Opteron 165 System Build Suggestions

[kciwood]

Building a new system based on the Opteron 165 which is on the way. I'm not into overclocking and do overclock a little when I finish a system build. I do CAD and video rendering but no gaming (retired and getting slow on the trigger). Been spending most of my time reading up on the forums and this is what I am considering. I am ready to pull the trigger whenever I feel confident on my selections. I do need your recommendations for Ram and any other suggestions you may have. Here's what I'm looking at.

Opteron 165 (Shipped)
Asus A8N SLI Premium
Sapphire Radeon X800GT02 OEM
Enermax Liberty 500W P.S.
Lian Li PC60A Plus (Shipped)

Thanks in advance for any time you give me.

 

[TSS]

with cad and rendering your definatly going to see a difference in speed with dual core. are you going to OC? else you might aswell go with a X2.

memory doesnt matter much, as long as you get plenty. for CAD work i'd say 2 gigs. but it would be better to go for value ram since you'll probably see no difference with performance ram. save some money

otherwise your setup is nice indeed.