Advise on components

[Hipcrostino]

Hi!
i recently purchased a nf7-s v2 from ebay, along with a AMD XP-M 2600+. I needed ram and a psu so i just went and grabbed some. The psu is total crap. pc runs fine, but its no good for overclocking with. The ram is the same. I purchased 1gb (2x512) PQI ram, which i bought because it was fairly cheap and has good performance etc etc. unfortunatly it did like the nf7, giving memory errors at 200fsb. So i put them in my brothers much more modern computer and they worked perfectly at 200fsb. so i took his ram him, a couple of kingston 512 stick. They worked perfectly, but don't like overclocking so much....

So soo i plan to upgrade quite a few itemsm and that is the purpose of this post. To get some advise on weather these items are any good or not. Or weather they are compatible with the nf7. i even have a couple of choices im wondering if you could help me with. Ok the list is pritty short:

ok, RAM
G.Skill F1-3200BWU2-1GBGH 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Winbond BH5 = $250AUD
http://pccasegear.com.au/prod2523.htm
or
OCZ DDR PC-3200 1GB Dual Channel XTC Edition (2x512MB) = $285AUD
http://pccasegear.com.au/prod3060.htm

next PSU
Ultra X-finity 600W Titanium = $189AUD
http://pccasegear.com.au/prod2880.htm
or
PC Power and Cooling Silencer 470 (i really like the look of this one) = $194AUD
http://pccasegear.com.au/prod2555.htm

Water cooling
H20-APEX "EXTREME DUTY" SERIES CPU LIQUID COOLING KIT = $395AUD
http://pccasegear.com.au/prod2834.htm
Is this kit any good? Ive heard good things.

HDD
Im considering tracking down a 74gb WD raptor. Would this be worth it for performance over a 7200rpm drive? i think prices are around $300AUD. for that much i could get a 300GB drive

and either a 6600GT agp, or a 6800gs agp (or gt if the come in agp). Which one do you think?

Ill have to be buying these compnents over a period of time cause its gonna cost a bomb.

anyway, thnxx for your time

 

[Lvcoyote]

6800GS and stay as far away from X-connect PSU's as possible.....LOL

 

[Hipcrostino]

advise noted!! anyone else?? i really just need to know if the ram is compatible or not...

 

[ZL1]

get two sticks of bh5 and vdimm mod the board

the 6800gs is a great card, but the agp ver is sooooo expensive

dont bother with the raptor, not worth it IMO

get a enermax or antec psu

D

 

[jiggamanjb]

Hi!
i recently purchased a nf7-s v2 from ebay, along with a AMD XP-M 2600+. I needed ram and a psu so i just went and grabbed some. The psu is total crap. pc runs fine, but its no good for overclocking with. The ram is the same. I purchased 1gb (2x512) PQI ram, which i bought because it was fairly cheap and has good performance etc etc. unfortunatly it did like the nf7, giving memory errors at 200fsb. So i put them in my brothers much more modern computer and they worked perfectly at 200fsb. so i took his ram him, a couple of kingston 512 stick. They worked perfectly, but don't like overclocking so much....

So soo i plan to upgrade quite a few itemsm and that is the purpose of this post. To get some advise on weather these items are any good or not. Or weather they are compatible with the nf7. i even have a couple of choices im wondering if you could help me with. Ok the list is pritty short:

ok, RAM
G.Skill F1-3200BWU2-1GBGH 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Winbond BH5 = $250AUD
http://pccasegear.com.au/prod2523.htm
or
OCZ DDR PC-3200 1GB Dual Channel XTC Edition (2x512MB) = $285AUD
http://pccasegear.com.au/prod3060.htm

next PSU
Ultra X-finity 600W Titanium = $189AUD
http://pccasegear.com.au/prod2880.htm
or
PC Power and Cooling Silencer 470 (i really like the look of this one) = $194AUD
http://pccasegear.com.au/prod2555.htm

Water cooling
H20-APEX "EXTREME DUTY" SERIES CPU LIQUID COOLING KIT = $395AUD
http://pccasegear.com.au/prod2834.htm
Is this kit any good? Ive heard good things.

HDD
Im considering tracking down a 74gb WD raptor. Would this be worth it for performance over a 7200rpm drive? i think prices are around $300AUD. for that much i could get a 300GB drive

and either a 6600GT agp, or a 6800gs agp (or gt if the come in agp). Which one do you think?

Ill have to be buying these compnents over a period of time cause its gonna cost a bomb.

anyway, thnxx for your time

fot the RAM, the OCZ's look good, but maybe you want to think about 2GB??

PSU - PC P&C - you can't go wrong with them

cooling - i've never been a big fan of any water cooling 'kit'. ask over in the water cooling section for more indepth help.

HD - if i had to do it again, i may have just got two really fast SATA drives and put them in RAID0. but then again the Raptor is just awsome and there are no worries about it failing cause you know it's an excellent drive. i have 0 complaints about it.

video card - i'm thinking of the 6800gs myself. that's what everyone is saying to get. for $175US, it's not too bad of a deal.