need 1GB of ram. The graphics card is also a good card, really well priced.
 
Can I be your son?

My dad still insists on sticking with his Dell P233 with upgraded 64mb ram. I hate using that thing. It takes like 30 seconds to open anything up...
 
Kind on topic...

But I just got my ned computer a few days ago... It used to have 256ram, but my dad upgrade me to 1gig of ram... wow. I have most of the settings on high(they were medium/low before) and the game runs even smoother then it did before. It never lags, not even on some of the most intence battles. And I had a Geforce fx 5200 the whole time so ram really makes a difference. So I think that 1gig will do fine.

And as everyone else said... that is far from being mid-ranged... you'd have to be some rich-computer making guy to think that was mid-ranged...

Speaking of which... do they have 512mb graphics cards? Are they really expencive and worth it?
 
MikeL15 said:
Speaking of which... do they have 512mb graphics cards? Are they really expencive and worth it?
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not yet, they will be, and no
 
Also, whats wrong with 2gig ram? Id think it would be faster, but some are saying it slows you down? Is that just in games or all around?
 
Also, whats wrong with 2gig ram? Id think it would be faster, but some are saying it slows you down? Is that just in games or all around?
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I believe it has alot to due with processors and FSB, I really wouldn't know though.

Well therefor if they are still waiting to actually be released then therefor they are not out and therefor Asus is correct.

Though I will correct ASUS!!!
MUAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814124115

Now it isn't exactly 512 megs of memory..it's more..
Of course these graphics cards are not at all in any form for gaming. I believe they are used for computers that do extensive stuff in Maya for movies.
 
Shamrock said:
But as you might notice, it says on backorder. Therefore, they are waiting till they are actually released.
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If they haven't been released yet doesn't that make Asus right?
 
I think that when it comes to ram, 1gb is enough, i mean unless you are doing anything that really uses 2gb, like image / video editing, then you don't need it, not for games anyway. Also i think that it would slow it down if you chose 4x512mb dimms instead of 2x1gb dimms, but i'm not totally sure about it, i remember someone saying something about the way you configure the memory and what size of dimms actually affect performance.
 
i used a 2 GB ram pc before and it never lagged after playing CoD at the highest settings.
 
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