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I need your aid. I have a budget cap of $600.00 (newegg.com) and want to build an AMD 64 budget system. Dont need to worry about extra stuff, just the things inside of the Case.
Heres what I have. This is pretty much the maximum cost I have, so any suggestions have to either be of something of equal or lesser value, or be a tradeoff with something else.
Case-Already bought, with 500 watt power supply ($50.00, should have spent more, I know...)
Motherboard-DFI Lanparty UT nVidia3 250 GB motherboard for socket
754 (Already purchased, $100.00)
Processor-AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Newcastle Core with 2.4 GHz and 512KB cache ($220.00)
Optical Drive-Rosewill (Already Bought, I will never buy another Rosewill product, I swear) DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive ($33.00)
RAM- Corsair Value Select 184 Pin 512 MB DDR ($66.00, will add another stick later, I assure you)
Video Card-PowerColor Radeon 9550 Video Card, 256 MB DDR 128-bit with 250 MHz Processor and 400 MHz RAM, Supports DX 9.0 and OpenGL 2.0 ($80.00)
Can I make any improvements without spending more money, and will this be able to play Doom 3 and/or equavalent games at reasonable settings?
I than you in advance.
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I already have a hard drive (40 GB Seagate, 6 months old), and I also require a good chipset cooler, if anyone has any suggestions. All products will be bought Retail.
Heres what I have. This is pretty much the maximum cost I have, so any suggestions have to either be of something of equal or lesser value, or be a tradeoff with something else.
Case-Already bought, with 500 watt power supply ($50.00, should have spent more, I know...)
Motherboard-DFI Lanparty UT nVidia3 250 GB motherboard for socket
754 (Already purchased, $100.00)
Processor-AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Newcastle Core with 2.4 GHz and 512KB cache ($220.00)
Optical Drive-Rosewill (Already Bought, I will never buy another Rosewill product, I swear) DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive ($33.00)
RAM- Corsair Value Select 184 Pin 512 MB DDR ($66.00, will add another stick later, I assure you)
Video Card-PowerColor Radeon 9550 Video Card, 256 MB DDR 128-bit with 250 MHz Processor and 400 MHz RAM, Supports DX 9.0 and OpenGL 2.0 ($80.00)
Can I make any improvements without spending more money, and will this be able to play Doom 3 and/or equavalent games at reasonable settings?
I than you in advance.
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I already have a hard drive (40 GB Seagate, 6 months old), and I also require a good chipset cooler, if anyone has any suggestions. All products will be bought Retail.