New AMD System Advice

[jpacelli]

I?ve building a new pc to replace my old one. My budget is $2000. Here is what I?m looking to purchase so far.

Thermaltake Xaser III V2000A
Thermaltake 480W PSU
ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe
AMD 2500+ Barton
Thermaltake Volcano 11+ Xaser Edition
ASUS V9950 Ultra FX 5900 256mb
Corsair Twin XMS 512mb PC3200 (2x256)
Maxtor 120Gb ATA133 8mb cache
Lite-On 16x DVD
Lite-On 52x-32x-52x CD-RW
Round Cables
Red light
Viewsonic E90F+SB 19? CRT
Logitech Duo MX Cordless
Logitech Z-680 THX Speakers
Windows XP Pro

I plan to OC this system and wanted to know of any changes I should make.
Fans, Case, PSU, etc?

Joe

 

[DivideBYZero]

Yeah. Ditch the 5900 and get a 9800P.

 

[pspada]

Asus Asux.

 

[Kenny1234]

I would get the nf7/nf7-s if you want to do a lot of overclocking and a better heatsink like a slk-900.

 

[Boonesmi]

looks very nice

but personally i would go with a nice and quiet seagate Sata 160gb (7200rpm, 8mb cache) drive

 

[MDE]

Thermaltake is loud crap. That means crap that happens to be loud. I'd go for a less ugly Antec\Chieftec case, Antec PSU, and a Thermalright heatsink with your fan of choice.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
Thermaltake is loud crap. That means crap that happens to be loud. I'd go for a less ugly Antec\Chieftec case, Antec PSU, and a Thermalright heatsink with your fan of choice.

 

[Jeff7181]

Thermaltake is loud crap. That means crap that happens to be loud.

So... Thermaltake is kinda like a wet fart?

 

[Duvie]

As a person who has given thermaltake products a try, I can say I have usually found them to be crap.....You seem to have some sort of love affair with them!!!

 

[Jeff7181]

Ok, seriously now...

My Thermaltake GF4 cooler is working great... had to replace the one on my Asus GF4... it pooped out for no apparent reason... but the Thermaltake comes with RAMsinks and the whole bit. It's not loud like some people are saying... so maybe they do make SOME quality parts... but I'd stay away from their CPU heatsink/fan combos.

 

[MDE]

My Thermaltake GF4 Cooler (the copper one) is loud. So loud that I had to rig up a bent PCI bracket to put a case fan on the heatsink so I could take that little sucker off. That experience just confirms for me what I've heard all along.

 

[VisableAssassin]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
My Thermaltake GF4 Cooler (the copper one) is loud. So loud that I had to rig up a bent PCI bracket to put a case fan on the heatsink so I could take that little sucker off. That experience just confirms for me what I've heard all along.

mine wasnt ever loud.
however i did end up just swapping out the thermaltake fan in the GF4 cooler and put in its place the stock clear bladed albatron fan from my stock albatron cooler.......worked out great the only reason i did it was so i oculd use the onboard power header.....i was too lazy to solder on the two pin connector......took less time to just unscrew and re-screw three screws....you get the point
but i have ditched that and bolted an alpha pal 6035 to the damn core and it runs cooler and got 15mhz more outta the core not bad for a $20 investment and about 3 minutes on a drill press and a tap and die set LOL

 

[11427]

I'd also suggest a SATA HDD, and maybe a Lite-On DVD+R/DVD+RW/DVD-ROM/CD-R/CD-RW/CD-ROM combo.

 

[robcy]

Not a big fan of the Thermaltake Xaser III V2000A while probably a great case, it just looks to much like a 70's stainless steel suitcase for my taste. If you are a die hard Thermaltake fan then I would suggest you add these (http://www.thermaltake.com/products/KeyBM/1stedition/a1806silver.htm), they will match your suitcase, sorry computer case. Also one of these (http://www.thermaltake.com/products/accessories/xbag.htm) they will make it easier to travel, sorry I mean go to Lan Parties with .

 

[robcy]

Originally posted by: robcy
Not a big fan of the Thermaltake Xaser III V2000A while probably a great case, it just looks to much like a 70's stainless steel suitcase for my taste. If you are a die hard Thermaltake fan then I would suggest you add these (http://www.thermaltake.com/products/KeyBM/1stedition/a1806silver.htm), they will match your suitcase, sorry computer case. Also one of these (http://www.thermaltake.com/products/accessories/xbag.htm) they will make it easier to travel, sorry I mean go to Lan Parties with .

Sorry, forgot to add that everything else looks great, and should overclock nicely.

 

[scrapz]

budget of 2000?? thats alot of money heres what I suggest
Antec Sonata
Antec True 480W PSU
Abit NF7-S Ver 2.0
AMD 2500+ Barton
ATI 9800 PRO
Corsair Twin XMS 512mb PC3500 512 or 1 gig whatever u like
2x 80Gb 8mb cache in RAID
Invest in some watercooling gear. If you dont want to custom it get a Exos

 

[een]

I really like vantec aeroflow hsf because it's a very good price and pretty quiet and is actually smaller than the actual athlon hsf....

very nice cooling as well.... much quiter thatn volcanos