How does this sound for x-mas upgrades?

[matthew13l]

My current setup:

Asus A7S333
Athlon XP 2000
512Mb (one stick) Samsung DDR333
PowerColor GeForce4 Ti4200 128Mb
Western Digital 40Gb 7200Rpm
LiteOn 32x12x40
CodeGen 350w


I want to add the following upgrades to my system:

Epox 8RDA3G
Athlon XP 2500
Sapphire Radeon 9800SE
ThermalTake Silent PurePower 420w


Any suggestions? If I get these upgrades, I plan on overclocking them a lot, especially the XP 2500.

-Matt

[cwin]

If you can, dont get the SE.

My chrimbo presents are:
Entermax Summink 420w, 2*512mb DDR PC2700 (bringing me up to 1.5gb)

[Eric Legge]

Now that the Athlon 64 CPUs are available, the high-end Athlon XPs are going to fall in price, so I would wait for the best Athlon XP to become affordable and then buy it and an Asus or MSI board capable of running it.

Eric,
http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/BuyerBeware.htm

[Baddog]

And get a nice copper heatsink.

[Magua]

I would also agree to go with the 9800np if you can afford it. The 8 pipelines makes a big difference.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Abit Nf7-S v2.0 or Asus A7n8x Deluxe as opposed to the 8rda3+

and 9800np if you can find one

--Jakk

[Ammok]

Its looking pretty good, my tuppence worth is try and get the cheapest Nforce 2 board going, cos there a few bargains around now, sell the memory,2000, and A7S, get pc3200 memory and the 2500 and overclock to your hearts delight, see if you can squeeze a gig of memory.

9800 is the vid card of the moment, so get the best you can afford.

[j.m@talk]

XP2000 to 2500 aint a massive jump is it? ...........

Still nice tho

[Ammok]

yes JM, but it will run at 3200, thats a pretty good jump,.