Comments on my NEW MACHINE PLEASE

[XJBluto]

LIAN LI PC-60APLUSII Case

CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 520W Power Supply

Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 4600+ Socket AM2 (89W)

ATI Radeon X1650 PRO PCI Express 512MB DDR Video Card

Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6V250F0 250GB Serial ATA (3.0Gb/s) 7200RPM Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer

Asus M2R32-MVP 580X CrossFire Sempron/Athlon 64(FX)(X2) SktAM2 DDR2 ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA

LG Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-ROM E-IDE/ATAPI DVD-ROM Drive Model GDR-8164BK

SAMSUNG Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner With LightScribe Technology

Win XP- Media Edition

[glc]

Are you looking for recommendations or have you already bought it? What kind of comments are you looking for?

[XJBluto]

So what is the praise and what is the criticism?

[Mr.Ferrari]

We'll..its kinda a bit late when you have already bought the parts, ruins the purpose.

But I wouldve done a few things differently:

-Corsair Valueselect ram instead, kingston is just not as consistent
-All around core 2 Duo setup for best performance
-ATI chipsets with AM2 are a bad idea
-A 7600GT card instead. The X1650PRO isnt the best gamers card for the price.
-A Seagate or WesternDigital drive. Maxtors are notorious for unreliability nowadays.

And finally, a lite-on drive.

[Disgrace]

Just a minor criticism: XP Media Center Edition is useless... to me it's just more useless settings. Home Edition does me happily. Also that Samsung DVD-RW could be dodgy.

[Cricket]

Looks like it'll build up into a nice system.

Cricket

[newbuilder14]

Originally Posted by Disgrace Just a minor criticism: XP Media Center Edition is useless... to me it's just more useless settings. Home Edition does me happily. Also that Samsung DVD-RW could be dodgy.

I very much agree with both things you've said. Lite-On drives have a high reputation. Microsoft Windows XP M.C.E. can be useful, however from what I've heard from close colleagues, it can be unstable despite it's basic backbone of Windows XP Professional.

[Khalil]

That AM2 will do very well for you. The 1650 ATI will play games well, it might not handle full shadows too well but it should be fine. Kingston is awesome Memory, that was great choice.
LG and Samsung are not too good IMO when it comes to Optical but you might get lucky and have no issues with them.
Maxtor is now owned by Seagate and their quality have improved drasticaly since the merger so you basicaly have a Seagate HD with Maxtor sticker on it.
This looks like a good set up. Congratiolations.