Building new Athlon64 rig

[Maro]

It's been quite a few years since I built my current rig, in fact i'm surprised it's still up and running. But it's way past time I upgraded to something more up to date. However, I not looking for an extreme overclocker, especially since im on a budget of about $1100 but I still want a decent sytem. Anyway, I have been looking around these boards for some time and reading reviews, and I think I'm going to go with the following components, but any input would be appreciated, especially if their had been any known incompatabilies between the componets i have selected.

Athlon 64 3000+ (S939)
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
Corsair VS1GBKIT400 (2x 512MB)
Chaintech GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
Samsung 120GB SATA
Antec Sonata w/380W Power Supply

Oh, and I'm probably not going to do any major OC'ing with this rig.

 

[Waylay00]

I would recommend to ditch the SLI board and get a 6800gt pci-e. May cost a lil more but is worth it.

 

[ts3433]

Just so you know, if you ever decide to get into some OCing, that Winchester 3000+ can do it very well, even on stock cooling.

In any case, the A8N-SLI is a very expensive motherboard ($269 from Newegg, $229 from MWave). I wouldn't recommend SLI for this kind of budget. Go down to an AGP motherboard like the Epox EP-9NDA3+ ($120 from Newegg) or wait for more selection of NF4 boards, and then try to pick up a 6800GT (eVGA's AGP model is $388 from Newegg; PCIe models are usually $500 unless Chumbo.com has theirs in stock for $400). There's also the X800XL on the horizon for PCIe, which will provide performance near the level of the 6800GT for a suggested price of $300. However, it's still vaporware at this point, and if/when it is available, it will probably retail near what PCIe 6800GTs are currently commanding for a while.

 

[Maro]

Thanks ts3433 i will take your advice and wait on a better selection of NF4 boards to come out, and will look into the X800XL.

 

[resStealth]

you would only want that sli mobo if you were going to use dual cards and were a pretty serious gamer as i am