MY AMD System is COMPLETE!!!! Or is it?

[Village00idiot]

For weeks now I have been using these forums and others as well of reading seemingky thousands of hardware reviews. And now I think it is time to order.

Motherboard: Epox 8K7A
CPU: AMD tbird 1.33 with normal stepping
CPU heatsink: Thermalright SK6
CPU Fan: ThermalTake 31CFM 28dB Fan
Case: Antec SX840 (2 standard exhaust fans)
Power Supply: Enermax 431W Whisper
Additional Case Fans: 2 Panaflow 39.6 CFM @ 32dB
Memory: Crucial PC2100 cas 2.5
Hard Drive: IBM 40gb 7200rpm
Video Card: MSI GeForce 2 Pro 64mb Tv-out
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Live X-Gamer 5.1
CD-RW: LiteOn 12x10x32
Floppy: Mitsumi Standard
Zip: Iomega 100mb (by NEC)
Modem: US robotics 56k v.90 sportster PCI

I am going to be running all of this stuff on windows ME.

Anybody see any major flaws? Missing anything?

Couple of questions:

1. How do I go about getting all of these fans hooked up? The epox has 4 fan headers on it. 1 for the CPU fan I got that. 1 for the standard shipset cooler on the mobo. This leaves 2 headers for the case fans. I have four. I'm sure this is a stupid question but how else do you hook the fans up? The two panaflows I am buying are from
here and it says they do not come with molex connecters. do I need these connecters to hook up the fans? Or is there some other way?

2. This is a link to my crucial ram options. I want the 256 stick of PC2100. But there are two of those. One says 32x64 while the other says 32x72 with ECC. What does this mean? and which one is better?

Any info or advice you guys can give me I would appreciate A LOT! So please help an idiot out.

 

[Glow]

whats a modem? didnt they use those things in like the 80s?

 

[Glow]

ECC is registered RAM i think, I am not sure about which motherboard you have, but if it is not a server, then I am pretty sure you want non-registered RAM.

 

[Village00idiot]

cool thanks

 

[randomlinh]

flaw one: winME

you can get 3pin->4pin molex adapters. and then get 4 pin pass through connectors so you can just daisy chain your fans. I personally wouldn't run more than the cpu+chipset fan off the mobo, but thats me.

ECC is mainly for servers... you don't need it.

 

[Village00idiot]

So you just get all these molex adapters and connecters and hook them straight into the PS?

(sorry for the most probably dumb question)

 

[NightTrain]

I wouldn't run the CPU cooler fan off the mobo either. Alot of coolers come with 4 pin connectors nowadays anyway and they suck alot of juice...too much to risk on a motherboard header.

 

[gogeeta13]

the Tt doesNOT kick out 31 cfm of air, it does more like 26. But you should be fine, also the Tt fan works fine off a header.

DO NOT use me, it is just plain bad. Do NOT get a soundblaster, too much pain in ass with via southbridge. get the XP instead.

Can you wait any longer? I would wait till nforce if I was you..

 

[heffe734]

You got such a nice system and you're going to throw that miserable thing called "ME" in there...go 2k.

 

[Village00idiot]

I guess I'll go out of my way and get Win2k (Which was really the best choice all along anyway, I was just trying to justify my purchase of ME by running it on my new PC).

As for the fans hows this:

I use the mobo header for the thermaltake fan (is supposed to run low voltages makingh it plenty safe for the header. Then I go over to KD and in the case fan section get the 2 panaflows I wanted then get the two 4 pin molex connectors and connect the fans into the PSU? or buy the fans and the connectors and then get the adapters for them. Also should the antec stocks already come with the proper connectors and I just pop them in the PSU?

I am kinda confused and definitely the village idiot here so can someone please take me through this step by step. I would appreciate a lot!

 

[Ben50]

The stock fans in an Antec SX840 hook directly to the power supply. You don't need to buy anything extra for them.

Are you planning on overclocking? If you aren't, you won't even need the extra two panaflo's. I have an SX840 that I bought from KD Computers and the two stock fans along with the Power supply fan and cpu fan/heatsink are enough to keep my case temp around 40C which is well within specs. Even if you do want to overclock, you will still be able to although it might be a few mhz less.

 

[SWScorch]

thats a very nice video card you're ordering. I should know; mine just arrived four days ago It overclocks veeery nicely, I might add.