First Build, could use a little help

[hanpan007]

Hello. I'm building a PC for the first time and am trying to get as many opinions as possible and this site and forum came highly recommended. I just want to know if all these parts will work together and what my power supply needs will be. Also, I've heard a few claims that the 64 bit chips have "problems" with XP, but haven't been able to find any articles or information to support that. Can anyone here help?

Here are links to the parts I have questions about, I plan to cannibalize this system for the floppy drives and whatnot. The links go to a motherboard, processor, RAM, Hard Drive and video card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131523
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103497
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820145574
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814102548

Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.

 

[AMDgood IntelBAD]

well, that's quite a first build you have!!!!!! everything looks good and should fit. mayb eyou heard that the 64-bit chips that were running windows xp x64 edition had trouble with x64 edition's microsoft-like problems??? for you're powersupply a good 500w would be nice, you dotn want to have a powersupply that will just barely power your stuff. if i were you id wait for the amd athlon x2's they have dual cores so their basically like two processors that go in one socket and they'll be close to your price range, or im pretty sure that clawhammer you want will drop in price, also get a san diego instead of the clawhammer, especially if you're going to be overclcoking http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103529 and its only $17 more dollars
and maybe this board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152#DetailSpecs

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: hanpan007
Hello. I'm building a PC for the first time and am trying to get as many opinions as possible and this site and forum came highly recommended. I just want to know if all these parts will work together and what my power supply needs will be. Also, I've heard a few claims that the 64 bit chips have "problems" with XP, but haven't been able to find any articles or information to support that. Can anyone here help?

Here are links to the parts I have questions about, I plan to cannibalize this system for the floppy drives and whatnot. The links go to a motherboard, processor, RAM, Hard Drive and video card.

ASUS A8V-E Deluxe Socket 939 VIA K8T890 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131523

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ ClawHammer
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103497

CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820145574

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065

SAPPHIRE 100116SR Radeon X800XL 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814102548

Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.

Hi hanpan007 and Welcome to the Forums!

I "fixed" your post, most like seeing what the components are w/o having to hit every link. I think you'll get a better response this way.

Would be a good idea to state what you will be using the PC for: gaming, encoding or surfing etc.

My only other comments are (1) I'm suspicious of the 800XL having 512MB of vram. I doubt the card can actually take advantage of it. Could be an expensive marketing gimmick. The 256MB version may be a better purchase for the money. Or you could wait a month or two and see what the new round offers.

(2) 2 gigs of ram may be overkill, depends on the purpose/use of the PC. Also, many with 64bit rigs clain the expensive/low latency ram is a waste. That the cheaper stuff performs just as well since the memory controller is on-die (cpu).

Fern

 

[SLIorCROSSFIRE]

Originally posted by: Fern

Originally posted by: hanpan007
Hello. I'm building a PC for the first time and am trying to get as many opinions as possible and this site and forum came highly recommended. I just want to know if all these parts will work together and what my power supply needs will be. Also, I've heard a few claims that the 64 bit chips have "problems" with XP, but haven't been able to find any articles or information to support that. Can anyone here help?

Here are links to the parts I have questions about, I plan to cannibalize this system for the floppy drives and whatnot. The links go to a motherboard, processor, RAM, Hard Drive and video card.

ASUS A8V-E Deluxe Socket 939 VIA K8T890 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131523

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ ClawHammer
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103497

CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820145574

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065

SAPPHIRE 100116SR Radeon X800XL 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814102548

Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.

Hi hanpan007 and Welcome to the Forums!

I "fixed" your post, most like seeing what the components are w/o having to hit every link. I think you'll get a better response this way.

Would be a good idea to state what you will be using the PC for: gaming, encoding or surfing etc.

My only other comments are (1) I'm suspicious of the 800XL having 512MB of vram. I doubt the card can actually take advantage of it. Could be an expensive marketing gimmick. The 256MB version may be a better purchase for the money. Or you could wait a month or two and see what the new round offers.
(2) 2 gigs of ram may be overkill, depends on the purpose/use of the PC. Also, many with 64bit rigs clain the expensive/low latency ram is a waste. That the cheaper stuff performs just as well since the memory controller is on-die (cpu).

Fern

hes right bout the graphics card,all that extra ram has very little effect when you consider that it is twice the amount as normal, all it realy dose is jack the price WAY up. just go for the 256 card its still an exelent card, you will have no problem with it....and im an nVida man lol!!!

P.S. with the money that you save you can mod your case with led's and fans and all cool visual stuff OR (and id recomend) you can go with a good watercooling kit. this will lower the noise of your system and allow you to overclock in loads!! and you dont have to wory as much about airflow

 

[SLIorCROSSFIRE]

also a 3500+ with a venice core would be more tha enough for gaming or ordinary comp use. plus it is build on 90nm technology instead of 130nm, so it runs alot cooler (bout 9-12 degrese celcius that is)........please forgive the spelling lol

 

[The Godfather]

i thought the san diego was better than the venice?