About to buy a new system.. Can you see any problems?

[lonfire]

hi,
i'm about to buy a new pc system.. heres what i've spec'ed so far.. can anybody see any problems with it? all look like good bits? i'm gonna use it for video editing/software development and also some game playing.. thought i'd put a fast primary drive it for os/swap..etc and a larger slightly slower drive for general use..

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AMD Athlon 64 3800 32/64Bit CPU S939 "Venice Core" Retail inc Heat Sink Fan & 3 Years Warranty
2x Corsair® 1024MB TwinX XMS 3200 C2 Memory Kit (2 x 512MB)

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Abit AX8 S939 PCI-E K8T890 Dual DDR400 SATA Raid Gbit Lan USB2/1394 5.1Ch Audio
Main drive: 74Gb Western Digital Raptor Enterprise (10Krpm,8MB) - SATA
Second drive: 250Gb Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 10 (7200rpm,16MB) SATA NCQ - Lead Free
SilverStone "TEMJIN" J02S-W (Silver) Aluminium Front/SECC Body Tower case+Window Side Panel(w/o PSU)
370W Enermax Noisetaker EG375AX-VE-G-SFMA aPFC Quiet
HP DVD640i Lightscribe Black 16x16 ±R Dual Layer DVD-Writer, Retail UK
256M Connect 3D PCI-E X800XL GDDR3 TV/DVI ViVo

Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Asus Black 52x32x52 SuperQuiet CD-RW Retail

thanks
chris

p.s.. not interested in montior/keyboard/mouse.. got all that already..

 

[lonfire]

right i have changed the spec again slightly..
now its:

CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 3800 32/64Bit CPU S939 "Venice Core" Retail inc Heat Sink Fan & 3 Years Warranty

Mobo:
Abit AN8 NForce4, ATX, DDDR400, PCI-E, Gbit Lan, USB 2.0, 1394, 5.1ch Audio, 4 x SATA, Raid

Memory:
2 x Corsair® 1024MB TwinX XMS 3200XL X-Treme Low Latency Memory Kit

HD:
250Gb Seagate Barracuda (7200.7rpm, 8Mb) - SATA NCQ

Case:
SilverStone "TEMJIN" J02S-W (Silver) Aluminium Front/SECC Body Tower case+Window Side Panel(w/o PSU)

PSU:
520W SilverStone Zeus aPFC PSU (Titanium black colour), Temp Controlled Fan (22 dBA min)

DVD Burner:
HP DVD640i Lightscribe Black 16x16 ±R Dual Layer DVD-Writer, Retail UK

GFX Card:
256M Connect 3D PCI-E X800XL GDDR3 TV/DVI ViVo

OS:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Sp2)

CD drive:
Asus Black 52x32x52 SuperQuiet CD-RW Retail

and i thought i might as well get a new TFT to replace my aging crt ;-)
19" Relisys TL966 DVI TFT Black Multimedia 3yrs onsite

that sound ok?

thanks
chris

 

[Yuriman]

I'd suggest getting a DFI Lanparty nForce4, and a hard drive with 16mb of cache. They are considerably faster. I don't know much about that power supply, but thats not my area of specialty, so wait for more thoughts on that.

Also, I believe if you have 4 sticks of ram, you either have to run at pc2700, or switch to 2T. I don't remember off the top of my head what 2T does, but I seem to remember it castrating your performance quite a bit.

 

[1cem4n]

A Lanparty nForce4 would fit nicely and so would a diamondmax10. When did they have a 3800+ venice? It only goes up to 3500+ right? 3800+ is a san diego core. Instead of two 1gb sticks, I would get 4x 512 sticks as that will be much faster than 2x 1gb sticks. If I were you, I'd also go with some OCZ Plat Rev.2 instead of Corsair.

-1cem4n

 

[Super Nade]

Welcome to the Forums, Mate!!!!!!!!

right i have changed the spec again slightly..
now its:

CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 3800 32/64Bit CPU S939 "Venice Core" Retail inc Heat Sink Fan & 3 Years Warranty

Why not wait for the 3700 San Deigo? Maybe cheaper than the 3800 Venice but it has a 1Mb cache instead of the usual 512Kb.

Mobo:
Abit AN8 NForce4, ATX, DDDR400, PCI-E, Gbit Lan, USB 2.0, 1394, 5.1ch Audio, 4 x SATA, Raid
ASUS A8N-SLI or DFI-NF4 SLI DR would be worth looking at. Alternatively, you could pencil mod a DFI Ultra -D and get it to work in SLI Mode. Saves you a lot of money!

Memory:
2 x Corsair® 1024MB TwinX XMS 3200XL X-Treme Low Latency Memory Kit
Also worth looking at are, GSkill LE's and PDP-XBLKs.

HD:
250Gb Seagate Barracuda (7200.7rpm, 8Mb) - SATA NCQ

Case:
SilverStone "TEMJIN" J02S-W (Silver) Aluminium Front/SECC Body Tower case+Window Side Panel(w/o PSU)

PSU:
520W SilverStone Zeus aPFC PSU (Titanium black colour), Temp Controlled Fan (22 dBA min)
I personally prefer the Fortron Bluestorm AX500. More than adequet for an SLI setup.

DVD Burner:
HP DVD640i Lightscribe Black 16x16 ±R Dual Layer DVD-Writer, Retail UK

GFX Card:
256M Connect 3D PCI-E X800XL GDDR3 TV/DVI ViVo

OS:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Sp2)

CD drive:
Asus Black 52x32x52 SuperQuiet CD-RW Retail

and i thought i might as well get a new TFT to replace my aging crt ;-)
19" Relisys TL966 DVI TFT Black Multimedia 3yrs onsite

that sound ok?

thanks
chris

Good Luck!

S-N

 

[m3x1c4nj3w]

For the harddrive, get the 7200.8 drives, as they have better performance because they have 133gb per platter vs 100gb per platter on the 7th editions ones.

If you're buying the DFI board, you might as well get the SLI version and ditch the x800XL and get 6800GT instead. You can buy one now and later when the new stuff comes out and then get another one...

for PSU get the OCZ Powerstream 520W.


just my $0.02

 

[Yuriman]

That, or you can save money by dropping down to the nForce4 ultra. X800's don't have SLI.