Buying Home Built PC NEED HELP

[rustywood]

Hey

I was after some help, I am looking at buying the following system (specs below)

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+
2GB Mustek Encased Dual Channel RAM
250GB Hitachi 7200rpm HDD
2 x ATI Radeon X800GT 256mb RAM
[Connect up to 4 Monitors]
DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR
2 x PCI Express x16 slots (SLI Graphics)
4 x DDR 400 DIMM slots (Dual Channel)
2 x PCI Slots
Karajan Onboard 8 channel Audio
2 x Marvell Gigabit Lan
4 x Serial ATA (RAID 0, 1, 0+1)
6 x USB 2.0 + 1 x Firewire External
4 x USB 2.0 internal connectors
OCZ 600W Crome Green Silent PSU
DVD RW Multi-Recorder
No operating system included

This system is cooled with a Thermaltake Watercooling kit with heat flow and radiator fan speed control. This is connected to the CPU which runs at an average of 25 degrees (Normally 60 degrees) which means the computer will have a much longer life span.

The guy I am buying it from wants $1000 (New Zealand dollars) I think it is a pretty good deal but just wanted to see if everyone else agrees??
Also I have a question about the graphics cards, there are two running SLI but I am not sure if this is possible. Does anybody know if you can run two x800GT cards SLI?

Help Please

 

[marlborosmoker]

I'm across the pond and I find that very expensive especially with such an . ATI has crossfire BTW not SLI. One card will need to be a x800xt CRossfire edition (which is the master card).

YOu could build a much powerful system for a similar price considering
1x640mb 8800gts $567
http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_9645.html

And you could more than easily build a mid level core2duo system (e4300), or AMD x2 (cheaper but a little bit less performance) with the remaining $430NZ

I mean yeah great you have Crossfire but that processor well, it's 4 years old. It really will be a major bottleneck even if you have crossfire. Even the RAM is pretty much obsolete considering ddr3 is now available. Watercooling, well yeah nice to have, but the processor is at the end of its lifespan anyway with dual core the standard

 

[rustywood]

I thought there was something funny about the graphics card set up. So you think I could build a reasonably good system with an 8800gts for $1000?

 

[marlborosmoker]

Well it'd be better than that PC. My recent build is AMD based so I can only tell you about that. I'll use pricespy.co.nz as the basis for prices (I'm in Australia so I don't really now any other sites)

Asus M2n - $113.40
x2 4800 - $143.00
Western Digital HDD - $88.18
2 gigs Ram - $106
Case & PSU - Not enough detail on pricespy prob about $150 Cheapo case with decent airflow but don't skimp on the powersupply. (enermax is the only decent one i can find on pricespy, you'll need 450W+ versions) But there's others, you'll need to do your research
Burner - Anything will do about $30 - $50
8800GTS 640mb - $567

That's about $1200 NZ brand new. A 320mb 8800gts is still better than those two x800xt is $420. which gets you to just over 1k NZ.

 

[rustywood]

Awsome that is wicked thanks for all your help, I think I will just build you PC haha