After looking through some internets I came up with a rough draft for my next rig. It's a combo of a light-medium and medium gaming rig. I picked the mobo, power supply and graphics card of medium rig and the rest from the light-medium rig.

Main use will be internets and watching animu, with occasional medium-light gaming like NWN2 sort of stuff. It'd be nice if I could play Aliens if it comes out on PC.

My budget's around the numbers listed there, but I think I can squeeze out some (but not a lot of!) cash for little increases that'd make better sense.

Processor AMD Athlon X2 4000+ (2.1Ghz, 2x 512K cache)
Motherboard ATI690G based
RAM 2x 1GB DDR2 667
Hard Disk 2x non-Sata 180Gig (I already have this)
Graphics ATI HD3870
Monitor 15" lcd (already have this)
Casing Basic casing
Power Supply 450w
Audio Device
Speakers Philips SHP8900 headphones
Key/mouse
Optical drive DVD-RW

Total RM2300

Is getting the better mobo and graphics card awesome or do I need to worry about compatibility issues? The processor's 2x 512K Cache while the mobo can fit a 2x 1M Cache. Also is getting a 450w power supply worth it?

I'm also wary of my non-sata hard disks, but I may be able to solve those with some IDE cable magic. Heard it's possible but I'm not sure on the details... Noise is a slight concern for me. I'd be willing to spend a bit more on things that can quieten down the system (heat sinks?) without too much of an overhaul or too much extra cash.

Comments are definitely welcome and appreciated. Sorry for my thoughts being all over the place too

The selections are made because of my budget range but I'm all ears! Hopefully picking a better mobo will give me more upgrade options in a few years time. Basically I'm willing to wait things out - I'm not a huge gamer.

try this one.

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

^ Thanks. Anymore suggestions guys?

Biostar TForce 690G as mobo?
GC since u not hardcore gamer...can choose asus 3850

your power supply cannot support the GC !!

450W real power enough for him le...he no OC

i think u better add ur RAM to 4GB and a 320GB SATA should be enough

the graphic card i recommend u 8800GT, abd power supply must be at least 500W true power in order to gv a stable power to ur hardware component.

Silver Stone ST50F 500W for your pc setup.
It cost Rm300

he say light gaming and watch animation nia...why need 8800Gt for it....3850 or 8600 enough le

8600GT even cheaper. depends on his preference la.

in fact why TA690G? if not using it's TForce-skills (means OCing features la) and the onboard GC then what's the point?

what crap talk you?

RealPower 450w can support 2900XT. on cannot OC, haha. that's in my case, using CM RealPower 450W. when i slap the 2900XT on the rig, can run perfectly. once i OC, rig power down.

Hey, brother goldfries is getting the better mobo and graphics card awesome or do I need to worry about compatibility issues? The processor's 2x 512K Cache while the mobo can fit a 2x 1M Cache. Also is getting a 450w power supply worth it?

Well I got this rough idea from your site.

Thanks alot.

Oh yea... one of my friend in US suggested these :

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz $180
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA775/ P965/ DDR2-800 $112 at EWIZ
RAM Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 $55
Hard Disk 2x non-Sata 180Gig (I already have this)
ATI 3850 Graphic card for $170
Monitor 15" lcd (already have this)
Casing Basic casing
Power Supply Antec NeoPower 650 Blue 650W $140
Audio Device
Optical drive LiteOn Dvdrw/cdrw combo SATA drive for $40

Any opinion on these? (well $ = USD)

This post has been edited by Guenhwyvar: Jan 3 2008, 04:02 PM

why still 965P ah? anyway if you like playing games, i'd say focus #1 is on GC. focus #2 is on processor.

motherboard, seriously any will do as long as the GC and proc can interface (which i don't recall any that it can't).

hmm...looks good to me......
maybe the dvdrw can have other choices?

my fren use 3 times the lite-on one but need to rma-ed it even got replaced by a new one.......
now he using pioneer..so far so good