Building new system !!!

[Steve8177]

Ok its not all up to date stuff but its what i can afford rith now !!!
And its perfect for what i do with a pc.

There's just the memory im not sure about what to get.
OCZ, Corsair ... any recommendations would be nice.

And i will be using Windows XP Pro 32bit
Or
Windows XP Home 32bit that i already have.

All of this comes to $1420 with tax.
Montreal, Quebec ( 12.5% tax ) lol.

Case: RAIDMAX SAGITTA Black

Power Supply: 700W POWER ATX OCZ GAMEXSTREAM SLI

Motherboard : ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe

Processor : AMD ATHLON64 X2 6400+ 3.20G/2000/2M/AM2 CZ

Memory: ???

Hard Drives:
#1- Western Digital 250GB SATA-II 16MB
#2- Western Digital 500GB SATA-II 16MB

DVD Drive: DVD+/-RW LG GH20LS10 SATA DL LS 20/20

Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series

Graphics Card: SAPPHIRE PCIE RAD HD2600XT DDR3 512M BOX

Monitor: Acer 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor (X203WBD)

[Masaki 7-11]

Where are you getting the parts from? $1420 is a lot of money for a computer and a lot of your parts seems off in terms of performance, what are you going to use the computer for?

[Steve8177]

Originally Posted by Masaki 7-11 Where are you getting the parts from? $1420 is a lot of money for a computer and a lot of your parts seems off in terms of performance, what are you going to use the computer for?

Im getting most of the parts from
http://www.microbytes.com/computer/ordinateur/index.php

The PC is going to be used for a little bit of gaming.
The most demanding game i play is like HL 2
Im a musician so i record all my music on my pc
A bit of video editing but not too extreme.
Photo Editing

I already do all of that with the pc that i have now
but i just want a little bit more power.

This my pc now.

Intel® Pentium® D processor 820
2x1 MB L2 2.80 GHz 800 MHz
Thermaltake TR2 430W ATX PSU
Asus P5RD2-VM motherboard
Maxtor 160GB SATA 2
Western Digital 160GB SATA 2
2GB KINGSTON KVR 667MHZ DDR2 NO-ECC
Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS 512mb
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150 MCE
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
Windows Xp Home Sp2 ( Genuine )

[Masaki 7-11]

You should take a look at either reducing your budget or getting better performance parts.
At the moment a good combination of core parts would be:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8xxx series (microbytes has E8200)
P5K-E Motherboard
8800GT 512MB Video Card
2GB DDR2-800 (Mushkin has some good, low priced ram sticks), you could also reuse the ram from your old computer if you are not using that one anymore.

[Katreat]

Agree with masaki, for that kind of money you can buy in the mid-high market. Take a look at some of the build posts on the forum and you will see most recomended computers fall right into your price range and will offer substantially higher performance.

Kat

[Steve8177]

After reading your posts i decided to do it like this !!!
Im going to keep my old pc but upgrade some parts !!!

Case: RAIDMAX SAGITTA Black 79.99$
Power Supply: 700W POWER ATX OCZ GAMEXSTREAM SLI 139.00$
Motherboard : S775 ASUS P5K-E WIFI-AP P35 PCIE 162.00$
Processor : INTEL CORE 2 DUO E8400 3.00G/1333/6M/S775 219.00$
Graphics Card: Still not sure about this ... there's so many version of the 8800GT 512M

[Katreat]

You could save a bit and downsize the PSU to something around 550 w or so. Doubt you would ever need that much headroom and you can get good quality 550-600 w PSUs for $80-90 or so.

Make sure you need all the bells and whisles on the MB. There is quite a spread of P5K boards and you can save money by getting just the extras you think you will use. The most popular board is the P5K-E which has a better sound chip than the base P5K. But if you are still planning on a sound card that is a mute selling point.

That is the current sweet spot for duel core processors so it should make you happy. If you have software that can benefit from quad cores than look at the Q6600 as nice alternative for about the same money.

Generally I go with EVGA for Navida cards but like you say there are quite a few quality makers and the cards are very similar. So if you find one for a steal from a name brand company you would probably be fine.

Kat

[Steve8177]

Someone in another thread told me this !!!

A true PCI-E PSU would have an amp rating for the 12v in the 30amp range.

Any recomondations for a PSU in that range ???
I cant seem to find any ... all the ones i look at are in the 20's amp range !!!

[Alaron]

Most power supplies these days have multiple 12V rails. So if you see a PSU with a rating of say 12V1 16A and 12V2 16A, that is 32A total, so it will work. .

[Steve8177]

Well i think i found a pretty good one !!!
http://www.corsairmemory.com/products/vx.aspx

Ill get either the 450 or 550.

[Drunner611]

Yup, the Corsairs are highly recommended here and around other forums. Go with the 550 for sure, especially if you are consider overclocking. If you plan on upgrading to a quad core/9800gx2 anytime definitely grab the 650.