Building a new system. Need advice.

[tqm]

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.

 

[50cent1228]

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

 

[50cent1228]

oh and another thing is your motherboard the asus p5b deluxe or asus p5b-e??

 

[tqm]

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.

 

[50cent1228]

ok just checking...ya 1gb is fine too

 

[dBTelos]

Good enough PSU if you just want to run one 7950GT. Two? Forget about it. Up it to a Corsair HX520W.

 

[Skyguy]

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.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: dBTelos
Good enough PSU if you just want to run one 7950GT. Two? Forget about it.

Did you do the math?

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

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

 

[dBTelos]

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?

 

[Howard]

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?

 

[dBTelos]

Hahaha, I just realized that also.... lets pretend this didn't happen, ok?