ahearnb 0 Posted October 18, 2001 Hi guys, I need some suggestions on what I should do and the stuff I should buy. What I have now... MS - 6167 (ATX IR1 Mainboard) motherboard AMD Athlon 500 mhz processor 256 MB PC133 RAM Nvidia Riva TNT2 Video Card Soundblaster Live! X-gamer 5.1 soundcard 30 GB HD 10 GB HD Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1212 Hewlett Packard 8250i 4x4x24 CD-RW Realtek RTL8139(A) PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter U.S. Robotics 56K Win Modem CyberMax CS900 19" Monitor Altec Lansing ACS45.1W speakers Windows Millenium Edition So, I got really lucky...I went to Chicago yesterday morning and won a free Athlon XP 1800+ processor and MSI K7T266 Pro-RU motherboard through this - http://www.xppcentral.com/xpp/promotion.asp?p=1 My question to you guys: what do you think I should do? To run this to its full potential, I think I should get DDR ram and maybe a new video card. I really don't want to spend much, cause I'm in college and $$ is hard to come by. But I think I need a new case, or at least a bigger power supply. I don't know exactly, but I think it is only 250watts? I've heard I need 300 with good circulation. Here's the deal...my sister will be going to college next year, so she'll want/need a computer. What I'm thinking - I can basically build my own system using my new CPU and motherboard and give her my old one. And I'd save my parents quite a bit of cash. So hopefully I can convince them....so in this case, what would you buy? I've heard ATI makes a good cheaper video card that is pretty good? I'm looking to spend less than $100, so I think geforce 3 is out. As you can tell, I've been out of the loop for awhile, since reading about new things would make me want to buy them. If you have time give me some ideas! Thanks for reading, and sorry for the long post! Brad Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted October 18, 2001 ati is crap if you want a cheap graphics card go wtith a geforce 2 mx Share this post Link to post
ahearnb 0 Posted October 18, 2001 Ok thanks. There are 2 versions (maybe more), right? What would you suggest? Is one that much better than the other? Thanks. Brad Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted October 18, 2001 more ram and higher model # = better saw the mx 400 with 64 megs of ram for like 60 bux on pricewatch.com Share this post Link to post
ahearnb 0 Posted October 18, 2001 Cool, that's not bad at all. How much better is a GeForce 2 (non-MX) or a GeForce 3? Cause they seem to be a lot more! Brad Share this post Link to post
