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My soon to be rig!!! what you think? room for improvement?

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soulflyfan

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Im gonna build myself a new computer (my 4th to date) after my end of term exams. Ive listed my proposed components below with their prices. can anyone see any room for improvement.

I will be using my computer for gaming, music, video, and surfing the net (512k BB) I may overclock the video card in the future as DX9 becomes more stressful

Case : thermaltake Xaser 3 black with window, hardcano, 8 fans - £71.99

PSU : Levicom 420W ATX PSU - £41.13

CPU : athlon 64 (sock 754) 3200+ 1mb cache - £195.04

Motherboard : MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R - £91.65

RAM - corsair 2x512MB 184Pin DIMM PC3200 DDRRAM Non-Parity CL2.5 - £146.00

Heatsink - thermaltake venus 12 - £16.99

Video card - sapphire radeon 9800 pro 128mb - £169.00

Soundcard - onboard

Speakers - creative inspire p380 2.1 - £29.99

Harddrive - Seagate barracuda 120gb 7200rpm 8mb cache - £62.92
(keeping old 5400 40GB barracudda for backups)

Network - onboard

Optical drives - keeping my phillipps CDRW and generic DVD

Total spend: £830
Keeping Monitor, keyboard and mouse. has anyone had bad experinces with anything above, or any alternatives, bearing in mind id like to keep the budget under £850

PS. i know i posted this last week, but there were no prices, and i have changed a few components

 
Looks pretty good to me. I don't really care for the xaser style but thats personal preference. Might also go for some better speakers but that depends on where you're living and everything. As far as compatability, most of that stuff is widely used and well reviewed so you shouldn't have any problems.

I've never heard of levicom but with psu's you typically pay by weight and 41 pounds isn't cheap...
 
Consolidate the RAM into one module, Athlon 64 does not have a dual channel mem controller. Only Opterons and FXs have that but they also need registered memory 🙂

Otherwise it looks pretty good
 
The thermaltake case is great but you will have problems with the Hardcano 9: it's a wiring nightmare.
 
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