New System

Hit I am building my first PC and wanted some oppinions and suggestions, this is the system im planning on getting, i plan to game on it and do some overclocking.

AMD Athlon 64 3500+
OCZ Platinum Rev. 2 PC3200 (2x512 Duel)
Either: LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D or K8N Neo4 Platinum
GeCube ATI Radeon X800XT Plat
AOC 9KLR 19" CRT Monitor
Thermaltake Tsunami Case w/ 400W PSU
Thermalright XP-120

Um ya i think thats everything...thanx for any advice

go with the lanparty mobo.good system.could definitaly go with a better psu preferably 450w+ minimum for overclocking.also the athlon 64 3800+ is much better since it overclocks to the coveted 4000+ speed and can outperform the fx-51, which is priced higher.

im not going to say any thing untill i understand a bit more of what you want.
are you looking for somthing thats flashy with lights and windows all that stuff?
whats better black or white? (black costs a bit more)
are you looking for a silent pc (as in not noisy but not no fans)
are u in the US?
how much can u spend? and dont say somthing u think u might spen say somthing were it is a strickt i cant spend more than but right now i have...

hope to hear from you so i can hook you up

Ok thanx, i will just buy the case with no PSU and but a 500W one seperate, i heard the OCZ ones were good??? Hmm the 3800+ are nice and thats incredible if they can OC to those speeds! Although there is quite a substantial price jump isnt there? It might sound like i have no ends to my budget but that system is pretty much boardering it, i am only really willing to spend more for serious performance improvements
Thanx for the advice!

sorry syberspy i posted at the same time as you. No i dont want it too flashy no windows or LEDs or anything (aside from the ones that come with the case, in the door). Im not too worried about noise but i dont want it to be REALLY disteracting, i will be getting black as IMO its much nicer for not much of a price hike, no i dont live in the US unfortunatly i can spend about NZ$3200...gimme a seconf i will go try and convert it to US...ok back, it converts to US$2280.16...bear in mind that things are a bit more expensive here...i think...
thanx for any help

PS. NZ = New Zealand
PSS. I was also looking at the Lite On DVD-RW Duel Layer Writer and 2xSeagate 120GB 7200rpm HD in RAID 0 for storage
Thanx

520w ocz powerstream is best for your needs.i dont know about the prices over there in the us but shop around.if you can find a good cpu for a reasonable price the performance improvement is definitely worth it.

edith your in nz.im in australia.anyway as i said shop around its definitely worth it.

edit:what was that all about? some mod messing with me? oni and jigpu, youd better not be messing with my brain .

edit:you to ridenow and donny paycheck .

hmh well were can u buy ur stuff from?
canu give me alink to some of the stores u might order from over ther.
seagate sata drives are the bestsize is up to you.
the 120 are cheap i would think get 2 of them and run raid so much space lol but if u want it.
um antec makes great caes they hold 120mm fans and usally have filters for that dust
ok black then i would say antec sonata case or what i have SLK3700BQE there so nice.

ocz make ok psu's the best psu's that have been benched art eh antec psu's that are modular or w/e likethe xconnect.
i will link you when i get your store links.

um lite on drives are good i would say get a dvd burner an another dvd reader that way its easy to burn things.
asus mobos are good ya i would say amd64.
for your dvd drives antec cobra cables help and look good.
video card would be PCI-E 6600GTis a good price right now.

just pointing some things out mk waiting for ur reply and your lnks

I really sorry but the NZ website are REALLY slack, they dont list everything on their sites, they **** me of!!! you have to really go into the store or ask an online store for a quote, i will put up some sites so you can get an IDEA of prices but thats about the best i can do sry...

http://www.langear.co.nz
http://www.nfc.co.nz
http://www.pricespy.co.nz (pricespy is not actually a store but it looks at other stores prices and it is much better organised...in terms of what it has )

LOL i need the space for when i go to LANs and copy exuberent amounts of stuff to my HD

Thanx for all your suggestions! Im off the the Antec site to check it out!

and dont underestimate the ocz 600w powerstreams!

I will definatly not rule them out thanx!

well youmay like black but....
i would say get this case its so much cheaper and its really good.
http://www.langear.co.nz/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=15_194&products_id=1241
it even has 120mm fans and a window.

for the ide drives and flopy dive get the first to cables(cheap yet they go witht he theam and they are shield'ed
http://www.langear.co.nz/catalog/index.php?cPath=78

now as for the mobo it migth cost lots but a good mobo is very important, not only that this mobo has Nforce 4 and its PCI-E (saves you money on vga card and ur more up to date)
so were ever u can find this.
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8nsli-d/overview.htm
just came out so might have to get it last (so u can wait for some stores to get it in. or order it)
found it
http://www.pricespy.co.nz/search.php?search=a8n-sli&all=0

for the cpu
first one on the list the 939 3200+ .
http://www.nfc.co.nz/productlist.asp?C=CPU&P=1&WC=1&M=2612005213935

2 v of these hd's
http://www.langear.co.nz/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=205

as for ram (thisram oc's very good they have tccd chips by samsung)
http://www.langear.co.nz/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23_196&products_id=1337

this is the psu you wantitsso solid dint care what any one sais this is the best andmost solid ive seen it tested
http://www.langear.co.nz/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=68_201&products_id=1461

sound card
http://www.langear.co.nz/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=33&products_id=807

video card some were here
http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_4722.html

drives
http://www.nfc.co.nz/productlist.asp?C=Optical+Drive&P=1&WC=1&M=261200522624

LITE-ON 52x32x52 CDRW+16X COMBO
and Liteon Double Layer 8X DVD Writer SOHW-832S

that comes to $2824 thats with no tax and were missing a floppy.
but a floppy u can get for about 5$ at a local store just get ause one there just as good as a new one.

i also dont see any CPU coolers... but that can alwasy upgrade that.

ok well i would get that.
then after shipping and taxes and all that see what your left with.

that system is quite a bit slower yet its $600 more expensive! how can you justify that?

Holy crap! thank you so much for that help! that system looked much nicer! Is a 3200+ enough? A 3500+ overdoing it? wow thats really awesome thank you so much for all that effort! Oh and langear prices include GST so some of that will already have GST on it! Well im off to bed now so if anyone else replys i would be much appreciative and i will get back to you tomorrow!
Thanx once again for ur awesome effort syberspy!

well i guess a 3200+ is ((enough)) but of course the 3500+ and the 3800+ performs and overclocks much better.heck if i just purchased what is enough i would have an ancient rig in my sig.

ramman what are u talking about?
i found my prices off hi local sites they will be more pricey and all but like 3 of those things have tax included as he stated (i dint know that untill he said it)

the 3200 is a much better deali wouldnt get eh 3500 its a jip the 3200 is a betterdeal then just see what your leftwith mabey u can water cool! then oclike a mofo

can a 3200+ with watercooling run at 4000+ speed like a 3800+ can? dont think so.

no i didnt say that i said it would oc good.
man the 3500 is a big price gap for him te prices jump up a fari amount after the 3200.
so if he buys the cooling (he will need cooling an way) sepns some cooling money uses the rig thenhe can go back and buy a 4000+ for the same price the the 3200 is now (over time the price will drop and might as well learn to oc with better cooling and a cheaper cpu.

Thought SO!
dont be so rude man.

i dont know what the prices are over in nz.anyway just how much more expensive is a 3800+ compared to a 3200+?

3200+ $275
3800+ $1008
dif = $733

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3200+ $275
3800+ $1008
dif = $733

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woah...didnt realize the price gap was so large.