Building a computer

[Dojo2000]

Someone recommended the 3700+ to me, and it seems people are OC'ing them up to 2.7Ghz.

Someone else had a grudge against ASUS and told me to look at DFI Lanparty UT NF-4 motherboard. Anyone know anything about it, or DFI mobos in general?

I just aquired an Athlon XP 3000+ & ASUS A7N8x-E Deluxe in a trade that I'm going to use to build another system.

[98Camaro3.8]

Originally posted by Dojo2000:
Someone else had a grudge against ASUS

That person is insane. Asus is one of the top rated motherboard manufacturers available. I have never been dissapointed by them.

Just take a look at the reviews on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131517
369 reviews and 884 votes to an average of 5 stars.

The DFI board, on the other hand, has 1/2 of the votes and 4 stars.

[Dojo2000]

Originally posted by 98Camaro3.8:
The DFI board, on the other hand, has 1/2 of the votes and 4 stars.

I know, that's exactly what I said. I can only assume he was talking about one of their $200 SLI boards because he went on to say it had 4 SATA-2 slots and two Gigabit NICs. I'm not very interested in SLI, and don't want to pay that much.

[kala]

Originally posted by asdf1234:
But I am planning to get a Dell laptop soon (finally). I've been wanting a laptop forever... [img]graemlins/rock.gif[/img]

please for the sake of GOD don't buy Dell Laptop. They are piece of Crap. i have one sitting at my house all f***ed up. Probably didn't even used for 40 total hours in a year. It was working ok for maybe a year then as soon as my warranty expires things started going bad. For some reason even the keys are coming off. If i was in the market for a laptop, i would deff. look at Sony, then HP.

[V6Bob]

"where do you guys buy your parts from?
I am going to make some purchases a little later today
it will be my first time
I was going to use pricewatch.com
is there anything I need to watch out for?"

I don't use pricewatch because some of the very cheap vendors are not good. Slow delivery, poor return policies, big shipping/handling charges, etc. www.resellerratings.com will give you info, but....

That's a lot of work. I just go newegg for most things they carry. Their prices are always decent, I've rarely had a problem, and when I did they took care of it promtply.

[andrew.brandon]

I price hunt between newegg.com and tigerdirect.com sign up for both newsletters and you will catch great deals on stuff.

[3.4 slow to go]

please for the sake of GOD don't buy Dell Laptop. They are piece of Crap. i have one sitting at my house all f***ed up.

I guess you don't know what you're doing then. I;ve had my Dell laptop ( bought of e-bay even) for almost a year, and haven't had an issue w/it. It's on everyday as my 4yr son uses it w/o fudging it up.

[99V6Camaro]

On the laptop subject... I bought an HP 64 3200+ yada yada model R4012 it hasnt dissappointed me yet and was 799.99 after rebates!

On the desktop, those two componets look like a good deal, and good quality..

[WSU77]

Hey, I just built a CPU with that exact motherboard and processor on it. So far no problems, I would recommend it. If you want all the parts I built with it email me at ninodelgreco@hotmail.com.