Building my pc

[_SunTzu_]

I want to buy a new custom hand picked pc, I hope you can give me any advice on the compatibility and conflicts between parts.
Here are the specifications that I have in mind:

>CPU:AMD Athlon XP 3000+ -64Bit-939PIN 1GHz/640K

>Mainboard:MSI K8N SLI-FI w/Sound+Lan+Firewire+S-ATA+PCie (AMD-939)

>HD:200GB 7200RPM 8MB

>Videocard:MSI Geforce NX6600 256MB w/TV

>Ram:Kingstone DDR-400 512Mb x2

>CoolingOne of the following
*Thermaltake CL-P0071 Sonic Tower Fanless Heat pipe 478/775/AMD K7/K8
*Thermaltake CL-P0114 Big Typhoon 4 in 1 LGA775 w/ heat pipe solution
*Thermaltake CL-W0065 Liquid Cooling Silent Water
*Thermaltake CL-W0011 Rocket Fanless Liquid Cooling System
*Thermaltake A1442 Ducting Mod z-28
*Global Win GWWA01 Silent Stream Water Cooling Kit

>Power Supply:Thermaltake W0049 PurePower 680W PSU w/Active PFC
>Case:ThermalTake VB6000BWS Xaser Swing Case Black-No PSU

>Other:Teac 52X32X52X CDRW
Pioneer DVR-110D 16X DVDRW - Dual Layer Ivory/Black
Teac/Sony Floppy Drive 1.44 3.5"


Thanks in advance

 

[_SunTzu_]

i will most probably buy 2 graphic cards and bridge them, and yeah the cpu is AMD athlon 64. but if i dont want to install a SLi videocard, what motherboard do you advise me to get? and do you think the power supply is good? one last thing, which cooling system do you think is better?

 

[pyrix]

Dude, go Dual core. Is kinda like going LCD - once you have one, theres no going back

And besides, dual core is pretty much a 'must' for vista, that way the OS can have one core, and you can actually, you know, use the computer on the other one.

Before you say that X2's are too expensive, get an intel 820 - about $300AUD, and well worth the money. Before you say intels are crap, think about the fact that you would be saving money (about $200AUD), for a PC that goes a whole ohhhh - 3 seconds slower.

Grab a board with Intergrated graphics, like the Gigabyte GA-8I945GMF, or if you stay AMD, the ASUS A8NVM-CSM.

That saves you money now, and you can stick in a real graphics card when you need it.

Stock cooling rigs these days are pretty decent - despite P4 chips beng able to fry an egg faster than most stoves, at max load the CPU temp (probe attached to heatsink blades), measure no higher than 43 degres celsius while its 32 degress outside. Considering that I only payed $65AUD for the case, and im using the standard heatsink and fan, thats pretty damn good. The case came with 2x80mm fans, and a 120mm in the PSU. I bluetacked by old 50mm PIII fan in front of my hard disk, and thats all the cooling ive added. Ever.

Ask yourself if you REALLY need a floopy drive. Someone would probably lend/give you one if you asked. All you need it for is the RAID drivers, though if you want to get funky, you can slipstream them onto a windows install disk.

Have fun now

 

[the_guru]

What are you going to use it for? If you are going to play games you need a better video card because that one sucks.

 

[_SunTzu_]

yes its for gaming. im not so expert on the new video cards, its been a while since i got the news on recent products. what do you think its best for my specs? (i might chnage the cpu for somthin a lil better maybe athlon 64 3200 or 3500)

 

[Hale73]

you may save plenty of bucks buying the Pentium D 820 but expect that ur electric bills will inrease as a take back.. 8) 8)
get the X@ 3800+ if ur budget fits on it, try also the opteron 165.

 

[ge0stuff]

Hello from Greece everyone...

_SunTzu_ If u want to play games buy a 7800 GT(X) or 7900 something...

If u don't want to utilize SLI, which i think is a big waste of money, get the A8N - E...

As for cooling Thermaltake CL-P0071 Sonic Tower Fanless Heat pipe 478/775/AMD K7/K8 is a great choise...

I would also recommend a PSU with removable cables in order to lose the ones u don't want and improve the airflow...

The parts above r the ones i have in my system + 2x512 GEIL and a 3200 XP 939.

Good luck with your new PC...

 

[the_guru]

yes its for gaming. im not so expert on the new video cards, its been a while since i got the news on recent products. what do you think its best for my specs? (i might chnage the cpu for somthin a lil better maybe athlon 64 3200 or 3500)

First, the CPU is not that important in gaming. The video card is what is most important. In second place comes RAM. And at third place the CPU.

I guess you have picked that video card based on the amount of memory. It's the most common thing to do wrong. You should pick the video card based on which core (GPU) and which type of memory it uses before looking at the amount of memory.

What you should buy depends on how much you would like to spend. But for a gaming computer the absolute minimum is a 6600GT 128MB (the GT is important, the non-GT version you have picked is a very poor performer).

 

[_SunTzu_]

one more thing, wats the difference between DDR3 and GDDR3 for graphic cards except for 200bucks?

 

[the_guru]

Thanx for all you guyz you really helped me a lot, here's the final idea that i have for my pc,(could use any comment):

>CPU:AMD Athlon 64 3000+ - 64Bit-939PIN 1GHz/640K
>Mainboard:Asus A8NE nForce4 w/Sound+1GB Lan+Firewire
>HD:200GB 7200RPM S-ATA II
>Videocard:BFG GeForce 7800GT Overclocked Version 256MB GDDR3 Dual w/TV-OUT
>Disk Drives:
*Teac 52X32X52X CDRW
*Pioneer DVR-110D 16X DVDRW - Dual Layer Ivory / Black
>Ram(one of:
*Kingstone DDR-400 512Mb x2
*Corsair VS1GBKIT400 1GB ( 2 x 512MB ) PC-3200 DDR-400MHz Dual Channel Kit
>Cooling:Zalman CNPS9500LED All CPU 478/754/939/940 LGA775
>Power Supply:Antec SmartPower


I still have one more thing, which one is bette corsair or kingstone for the RAM

Looks good to me.

But I would pick a single 1024MB RAM module. Dual-channel don't give that much improvement and with a single module you can more easily upgrade when you need more memory. I prefer corsair before kingston.

You also might wanna take a look at the 7900GT instead of the 7800GT. I don't know the price difference in the US...

 

[ge0stuff]

OCZ rulez my friend...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146970

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227219

I would recommend one of the above or something like them...

 

[_SunTzu_]

one more thing, wats the difference btw DDR3 and GDDR3 for graphic cards? the GTX and GT? and GS and the GT?

 

[the_guru]

one more thing, wats the difference btw DDR3 and GDDR3 for graphic cards? the GTX and GT? and GS and the GT?

GDDR3 and DDR3 is the same thing. In fact the correct name is GDDR3 because DDR3 is a coming technology.


GTX is better than GT. (GTX has faster mem/core or more pixel pipelines/vertex engines).

GS and GT is basically the same when it comes to 6800GS/GT, when it comes to the 7800GS/GT, the GS-version is for AGP and the GT-version is for PCI-Express and there is a upperhand for the GT-version.