What do you think about this PowerPC

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Well i decided to hold off on my upgrading on my Dimension 8200 and giving it to my sister because her HP is sooo out of date and she can make well use out of a fast computer at her college campus...but for myself i want a gaming rig that will just blow you away...   My current parts are a AMD64 3200+ running at 2.0ghz * looking to overclock to 3500+ speeds* about 1gig of Corsair ram, pretty cheap running me at about 80 dollars, my nVIDIA 6800GT 256mb 256bit PCI-e card...BEAST!!! and my Soltek 939pin motherboard running me at about 94 dollars.  I already have my Aspire X-Dreamer 2 case... its beautiful, im gonna buy a 500watt power supply to stick it in and a new 120mm fan to stick in the back for some extra coolage...over all a very beautiful machine to run pretty much every possible game ya know..   What do you guys think, am i over doing it?? Do I need a better card or what, i need some input.  This build is gonna cost be around 800 because of the shipping and tax that the dumb state of new jersey taxes...well feel free to comment

wtcnbrwndo4u · Answer

You can't get very fast past 3500+ speeds without better memory. Corsair TWINX 1GB (512x2) XMS w/ CL2 runs $116 @ ZZF (with free 2nd day shipping). It will get you MUCH further than Corsair's Value Select RAM. This will be more worth your while.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80097-17

Secondly, no cheap old 500W PSU will do. Those $10 PSUs are a scam. They run at about 200Ws. You must get a Brand-Named PSU. This means one by Antec, Fortron, Enermax, OCZ.

A 400W Antec SmartPower 2.0 will do wonders in your system compared to a cheap 500W.

Soltek is also not the best company for a motherboard. Stick with top manufacturers such as Abit, Gigabyte, Asus, DFI, or MSI.

BTW, you shouldn't have called it PowerPC. I though you were talking about a Mac. :smileytongue:

Just kidding....

Daddyjaxx · Answer

Why stop at 3500+ speeds? That's only 200 MHz. That is very easy to do. I could get 600 MHz out of my 3200.

The only thing I can see that may prevent you from doing that is the RAM. 90.00 RAM usually doesn't overclock very well.

Gere2255 · Answer

haha, sorry that i didnt mention that the power supply was a Aspire 500watt, and i beg to differ, i think Soltek makes pretty good motherboards at a very cheap price, i was gonna get a Abit AV8 motherboard but it was a little more than expected and i've been looking at Soltek for a while now and it was right on the price that i wanted to spend on a motherboard and other people that wrote reviews seemed very happy with their buy

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