New computer build

[Kodiak31415]

I am building a new computer thank to UPS who managed to damage mine while It was bieng shipped (lucky me I purchased insurance because I REALLY couldn't afford this right now). All I need is a new core system (don't need moniter keyboard ect ect.) and this is going to be used for gaming/college

I decided to go with an socket AM2 board and a X2 4200+. I know conroe is just around the corner but I refuse buy an Intel product (Even if it is cheaper and faster). Here's what I came up with so far:

ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Windsor 2000MHz HT Socket AM2

ASUS EN7950GX2 Geforce 7950GX2 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express x16

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (I use an external for most of my media storage)

Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply - Retail

And a nice $200 Lian Li case

Now thoes of you who are observant may notice something fairly important missing from this. I have no clue at all as to what to get as far as memory is concerned. I have about $300 USD left to burn on this build and hope to have a little left over. So any suggestions on the memory would be really nice. If anyone has any comments on this build, tips, suggestions, coments on how much of an idiot I am go ahead and post em here. Thanks

Please forgive all bad spelling in this post.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Kodiak31415
I decided to go with an socket AM2 board and a X2 4200+. I know conroe is just around the corner but I refuse buy an Intel product (Even if it is cheaper and faster).

:laugh:

I stopped reading right there.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Some people are willing to reward a company for being second-rate instead of rewarding excellence.

A lot of fools purchased a P4 lous-E processor because they "refuse buy an AMD product (Even if it is cheaper and faster). "

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Whoa. I'm pretty much anti-fanboy myself but, at least Kodiak31415 declared himself. As to the question on memory, do you plan on OCing? Just curious but what was the actual value of the rig your replacing? --begins scheming--

 

[Howard]

I cannot help you.

EDIT: Actually, I don't want to, but that's basically the same thing as far as you're concerned.

 

[Kodiak31415]

Somehow I knew that my Anti-Intel ways would get me in trouble here. I have personal reasons for disliking Intel as a company. It's not that I'm an AMD "fanboy" its just that they're the only real alternative to Intel. I know in my mind that passing up a faster cheaper CPU is really dumb, but it's not going to be enough to change what I buy. Back when I followed all this stuff I still had the same opinion about Intel but would reccomend them to people if it was the right choice for them.

I'm not sure about OC'ing the system as last year I fried a mobo 2 days before a major english paper was due and spent an entire weekend running around like a chicken with its head cut off looking for someone that could get data off a Sata hard drive.

I am still doing my homework and am mostly trolling here for ideas as to what I should get. The budget is $1900 + whatever I feel I can spend out of my normal paycheck.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

If not OCing then any namebrand DDR2-800 ought to work. I'm partial to OCZ, Corsair, Mushkin, and Geil