This system good for ati x1900xt

[razaghoul]

getting a new computer asap want the 1900xt is this a good setup ?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ w/ 2x1MB Cache
Asus A8N-E w/ DualDDR400, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, SATA2.0, PCI-E x16
Kingston 1GB PC3200 DDR CAS 3 x2
NZXT Lexa Classic Series Aluminum Chassis
Antec TruePower 2.0 550W EPS12V
Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Drive, Black
Western Digital 250GB Caviar SE16 7200rpm SATA II w/ 16MB Cache
Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA
LG Super Multi DVD Writer 16x16 DVD +/-RW Dual-Layer, Black
LiteOn SHW-160P6S 16x16 DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Drive, Black
ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI-E w/ VIVO, Dual DVI
Samsung SyncMaster 940B 19in Digital LCD w/ DVI, 8ms, Silver-Black
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS

anything i should change i do not want to overclock just WANT a kick @$$ computer for gaming ?

 

[fliguy84]

Looks good to me.

If I were you, I would change the memory for some cas2 rams and the AudigyZS to the new X-Fi Extreme Music.

Well, it's just me

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: razaghoul
getting a new computer asap want the 1900xt is this a good setup ?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ w/ 2x1MB Cache
Asus A8N-E w/ DualDDR400, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, SATA2.0, PCI-E x16
Kingston 1GB PC3200 DDR CAS 3 x2
NZXT Lexa Classic Series Aluminum Chassis
Antec TruePower 2.0 550W EPS12V
Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Drive, Black
Western Digital 250GB Caviar SE16 7200rpm SATA II w/ 16MB Cache
Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA
LG Super Multi DVD Writer 16x16 DVD +/-RW Dual-Layer, Black
LiteOn SHW-160P6S 16x16 DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Drive, Black
ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI-E w/ VIVO, Dual DVI
Samsung SyncMaster 940B 19in Digital LCD w/ DVI, 8ms, Silver-Black
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS

anything i should change i do not want to overclock just WANT a kick @$$ computer for gaming ?

I agree on the X-Fi, you might wanna think about getting an SLI board and still run the single card then you have the option to run SLI later just a thought tho.

 

[razaghoul]

thanks i will get that sound card it looks alot better

and why cas 2 ram ? i am no computer wiz is cas 2 better ?

any other types of ram good (corsair, kingston, ocz, mushkin) alot of this rami can get quick

 

[RussianSensation]

Patriot 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 - 2-3-2-5 = $151

Why 2 DVD writers?
Why 36 gig raptor? To small imo. 74 gig version costs $150 vs. $100 for 36 gig version but you get double the space and its faster. Unless you want to run the operating system on the raptor and the rest on the 250 gig drive, I'd just get 1 drive.

I'd get this PSU instead:
ENERMAX EG651P-VE FM(24P) 550W - $110
1 single 12V rail is better than 2 dual rails.
There was an article not long ago where Antec 550 failed running 2 SLI boards but I cant find it at the moment.

Other than that my only gripe is you getting X2 4800+. Even if I had the $ to afford it, I couldn't get myself to spend 2x over X2 3800+ for minor performance increases. I would compromise and get something like x2 4200/4400+ and save $200+.
CPU benchmarks
Intel's new Conroe cpu 2.66ghz at $530 comes out in 4 months and it will beat A64 X2 2.8ghz 1mb cache by 20%. X2 4800+ is "only" clocked at 2.4ghz which is another 17% slower than 2.8ghz A64. So paying $630 for X2 4800+ suggests it's fairly overpriced to begin with. If anything you could get X2 4200+ and it won't bottleneck the X1900XTX card, later sell these parts and upgrade to Intel platform. Also, don't get X1900XTX unless it's around $500. Otherwise if the price difference between XT and XTX versions is greater than $50, get the X1900XT since the performance difference without overclocking XTX is minor.

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp
I agree on the X-Fi, you might wanna think about getting an SLI board and still run the single card then you have the option to run SLI later just a thought tho.

I'm fairly certain you can't run a pair of X1900XT's in SLI.


Now Crossfire... that's another matter.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Creig

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp
I agree on the X-Fi, you might wanna think about getting an SLI board and still run the single card then you have the option to run SLI later just a thought tho.

I'm fairly certain you can't run a pair of X1900XT's in SLI.


Now Crossfire... that's another matter.

I know he cant run ATI in SLI ( poor way to explain it on my behalf) I was just saying he can have a dual GPU mobo for down the road if he ever decided to do dual GPU's. I just didnt use the Crossfire example since right now its not as solid as SLI if he wanted to consider dual GPU's later.

 

[razaghoul]

THANKS FOR THE INFO !

ANYBODY RUNNING A ATI X1900XT ?

JUST WANT A FAST STABLE COMPUTER SYSTEM NO REAL OVERCLOCKING

 

[LW07]

Drop down to a dual core 4400+ and get a EVGA Geforce 7900GTX Superclocked:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814130280

It comes at 690mhz core and 1760mhz memory, and a stock 7900GTX is 650mhz core and 1600mhz memory and benchmarks are using the stock version and the stock version is equal to the X1900XT and XTX in most cases, so the Superclocked version will be quite a bit faster than a X1900XT. It also runs much cooler than a X1900XT does.

 

[v8envy]

What's the purpose of this rig? If it's just gaming, don't bother with the most expensive dual core CPU you can get. A 3200+ single core will be enough for anything out today, 3500+ to have some insurance and a 3800+ if you're into overkill.

If it's going to be a busy server while you game, go dual core. If not, go look up the CPU scaling in games article xbit labs did. Pretty enlightening -- at 1280x1024 or higher, the frame rate improvements for CPUs faster than a 3200+ are tiny.

Makes sense, really. In real world apps, a 10% difference in CPU clock speed will result in about a 5% performance difference. Much less so for applications bottlenecked by your GPU.

At any rate, get a slower CPU as Russian suggested. You not only get some more power budget for video, but also some $ to work with in your build to replace the antec 550 with a Seasonic or PC Power & Cooling units instead. His lower latency ram suggestion is also a good one.

In fact, his drive suggestions are also good. You'd probably come out ahead getting two 250GB 7200 drives with or without RAID than a 36G 10k drive. Higher density on the 250G means more bits pass under the drive head each revolution, so you should even have a faster read/write (not seek though) rate with the 'slower' drive.

Once again, what's the box used for? If it's a server doing lots of small random seeks, the 36G is a good idea for the temp drive or database logs. If not, the streaming nature of game level/texture loads means you'll get much better performance with 2-4 7200 desktop drives RAIDed.

edit: read the OP more carefully. Downgrade the X1900XTX to a X1900XT, upgrade the ram to CAS2, downgrade the CPU, lose the 36G drive and get 2 300G drives, swap out the 19" lcd for a dell 2405, upgrade sound to X-Fi or keep the onboard, upgrade the PS to a Seasonic, PC Power & Cooling or Zippy/Emacs unit. What on earth do you want a floppy drive for, anyway? Spend that $ on a 16+ meg USB keychain instead.

Same cost, but your gaming and PC building experience should be much better, overall.