i personally am going for an HD3870/50, with the E2140, cos i need to finance an OS and monitor... i would suggest you try and shift yor budget to fit in a Wolfdale processor, IE, the 8400... cos the AMD processors atm aren't really worth it, 'less you want to get a phenom, IMO
You're overkill on hard drives...you'll get better performance with 1 drive for Windows and 1 drive for games AND getting an 8800 512mb card (GT or GTS) with the money saved.
Have you looke into the Gigabyte P35 board, an e2160 (overclock to 3.0ghz) and some better RAM?
I've never heard of that brand of PSU...what's the amps on the +12v rail?
Message edited by Noya on 01-24-2008 at 12:36:30 PM
Get a good power supply. It can wipe out your entire investment.
The one you chose does not have enough power. You need 21-23 amps on the 12v rails at a minimum.
I would stay away from generic memory. It can cause a lot of errors which are hard to detect. Since you are on a budget, I would get Kingston. Other good brands are Patriot, Corsair, Crucial, OCZ. Take a look at the venor's qualified memory list on the Gigabyte site for your motherboard.
If available, the Antec Earthwatts 500w is better quality, and is usually at a good price. After rebates, they are only $50 in the US.
You could always drop down to the 5000+ Black Edition processor. Performance is not much less, but the price is usually much better. Requires less power and creates less heat also at stock speed.
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Its better to be thankful you spent the extra money on a decent PSU than to buy a crap one and take all your components with you. 10% of your build for a nice psu isnt that bad.
5000+ Black processor...? I don't want something too weak. Ideally want a processor that can encode/resize a 120min video in 120 mins or as close as possible. I don't know much about processors in that respect. I just picked AMD cpu because they are cheap and the 5600+ was the cheapest one with 2MB L2 cache.
