Opinions on possible comp setup(I'm new to this)

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Asus K8T800 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket 940 CPU, Model "SK8V" Link

AMD Athlon 64 FX-51, 1MB L2 Cache w/ heatsink/fan

ASUS RADEON 9800XT Video Card, 256MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/VIVO, 8X AGP

ENERMAX EG651P-VE Link

OCZ Enhanced Latency Series Dual Channel Kit 184 Pin 1GB Link

Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive

Western Digital 200GB 7200 RPM IDE w/ 8m buffer(already have this)

Plextor Black 8X DVD-RW/+RW Drive

I know this won't stay cutting edge for long, but what I'm looking for is long term usability. I want to beable to run games on this for a really long time. I don't plan to OC it now; however, as it gets outdated I plan to.

 

[ta2]

This beast wont overclock very much at all. Maybe to 2.4Ghz if you're very lucky.

I would advise either buying an Athlon64 3400+ which is much cheaper and offers basically the same performance. You also dont have to pay a premium for registered modules. With the $300 you save from this you could afford to buy 4 74GB Raptors in place of the 1 and get some very low latency PC3500 modules to overclock in the future.

My two cents...

 

[Zinn2b]

WHAT Ta2 said makes really good sence to me but intel is the only way to go if you want to overclock I here a lot at this forum about the big bad amd cpu with the intel and the money your spending I could and others could build u a system with Mach2 cooling that well blow the doors off your so called state of art pc because if u really want to get into state of the art pc 's thats what it takes raidcomputers.com well build u a system for the same money using mach2 cooling that well blow the doors off what you refer to as state of the art pc's you well have call them on the phone get phone number from there web site your good buddy Zinn2b