Comments Or Suggestions Would Be Greatly Appreciated

[SVT Cobra]

Lian Li PC-65 USB B2 Silver Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

BFG Tech Geforce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

OCZ ModStream 450W Power Suppy

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core

OCZ EL Platinum Revision 2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory

Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive

NEC Display Solutions 90GX2 Silver 19" 4ms LCD Monitor with 4-port USB 2.0 hub

SONY 16X DVD±R, 5X DVD-RAM Write DVD Burner

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card

The price is $1,700, I am using it for gaming, some light web design (photoshop etc), and general office use and watching movies, and I will be overclocking. My budget was $1,500, so I am going to eventually upgrade it to 2GB's and add to the system in general, but not right now. I already have the SLI board from a previous build so I might as well use it. I would appreciate any comments or advice. Thank you very much for your time!

 

[AliasX]

That is $1682 at newegg, but yah, after shipping it will prob be about $1700.

If that is for gaming, it isn't going to be too great. I would drop the Western Digital Raptor, and instead, get a Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Saves you about $60.

Also, you are getting an expensive case, you could save money there, but do whatever you want. I would get 2 gigs of OCZ Platinum ram, which is 154.99 after rebate, so only about $10 more than the 1gig you had selected.

Next I would get an evga 7900GT which is 319.00

Now I would get a 450watt Fortron PSu, it will definitely power your rig.

That is all I would do lol.
The total price of that comes out to be $1721 about.

Now that... is a gaming rig. That rig would swallow the rig you have posted, and still not be full. If you are a gamer, you must sacrifice some things for other things. The Raptor carries a huge price, and does ****** in gaming.

 

[Gagan]

You have WAY too much money in the WRONG PLACES.

First off, scrap that raptor you dont need it unless you have tons of cash, secondly allocate tht money to your video card.
You don't need that Ram either, unless you want severe epenis, performance ram is not THAT much better than valuram, save some more money.

Allocate all that to a 7900GT and maybe a 500w fortron and you're set.

You don't need an aluminum case either.

 

[Luckyboy1]

OCZ ModStream 450W Power Suppy

Rid yourself of that Modstream in favor of a Powerstream model. The Modstreams were designed for just barely type stock setups and this isn't one.

Here's a list of specs for the Powerstream models. Compare them to the actual amps out with your Modstream choice....

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/p...anagement/ocz_powerstream_power_supply

and are built better than the Modstreams in many other ways including shielding and the adjustable rails, while not "needed", are nice.

I'd suggest this power supply and here's where I've found the best price on it...

http://www.magnum-pc.com/product.asp?pf_id=OCZ52012U&dept_id=05-002

What the guy said about performance RAM is partially correct. The lower latencies of of the fancier RAM at stock speeds will yield you at best about 4% overall better performance. However, depending on the type of fancy RAM, it may clock stable to a higher speed than the more reasonably priced stuff.

 

[Operandi]

Change the PSU to a 450 watt Forton-Source or better yet 430 watt Seasonic.

Change the RAM to Crucial Value. You will also want to make the move to 2GB.

Drop the Raptor.

I would also look at puting a bit more into the video card if you are going to be gaming.

Consider a board the like Asus A8N-32. ATi chipsets run cooler & quieter (passive is no problem), have on board HD audio (drop the Creative), and sacrifice no performance to the nForce4 chipset boards.

 

[AliasX]

@ everyone who responded
Thanks for restating my post