My completed build

[usefulidiot127]

We'll I've been bugging you guys about hardware reccomendations for a while so I thought I'd post up the results.

I went with an AMD 4200+ X2 Am2 processor, the Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, 2 gigs of corsair XMS DDR2 800mhz at 4 cas. Topped it off with a 7600GT, hiper power supply, coolermaster case.

I"m extremely satisifed with the finished product, and it fit perfectly into my budget. The memory, cpu, and motherboard are all beatifully compatible. Well maybe not that beatifully, it did take a little work. The ram was supposed to be 4-4-4-12 but it detected as 5-5-5-18. It wouldn't boot when I changed it to what it was supposed to be. After a bios update and changing the memory voltage to 2.1, its rated voltage, it let me change the settings and booted up just fine.

Other than that hiccup I have had no other problems, no lockups, bsods, instability, or anything.

I'm using the stock cooler and stock thermal interface and she idles right around 40 degrees celsisus, sometimes a little higher.

Thanks for the help in choosing my system!

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Thats as smooth as a roll your own ever is these days. The idea that you can assemble a wide range of parts from different manufs. and boot it up without having to configure the bios and/or update drivers is pure fantasy.

 

[Kakumba]

yup, for the most part I think most builds go that way. Mine went great, and most others do too.

anyways, thats great man, how are you finding the new system?

 

[imported_Sincity]

Congrats! Now go play some games!

 

[imported_wicka]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Thats as smooth as a roll your own ever is these days. The idea that you can assemble a wide range of parts from different manufs. and boot it up without having to configure the bios and/or update drivers is pure fantasy.

Actually I've never had to do that...ever. The most I do in the BIOS after a new build is change the boot priority.

 

[Ayah]

Gogo overclock.
I guess it's simple if you don't really take a good look at it. Alot of "hardcore" forum members will tweak and tweak and tweak EVERYTHING to get performance from the system. I've been there, tweak for performance, tweaking for silence, tweaking for compromise.

 

[imported_wicka]

Originally posted by: Ayah
Gogo overclock.
I guess it's simple if you don't really take a good look at it. Alot of "hardcore" forum members will tweak and tweak and tweak EVERYTHING to get performance from the system. I've been there, tweak for performance, tweaking for silence, tweaking for compromise.

Yes, but what he was saying is that virtually every time he builds a system, it doesn't even boot or run correctly without tweaking, BIOS updates, and driver fixes. I understand there's a lot of stuff to do with overclocking, I used to OC a ton myself, but you don't do that the very first time you start it up. If I built a system, and it didn't run without that much work, I would find something seriously wrong with it.

 

[SunSamurai]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Thats as smooth as a roll your own ever is these days. The idea that you can assemble a wide range of parts from different manufs. and boot it up without having to configure the bios and/or update drivers is pure fantasy.

Or maybe youre just not very good at it. More than not, people around here have smooth installs on newly build systems; its called reserch.