Rebuilt my A64 3700+ Rev.E over the weekend lots of joys

[mcjimbo]

Well guys its finally together and working. I haven't built a PC since my Athlon 1 GHZ, and a lot has changed.

My mobo was a MSI Platinum Neo4, and my case a Tsunami Dream. Got mostly everything hooked up apart from the top IEEE1394(Firwire) port and the top audio connections... I couldn't find a way to hook them all up.

Problems I encountered was not plugging in the 4 pin power connector next to the CPU, this took me a while to figure out, I thought my CPU was faulty. Apart from that I was really happy with the way it all went.

Loaded Windows XP then SP2, all is ok. She runs great, and benched 4975 in 3D Mark 2005 with the latest drivers. I bought from Monarch so I got HL2 which i've been playing all weekend, great game! Anyone else got a similar system? I haven't tried overclocking yet.

Here are the final specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 90nm Rev.E San Diego 2200MHz
Motherboard: MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum
Memory: 1024 MB of Corsair PC-3200 DDR
Video Card: ATI X800XL PCI Express 256MB GDDR3 ATI Radeon
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA w/8MB buffer 250.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS
Monitor: Viewsonic 17" CRT (soon to be updated 19" LCD)
DVD R/W: NEC 16X Double Layer DVD±RW Drive (ND-3520A BK)
Sound Card: Onboard Audio: RealTek ALC850 7.1 ch
OS: Windowx XP SP2
CASE: Thermaltake VA3000 Dream Tower Black VA3000BWA ATX Case with Transparent X type side panel window
PSU: X-Connect 500W ATX PS w/2 80mm Fans - Black
FLOPPY: Mitsumi Floppy 8-in-1 USB Card Reader/Smart Media Internal Drive (Black)
NETWORK: NETGEAR 54Mbps Wireless PCI Ethernet Adapter with Speedbooster

 

[biostud]

nice setup

 

[MobiusPizza]

Congrads

 

[CreativeTom]

Wow great setup!!! was looking along the same specs for my next rig...very impressive.

 

[knothead34]

ive seen lots with problems with that psu. nice build not a power supply i would of chosen but nice none the less.

 

[CreativeTom]

Originally posted by: knothead34
ive seen lots with problems with that psu. nice build not a power supply i would of chosen but nice none the less.

Yeah the xconnects are more about looks then anything else....I think it should be ok if you don't overclock with it though....I have to agree though the PSU is overpriced crap with nice glowing LCD's in it.

 

[theMan]

if you run into any problems, especially when overclocking, sell that psu, and get a good quality one like, seasonic, ocz, fortron source, xclio, or somehting.