Haven't built one in years, how's this?

looks good the only thing i can think of is maybe spending a little more and getting a 250GB hardrive they are hovering around 100$ these days.

I agree with zel you will not be happy with only 80Gb hard drive. The internet itself just loads so much crap on the hard drive without you even knowing it. Everything else looks good for a reasonable system.

Maybe not the "internet" but a lot of sites on the internet. Some simple pc management/cleaning can minimize that...

I still agree that a good 200-250GB HDD is a sensible addition - would recommend one with a 16MB cache instead of 8MB.

yes, bigger drive and CClean it often  

[quote="Rugger"]Maybe not the "internet" but a lot of sites on the internet. Some simple pc management/cleaning can minimize that...

:arrow: HAHA you downloaders !

Looks great Zias. I'm not sure I agree w/ all of the others about the HDD size. I've been using 100+gig hdds for years and only usually manage to fill up maybe 30gig of it, and thats when I have a bunch of movies on my PC.

I think 80 is suffice unless you want to stuff it with movies, pictures, music, etc.

Seconded. If 80GB works for you then go for it. However at the current time a 250GB WD is barely more expensive than the 80GB so it's worth considering for the long run...if you want this one to last as long as the last one  

I dunno about epox boards but there ok i guess i dont buy them, im sure there good for a lite gaming/surfin pc. But ya get atleast a 120gig harddrive after the format (120*.1024) your going to be down to 108gigs of total space which is plenty..although a 200gig would be nice  

That's sounds great, But as other said, get bigger HDD. I'm now a big fan of Samsung HDD. Simply quiet and fast. A nice 250 gigs shuld do.

I suggest a fanless motherboard. Seriously. Most of them start to make noise after 3 months and die at 6 month. If you can afford, the Asus A8R-MVP is a solid motherboard. I like my Asrock 939 dual SATA2. Easy to set up and rock stable so far. I would have got the Asus, but it was not yet available when I sold my nforce4 motherboard. No regret with the Asrock thou.

The video card is not bad at all, don't know about the noise thou.

Anyway, with this case, a fanless motherboard, a Samsung HDD and AMD with cool'n quiet.. the video card is likely to be the noisiest thing inside the box.

Afte that upgrade, you'll be ready to update to BF 2.0 :wink:

Well I got the system built about a week ago. Only one change to it. I ended up going with a MSI K8n Neo4 F.

This system has been great. Great, that is until this morning.

Last night I played Far Cry and surfed the net for awhile. The system ran great, no problems.

This morning I get up and turn it on. Everything sounds fine but no display on the screen. I turn it off and back on a little while later. It turns the screen on and then the initial splash screen (before the post) is all pixilated. Then I see a bunch of letters and numbers in a few places and then it justkeeps doing this. Never goes into windows or anything.

Does anyone know what this might be? I assume a video card or monitor problem. any ideas how to solve it. I have searched the net but can't find anything.

Please help...  

Sounds like the memory on your video card went bad.

Try a few things first to make sure.

1) Re-seat your video card.
2) Make sure the power cord going into your card is fully seated.

If this does not work see if you can get the card to work in a different system.

In all likelyhood your video memory is bad and you will need to RMA it. Were you doing any over clocking? Temp's running high in your case?

Thanks for the reply.! No overclocking, no high temps.

Funny thing is, last night I decidied to try it again. I did nothing to the system. The computer booted up and ran perfectly. Why would this happen?

Is there a way to test the video card memory? I don't have any power cord plugged into the video card. I never saw a plug on it. Is there one? I thought only the AGP ones had a external plug on them....

Fastest AGP and PCIe has additional power plug to keep the power hungry GPU running trouble free.

Maybe the PSU was not in its best shape before and now feel better ... What brand and power does it have?