youm0nt Veteran Posted July 14, 2002 Veteran Share Posted July 14, 2002 can someone list good companies for building a computer.like hard drives,mobos,cooling,power supplies,monitors,speakers,etc.thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainashi Posted July 14, 2002 Share Posted July 14, 2002 maxtor for hard drives and asus for motherboards are two. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liar2 Posted July 14, 2002 Share Posted July 14, 2002 Hard drive - Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital Mobo - Asus, Abit CPU cooling - Thermaltake Monitors - Sony Trinitron (yeah!) Speakers - Klipsh, Logitech, Altec Lansing Sound - Creative SB Audigy, Turtle Beach Video - Nvidia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted July 14, 2002 Share Posted July 14, 2002 my favorites: Harddrives: IBM, WD Mobos: Epox, Abit Ram: Crucial Heatsink: thermalright (never tried but they have the best) Sound: onboard for me, creative Power Supply: Antec, Enermax, Enhance Monitors: Sony, View Sonic (top of the line), CTX (cheaper and have sony tubes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youm0nt Veteran Posted July 15, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted July 15, 2002 are intel mobos 850 socket 423? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted July 15, 2002 Share Posted July 15, 2002 They are socket 478, only really old P4's use that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youm0nt Veteran Posted July 15, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted July 15, 2002 ok but i had my comp since january of last year.wasnt that when they started to make the p4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jago6498 Posted July 15, 2002 Share Posted July 15, 2002 Don't worry about that. Just go AMD and you won't have to worry about changing your motherboard just to get the most current CPU. Plus AMD is cheaper and pretty much onpar with Intel except for maybe the memory performance. cough**Intel**cough:right: Here's who I have in my system: Video: VisionTek GF3 Ti200 Mobo: EpoX (VERY inexpensive boards with performance similar to Abit and Asus) RAM: Crucial (Micron). Mushkin is good too (and cheaper then Crucial sometimes actually) CD-RW: Plextor DVD: Toshiba, Pioneer HDD: Maxtor, Seagate, IBM (maybe) Sound: Creative Speakers: Klipsch. If you can't afford those then maybe Creative of Altec Lansing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted July 15, 2002 Share Posted July 15, 2002 Download WCPUID , it will tell you info about your proccessor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparticus Posted July 15, 2002 Share Posted July 15, 2002 Hard Drive: IBM Mobos: Epox, MSI Ram: Crucial Heatsink: Thermaltake Volcano Series Processor: AMD Video: NVidia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youm0nt Veteran Posted July 15, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted July 15, 2002 mine is socket 423.seems like im limited to heatsinks.are there adapters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted July 15, 2002 Share Posted July 15, 2002 Originally posted by youm0nt mine is socket 423.seems like im limited to heatsinks.are there adapters? no. 423 is .18m 478 is .13m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jago6498 Posted July 15, 2002 Share Posted July 15, 2002 Hey youm0nt, go AMD and you can buy a KT333 or KT400 (when it comes out). If you do that, all you have to upgrade is the CPU when something newer comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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