My First Build!

[Aj]

Thanks in part to the original PHF, I am finally going to be building my first pc! Ok ok, I'm not really building it, I'm just upgrading, but what would you consider the defining point between builiding and massive upgrading? Well, back on the subject, I'm getting an Asus A7V333 refurbished, Athlon XP 1700+ 256mb of pc-2700 ram, new PSU, and I am using an old Matrox Mystique for video since I do not have enough money for that part but I wanted something for x-mas... And my heatsink is definately not the greatest, in fact I have actually heard some bad things about it, but it is cheap and this is not meant to be an overclocking system. If I need help I will probably be asking here or at arstechnica.com :)

[JC Denton]

Originally posted by Ajb@Dec 13 2002, 03:06 AM
I'm getting an Asus A7V333 refurbished
Which board? The one with firewire/raid/iLink? Or the raid, or raid/firewire. Or just plain :P. So many A7V333 configurations, so little time B).

[tbone]

ge force 4 is 80 bucks for a nice one (not top of the line but good)

[Aj]

oh yah, it is the plain A7V333, I don't really need all those extra features... and next month around this time I will be getting the GF4 4200 from Abit :D Does this card do direct X 9? (Is direct X 9 pixel shading?)

[JC Denton]

Originally posted by Aj@Dec 14 2002, 12:33 AM
oh yah, it is the plain A7V333, I don't really need all those extra features... and next month around this time I will be getting the GF4 4200 from Abit :D Does this card do direct X 9? (Is direct X 9 pixel shading?)
No. Only the Radeon 9500/9700 series feature the DirectX 9 "toys" :).

[Aj]

and direct x 9 is pixel shading am I correct?

[JC Denton]

Originally posted by Aj@Dec 14 2002, 06:26 PM
and direct x 9 is pixel shading am I correct?
It has a few other nifty features which will come in handy when we actually start touching DX9, which I'm sure will be a ways off. The full scoop is available on Tom's Hardware.