finally hit the order button!

[teramesher]

OK, I finally came over the fear and hit the order button:
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce3 Ultra Athlon 64(FX) Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor Socket 939 Retail
2 X Corsair VS512MB400 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CAS2.5 Value Select Memory
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3160827AS 160GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
Zalman CNPS7000B-ALCU Pure Copper CPU Cooler Retail
Antec SLK3700AMB
XFX nVidia 6600GT AGP

Total: $878.47

Little more than what I wanted to spent, but oh well.

Anyone own the Zalman 7000 fan on Neo2 board? Hopefully nothing gets in the way.

Hopefully the case from newegg gets delivered before Friday...

 

[teramesher]

any comforting words? heh

 

[Mik3y]

congrats and nice choice of components. will you be overclocking?

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Amazing like what I'd order if I had money.
Nice job!

 

[teramesher]

OC? I wasn't planning on it. My current (soon to be old *grin*) machine's athlon xp 1600+. It's been a while since I overclocked. probably little rusty. guess need to figure out where to start!

 

[Gamingphreek]

Nice! A couple things i would have done differently for that config is getting a 3200+ Winchester core, as it runs cooler consumes less power, and OCs farther. I would have gotten the 6800OC from outpost which is faster than the 6600GT and is about the same price. And also 1gig of RAM. A gig is becoming more and more imperative.

Other than that nice Im just kinda picky.

-Kevin

 

[teramesher]

yup. 1gb. two sticks of Corsair.

I specifically avoided 6800 for their broken video processor.

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Nice! A couple things i would have done differently for that config is getting a 3200+ Winchester core, as it runs cooler consumes less power, and OCs farther. I would have gotten the 6800OC from outpost which is faster than the 6600GT and is about the same price. And also 1gig of RAM. A gig is becoming more and more imperative.

Other than that nice Im just kinda picky.

-Kevin

at a cost of $150ish more. i prob would do the exact same as you kevin.

 

[teramesher]

actually I thought about 3500+. It's $120 more. I figured I'd go with 3000+(winchester core) and save the money.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: teramesher
any comforting words? heh

Hmmm. MSI

My
System
Ignighted




hehe, j/k, congrats.

 

[teramesher]

lol. I guess it's matter of interpretation.

 

[Sniper82]

bump wish I had the money to spend on a A64 system. Will prob continue to use my 1800+@2.2Ghz 200FSB for at least the next 6 months or long. I will get the 6600gt in the next month or so also another 512mb.

Either way nice system man hope all goes well for ya.