1. What your PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
LAN gaming, downloading stuff.
2. What your budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
Around $300, I budget $100 for mobo, $100 for case and psu and $100 for the gpu.
3. What country you will be buying your parts from.
Canada
4. If you have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.
Don't care, ATI gpu though.
5. If you intend on using any of you current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Hard drive and ram.
7. If you plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
I've heard that overclocking an atom can lower its temps... weird.
8. When do you plan to build it?
Before March 20th
I need a rig for a LAN party on the 20th or March. My plan so far is to get
this case and a 5670 or lower ATI gpu if one comes out before the 20th. This case comes with a PSU, I have the ram and hard drive already.
My problem is the motherboard. I want really low idle power consumption, so atom is the way to go. Does this have the balls to be a decent gaming cpu though? I'm thinking the 330, or the D510. It doesn't have to be amazingly good, but good enough that I won't get pissed off waiting for a virus scan to finish or some window to open.
I want to play left for dead 2 at a nice looking level, so I suppose that's up to the GPU. The atom board would have to have a PCI-E x16 slot though, which already puts it at $180+.
Alternatively I could get a LGA775 or AM2 ITX mobo and put a chip in it. This is my biggest dilemma right now, the mobo and cpu. Any recommendations? And I'd like to keep this around $120 or so if possible. Maybe I'll just have to hurry up and wait for something on the D510 platform to come out.
Any help would be much appreciated.
February 2, 2010, 11:55 PM
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