friend needs advice on a new system

[fluxquantum]

hello everyone,

if you don't mind, could you please critique a system that my friend wants to build? thanks.

Antec Sonata Case With 380W Power Supply
ASUS K8V SE Deluxe Motherboard for AMD Socket 754 CPU
AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 1MB L2 Cache
Crucial 512MB DDR PC-3200 Memory (x2)
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT Video Card
Pioneer DVD+RW/-RW Drive Model DVR-108
Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Sound Card
Logitech X-620 6.1 Speakers
Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard
Microsoft Black IntelliMouse Optical Mouse

 

[NJDevil]

why get socket 754 instead of 939?

 

[biostud]

not a very powerfull videocard, a 6600GT would be far better.