Critique my gaming system

[sphfaros]

Hey everyone, if you have a moment please offer your criticism on my system below. If all is well I am going to order it tonight. Thanks for all your thoughts.

New Parts
ASUS A8V DELUXE Socket 939 VIA K8T800 Pro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $114.00

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Newcastle Integrated into Chip FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3800DEP4AW - OEM $359.00

Kingston ValueRAM 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model KVR400X64C3AK2/1G - Retail $82.00

Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JD 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM $124.00

CREATIVE Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS GAMER Limited Edition 70SB035000013 8 (7.1) $108.00

Subtotal: $926.50

Existing Parts
Nvidia GeForce 6800 Graphics Card

Sony DVD-ROM Drive

Plextor 12x DVD+RW

Waiting for Release
Antec P180 case

A PSU that I'll decide later (leaning towards Antec TruePower 480watt)

 

[Promethply]

Most of your components looks fine, except that you can get the Venice cored Athlon64 3200+ at quite a lower price point compared to the 3800+,

and most of the Venice cored 3200+ are good OCer, so that you can easily run it @ at least 2400MHz, which is the 3800+ default frequency.

 

[bjc112]

If paying $359, get the San Diego 3700+ and the full 1MB of cache..

If overclocking, get a 3000+ for $150 and call it a day..

The extra money saved should go towards SLIGHTY better ram.. Value ram sucks.

 

[theMan]

also, if you get value ram, get either corsair or ocz. make sure you get rev. 2.00 a8v deluxe. also, get the 3700+ san diego, or possibly the 3800+ venice. that 3800+ NC sucks.

 

[Gadzookie]

corsair isnt compatiable with the asus board its on the asus memory compaiable chart stick with the kingston

also get the sandiego core you will not be disapointed

 

[sphfaros]

can someone give me a link to some better ram that I could buy on newegg, since you're saying the value ram isn't worth it

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Originally posted by: Gadzookie
corsair isnt compatiable with the asus board its on the asus memory compaiable chart stick with the kingston

also get the sandiego core you will not be disapointed

Jeez, next time could you please stick some periods into your post? It took me like 30 seconds until I could finally understand what you were saying...

Sphfaros: I don't know about RAM not being compliant with the ASUS board, but it should be fine.

 

[Regs]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146917

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146996

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: Gadzookie
corsair isnt compatiable with the asus board its on the asus memory compaiable chart stick with the kingston

also get the sandiego core you will not be disapointed

Yes it is compatible. Well, I sure hope so because I've been using it on the A8V for a year now.

 

[Regs]

If the Kingston comes with a life time warrenty and it's 2.5 Cas, I wouldn't see a problem ordering though.

 

[JBird7986]

Nice motherboard selection...I love mine!