Anything wrong with this system

[Ben]

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Hi,

Im building my first new pc from scrach. Anything wrong with this system
(hardware incompatibility, etc.)?

AMD Athlon 3000+ 333FSB
Abit NF7 NForce chipset - mobo
Kingston 184 Pin 512 MB PC-3200 DDR
Maxtor 80 GB with 8MB cache
Saphire ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB DDR
Aspire Turbo Case Midtower with 350W power supply (made by Turbolink)
Asus 16X DVD ROM
keyboard + mouse

All that for ~$600 from newegg


Thanks

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt (More info?)

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:06:47 GMT, "Ben" <ben@ben.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Im building my first new pc from scrach. Anything wrong with this system
>(hardware incompatibility, etc.)?
>
>AMD Athlon 3000+ 333FSB
>Abit NF7 NForce chipset - mobo
>Kingston 184 Pin 512 MB PC-3200 DDR
>Maxtor 80 GB with 8MB cache
>Saphire ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB DDR
>Aspire Turbo Case Midtower with 350W power supply (made by Turbolink)
>Asus 16X DVD ROM
>keyboard + mouse
>
>All that for ~$600 from newegg
>
>
>Thanks
>

It is a quite poor power supply, and the case itself isn't too great
either, thin flimsy metal. The best setup for your parts might be an
Antec case with 120mm fan in rear and an Antec 330-430W (anything in that
range, would vary per case) power supply. When possible, check the metal
thickness of cases considered... anything under .8mm is relatively flimsy
but 1.0mm is best, cases with thicker than 1.0mm tend to be the most
costly versions or aluminum, which needs be thicker for same stregth as
steel.

For nearly same budget I'd sooner have an Athlon XP2800 and put the
savings towards another 512MB of memory. You didn't specify whether the
above mentioned 512MB is a single module or pair of 256MB modules, but I'd
recommend getting the single module then later adding 2nd module if/when
you need more memory.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt (More info?)

Recommend you substitute the unlocked Mobile Athlon 2600 found at
newegg.

Read the advantages here:

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.html?i=2021&p=2


Antec makes good cheap cases (under $100
OK power supplies and good ventilation with 120mm case fans.



On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:06:47 GMT, "Ben" <ben@ben.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Im building my first new pc from scrach. Anything wrong with this system
>(hardware incompatibility, etc.)?
>
>AMD Athlon 3000+ 333FSB
>Abit NF7 NForce chipset - mobo
>Kingston 184 Pin 512 MB PC-3200 DDR
>Maxtor 80 GB with 8MB cache
>Saphire ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB DDR
>Aspire Turbo Case Midtower with 350W power supply (made by Turbolink)
>Asus 16X DVD ROM
>keyboard + mouse
>
>All that for ~$600 from newegg
>
>
>Thanks
>