Frist Time Building A Computer Gaming Computer

[Luckie520]

This is my first time of building a computer. I have bought an all these items and was wondering if I bought everything I need or do I need to buy more to make this computer to run. Im building this computer to be a gaming computer.

1) NZXT LEXA-NP Black/ Silver Aluminum Construction Plastic Front Panel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

2) Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 ST3146854LW 147GB 15,000 RPM SCSI Ultra320 68pin Hard Drive

3) Maxtor DiamondMax 11 6H500F0 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

4) ASUS EAX1800XT/2DHTV/512M Radeon X1800XT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

5) PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW-Quad SLI T1KW-4E EPS12V 1000W Continuous @ 50°C Power Supply
Model #: T1KW-4E

6) DFI INFINITY 975X Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard

7) Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Conroe 1066MHz FSB LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557X6800

8) Microsoft Windows XP Home With SP2 3-Pack

9) Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum

I know I still need to get a cooling fan but I dot know what type to get. Any help would be greatly appreciative.

[blue60007]

Well, you shouldn't have gotten an SCSI drive. You're going to have to get a controller and fiddle with setting that up. Desktop boards only have IDE and SATA built in.

Any reason you got a 3-pack OS? Only need one...

Did you get any RAM?

What about optical drive?

[Mr.Ferrari]

That hdd will be loud. High gb maxtors are known for that.

Why did you pick X1800XT? For that same price of the asus you couldve bought a X1900 Crossfire edition, and for 200 less a X1900XT.

Any reason for spending so much on a psu? Hey Ill be the first one to say you can never have have enough power but that is severly overdoing it. MOney would have been well spent on a better card..

DFI-Nice board, but good luck if this is you first computer. Some bios issues right now, Otherwise very high quality board.


CPU- One word. Awesome. Any specific reason for that cpu? Wont be all that much of a diff from a e6700 which is much cheaper. Unless your using overclocking and have use for the unlocked multipliers...which im doubting..

Sound card- Why in the world did you go for the platinum edition? All it does is add a front panel. A high end xfi will have that thing crying.

BUT nothing major except the hdd, make sure you find a decent controller and read up.

VERY Nice and high end build but just not balanced.

[blue60007]

Can't imagine a 15000 rpm drive will be quiet either...could've gotten a better video card, agreed. Not that it's a bad card, it'll probably do everything you want it to do, but you could've shifted money from other areas into the video card (ie, from a $1100+ CPU to a $650 E6700, and a $250 card to a $360 X1900XTX). Don't get me wrong -- that's a nice setup...(only concern is with the SCSI drive).