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Hello,

Well I'm taking on what might be a Herculean task. I'm building a new computer the following hardware:

DFI Ultra 4 + AMD 64 3000+ Venice- (Monarch Computer Combo - $288 -$15 Coupon)
X800XL PCIE (Monarch $249 - $5 Coupon)
Hitachi T7K250 160GB Hard Drive ($92 ZZF)
Samsung SP2004C 200GB Hard Drive ($122 ZZF)
Twinmos SP 2x512K 3200 Memory ($99 Newegg)
Viewsonic VP191B ($425 ZZF)
Seasonic S12-430 Power (SVC $95)
NEC 3540A DVD (Newegg $58)
Antec 3000 Case (Amazon $45)
Windows XP Pro
Logitech MX518 (Amazon $39)
Keyboard I had lying around
2 Orange 120 + 1 Black 92MM Yate-Loon Fans from Ebay. ($34)

So I have this all sitting at home and I have seen a few web site showing how all this goes together. Any specific recommendations on some of the best tutorials / web sites for this info? I have heard that this is not a beginner board / memory combo. Hopefully at stock settings it wont be a problem.

And I guess I should have done this sooner - but I normally have used laptops until I finally decided that I needed a quiet home business/ gaming computer. Hopefully I didn't make many mistakes getting the wrong components.

Once I get this going I probably will get a zalman vf700 for the VGA card and a thermalright xp-90 for the processor to quiet things down even further.

Thanks for any help.

Bryan
 
Hello,

Thank you very much for the advice. I listed the prices becuase if I made a big mistake I still have time to return items.

Regarding the comment about the x800xl, if you can tell me where one can get this under the $245 I paid (shipping included from Monarch) for this card I am all ears.

Thanks again for the reference. I will try to get this going this weekend.

Bryan
 
As you probably noticed, the case you bought is almost a twin of the case in my guide, so that should help with the assembly stuff 😀

Motherboard notes:

1) it has FOUR power receptacles. One 24-pin, one 4-pin square, one like a CD-ROM drive takes, and one like a floppy drive takes. More connectors to distribute the load can't hurt anything, so locate them all and hook them up.

2) using ample memory voltage seems to help, 2.8 volts is what I'd try if it were me


Hope that helps 🙂 There are other people with more specialized knowledge about your motherboard if you need advanced help, pop into the Motherboards forum if you get stuck.
 
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