Building a pretty powerful cmputer

Hey im wanting to build a pretty powerful and fast computer and i was wonderig what types of things would be best to buy to put it all together. I wouldnt say money is an issue but im not made of it but i am willing to build a computer that i wont have to go and upgrade any time in the near future, if that makes sense. Im looking at doind a multimedia course at SAE in Byron and i would prolly need to have a good computer to do the course, homework/assignments and also just for playing games on etc.
So what do you peoples think i should get???

 

well my comps great i have
asus a8v delux
asus 6800gt
amd athlon 64 3500
pdp systems pc4000 2x512 ram
if you get those ull be good...those are like the things that are right under top of the line but if u go up more its hundreds more...go w/ those tis a great system

 

elementkid07 I second that, nice system

Rick

 

thanks...now i just gota get a gig more ram in it and get a all see through plastic case n im good...o yea for my cpu heatsink i gota coolermaster hyper 48 and for my vid card heatsink i gota nv silencer 5

 

Skeletor, welcome to majorgeeks!

if you do not want to upgrade for a while, you most certainly want to get a PCI-Express motherboard.

in doing so you have 2 options, a Pentium 4 intel 925x socket LGA-775 based motherboard, or an Athlon64 nForce4 socket 939 based motherboard.

I would recommend the latter from personal preference of AMD over INTEL, but i'd also mantion that AMD currently performs better.

here is a recommendation for a well priced, top of the line system:

-Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe nforce4 motherboard for athlon 64
-Athlon64 socket 939 Winchester core 3200+ or 3500+ depending on how much you want to spend... (theres about a $60 difference between the two. you can also go for the cheaper Newcastle core, as there isnt a performance loss, but winchester runs cooler and theoretically overclocks better.)
-1GB pc3200 or higher RAM, preferably from a brand name such as OCZ, Corsair, Kingston, or Mushkin (note, you do not need higehr than pc3200 unless you intend to overclock a high amount)
-PCI-Express video card. if you are a big gamer, you may want to hunt down an expensive 6800GT PCI-E version, but i would recommend a 6600GT PCI-E, as it is a lot more price conscious (~$200) and still yeilds great performance.
-Power supply-- VERY IMPORTANT. at least 420watt (450 preferably), and if you have the money, I would recommend an OCZ Powerstream or Modstream, they are making GREAT power supplies now for relatively cheap (similar performance usually costs double) http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=property&DEPA=0
-Hard Drive-- HIGHLY recommend a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive, as they perform much more quickly than old IDE hard drives. from either Seagate, Western Digital, or Maxtor (who has a new 16mb cache drive which FLIES)

the rest is up to you, case, optical drives, floppy, and the works...

i just built a nearly identitcal system as described above for my little brother, and it totalled around $1200. (i got some good deals).

hope this helps! good luck and we're here if you have any questions.

 

Wow hey thanks guys, i sorta have no idea what you are talking about but i do kow a bit of what you are talking about and they sound pretty good. InYearsToCome thanks for that thats heaps more info then i was expecting i was expecting not much really but wow thanks. I wont be building it anytime soon cause i just had to give my sis some money so that she could fly back home from england so i will ahve to wait a bit more now before i start to build the baby but hopefully not too long.

 

buy a high end computer!!
choose athlon 64
ddr 400
ati radeon x800 xt
for cooling use thermaltake products