Hello guys and gals. Been trolling long enough, so I thought I'd finally post up a big Texas Hello!! and finally ask the question - can someone please guide me? I'm building my very first computer, and it's kickin my tail. Pci this, AGP that, 2x , 32bit, 256M onboard blahblahblah...... it's making me kinda crazy my wife says.
Here's the purpose of this 'rig'. It's for home use (surfing, pics, music), some photoshop (I didn't like CS2 much so I stuck with PS7 <it does what I need>), and some online gameplay (Final Fantasy XI and WoW...silly wife got me hooked on this stuff).
Here's the conunderum(sp?) I'm finding myself in. I only (I stress that loosely, as I'll probably have to go over a bit) have about 650'ish to spend on this...all together. I've read alot of your builds, and have used alot of you guys/gals advice on parts selection. So, without further adou...my 'grocery' list:
MOBO/CPU package (Eaglebit.com) - ASRock ALiveNF6G-DVI Socket AM2 nVidia GeForce 6100 4x SATA2 RAID MATX Motherboard with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 5600+ (2.8GHz) CPU Retail - $231.00USD
Memory - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail $109.99USD ($30 M.I.R ... yeah...right)
Video Card - SAPPHIRE 100208L Radeon HD 2600XT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail - $109.00USD
and after that.....I'm stuck. PSU, Case, Cooling options....it's endless it seems.
Can someone help me finish this thing up, in a way that I can hopefully have it built soon? I'm in Houston, and we have Microcenter down here. I've been told mixed stories about it, but am willing to shell out the coin if they have what I need in the line of periphs.
Thanks in advance ya'll. You have guided me this far....please use your wisdom on my crap-trap and lemme know what I'm doing wrong...if anything.
Justin
Here's the purpose of this 'rig'. It's for home use (surfing, pics, music), some photoshop (I didn't like CS2 much so I stuck with PS7 <it does what I need>), and some online gameplay (Final Fantasy XI and WoW...silly wife got me hooked on this stuff).
Here's the conunderum(sp?) I'm finding myself in. I only (I stress that loosely, as I'll probably have to go over a bit) have about 650'ish to spend on this...all together. I've read alot of your builds, and have used alot of you guys/gals advice on parts selection. So, without further adou...my 'grocery' list:
MOBO/CPU package (Eaglebit.com) - ASRock ALiveNF6G-DVI Socket AM2 nVidia GeForce 6100 4x SATA2 RAID MATX Motherboard with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 5600+ (2.8GHz) CPU Retail - $231.00USD
Memory - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail $109.99USD ($30 M.I.R ... yeah...right)
Video Card - SAPPHIRE 100208L Radeon HD 2600XT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail - $109.00USD
and after that.....I'm stuck. PSU, Case, Cooling options....it's endless it seems.
Can someone help me finish this thing up, in a way that I can hopefully have it built soon? I'm in Houston, and we have Microcenter down here. I've been told mixed stories about it, but am willing to shell out the coin if they have what I need in the line of periphs.
Thanks in advance ya'll. You have guided me this far....please use your wisdom on my crap-trap and lemme know what I'm doing wrong...if anything.
Justin