What do you think of this for a new first time PC build

[luke321321]

This is my ideas for a new PC build (my first one) has anybody got any comments/suggestions or anything that I've missed out. I am going to be using some speakers that I've already got.

Thermaltake Soprano Middle Tower Case Series- Black w/ X Type Side Panel Window

Sony Black 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive 1.44MB

160 GB Seagate Barracuda® SATA 7200rpm 8MB cache HDD with NCQ

Pioneer DVR-110D 16X DVD black +/-R/RW 8x +/- DL IDE oem (Drive only)

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego Core 64 bit 1MB L2 Cache Retail inc.fan Skt 939

Asus - A8N32-SLI Deluxe (motherboard)

Ballistix 184-pin DIMM part no. BL6464Z505 PC4000 512MB

Enermax Liberty 500W v2.2 Black PSU ELT500AWT

windows xp home sp2
PixelView GF PCX7800GT SLI 256MB DDR3, PCI-E, Dual DVI, VIVO (graphics card)

Acer AL2016W 20.1" 8ms silver (1680*1050)
MD Black Keyboard PS/2
MD Silver Optical Scroll mouse PS/2 2 button

Thanks for your time

luke

[doctorgonzo]

Not bad. I would go with a Lite-On DVD writer instead of the Pioneer. If you are going to go SLI in the future, I would also make sure that the PSU is SLI-certified. Also, I would go with at least 1 GB of memory.

[luke321321]

Thanks, I was thinking of getting 1GB of RAM a bit later when I had a bit more money!! Does anyone know if the liberty is SLI certified just for future reference.

thanks

[doctorgonzo]

Here's the list of certified PSUs.

[blue60007]

Really the minimum for a gaming PC is 1 gig of RAM - I wouldn't use less if you are going to game.

Whoa - I just looked up the price of that RAM and you could get a dual channel kit (2 x 512MB) from Corsair (Value Select) for less money. That RAM is overboard (even if you wanted to overclock with it, you'll get a bigger "overclock" by getting a gig of value RAM), just get some Corsair VS.

Never heard of that brand of video card either.

[jayb1234]

You might want to look at the 16Mb cache hard drives from Seagate or Western Digital.

[doubledragon5]

I would choose a more notible VC for that build..... I also agree you can save money by getting the Crucial value select ram over Ballistic which I personally never heard of..

[luke321321]

The video card is a geforce 7800GT (it's just abbreviated in the name of that card). Here my revised list taking in your considerations:

Thermaltake Soprano Middle Tower Case Series- Black w/ X Type Side Panel Window

Sony Black 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive 1.44MB

200 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA lead free UDMA150 16MB Cache

Lite-on SHW-16H5S-05C black DL lightscribe DVD +/-R/RW oem +s/ware

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego Core 64 bit 1MB L2 Cache Retail inc.fan Skt 939 (3 yr.warr.)

Asus - A8N32-SLI Deluxe

Geil® Value 1Gb PC3200 Dual Chan DDR Kit (2x512MB) (Cas 2.5 6-3-3) with Aluminium heat spreader

Enermax Liberty 500W v2.2 Black PSU ELT500AWT

windows xp home sp2

PixelView GeForce PCX7800GT SLI 256MB DDR3, PCI-E, Dual DVI, VIVO, Retail with Call of Duty 2!

Acer AL2016W 20.1" 8ms silver (1680*1050)

MD Black Keyboard PS/2

MD Silver Optical Scroll mouse PS/2 2 button