I'm going to be building my very first system soon and I would like to get some feedback on the specs. Will all of these components work together properly? Are there any potential problems?

Pentium4 2.8 with 800mhz FSB
Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro
Zalman ZM400A-APF 400w PSU
Chaintech GeForce4 A-GX82 Ti4800se DVI TV-Out 128MB AGP 8X
Compucase LX-6A19 Mid-Tower ATX Case
Seagate ST380013AS 80GB SATA Hard Drive
Corsair TWINX1024-3200LL DDR400 1GB
Samsung 955DF 19-inch CRT
Samsung SM-352BRNS CD/RW DVD 52x24x52x16x
Belkin F8E208-BLK ErgoBoard Keyboard
Microsoft XP Home Edition

looks good to me

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are you restricted on budget ? it not there are some things i would change for better, like your monitor and your video card...

I have had the same monitor for four years and think it kicks ass for the price...you cant go wrong with the samsung...whats wrong with his video card?...looks good to me

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> Chaintech GeForce4 A-GX82 Ti4800se DVI TV-Out 128MB AGP 8X

I'd recommend a 5600 Ultra over the ti4800se. (4800SE is a 4200+8x AGP.-- Both cards cost about 150$ or less.)

> Corsair TWINX1024-3200LL DDR400 1GB

Ramwise I'd change to 2 sticks of the CMX512-3200C2PT, the LL and LLPT ram has some issues with the new springdale/canterwood chipsets.

> Samsung SM-352BRNS CD/RW DVD 52x24x52x16x

IMHO it's a bad idea to get a combo drive also. They're not working out so well and are getting pretty much universally bad reviews for the long term reliability. Go with 2 drives, a DVD (burner if needed) the Sony DRU-500AX is good, and a cd-rw if you need one of those (lite on 52x24x52x is a good choice.)

> Seagate ST380013AS 80GB SATA Hard Drive

Nothing wrong here persay, but unless you have a specific need for a SATA (aka small cables and costs more for no tangible performance gain.) get a bigger IDE drive and wait a while for the SATA2/SATA3 stuff to show its face. Make sure whatever drive you get it has an 8mb cache on it... and I personally highly recommend Western Digital.
For example a western digital 120gb WD1200JB 8mb cache drive costs $106.00

> Samsung 955DF 19-inch CRT

That's not the best monitor around, not horrible but not good either... Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB is a hell of a good monitor, but its not very cheap.

> Pentium4 2.8 with 800mhz FSB

If I were building a pc right now I'd go with a 2.4c and 'casually' overclock it as far as the aircooling would let me go. Then after grantsdale next year I'd pick up a nice cheap 3.6c and a nice new graphics card and call it a new pc .

Just my opinions of course, you asked for feedback It's not a bad setup you put togeather just not optimium for the market/performance right now.

Shadus

With some of the changes I agree with others not. selecting your computer parts is art, not science as some peoples think.
The only thing i realy would change is the XP-home, i would go for XP-prof, but that is also just an opinion. And opinions are just like assholes, everybody got one.

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Buy R9500 Pro/9600 Pro instead of Ti4800SE. If possible, buy Radeon 9700 Non-Pro.

WD Special Edition HDD's are better than Seagate.

LiteOn 48x/24x/48x/16x combo drive is good and cheaper

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to answer your original question,

YES for ur first question and NO for the secon one.

u wont have any problems with this setup, unless u do the setup wrong or get some non-working parts. i do hope nothing such wud happen

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Oh I fully agree, although it is much easier now than it was back in the 386/486 days when there were so many compatibility issues between components. Kinda miss that time...

Shadus

Actually the only real "potential problem" is the ram. The springdale and caterwood chipsets have some issues with extremely low ram timing, but otherwise no potential problems

Shadus

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