First Build, How does my lineup look?

[irishkid]

I am trying to go for most bang for the buck. I would most definitely like to keep the total under $900 and I think I did OK here. If someone could go through, yell at me for incompatibilities, stupid choices and/or cheaper options...that would be great. (If you can find options for less without sacrificing too much, that would be nice too.) I don't do a whole lot with my PC, gaming and music is the extent of it. I would like to run Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 2, Battlefront II (sensing a theme?) and have them look nice and play well.

My Proposed Setup (All from Newegg)

Power Supply: XCLIO GOODPOWER 500W
Motherboard: eVGA 133-K8-NF41 ATX AMD
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 (stock HSF)
CPU Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA 200GB
Memory: gigaram 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM
Video Card: connect3D 256mb Radeon X800GTO 3038
Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UB Black /Blue
Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech 2-Tone RF Wireless Keyboard Combo
OS: Windows XP Home with SP2

And as far as DVD\CD-ROM\RW and a monitor go, they will be donated from my current setup.

Also, as far as you can tell, am I going to have to buy any cords? I'll want rounded cords for the FDD's, but anything besides that?

Fire Away.

[flanzig1]

The mother board should come with cables plus the ones you salvage from the old PC.
Not familiar with eVGA motherboards, their video cards are good though.
Probably don't need the Artic Silver since the stock HSU will have a thermal pad on it.

[glc]

I'm withholding judgement on eVGA motherboards till we get some good reports back. If you do get it, why not get the bundle deal with the 7800GT?

That's a SLI board - if you ever anticipate using SLI, you should get a SLI-certified PSU now. If not, I'd favor something else - I hear the Goodpower isn't up to XClio's high standards of their other units.

If you are gonna play BF2, make it a pair of those ram sticks - you need 2 gigs to do it right. Regardless of what amount of ram you get, you should buy it in dual channel kits, and I think I'd use a different brand than Gigaram.

[blue60007]

Originally Posted by glc That's a SLI board - if you ever anticipate using SLI, you should get a SLI-certified PSU now. If not, I'd favor something else - I hear the Goodpower isn't up to XClio's high standards of their other units.

Not to mention that's an ATi card. You can run a single ATi card in a SLI board, you just can't do a dual card setup, so it'd be kinda silly to get a SLI board if you can't use it with the video card.

[irishkid]

Originally Posted by irishkid My Proposed Setup (All from Newegg) Power Supply: XCLIO GOODPOWER 500W Motherboard: eVGA 133-K8-NF41 ATX AMD CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 (stock HSF) CPU Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA 200GB Memory: gigaram 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Video Card: connect3D 256mb Radeon X800GTO 3038 Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UB Black /Blue Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech 2-Tone RF Wireless Keyboard Combo OS: Windows XP Home with SP2 And as far as DVD\CD-ROM\RW and a monitor go, they will be donated from my current setup.

Ok, I did a little remodeling. Thanks for the observations.

How does this look now -

Power Supply: JUST PC JPC-FP500S ATX12V/ EPS12V 500W
Motherboard: BIOSTAR N4SLI-A9 Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 (stock HSF)
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA 200GB
Memory: Patriot Signature Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel
Video Card: XFX PVT42GUAD7 Geforce 6800GS 256MB 256-bit GDDR3
Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UB Black /Blue
Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech 2-Tone RF Wireless Keyboard Combo
OS: Windows XP Home with SP2

Thanks for the help.

[glc]

No, do NOT use a JustPC power supply. Those are cheapos. Get a SLI-certified unit if you ever plan on using SLI. If not, one of the other XClios is fine.

Certified list is here:

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone2_build.html

[funkymojo44]

Originally Posted by irishkid I am trying to go for most bang for the buck. I would most definitely like to keep the total under $900 and I think I did OK here. If someone could go through, yell at me for incompatibilities, stupid choices and/or cheaper options...that would be great. (If you can find options for less without sacrificing too much, that would be nice too.) I don't do a whole lot with my PC, gaming and music is the extent of it. I would like to run Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 2, Battlefront II (sensing a theme?) and have them look nice and play well. My Proposed Setup (All from Newegg) Power Supply: XCLIO GOODPOWER 500W Motherboard: eVGA 133-K8-NF41 ATX AMD CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 (stock HSF) CPU Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA 200GB Memory: gigaram 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Video Card: connect3D 256mb Radeon X800GTO 3038 Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UB Black /Blue Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech 2-Tone RF Wireless Keyboard Combo OS: Windows XP Home with SP2 And as far as DVD\CD-ROM\RW and a monitor go, they will be donated from my current setup. Also, as far as you can tell, am I going to have to buy any cords? I'll want rounded cords for the FDD's, but anything besides that? Fire Away.

Wow you guys can get that all for around $900?!!!

That same set-up (exactly what i am after - pretty much) will cost £700 in the UK, thats about $1,250!!!

[barch 88]

Antec PSU *cough cough!*

Im not fimilar with Biostar or eVGA boards, I use a MSI and its great. Look into ASUS also.

As for Ram, look into something like Cosiar or Kingston. Hey glc, what you mean you would need at least 2 gigs to do it right...pfft, one gig is fine. But yeah, 2 is better.

I hear good things from XFX Cards so that may be a good choice.