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[12twelve12]

Time for a new build. Looking for any kind of compatibility issues so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Not interested in SLI and I already have a case.

MOBO: MSI P35 Neo2-FR
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz
PSU: PC Power & Cooling EPS12V 750W
RAM: Crucial Ballistix 2GB DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit
GPU: EVGA GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB
HDD1: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
HDD2: Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10,000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s
OPTI: SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner/LightScribe
OS: XP Professional

Thank you!

[Cricket]

Any specific reason you're going with a MSI motherboard?

Samsung drives have awful reliability and I would look at LG, NEC or Lite-On instead.

The other parts look fine.

Cricket

[shadowpr]

That ram is overkill unless you plan on overclocking.

Also check out the XFX line of video cards. They just announced a nice price drop. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-NA-_-NA-_-NA

I also think the raptor is overpriced, and a larger cache drive would be better.

[12twelve12]

Originally Posted by Cricket Any specific reason you're going with a MSI motherboard? Samsung drives have awful reliability and I would look at LG, NEC or Lite-On instead. The other parts look fine. Cricket

As far as the Samsung drive I was not aware of reliability issues so thank you. I will look at one of the others. MSI- Really the main decision is that it's the only boards I have experience with and I have never had any problems with them. The BIOS is familiar to me and I also like the way they their update utility works. I have no problems switching to say ASUS or EVGA so I guess it just out of comfortability.

Originally Posted by shadowpr That ram is overkill unless you plan on overclocking. Also check out the XFX line of video cards. They just announced a nice price drop. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-NA-_-NA-_-NA I also think the raptor is overpriced, and a larger cache drive would be better.

shawdow- The link you supplied is to a 8800GT and I'm looking to get one of the new versions of the 8800GTS (G92 version) which I hear is now better than the GT, unlike the old 8800GTS' (correct me if I'm wrong). So I looked at the XFX 8800GTS and it's $50 more.

I might do some overclocking thus the choice of memory.

[shadowpr]

You're absolutely right. I misread that. Sorry about the mix up. Unfortunaley, I don't see them announcing the 8800gts as being reduced in price.

[Khalil]

Stay away from MSI, their Customer Support is non-existant. Go with Asus, they are best of the best.