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pcman83

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Well my Dad wanted to spend his tax return on a new build. I beat dells xps price very easily, but I wanted your guys input. Everything but one box has arrived and will be here tomorrow. I blame neweggs search because I should have got a p5nd2-sli with a gtx and ddr 667 memory it would have only been like $70 more. If u use neweggs search, and search for asus boards with socket 775 and firewire the p5wd2 is the only one that comes up.

He will be using it for AOE3 and other RTS games.

This should still be a fast system

ASUS P5WD2 Premium Socket T Motherboard
Intel Pentium D 930 Presler 800MHz Processor
OCZ Gold 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3250824AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
LITE-ON Black ATAPI/E-IDE DVD Burner Model SHW-160P6S
eVGA 256-P2-N516 Geforce 7800GT CO SE 256MB GDDR3
Antec Performance I P180 Silver Case
COOLMAX CP-500T EPS12V 500W Active PFC Power Supply

I'm worried about the power supply. I read the p5wd2 manuel and it says the psu has to have 16amps rms 22peak on the 12v2 rail. This says 18a on neweggs site so it should be fine. In the manuel they reccomend the asus a-45ga psu and it only has one 12v rail that has 14a.

Let me know if you think this will turn out alright. Hopefully he can play AOE at high settings at 1280x1024.

Thanks guys.
 
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pcman83

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It had pfc and was a good price. Also my dad kind of did it on the spir of the moment. Has anyone had any experience with coolmaxs? I built some PC's with them and havent had any issues. It also did not have any bad reviews.
 
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pcman83

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all im asking is if you think it will work alright together. Why what would you guys change?
 
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i love these threads. i hope you aren't looking for reassurance after already receiving your parts.
 
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pcman83

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Originally posted by: drum
i love these threads. i hope you aren't looking for reassurance after already receiving your parts.
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Ya kind of cause i dont want my dad to look at his son that has worked at a computer shop for two years and see that his computer doesnt boot or something. I'm sorry that I didnt post it guys. The PSU doesnt have any bad reviews. I bet it will work fine, I'll find out tomorrow. I'm real nervous :(.
 
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He will be using it for AOE3 and other RTS games.
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AMD would of been a much better choice. Especially since you went with a dual-core. AMD's dual-cores beat Intel in pretty much everything. This includes a/v encoding which Intel single cores have a lead over AMD when it comes to single core. the X2 3800+ is slightly cheaper then that Intel and it would of performed a lot better.

You wasted your money on the RAM. You can pick up 2GB for that price. $189 for a motherboard? WTF?

The hard drive, DVD burner, video card and case are good choices, but not the other ones. The PSU is fine, but there are better alternatives.
 
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For a start you need more RAM, much more.

Secondly for gaming A64s are better performing and better value and while the 9XX serries isn't bad it's only really good in comparison when overclocked to hell and back, or for some number crunching apps.

The PSU is not a brand i recognise, although i got told off for slagging off ultra unfairly a while back so i'll just shrug

*shrug*

It's not that bad, but it could have been better.
 
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Originally posted by: KoolDrew
He will be using it for AOE3 and other RTS games.
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AMD would of been a much better choice. Especially since you went with a dual-core. AMD's dual-cores beat Intel in pretty much everything. This includes a/v encoding which Intel single cores have a lead over AMD when it comes to single core. the X2 3800+ is slightly cheaper then that Intel and it would of performed a lot better.

You wasted your money on the RAM. You can pick up 2GB for that price. $189 for a motherboard? WTF?

The hard drive, DVD burner, video card and case are good choices, but not the other ones. The PSU is fine, but there are better alternatives.
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I agree.

I wouldn't worry about it too much, though one lesson I learned is to not trust newegg reviews, they are very misleading and they are rumored to be actual newegg employee reviews and that they block the bad ones(they didn't post one of my 2 star reviews)

If it were my build, I would have gotten a stick of cheaper 1GB(high performance is only for high overclocking and the performance is not worth the cost), AMD, cheaper case and mobo, and a Fortron PSU.
 
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pcman83

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Well guys when your dad says hey can you beat that XPS system for dell. The FIRST THING I SAID WAS AMD IS FASTER He said apples for apples, I want intel! Does Dell offer amd he asked. I said no, so he said apples for apples. Thats why I went with the 930 Intel. Also about the ram thats the cheapest DDR 800 THAT NEWEGG HAS!
 
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pcman83

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Originally posted by: KoolDrew
Also about the ram thats the cheapest DDR 800 THAT NEWEGG HAS!
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Well, if you went AMD you could've bought 2GB DDR for that price. :p
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You guys have to understand, my dad is swayed by the media I guess. He thinks intels the best. Its his money. You guys think the 7800gt will handle aoe 3 fine?
 
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KoolDrew

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Also, what do you need DDR800 for? Wouldn't PC2 4200 be fine? It is definitely much cheaper.
 
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Well if u look on newegg it says DDR2 800 is the standard of that board. So thats why I got it. I did have some 667 picked but I saw that and was like ******.. Also Im real pissed about neweggs search I was misleaded ya know. The p5nd2-sli has firewire it should pick that up but it doesnt. I dare you to search using the advanced. Pick amd, 775 socket, and ie1394 and bam p5wd2 is right in your face!
 
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That motherboard can't run DDR2 @ 800 speeds unless you're overclocking it. Intel hasn't brought out a chip/chipset that can run DDR2 @ 800 speed as of yet, it's going to appear around the same time AM2 does.

That's another thing we'd have changed.
 
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Originally posted by: pcman83
Originally posted by: KoolDrew
Also about the ram thats the cheapest DDR 800 THAT NEWEGG HAS!
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Well, if you went AMD you could've bought 2GB DDR for that price. :p
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You guys have to understand, my dad is swayed by the media I guess. He thinks intels the best. Its his money. You guys think the 7800gt will handle aoe 3 fine?
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well thats unfortunate for him then. Your system should run ok but he could have done better if he had been a little more open minded.
that 7800 gt will handle whatever he throws at it
 
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pcman83

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Hey guys just wanted to let you know everything worked without a hitch. Runs great. Pretty fast scored like 16200 in 3dmark03. Didnt have any trouble. The case is quiet.
 
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pcman83

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works fine dude. My dad has the money so if it blows down the road we will get another brand.
 
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Originally posted by: pcman83
works fine dude. My dad has the money so if it blows down the road we will get another brand.
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a bad PSU may bring more things down than you can imagine.
 
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