New PC setup, any advice?

imported_Briggs

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Hi, I am just about to purchase a new system for gaming and was wondering if the following setup would be ok and if there are any recommendations if I need to change something

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail - £158.57
Gigabyte K8NF-9 nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard - £82.19
GeIL 512MB PC3200 Ultra-X CAS2 - £93.94
Zalman CNPS7700-CU Ultra-Quiet CPU Cooler - Retail - £34.66
OcUK ATI Radeon X800 XT 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM - £317.19
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 NCQ 80GB SATA 8MB Cache - OEM - £44.36
Antec Sonata Piano Black Quiet Case - 380W TruePower Silent PSU - £82.19
Philips 109E50 19 FST 0.25 92khz - £119
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 4.0A - £14.45
Logitech Internet Keyboard - £7.52

Total = 954.07

The components are going to be bought from overclockers.co.uk except from the monitor which is from ebuyer.co.uk. I already have a CD-RW and DVD-RW so my total budget is around 980GBP which equates to about $1830. I was wondering if the PSU in the Sonata would be enough to handle all the components, I know Antect PSU's are well built and supply clean power but I don't know if the 380w would cut it, and also since this is the first time I have put a system together myself would anything else be required such as cables etc for the OEM Graphics Card and Hard Drive.

Thanks for any advice you can give me.
 

Rip the Jacker

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Corsair / Crucial / Mushkin instead of GEIL Ram.

Zalman CNPS7000A AlCu i think weighs less than 7700?

6800GT over X800XT

Nec/Mitsubishi/Samsung over Philips

Rest looks fine.
 

ts3433

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Get a gig of RAM. This makes games much smoother because they don't have to swap to the hard drive as much. Ditch the CL2 stuff you have now (not worth it, even for overclocking--see the stickied 939 Memory Matrix in the CPU/OC forum) and maybe even downgrade to an X800 Pro or 6800 GT (if you have to to get this), then pick up two 512MB sticks of CL2.5 value PC3200 from Corsair/Mushkin.

Make sure the Zalman 7700 fits on your motherboard--it's very big. If it doesn't, try the 7000.

The Sonata PSU should handle that fine.
 

Gothgar

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looks good, but you should be able to find a 120 gig hard drive for only a few bucks more, maybe 10 or 15.

and what ItmPls said too :p

also, what are you using is for? are you planning on overclocking? any other "plans" for the PC?
 

Rike

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I'd say everything look good, but I'd try to find room an extra 512 worth of RAM. It would be worth it to get 1 gig with a bit looser timings.

The Antec PSU will be fine. No problem.

Your mobo will come with the cables you need for your hard drive. The only thing you might need is a power cable adapter for the vid card. I believe their is a new 6pin (2x3) power socket for PCIe that takes two 4-pin molex conectors and combines them. I'd double check on that before you buy anything.

Other than that, your in great shape.