gaming rig

[jihoonoi]

please~ i need feedbacks~
suggestion~



part that i have now

monitor- viewsonic vx924
psu- antec neopower 480W
speaker- logitech z-5500



parts that i'm planning on buying

Antec Performance I P180 Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM (do i need buy cable for this?)

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

eVGA 256-P2-N530-AX Geforce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail

Creative 70SB046000001 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface SOUND BLASTER X-Fi Platinum - Retail

Logitech MX518 931352-0403 2-Tone 8 Buttons 1x Wheel USB + PS/2 Optical Mouse - Retail

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory Model OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K - Retail

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4400CDBOX - Retail

Microsoft Windows XP Professional With Service Pack 2 - OEM

Thermaltake CL-P0114 120mm Cooling Fan/Heatsink - Retail

NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: jihoonoi
please~ i need feedbacks~
suggestion~



part that i have now

monitor- viewsonic vx924
psu- antec neopower 480W
speaker- logitech z-5500



parts that i'm planning on buying

Antec Performance I P180 Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM (do i need buy cable for this?)

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

eVGA 256-P2-N530-AX Geforce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail

Creative 70SB046000001 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface SOUND BLASTER X-Fi Platinum - Retail

Logitech MX518 931352-0403 2-Tone 8 Buttons 1x Wheel USB + PS/2 Optical Mouse - Retail

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory Model OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K - Retail

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4400CDBOX - Retail

Microsoft Windows XP Professional With Service Pack 2 - OEM

Thermaltake CL-P0114 120mm Cooling Fan/Heatsink - Retail

NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM

Everything looks great, but are you sure you want Thermaltake as your cooler? Maybe XP-120 with Panaflo highspeed instead or another fan? I don't like TT's rep.

How much is this costing you?

 

[Ike0069]

Looks like you got nearly the best of everything, so it looks excellent.
Only thing I might change is the DVD burner to the BenQ.

 

[jihoonoi]

what is xp-120? and xp 90?
and one more question... i heard that DFI is not for beginner.. is it complicate to work with?

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: jihoonoi
what is xp-120? and xp 90?
and one more question... i heard that DFI is not for beginner.. is it complicate to work with?

They are heatsinks.

Well...DFI was my first build, so....no. I hooked everything up, powered it on and it was flawless, installed drivers and was good to go. I know I was like you because of the rumours.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: jihoonoi
what is xp-120? and xp 90?
and one more question... i heard that DFI is not for beginner.. is it complicate to work with?

they are heatsinks made by thermalright. in a lot of cases the xp90 does better than the xp120 (the 90 and 120 are references to the size fans you can put on them).

as far as dfi, they are nice boards but you can get the same type of performance from the current epox board that is very popular. the main difference is that with a dfi board you can push the memory voltage to 4.0V, which means uber o/c when using ocz vx or mushkin ram than can handle the extreme voltages. imo, dfi is a good brand, but their nf4 series of boards were pretty picky about the ram. i would go msi, epox. the ram you are getting can not handle 4.0V and you would have to pay a lot of $$$ to get the ram that can handle 4.0V in 1GB dimms for not much of a performance increase. i leave dfi for the extreme o/cers.

als, do you really think you will benefit much from the x-fi?

also do a search on here for the p180 case and that psu to make sure the cables are long enough, just so you know when you get everything if you need to order some extensions for the psu.

other than that looks good, and welcome to the forums 😀