Rig ordered, critique this rig

[Lyfer]

Athlon 64 system for school work and some mild gaming.


Rig:

Chaintech VNF3-250 value
Athlon 64 3400 Newcastle RETAIL
Mushkin PC3200 1GB
Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 128mb
SB live auidgy ES PCI
Logitech X-530 5.1 speakers
Seagate SATA-II 120GB HD
Sony 3.5"floppy
Pioneer 108 DVD burner
Liteon DVD-rom
Creative labs 56k modem
Cheming Silver midtower case
Antec TruePower 430


Total= $1154 shipped

 

[jpeyton]

Looks quick. Report back once you've built it, and especially if you're going to overclock it.

 

[MrCodeDude]

I really would have gone Socket 939 considering your $1000 limit.

Other than that, pretty solid choices.

 

[bigal40]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
I really would have gone Socket 939 considering your $1000 limit.

Other than that, pretty solid choices.

:thumbsup:

 

[Spartan Mustang]

For $1154 bucks id say its a pretty good computer. However had it been me and i only had that much to spend i might have only got 512 MB of ram and upgraded the video card and also gotten a socket 939 mobo and CPU. Socket 939 will give you a better upgrade path, and a stroger GPU makes a big difference in games. Plus its always so easy to buy another stick of RAM down the road. Anyways for the price you paid id say youll be happy with what you bought, but maybe 200 more dollars and you would be a lot happer. Good Luck...

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

A few questions:

Why both a DVD burner and read only drive?
Does that mobo even support SATA-II?

Overall pretty good, but I would definitely devote more to the video card as well as go the 939 route as mentioned above.

 

[Andres3605]

i recomend u a n US Robotics modem instead of the creative

 

[jterrell]

Not bad for what u plan to use it on. Suited more for music than gaming.
Get Open Office for your school work. Its FREE!

Prolly a little overkill on the processor but nothing really out of wack there.

I'd give ya a solid 7 and if you overclock then an 8.5

 

[jterrell]

Originally posted by: Dethfrumbelo
A few questions:

Why both a DVD burner and read only drive?
Does that mobo even support SATA-II?

Overall pretty good, but I would definitely devote more to the video card as well as go the 939 route as mentioned above.

On the DVD question thats easy. DVD to DVD copying without going to the hard drive. Now how long it takes him to set up his machine to do that is a different question but if he has a friend or knows how already then its definitely worth the 45 or so bucks.

My guess is the mobo may with a BIOS upgrade or custom BIOS at some point but it doesn't advertise to now.

 

[Lyfer]

Originally posted by: Dethfrumbelo
A few questions:

Why both a DVD burner and read only drive?
Does that mobo even support SATA-II?

Overall pretty good, but I would definitely devote more to the video card as well as go the 939 route as mentioned above.

A. Pioneer is capped at 4x rip speed, and having two allows me to have 2 cd's in (so I won't have to swap).

B. The drive is backwards compatible with SATA-150 boards.