Yay, I finally ordered my $2k PC

[OmniShinzui]

So, I just ordered all the parts for my first home-build rig, and I couldnt be more excited. Things have gotton in the way since October, and its been put off by a month, every month, for almost 6 months. I ordered everything from Newegg, Monarch, Amazon, and when I tried to order from ZipZoomFly, Visa froze froze the account till we called (overwith now tho). Anyways, These are the parts I got:

Case: Antec P180
PSU: Antec SmartPower 2.0 500watt
Motherboard: DFI LanParty UT NForce4-Ultra D ATX
Processor: AMD X2 4400+
RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 2GB PC3200
Hard Drive: Western Digital Raptor 74GB
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 300GB SATA3.0gb 16mb Cache
*Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 160GB IDE ATA/100
Video Card: eVGA 7900GT 256bit
Sound Card: Creative Labs X-Fi Platinum
DVD Drive: NEC 16x DVD Burner
*DVD Drive: Forget Brand 4x DVD Burner
Floppy: Samsung Floppy
Keyboard: Saitek Gamer's Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech G7 Wireless (Wired Keyboard = Ok; Wired Mice = Not IMO)
Speakers: Logitech Z-5500**
Monitor: Dell 2005FPW 20.1 LCD**
*OS: Windows XP Professional
* = Already Own
** = Not part of money limit / Not ordered yet

Oh, and note Im getting Artic Silver 5 Thermalgrease, Artic Liquid Remover, Anti-Static Wrist Strap, and Magnetic Phillips Screwdriver at Fry's Sunday too. This is an upgrade from my old eMachines T2682 which has:
2.6GHz Celeron | 200w PSU | Mini-ATX Intel Mobo | 256mb Ram (512mb recently) | Realtek AC'97 Integrated Sound | Intel Extreme Graphics 2 64bit Integrated Video | 160GB ATA/100 HD | WinXP Home | Logitech Wireless MxDuo (Mx700 mouse/Elite Duo) | eView 17f2 17" CRT (15.7" Viewable) |

This is a big step up for me, and im really excited to build my first rig (prolly by friday). I will post pictures when finished, cause people seem to like that kind of stuff.

 

[DJJ]

Nice setup

Good luck with the build...Incredibly satisfying when it is all done & up & running..

 

[JDrake]

Nice setup
Hope all goes well when you finally start putting it together
editted because my post was too much like the person above me's

 

[Smartazz]

Those speakers are insane, I love them, overall sweet system, planning on doing SLI?

 

[n7]

Now i've seen everything...value RAM with a Raptor :laugh:

Nah, overall, good looking setup, good luck

 

[OmniShinzui]

Not in the near future. Im sure i'll be fine. Plus, Dx10 cards should be winter time anyways (Is it still not backwards compatible with Dx9 and before like said about 8mo ago?)

edit: to Smartazz

 

[orion23]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145575

If it's not too late, get this RAM instead!

 

[OSX]

No SCSI?

 

[OmniShinzui]

orion, too late. Whats wrong with Kingston? I do see the timings are great on the XMS tho...

OSX, uh...? Sorry to ask, but what is it? Is it 100% Necessary?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: OmniShinzui
orion, too late. Whats wrong with Kingston? I do see the timings are great on the XMS tho...

OSX, uh...? Sorry to ask, but what is it? Is it 100% Necessary?

Timings don't really matter much unless you're overclocking. SCSI isn't really necessary since you have a Raptor. Ignore the haters and enjoy your system

 

[LOUISSSSS]

kingston is not recommended with dfi, i had the same ram in 2 x 512 3-3-3-8. run memtest from the dfi bios and you'll see. also try to run super-pi and prime95 torture test. if it works then thats good but if its not too late rma for something else

 

[ProviaFan]

Nice system, you'll enjoy it. :thumbsup:

 

[orion23]

Nothing wrong with Kingston IMO. I just thought the RAM from Newegg was a great deal!

 

[Megatomic]

Very nice computer man.

 

[atybimf]

Looks great .

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: orion23
Nothing wrong with Kingston IMO. I just thought the RAM from Newegg was a great deal!

you obviously dont own a dfi board and dont know that kingston is highly NOT recommended with dfi

 

[Tig Ol Bitties]

Value RAM mixed with DFI boards = caca. I've used valued corsairs with my DFI SLi-DR and sure you'll get a post, but the performance seems to lag on these boards. Get some OCZs PC3200 or PC4000 Gold or Platinums, look it up at newegg. OCZs and DFI work like butter. For spending so much on a PC, its strange to see you go go so cheapo on the RAM. Check dfi-street.com for more recommendations and for help when you start your build, ur probably gonna need it, DFI boards can be troublesome, but great once you get it going. BTW, even dfi-street doesnt recommend value stuff for their boards.

That Xi-Fi Platinum is a bit overkill, the normal Xi-Fi would've been more than enough, everything else above is not worth it, especially Fatal1ty :roll: Everything in your setup looks great though, you're gonna be blown away im sure.

 

[JEDIYoda]

do people read these threads......

for example......
the OP said he ordered finally...then we get somebody doing this....http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145575

If it's not too late, get this RAM instead!


lolol...

On a more serious note.....
Nice set up!! I hope you are happy!!

 

[Zebo]

What you got now will scream..



hope you got good ear phones...


Sounds to me like you're interested in quiet with P180 therefore I'd like to recommend products more suited to that end it's not too late to change.

1. Seagates are horrible of late, performing a proceedure called "off line scan" which makes drive vibrate and make a buzzing noise you can google it if you'd like specifics but needless to say it's very annoying. Therefore I'd recommend samsungs, 250 MB verisons. Very quiet.

2. Antec Smart power is loud compared to Seasonic S12 series which you can't even hear - then the quality is far superior - using japanese capacitors and a very well thought HS.

3. DFI has a loud chipset fan. I'd recommend the passive design in the 580 Asus.

4. Asus will make or has already made I forget a passivly cooled 7900GT for no noise.

 

[OmniShinzui]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I never knew Kingston had a bad time with DFI. I think I might contact ZZF to change the ram since they are still "Processing" my order (I hope they let me lol), so reccomend me 2GB Ram pack thats not over $175

 

[sniperruff]

you may want to leave out the dvd-rom. older parts on an IDE channel may make the other IDE device slower.

 

[sumyungai]

If you could actually exchange the Kingston, I would recommend OCZ, specifically in the gold series. I had to learn the hard way and now I have some value RAM laying around.

 

[orion23]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
do people read these threads......

for example......
the OP said he ordered finally...then we get somebody doing this....http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145575

If it's not too late, get this RAM instead!


lolol...

On a more serious note.....
Nice set up!! I hope you are happy!!

The guys just ordered his parts today which means he has a chance to change it around if he needs to. He is probably paying more for that value RAM than what he would pay if he ordered the one on sale. What's wrong with that?
Others want him to change the RAM as well.

 

[OmniShinzui]

I emailed ZipZoomFly and asked them kindly to change part of my order, the ram, from Kingston to Corsair XMS 2GB Dual-Channel (roughly same price). I know Newegg had that MiR, but I hate those anyways. Its still processing anyways, and hope they change it and just make me pay the difference. Everyone kept saying you can get cheap ram, so I assumed it was ok. I've mentioned the parts multiple times (once here, other times on other boards) and no one has brought the ram to my attention. Oh well, I hope this is good ram. Last thing I want to do is RMA the ram on the day of building, and have no system for a week (tho I can take out the PC2100 ram from my old system for temporarily).

edit: I might have to acually call ZZF to make sure...

 

[Bobthelost]

You can get cheap RAM for most motherboards, but DFI is a bit ****** on the compatability front, it's redeemed by good overclocking performance but it's still a bit of an arse.

I'd give them a ring, email is so easy to ignore.