I've finally decided to take the plunge and buy myself a new toy. The spec I'm looking at is as follows. Any opinions or recommendations would be most welcome! I shall primarily be using this as a reasonable gaming machine that should be able to take the next wave of DX10 hardware
XFX Gforce 7950GT XT Edition (overkill?)
2x Hitachi Deskstar 250Gb UDMA 133 (what about SATA?)
Asustek "Crossfire" AM2 590SLi mobo
Athlon 64 3800 (socket AM2 - don't really understand the difference between all the socket types!)
Corsair twin 1Gb PC2 6400
Thermaltake Ruby Orb (assuming I can get hold of one, they seem to be difficult to acquire!)
Was going to get Windows XP64 as well, is there much point?
Got an existing case I'm going to build it into, along with the usual DVD/CDRW etc etc and an SB Audigy 4 that I'll use until I have the money to sort myself out with something better.
What sort of power PSU would be recommended bearing in mind I shall probably go all SLi in a coupla months (once my bank accounts recovered from buying all this!)?
XFX Gforce 7950GT XT Edition (overkill?)
2x Hitachi Deskstar 250Gb UDMA 133 (what about SATA?)
Asustek "Crossfire" AM2 590SLi mobo
Athlon 64 3800 (socket AM2 - don't really understand the difference between all the socket types!)
Corsair twin 1Gb PC2 6400
Thermaltake Ruby Orb (assuming I can get hold of one, they seem to be difficult to acquire!)
Was going to get Windows XP64 as well, is there much point?
Got an existing case I'm going to build it into, along with the usual DVD/CDRW etc etc and an SB Audigy 4 that I'll use until I have the money to sort myself out with something better.
What sort of power PSU would be recommended bearing in mind I shall probably go all SLi in a coupla months (once my bank accounts recovered from buying all this!)?