Anything I should know before building this system?

[fylmz]

So I just ordered the following from newegg

MSI K8N neo2 mobo
3500+ chip
thermaltake 420w PS
Geforce 660gt
1 gig Corsair Value 3200 ram
WaveMaster Case
Arctic Silver thermal paste

I'll be gutting my current computer of the Audigy 2 sound card...my 80 gig Hard drive and my CD burner. Should I download anything to have ready before I install? I hear there's a program that allows you to burn XP with all the Service Packs and Security updates any info on that would be great. What about the NEO2 bios? Can it wait till I have it running before I update it?

Any other useful hints I should know before I build it? I've never built an AMD system...just my current intel 1.7 in which it took me about a day, reading the instructions and being very careful. Thanks again for everyone on this boards help I feel like I'm getting a good one.

 

[johnman2005]

man, you need a good power supply. choose Antech

 

[mplutodh1]

Combining the XP with SP2 is called slipstreaming, its not really a program that does it for you, its kind of a pain in the butt and my experience with it wasn't promising. I'd avoid it. Order or borrow a SP2 CD if you arent on broadband, do the XP updates first before installing applications it makes it easier in the long run. Make sure you have drivers for your audio card. Other than that I don't know much about your components to help with that, sure someone else can help you though.

 

[tm37]

I alway insure I have the NIC drivers and then install them and then put on SP2.

SP2 will have the drivers for alot of the stuff you have and from there you can download any addional drivers (if you have broadband)

Enjoy the new system.

 

[fylmz]

Originally posted by: mplutodh1
Combining the XP with SP2 is called slipstreaming, its not really a program that does it for you, its kind of a pain in the butt and my experience with it wasn't promising. I'd avoid it. Order or borrow a SP2 CD if you arent on broadband, do the XP updates first before installing applications it makes it easier in the long run. Make sure you have drivers for your audio card. Other than that I don't know much about your components to help with that, sure someone else can help you though.

actually this is what I was talking about: XP CREATE

http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/XPCREATE/

I may or may not use it...probably not. Going to read more about it

 

[mplutodh1]

Originally posted by: fylmz

Originally posted by: mplutodh1
Combining the XP with SP2 is called slipstreaming, its not really a program that does it for you, its kind of a pain in the butt and my experience with it wasn't promising. I'd avoid it. Order or borrow a SP2 CD if you arent on broadband, do the XP updates first before installing applications it makes it easier in the long run. Make sure you have drivers for your audio card. Other than that I don't know much about your components to help with that, sure someone else can help you though.

actually this is what I was talking about: XP CREATE

http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/XPCREATE/

I may or may not use it...probably not. Going to read more about it

Interesting, cool idea, just make sure you have the standard CD around incase it doesnt work.