Your Opinion On My Upcoming Upgrade

[geehumshriber]

I've been sitting here with an AMD Athlon 2500+ for about 5 years. Now it's time to jump ship on the old computer and welcome a new set of internals to the glorified case. Here's the kind of setup I'm looking at:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ EE Dual Core Processor AM2 Windsor 2.0GHZ 512KBX2 65W 90NM

ASUS M2N-E ATX AM2 Nforce 570 Ultra

Corsair Value Select PC2-5300 1X1024MB DDR2-667 240PIN DIMM

BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC PCI-E 256MB 128BIT GDDR3

Keep in mind, I'm on a budget, and it will all come out to ~$550 CDN. And by budget, I mean pretty damn strict of a budget. I'll never go SLI, and it's going to be a very recreational computer (as in, pleasure, not just work, so gaming (Counterstrike, Wow (heaven forbid)) and movies are the gist of it).

Please give me your opinions on this setup! If you have an recommendations/opinions on certain products I'm investing in, please don't leave me in the dark!

Thanks in advance,

Geehumshriber.

 

[akhilles]

Looks good for the budget.

You don't say what you're buying & what you have.

 

[geehumshriber]

Well, this is what I intend on purchasing.

My current system:

AMD Athlon 2500+ @ 1.83 GHz

Soltek 75FRN-2L Motherboard S939

512 Kingston Ram

ATI 9200 128MB PCI Graphics Card.

Any way I look at it, it's a hell of a step up from this ancient system.

 

[chiefgabbai]

I've been sitting here with an AMD Athlon 2500+ for about 5 years. Now it's time to jump ship on the old computer and welcome a new set of internals to the glorified case. Here's the kind of setup I'm looking at:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ EE Dual Core Processor AM2 Windsor 2.0GHZ 512KBX2 65W 90NM

ASUS M2N-E ATX AM2 Nforce 570 Ultra

Corsair Value Select PC2-5300 1X1024MB DDR2-667 240PIN DIMM

BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC PCI-E 256MB 128BIT GDDR3

Keep in mind, I'm on a budget, and it will all come out to ~$550 CDN. And by budget, I mean pretty damn strict of a budget. I'll never go SLI, and it's going to be a very recreational computer (as in, pleasure, not just work, so gaming (Counterstrike, Wow (heaven forbid)) and movies are the gist of it).

Please give me your opinions on this setup! If you have an recommendations/opinions on certain products I'm investing in, please don't leave me in the dark!

Thanks in advance,

Geehumshriber.

Why did you post the same thing twice??? If you don't see replies, just bump the post. No need to post the same thing twice.

 

[geehumshriber]

Yes, I am well aware of that. I made this topic first, but then realized there was a General Homebuilt section, so I made a thread in there. It was up to the admins to delete the double thread in the improper section. Kudos for your observations >.>

 

[akhilles]

Yep, it'll be a huge step-up. What about the psu?

 

[geehumshriber]

I have an OCZ 420W PSU that I got when I upgraded my case to an Antec P180B.

 

[akhilles]

A 350W PCI Express compliant system power supply (with 12V current rating of 20A or more)

http://www.bfgtech.com/7600GT_256_PCIX.html

Your psu should be enough.