Critique my system?

[Toolex]

To start off with, im upgrading from an AMD 1800+, 512mb of 2100 ram, shuttle ak31 mobo, and an nVida gforce 4200 video card.
I will (hopefully) be ordering this soon.....an MSI K8N NEO3-F ATX AMD Motherboard, CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit System,AMD Athlon 64 2800+ Newcastle Integrated into Chip FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor, and a GIGABYTE GV-NX66T128D Geforce 6600GT 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card. Hopeing that everything will work well together. What does everyone else think? Has anyone experienced any trouble with any of this equipment? thanks!

 

[imported_Kensai]

:thumbsup: You should go with one stick instead of two since that CPU only supports single channel and if you only use one stick, it'll leave you with a better upgrade path.

 

[theMan]

Looks really good. it cant run dualchannel also.

 

[Toolex]

Are there any socket 754's that do run dual channel? Or is it not too huge of a deal?

 

[gamer1000k]

There are no socket 754 platforms that support dual channel. The main reason socket 939 was added was to add this functionality.

 

[aplefka]

I wouldn't worry about it. That RAM is still so cheap and if you really wanted just the reg 2 x 512 version it's like $4 less or something. Looks pretty good to me.

 

[theMan]

yeah, theres nothing wrong with getting a dual channel kit. it depends on the prices, and sometimes its better to have 512mb sticks, instead of 1024. big sticks are sometimes bad.

 

[Bucks]

I would look into getting S939 equipment. Prices are pretty much the same and the upgradability is much higher. Perhaps get a DFI LANPARTY UT nF4, with an AMD 3000+ Venice, keeping the RAM and video card