Building a new PC

[DanKD]

Hello all, I have been researching and will soon be building a new PC. I just wanted to post the parts I am currently leaning towards and get some opinions. My budget is limited to about the value of the parts I posted, so an upgrade one place would require a downgrade another. All opinions are appreciated.

Motherboard: DFI LANPARTY UT nF4

Processor: Athlon 64 3200 Venice

Graphics: GeForce 7800GTX

RAM: OCZ 2GB GOLD

Hard Drive: 200GB Seagate Barracuda ATA-150 7200 RPM

Case: Lian Li PC-61

PSU: Fortron AX-500

DVD/CD: LGE GSA-4163B

 

[DrCrap]

looks good to me. :thumbsup:

 

[tfinch2]

Is that enough CPU power for that video card?

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Looks fine. Although I wouldn't exactly consider that a "Budget"

 

[DanKD]

I didn't say it was a low budget, I said it was MY budget

 

[imported_rod]

Nice setup. Not farmiliar with the PSU though.

Should overclock alright, if that's what you're planning on doing.

I dont think your CPU would bottleneck the VC, although if it does you can always OC/Upgrade.

RoD

 

[nycdude]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
Looks fine. Although I wouldn't exactly consider that a "Budget"

lmao

 

[Some1ne]

If you're getting the DFI board, you might as well switch to OCZ's "VX" series of RAM. Otherwise you won't get any use out of the one feature that makes the DFI board stand out, namely the very high memory voltages that it lets you select. If you're married to using non-VX RAM, you might as well get a Gigibyte/MSI/Asus nforce4 board, as they will perform/overclock the same, offer a bit more "polished" implementation, and in some cases come with nicer add-ons than the DFI.

Also, for that setup it makes sense to add a high-performance HDD, either a Raptor II with its tagged command queuing, or at least a standard SATA drive that supports NCQ (which your barracuda might, depending on which version you've selected).

 

[DanKD]

The barracuda does support NCQ.

Regarding the RAM, from what I have read the Gold series overclocks very well and is a good choice of RAM for the DFI. VX is better, but as it is I am pushing the max ammount I can spend.