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Hi,this is what I've put together after much thinking.

CPU:
AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+ AM2"box", 2x1024kB
202,30 €

Motherboard:
MSI K9N Platinum, Sockel AM2 NVIDIA Nforce570, ATX, PCIe
91,56 €

RAM:
2048MB DDR2 Corsair Value-Kit CL 5, PC5400/667
124,98 €

Case
Coolermaster Centurion5 Schw. CAC-T05-UW ohne Netzteil
46,05 €

PSU
ATX-Netzt.BE Quiet! Straight Power 500 Watt / BQT E5
69,37 €

Graphics card:
Connect3D X1950XT, 256MB, ATI X1950XT, 2xDVI, PCIe
236,02 €

Hard disc drive:
Samsung SP2514N P120 250GB, 7200, 8 MB Cache
56,81 €

DVD-writer:
Samsung SH-S182M Lightscribe bulk schwarz
37,57 €

Display:
BenQ FP91GX 19", TCO03, DVI, 4ms
189,20 €

Sum: 1.053,86 €

My questions are if the graphics card will work good with the motherboard, if the psu is enough and if the quality of the ram is good enough.
I also'd like to know if the wholecompilation is likely to work good.
i'm not going to overclock and it'll be used mostly for playing games.
That's why I chose a little better graphics card.

All comments are welcome.

Please help me, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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Where are you Europeans shopping? This has to be VAT exempt pricing. Some of these components simply can't be that low in Europe! :?

As for the video card working with the mobo since they're both PCI-e, can't see any problem.

Reply to CaptRobertApril

Hi m8

I found these prices at hardwareversand...from germany.
The german economy in computers is simply better than for example the belgian economy.
I think it has to do with decissions from the government (ten years ago) that allowed the producers to make more profit out of the computer chips. This way they were able to make better chips. This way more people wanted to buy it. And this way they could lower the prices until they got so low...

By the way: solar energy worked with the same principle in germany.
They produce 1500 MW while belgium produces 1,8 MW...

I'm not sure if the explanation is 100% right so don't shoot me if I'm wrong.
Thanks for the comment

Reply to Roelos

Hardwareversand... gotta keep that in mind, thanks! Yeah, I always found it funny that Germany has far more solar power than places like Italy or Greece where they actually have ample sunshine!!!

As for your rig config, it looks fine to me, but I'm sure some great gurus will intervene soon and scrutinize the finer technical points of your RAM latencies, etc.! :D

Reply to CaptRobertApril

Quote :

Hi,this is what I've put together after much thinking.

CPU:
AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+ AM2"box", 2x1024kB
202,30 €

Motherboard:
MSI K9N Platinum, Sockel AM2 NVIDIA Nforce570, ATX, PCIe
91,56 €

RAM:
2048MB DDR2 Corsair Value-Kit CL 5, PC5400/667
124,98 €

Case
Coolermaster Centurion5 Schw. CAC-T05-UW ohne Netzteil
46,05 €

PSU
ATX-Netzt.BE Quiet! Straight Power 500 Watt / BQT E5
69,37 €

Graphics card:
Connect3D X1950XT, 256MB, ATI X1950XT, 2xDVI, PCIe
236,02 €

Hard disc drive:
Samsung SP2514N P120 250GB, 7200, 8 MB Cache
56,81 €

DVD-writer:
Samsung SH-S182M Lightscribe bulk schwarz
37,57 €

Display:
BenQ FP91GX 19", TCO03, DVI, 4ms
189,20 €

Sum: 1.053,86 €

My questions are if the graphics card will work good with the motherboard, if the psu is enough and if the quality of the ram is good enough.
I also'd like to know if the wholecompilation is likely to work good.
i'm not going to overclock and it'll be used mostly for playing games.
That's why I chose a little better graphics card.

All comments are welcome.

Please help me, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!



I think you should be able to get a X1950XTX with GDDR3 for 270/280 instead. Alot more power to work with. Other option is to wait for 8600 from Nvidia if you want DX10 support, also 8800GTS 320MB are sold for 278 euros.

I dont have much faith in MSI mainboards anymore, reaallly bad memorys. Instead i would go for Abit with nVidia 590SLI chipset. Shouldnt really be much of a prize diffrence.

Btw: I would really opt for a LG 19" WS TFT instead. They should be prized the same.

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