Going to order this setup, anything You'd change?

[DDDavey]

Basically, this is just to get it up and running, I'll get some other stuff later. I've already got an Inwin Q-500N case w/a Powerman 300W powersupply, monitor, keyboard, mouse etc.

Mobo: Asus A7N8X Deluxe
CPU: AMD XP 1700+ OEM (T-bredA core)
RAM: 1 x PC-2700 Corsair XMS 256MB (I'll add another stick later to run dual channel)
Heatsink: Thermalright SLK-800 (I'll get a fan locally, screw $6 shipping on a FAN!)
CD-RW: Lite-On 48x24x48x Retail (Only $1 more than OEM)
Hard Drive: Western Digital 80GB Special Edition 7200RPM 8MB Buffer 3 yr warranty
Floppy: Sony
Arctic Silver III or whatever's out now

As for the video card, I'll do some more research on what's out right now, and order that later and pay for it myself. FOr the meanwhile, I'll use my old PCI matrox mystique 220 4 or 8 MB!!!! woohoo! LOL

So, What do you think about that setup? For the RAM, I had read that runnign a PC-3000 or PC-3500 wasn't a good idea....I'll be fine with the PC-2700 right?

 

[loafbred]

That's pretty much exactly what I would get today, but I would buy the fastest rated T-Bred available for under $100, or a 2100+ Palomino.

 

[CubicZirconia]

You can get a 100 gig 7200 rpm 8 meg cache drive for ~$75 bucks at Best Buy tomorrow if you want to save some money (and gain some hdd space).

see hot deals

 

[DDDavey]

Thanks for the info!

Here's something I'm questioning...RAM....the speeds...PC-2700 is good up to I forget what I heard of stability problems with running PC-3200 or something, but can't find it now.

As for the best buy, hell, I don't even know where there is one Thanks though!

 

[Lord Evermore]

PC3200 isn't unstable because it's called PC3200, it's unstable or lower performing in some cases because it's being run at 400MHz and some modules or motherboards can't do that without relaxing the timings (most of the earliest chipsets that unofficially supported 400MHz were like that). Generally you'll get better stability and be able to set more aggressive timings with PC2700 of a reasonable cost than PC3200 of a reasonable cost; being able to use the most aggressive timings at 400MHz requires the very best modules. Since you're planning to use dual-channel anyway, there's no reason to get anything faster than PC2700, since that gives you an "equivalent" bandwidth of 666MHz memory and the Athlon's bus doesn't get much out of having that much more bandwidth (the optimization of latencies is what nForce is all about). Even two modules of PC2100 is more bandwidth than an Athlon needs, so you could get PC2700 and run it at 266MHz with the very fastest timings. There's really no need to put the money into Corsair memory in my opinion; the performance difference is at best a couple of percent with faster timings.

 

[DDDavey]

Thanks for the info guys!

Feel free to add your $.02 in also.

 

[T2OOO]

If i were you i would get the Epox 8RDA+ instead of the A7N8X Delux.

Just becasue they both pretty much come with the same things other than the epox dosent have the dual nic.
I hear the epox overclocks alot more than the asus.

Not saying thats a bad board i would just rather get the epox

I ordered the same board your getting becasue the epox was out of stock for a long time at newegg

the epox board is $132 with free shipping at newegg

 

[Insane3D]

There's really no need to put the money into Corsair memory in my opinion; the performance difference is at best a couple of percent with faster timings.

You've obviously never used an Nforce 2 board with the FSB and the memory both running @ 200mhz, and with agressive timings like CL2, 4-2-2 before. It's a good deal faster than a "few percentage points".

However, everyone is entitled to their opinion...

 

[PCMarine]

Yea I saw that 100 gb 8mb cache HDD deal at bestbuy, I might pick that up it's a great deal. Way under the $1 per gigabyte AND it's 8mb cache!

 

[nick1985]

get mushkin 222 ram instead of mushkin. sure its more expensive, but you get what you pay for

here come the flames for suggesting anything except the almighty corsair.....

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: nick1985
get mushkin 222 ram instead of mushkin. sure its more expensive, but you get what you pay for

here come the flames for suggesting anything except the almighty corsair.....

damn im dumb. it should read

nick1985[/i]
get mushkin 222 ram instead of corsair. sure its more expensive, but you get what you pay for[/quote]

 

[DDDavey]

Originally posted by: nick1985
get mushkin 222 ram instead of mushkin. sure its more expensive, but you get what you pay for

here come the flames for suggesting anything except the almighty corsair.....

No flames here. I've just read good results about the Corsair XMS. Do you have any reasoning/things to back up your statement on the Mushkin? Or just personal preference? I've got a 512MB stick of PC-133 just laying here I need to ebay that hoe LOL