Should I wait?

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

alright, for the motherboard i'm not sure whether to go for this or this

i'd kinda lean toward asus, because their known to be stable and generally good, but the gigabyte one looks beefier, and more colorful ....which one do you guys recommend? theres only a 50$ price difference so, if the gigabyte one is better i'd probably take it.


btw, these are both for an AMD 64 3200+ (apparantly the AMD 64 Fx-53 with the 1600 MHz bus is $1053 , so....ya)

[Null]

its hard to say. you give us a link with a page discribing the whole thing.

then you give us a link with a picture the size of my finger nail and no info to compare it to.

and BTW, gigabyte is a very good brand.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

gah...my bad, just a sec, i'll send you the proper link

proper link

[Null]

Well. what worries me with the Gigabyte is that it says AGP 1.5v gfx cards only.

im not intirly sure on this matter but i think 1.5v gfx cards are older and the newer ones are .8v?

so the gigabyte might not be good for future gaming.

(note, not intirly sure on this)

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

Alright.....my pretty much final list is done, here it is:

Monitor - samsung 17" LCD
Motherboard - Asus K8V Deluxe
Processor - Athlon 3400+
Videocard - Radeon 9600XT, may switch to 9800XT...depending on how much money i have when i buy it
Keyboard & Mouse - Microsoft optical wireless desktop set
Soundcard - Sound blaster Audigy 2
Hard drive - either A- 36 GB 10000 RPM or B - 160 GB 7200 RPM, they're the same price
RAM - Ultra 1 Gb Dual Chanel DDR
Powersupply - a nice big 500 W, but i don't know which brand to pick
DVD Burner - LG 8x write
Speakers - Logitec z640

i'm drooling just thinking about it already

[Seth]

Plextor just put out a 12x dvd+-r

Sharp just released a 19 inch lcd with a 16ms response time

Go with the 160 gb hard drive.

The 9800XT would be my choice, especially since the price for it has dropped a bunch.

[Null]

I'd strongly recommend AGAINST the wireless keyboard and mouse. Expecially for games. but thats up to you. (wireless have not as good of responce time and end up being a pain with batteries)