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Jaytee
Oct 28th, 2005, 02:34 PM
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585 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.2GHz Dual Core Socket 939 1MB L2 Cache
146 DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D
418 2X Western Digital Raptor SATA (Raid 0) 74G x 2
287 OCZ EL PC3200 2GB 2X1GB DDR400 CL2-3-2-5 184PIN Pin Dual Channel 575 MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E GeForce 7800GTX
150 Antec P180
093 Enermax EG-565P-VE All In One Series (New) FMA series 535W SLI Ready
060 ThermalRight XP90C
137 Creative X-Fi

I am going to be building a PC very soon and here are the components Im thinking of getting. Any thoughts for different components are welcome. I plan on overclocking the CPU from 2.2 to 2.4 or 2.5. I also didnt go with the 7700 or XP120 for the heatsink because I dont want it blocking slots.

Also let me know if you have seen cheaper prices (As of Oct 28/05).

Thanks! :lol:
DaFonz
Oct 28th, 2005, 02:41 PM
The XP120 doesn't block any slots?

Buy a Seasonic PSU instead
deep
Oct 28th, 2005, 02:48 PM
My first thought is that the ratio of CPU$:Everything Else$ is too high. I'm not "in the know" right now as to when the last/next CPU price drop is for AMD, but I would rather save $200 and get the X2 3800.

What are you using the PC for?
Jaytee
Oct 28th, 2005, 02:50 PM
The XP120 doesn't block any slots?

Buy a Seasonic PSU instead


XP 120 with DFI LANPARTY UT nF4:
The first of PCI-e slots will be blocked by the heat pipe loop and the over-hanging fins will be in the way of the memory modules if they have the heat spreader/sink installed.

I read good things about Seasonic PSUs, but I bought probably 15 Enermax PSU in my life and I never had a problem with any of them so Im going with what works for me.
Jaytee
Oct 28th, 2005, 02:56 PM
My first thought is that the ratio of CPU$:Everything Else$ is too high. I'm not "in the know" right now as to when the last/next CPU price drop is for AMD, but I would rather save $200 and get the X2 3800.

What are you using the PC for?

Actually AMD just had a CPU price drop and the price reflects it. It was over $600 for the longest time. I was considering the 3800 but I decided that I want the 1MB cache vs the 512K on the 3800.

The PC will be used for a number of games with is why I have the 7800GTX.
But I also do mp3 encoding and re-encoding DVD to mp4 for my PSP which are multi threaded appz, so I could take advantage of the dual cores right away.
bionicbadger
Oct 28th, 2005, 03:07 PM
RAID 0 is just asking for trouble. Get an extra drive and do RAID5 if you need RAID