I need help with my conf.

[air3d44]

Hi,

I need a small help with this configuration from Ibuypower.com


Raidmax X-1 ATX Mid-tower Case w/420W Power Supply

Enermax EG565P 535 Watt Power Supply [SLI-Ready]

939-pin] AMD® Athlon-64 X2 4400+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology

Asus A8N-SLI Premium nForce4-SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Dual Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, Dual PCI-E MB

2048 MB [1024MB X2] DDR-400 PC3200 Memory Module Corsair XMS PRO w/ Heat Spreader & LED Lights

vidia Geforce 7800GT
[S-ATA150] Maxtor 300 GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache Hard Drive

MS Windows XP Professional Edition w/Service Pack-2

They want $ 1,880.00 for it. So what do you think? Is it worth buying or it would be better to buy single components and built it by myself(I can do it).

I am a little bit concern about RAM. I saw on this board that corsar RAM has problem with ASUS Mobos.
Another option for RAM they have is :

Corsair-Value or Major Brand [- $123]
Corsair XMS w/ Heat Spreader [- $12]
Corsair XMS PRO w/ Heat Spreader & LED Lights
Kingston Hyper-X w/ Heat Spreader [+ $237]


Well, thank you for any suggestion and appreciate your time.

Carl

 

[thescreensavers]

and a antec trupower 400+ watt or antec smartpower 400watt+ power suply dont get the one that comes with it. THat one could burn out and or ruin all the parts in your comp

 

[air3d44]

Well, I want to buy extra Enermax EG565P 535 Watt Power Supply [SLI-Ready] .
So waht do you think about the rest?

Thanks for reply.

Carl

 

[humanure]

i just built a very similiar system using corsair RAM and had no problems. computer posted first time, no crashes at all. also, build it yourself if you can, should save about $200 by my quick estimate if you get eveything on line.

my system- ASUS A8N-sli premium
pc power&cooling 510-sli ps
2GB corsair twinx2048-c2
evga 7800 gtx
wd 250 GB hd
plextor 740a, sony dvd rom
windows xp pro sp2
amd x2 4400+
antec sonata 2 case

 

[air3d44]

Did you use newegg?

 

[air3d44]

Thanks a lot humanure. How do you like yours?

Carl

 

[air3d44]

Anyone else having any suggestions for this setup?

Thanks

Carl

 

[halw]

Buy a case w/o PSU and get a top quality power supply. May cost a bit more to start but will, no doubt, save in the long run.

 

[air3d44]

Thanks for response.....I am going to buy second PSU Enermax EG565P 535 Watt Power Supply [SLI-Ready] . I hope it is going to be enough for it.

 

[halw]

What I'm saying is, you may be able to save a couple of bucks by getting a different case sans PSU and simply drop the Enermax in it to start with. That is, unless you simply can not live without that case. At which point, just do it.

 

[air3d44]

Thanks.

Carl

 

[alimoalem]

u should save a few hundred building it yourself. you can get your ram of choice that way too instead of spending $237 more for Kingston

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

You'll be able to save a lot of money by building this yourself. Something like this:

CPU - Opteron 165 - $315
Motherboard - EPoX 9npA+ Ultra - $105
RAM - 2x1GB Corsair ValueSelect - $150
Video Card - eVGA 7800GT - $310
Case - Antec P180 (Raidmax is crap) - $100
PSU - Seasonic S12-500 - $120
OS - Windows XP Professional - $160

Total - $1260

This gives you the satisfaction of building it yourself. It's also better than that ibuypower setup, using a Seasonic S12-500, eVGA graphics card (with lifetime warrenty that covers overclocking), and saves about $600. SLI is useless anyways unless you want 2 SLI'd 7800GTX's, which you're obviously not going for, so the EPoX mobo will be just fine.

*EDIT*
Oh whoops, I forgot hard drive. That'll cost another ~$150. Total cost will still be only about $1400, and it'll use better quality parts.

 

[air3d44]

Thanks t3h l337 n3wb,

I want to go with AMD X2 and ASUS Mobo since I want to do some video editing. Thanks anyway for your post.

Carl

 

[Cinna696]

built it yourself, you'll save alot of cash

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

Build it yourself, or get an HP/Compaq. Ibuypower is ridiculously overpriced.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

The Opteron 165 is dual core. It's the exact same as a 4400+ except that's its downclocked a bit. However, it overclocks better, so it's an excellent choice, especially for the price.

 

[humanure]

air- my systems been running great, and i did use newegg and zipzoomfly for parts, saved a bunch by building it myself. did you take the plunge?