New rig I'm putting together, Comments are welcome!

[krm197]

Well, I tried posting this before, but my firewall was acting screwy and forced me to continually log in, but ANYWAY, I'm building a little something for my brother who lives in japan. He'll be primarily using this machine for gaming.
(This is a newegg built PC)

MB:Epox 8k5a2+
Proc:Athlon xp 2000+ OEM
Ram: 2 sticks - Kingston PC2700 DDR
Video Card: Leadtek Geforce4 ti4600 128 mb
Cd-RW: Liteon 40x12x48x
PSU: Allied - 400W with 2 fans
Hard Drive: Western Digital 80gb 7200rpm oem (/w rounded cables)
Fans: 2 - 80mm Sunon case fans
Sound Card: Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! 5.1
Speakers: Logitech Z540
Misc: Floppy drive, black case, blah blah

Total price /w shipping from newegg: 1063.49

I got him some arctic silver 3 as well, cuz those thermal pads that come on the retail heatsinks are just sad :D

Comments/Improvements are welcome, bring em on!

[SkaGoatMaster]

why don't u use a better HSF than the stock one?

[Carnil]

Rumor has it that a single stick of memory overclocks better than 2.

[touser]

It all looks good, however, make sure that the 80gb hard drive is a western digital "special edition" drive with 8mb of cache as they are extremely fast drives! Also, it may be worth the extra money for a sound blaster audigy over the live.

[Robbie]

Get a hard drive cooler for that 80 gig. THEY GET DAMN HOT!! (mine needs to be RMA'd only after 4 months of use. (and yes I have a cooler on it)
Rob

[Arkaine23]

Is it going to be overclocked?

Better heatsink.
1 stick of memory.
You might as well get a kt266a motherboard if you're getting a 2000+, unless you plan on unlocking the cpu, or unless you only want it because it has USB 2.0 or some other such new feature. A 1600+ would be better in a kt333 motherboard becuase you will be able to overclock and actually use the 1/5 divisor in the kt333 chipset, even without unlocking the cpu.

[Top Hat Theater]

That's odd..I've been running four of the spec ed. WD drives for close to six months now without any of them complaining.

~THT

[Robbie]

Touch them, how HOT are they? Do you fold or SETI? do you leave them on 24/7?
Rob

[krm197]

I'm fairly certain that my brother doesn't *want* to overclock it, but I'm trying to leave the option open to him to try it out. I'll definitely have to add a hard drive cooler, cuz I know he's complaining about his current 40 gb hard drives running too hot.

Arkaine: I'll look into a new mobo, but I really liked the Epox 8k5a2 cuz it had onboard lan and usb 2.0 (both of which he wanted). Are you saying that the kt333 is actually worse for overclocking that a kt266a?