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Originally Posted by Spongebob
The person that wants this system found a used AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 CPU for $150, so I think we will build it around that.
Now what mainboard should we get for it?
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The ASUS A8N5X and DFI nF4 Ultra-Infinity are two great motherboards that will overclock as far as you need to and help keep the price down. The DFI SLI-Infinity is also a good choice if you want to be able to have SLI in the future, but I'd probably stick with one of the other two.
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Originally Posted by Spongebob
He's also been looking at 19" LCD monitor around the $200 range. Anyone have some suggestions, I've kinda fallen behind on some of this stuff lately so I'm suggesting sumething with a low response time and a good contrast ratio. Am I aiming in the right direction?
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The rated response times, contrast rations, and anything of the sort on an LCD mean almost nothing. Read a couple professional reviews and see what users think before buying an LCD. Also, in that price range and that size, you'll probably want to go with a used or refurbished monitor. I'm not saying you can't get a new,
decent 19'' LCD for under $200, but you probably can't get a
good one.
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Originally Posted by Spongebob
I think overclocking will happen but nothing too severe Yawg. I'm thinking he's not going to spend alot on cooling but I'm aiming for a little higher end system ram to make overclocking atleast possible.
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Hell, stock cooling will get you pretty far, even with an X2. If you make sure to get a decent power supply and
maybe spend $30-40 on a Thermalright XP-90 and fan, you'll probably take that thing pretty far without too much effort. I wouldn't worry too much about RAM overclocking. Get something that can handle being run above 200MHz, but don't go crazy. Running high-speed RAM does very little for Athlon 64s.