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Building a new system. Need advice.

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tqm

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I intend to build a new system and came up with the following list of components:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, boxed

Motherboard: Asus P5B

RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 512MB DDR2-667 5-5-5-12 -- I intend to buy two sticks and run them in dual-channel mode. Eventually, I want to buy two more.

PSU: Seasonic S12 430

Graphics card: Asus GeForce 7950GT 512MB

Together with these components, I want to install a Western Digital WD1200JB IDE drive and an Audigy 2 sound card.


I'd appreciate your advice, especially if anybody knows of any compatibility problems among these components.


Thanks in advance.
 
looks good...id wait for dbtelos to tell you if thats a good psu...but the rest looks good...i would suggest getting 2gb ram
 
It's supposed to be the plain P5B and it's "only" 1GB for now (eventually, I'm going to buy two more 512 RAM sticks), because of financial limits.
 
Do you plan on overclocking? Vanilla P5B not the greatest. If no OC'ing you can get cheaper boards, spend that money on more RAM and a better/bigger PSU.
 
nice. i have an audigy 2 and unless you have a nice speaker set and are an audiofreak, not worth it imo.

check if the moo has 4 ram slots too
 
Howard, brief numbers in my head from what I remember. To me the specs on the S12 430W seem to fall short, do they not?
 
Not including OCing:

~5A for E6300
~3A for mobo
~6A for 7950GT
~0.5A each for HD and sound card
~1A for DVD drive

That's about 16A altogether. The S12-430 does 29A... and the P5B only has one PCIe slot. Why did I waste my time? 😕
 
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