A few suggestions needed...

[boeing_737]

Hi all,
I'm planing to buy the following system... . I'm not too sure about the costs. I need the costs in Bangalore and also your opinions on anything i have missed.

OLD SYSTEM :
Intel P3 733Mhz
192 MB SDRAM PC100
Sis 32 MB PCI Video card
Aurreal Vortex AU8810 Sound card
Mercury KOB810e FST motherboard
Mercury MS-440 2 speakers
20 GB HDD
Samsung 52x CD player

How much would i get if i sell it..?

NEW SYSTEM :

CPU : AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 400 Mhz FSB
RAM : Hynix 512 MB PC 3200 RAM
MOTHERBOARD : Chaintech 7NIL1-SUMMIT micro ATX ( or any other good Micro ATX mobo)
GRAPHICS CARD : Radeon 9600 pro/XT or Radeon 9800 pro 128 MB
HDD : SEAGATE/SAMSUNG 80GB 7200 RPM drive IDE
PSU : 400W
SOUND CARD : Creative SB Live! 4.1 ( Any other you suggest..? Good and cheap)
SPEAKERS : A good 4.1 speakers ( Which is good and cheap)
DVD Reader CD WRITER COMBO : A good one ( Which is good and cheap)

would it be worth it..?

Thanks.

[Sourabh]

well y do u wanna go in for micro ATX form factor?

here it goes

AMD 64 3200+ 10k
MSI RS480 ATI xpress 200 chipset 6k
6600GT pci-e 11k or plain 6600 abt 7-8k
512 Trancend 400 Mhz 3500 Rs
80 Gb SATA 2.7k
well as for sound card go in for Creative Sound Blaster Live 24 bit 2.4k
DVD writer go in for the SONY/ PIONEER Dual.. sony one looks cool 5k

Speakers , PSU , keyboard, Mouse etc check the prices here

http://business.vsnl.com/deltapage

well i guess tht sums it all

i suggest go in for the ati chipset or if u wanna go in for ATX form factor GIGABYTE k8ns is a good mobo for 6.5k with AGP

[borg]

Man those prices nowhere apply to Bangalore. Let me see-


All prices Bangalore
As far as sound card is concerned, why don't u go for Creative SB live 24 bit?. Its really great. Costs about Rs. 2350/- . Or else Creative Sound Blaster Live DE 5.1 is always there. Costs about Rs. 1900/-

Speakers go for Altech lansing AVS 500 for Rs. 2750/- or Creative Inspire 4400 for rs. 3150/-

You can go for Liteon Combo drive (DVD reader/CD writer) for Rs. 2750/-

Seagate 80 GB (7200 RPM) 5YW available for Rs. 2850 /-

[Sourabh]

Originally Posted by borg

As far as sound card is concerned, why don't u go for Creative SB live 24 bit?. Its really great. Costs about Rs. 2350/- .

dude check my post again

wht did i suggest

as for speakers i wod say go in for altec lansing ATP 3 costing 3.2k

[drgrudge]

Originally Posted by boeing_737

HDD : SEAGATE/SAMSUNG 80GB 7200 RPM drive IDE

Hmm.., why u need to get a 80gb one, get 120gb or 160gb.
120Gb/7200 RPM sata costs Rs 4000. U are gonna be paying marginally more...

One more thing:
Samsung --> chances of getting bad sectors
Seagate --> Noisy drive (but for higher capacity HDD only)

Get maxtor ones , IMO it's good.

Originally Posted by boeing_737

DVD Reader CD WRITER COMBO : A good one ( Which is good and cheap)

Hmm, consider this:
CD burner = rs. 1300
DVD rom = rs. 1500
Total = rs. 2800

Combo =rs. 2500 or so.
So u have two extra drives for rs. 300 more. Also the lens wont last long...

DVD rom = liteon
CD burner = liteon / pioneer

DVD witers
Sony 720b =rs. 4250
Benq 1620 =rs. 4500
Both are good and dual layered ones. And we get more softwares with benq than with sony.

[goobimama]

Also, don't go in for the Creative inspire 4400. instead try for the 5200. the 4400 is outdated and discontinued (I think). Also, watching movies in 4.1 sucks. 5.1 gives a much better surround experience....

[boeing_737]

Thanks for the replies.
I intend on going with the ATHLON XP 3200+ not the 64-bit version.
So in that context , how would the system match up..?

[Sourabh]

dude switch to 64 bip systems, wht u r buyig is already outdates

in another 3 months ur resale value wod be 30% of the original price

[drgrudge]

Originally Posted by boeing_737

I intend on going with the ATHLON XP 3200+ not the 64-bit version.
So in that context , how would the system match up..?

Hmm..., it's better that u go for a 64-bit processor. But even then that wont be justified untill u run some 64-bit softwares on it... , windows 64-bit version is going to come this summer. Whatever, it will be better if get for a 64 bit version of AMD.

[boeing_737]

Well...
I think i would go for the Athlon 64 2800+ as thats closest to the price of the XP 3200+ .
Which motherboard is a good one below Rs. 4400.
How much would a Radeon 9800 pro or a lower end 9600 pro cost... A 6600GT would be nice as well.
Which is a decent pair of 4.1 speakers that would go well with my Aurreal Vortex AU8810 Sound card and doesnt cost a lot ( below 2000).

Thanks.

[icecoolz]

9800 pro is expensive around 14K I think. The 9600 pro costs around 8.5K The 6600 GT costs 13-14K

[Sourabh]

MSI K8MM-ILSR for the s754 amd 64 2800+ for Rs 4400

get 6600GT instead of 9800 pro this wod cost u 12k

9600 pro costs 7.5k

dun go in for cheap 4.1 solutions, instead buy a 2.1 speaker system from a good brand like creative /altec lansing

[KHUBBU]

Originally Posted by Sourabh

MSI RS480 ATI xpress 200 chipset 6k
6600GT pci-e 11k or plain 6600 abt 7-8k

Well I just wanted to confirm how the ati board fares with nvidia card. I mean is there anything like it is tweaked for ati cards and nvidia cards may not perform to the full potential?

[Sourabh]

naah

its good to hear that they havent got so mean

nvidia has been giving 100 % faith to ATi cards and made no discrimination against them

ATi responded with the same attitude

[pradeep_chauhan]

A thing from personal experience Nvidia cards are easier to setup and work without fuss(compared to ATI) in linux. So go Nvidia if linux is also an option for an OS.

[Sourabh]

who buys gfx cards to play games in linux ??

linux is just for once in a blue moon stuff and the drivers provided by them both from nvidia and ati work pretty well for the normal usage