Any Advice Welcome*Probable Specs for my new gaming machine!

[cosmicrich]

Looking for Advice, it's been awhile since I built a machine. After reading reviews the specs below are what I came up with for my budget. Does this look okay, are there any glaring errors ? ;-)

Also I notice that the graphics cards only has DV-I output's, will this work okay with a standard CRT monitor if I get an adapter? If so any recommendations on brands of adapter?

Many Thanks

Rich

Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA3800BVBOX - Retail
Model #:ADA3800BVBOX

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model Twinx2048-3200c2 - Retail

Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BWA Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

SeaSonic S12-600 ATX12V 600W Power Supply - Retail
Model #:S12-600

eVGA 256-P2-N515-AX Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Desktop PC - Retail
Model #:256-P2-N515-AX

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail
Model #:70SB046000007

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
Model #:ST3300831AS

ASUS Black IDE Combo Drive Model CB-5216A - Retail
Model #:CB-5216A BLK

Pioneer Black IDE DVD Burner Model DVR-110DBK - OEM
Model #VR-110DBK

 

[Rabidpeanut]

Don't go for dual core if you want a game machine get a 64 bit maybe a 3500+ (i seem to be repeating myself very often, see the other game building topics). Sli is always nice to have but it can prove slower than single cards quite often so go for a single but very good GPU. Dual core is nice but it is not made for running the frames right out of a game.

 

[cosmicrich]

Okay based on that advice/more reading of reviews i'll probably switch the processor to:

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 1GHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor - Retail

About the same price.

I don't really need the SLI, but I do like that particular mobo alot, the last time I built I settled for a board that wasn't up to scratch, maybe I'm overcompensating with this one ;-) I'm not skimping with the board this time!

Rich