Two Questions

[jgbishop]

I am planning on building a new system, and I've decided on these items:

* Asus A8N5X
* AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
* eVGA GeForce 7900GT
* Seagate Barracuda 120GB SATA 1.5GB/s (2x)

I'm still in need of some memory, and a new power supply. I usually buy memory from Crucial Technologies, although their prices are a little higher than other manufacturers. What memory is recommended for my motherboard? I'd like to go with 2 GB, and the faster, the better.

For the power supply, I've been looking at the Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W Power Supply, which is a little beefier than my current 430W Antec. Does that sound OK? I'm not planning on doing any overclocking ... I just want a reliable PS that runs relatively cool.

 

[Ultralight]

If you are going with Antec go with their True Power 2.0 550Watt psu. I would seriously look into G.Skill or OCZ for alternatives to Corsair, though Corsair is good. NewEgg has been having some great prices on G.Skill. I wish I could afford some of the 2x1 Gig kits being offered! Also, since your not overclocking stay away from the High Performance stuff. You won't see any improvement over the Value RAM since yopu are not overcloking and thus you'll be wasting serious money.

 

[jgbishop]

Thanks for the suggestions. Does anyone have any other thoughts?

 

[Luckyboy1]

Call Joe for your power supply needs. Click the link and no, I don't work for them or get any special consideration.

 

[Bobthelost]

Antec's lines of PSUs are rather crap at the moment, Enermax liberty, seasonic s12, OCZ powerstream, anything by fortron, PCP&C or silverstone would be better.

RAM is pretty much up to you, you may see a 1-3% improvement by getting low latency RAM, but not much more (unless you're overclocking, in which case there is a bit more performance increase, but still not a huge amount).

 

[jgbishop]

Are any particular memory brands recommended? Or are they mostly the same?