Some what Budgety Core 2 Duo Revisited

After your very helpful suggestions think this is what I'm going to try to aim for:

PSU
ePOWER ZU-550W ATX12V Version 2.0
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817101021

Mobo
ECS NFORCE 570 SLIT-A
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813135026

RAM
2X1 GB Centon DDR2 533 (1.8V)

Video(1 card only)
evga 7900GS KO 256MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130056

Proc
C2d 6300

HDs (reused IDE drives from old system 7200 RPM ATA133)

Sound
Onboard(if its decent, or SBLIVE! 5.1(out of old system)

Not planning to overclock and the Nvidia chipset with its 4 ATA devices will allow me to possibly throw the 50 bucks I would be spending on a SATA HD in on a stronger vid card (7900GS KO over 7600GTOCE), or simply pocket the money and stick with the 7600GT. Bad thing about this mobo is even when running just one card(which I may be doing for some time) the PCIE speed is locked at 8x. Think the slower PCIE speed will prove to be much of a porblem?
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So final questions
1) See any real problems with this setup?
2) Ways to improve it without shooting up the costs?
3) Do you think it'd be better to go with 7600GT instead because of DX10s imminent arrival. (would be probably at least 2 years before I went to DX10 monitor can't support about 1280 so don't care about gaming higher than that, even usually happy with 1024 though like high/near high settings if possible)

That's a total load of crap.

Again, that's a total load of crap.

That's a total load of crap.

Again, that's a total load of crap.So are

this:

and this:

more craptacular post quoting.

For a high-end machine that has a Core 2 Duo @ 3.0Ghz, an X1900 card, and 2GB of RAM @ 533Mhz i would reccomand nothing less than a 500w PSU. The X1900 takes at least 150w at load.
Logically, next gen cards, wich will take at least 50w more than current cards, would require a better PSU - 550w
Thinking ahead, 50-100w more is best for future upgrades.

Core 2 Duos have an FSB of 1066Mhz. If u have RAM wich is only 533Mhz then it will be harder for the CPU to work and the performance of the PC would go down. Obviously 1066Mhz RAM is too expensive in DDR2 format, but 800Mhz isnt. Most C2D motherboards have RAM @ 667Mhz and above, wich would indicate the need for RAM.
There is a way that u can make up the speed by overclocking the RAM, but its not as easy as overclocking the CPU or the graphics card, and for a person who dosent even want to overclock those, getting faster RAM seems to be the best idea.

For a high-end machine that has a Core 2 Duo @ 3.0Ghz, an X1900 card, and 2GB of RAM @ 533Mhz i would reccomand nothing less than a 500w PSU. The X1900 takes at least 150w at load.
Logically, next gen cards, wich will take at least 50w more than current cards, would require a better PSU - 550w
Thinking ahead, 50-100w more is best for future upgrades.

Core 2 Duos have an FSB of 1066Mhz. If u have RAM wich is only 533Mhz then it will be harder for the CPU to work and the performance of the PC would go down. Obviously 1066Mhz RAM is too expensive in DDR2 format, but 800Mhz isnt. Most C2D motherboards have RAM @ 667Mhz and above, wich would indicate the need for RAM.
There is a way that u can make up the speed by overclocking the RAM, but its not as easy as overclocking the CPU or the graphics card, and for a person who dosent even want to overclock those, getting faster RAM seems to be the best idea.First of all, pay attention to the posters questions.

1.He doesn't want to overclock.

2.He's looking at a 7900GS or maybe a 7600GT.... not an X1900.

3.He asked about ways to improve, without shooting up the cost.

4.

....Why the need for a $400 GPU?

5.Core2Duo has an FSB of 266MHz, so DDR2-533 will run at a 1:1(synchronous) ratio between FSB/RAM. That will not put undue load on the CPU. They happen to run very efficiently when running synchronously, and running at DDR2-800 or DDR2-1066 will improve performance, but not by huge amounts.

well maybe he should pick up the interest before he listens to u telling him to get a new cpu instead of making what he already has better.

if u have nothing to say, DONT SAY ANYTHING.

That sentence makes very little/any sense. Please, be my guest and quote me telling him to get any hardware so far in this thread.

@ OP - Me and everyone else in this thread are just trying to make sure you know not to listen to 'track'. Of course hopefully you'll be able to work that one out for yourself, what with the nonsensical sentences and assorted lovelies.

For what it's worth, you're system looks pretty good. I don't think I've ever heard anyone who actually likes ECS motherboards, though. I'm not familiar with that brand of memory either, perhaps there is some better branded memory you could stretch to?

The PCIe 8x lock shouldn't make any difference.

i didnt say that. thats not my quote. i say he should overclock and thus save money.
he can also save money on 1 thing and buy a better something else, like
a graphics card.

thats the same retarded post that the other guy made.
if he overclocks he can get the same performance he would have gotten with a far more expensive system. u talk abt saving money but ur just full of shit.

getting tired of being wrong there?

yes. stop posting useless posts and get a life, u lonely insecure retard.

That sentence makes very little/any sense. Please, be my guest and quote me telling him to get any hardware so far in this thread.

I cant because you have made no usefull post, so far.

That's because you are wrong.

great reply!

again.. wow!

ha ha, thats the stupidest reply to "face me like a man". u dont want to try and prove me wrong because its too painfull, but ud rather stay on this thread for hours waiting to cuss me. i dont have to fight u, ive already won.

OMFG, I almost pissed my self from laughing so hard at your posts. Please, get a good knowledge of helping people instead of telling them to go get X6800s and X1900s. He has a budget, and has to work within it, and he specified his needs, why the hell are you throwing crap at him?

Im telling him to get an e6300 and overclock.
the others are telling him to get the x6800, because he says that he dosent want to overclock.

Jesus, why am i attracting so many idiots today??

You're attacking yourself?

what do u have against me?

I'm new, and a complete idiot myself.. but, don't you find it funny you guys have taken over this dudes thread and he hasn't even posted again?

change the psu to a name brand (antec, mushkins are getting good reviews, ocz, fortron.......) u might wanna get a x1950pro, it is the same price but better performance than like 7900gt (which totally slaughters 7900gs)