does this sound ok?

[gwyn]

hi all
me and my friend have been talking and so far this is what we have come up.

Antec P160 Anodized Aluminum Super Midi Tower case
Tagan TG480-U01 480W Silent PSU
Abit AV8 3RD Eye (Socket 939) Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester 90nm
Crucial Ballistix PC-4000 BL6464Z505 512MB
AOpen GeForce 6600 GT 128MB
Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160GB SATA 8MB

ok what do you think
any comments.
thankyou

 

[Ned_Flanders]

I assume your overclocking or else you don't need that PC4000 ram, PC3200 will suffice

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[gwyn]

yes we are going to oc
well try anyway
thanks for your reply

 

[Cybercraig]

Please let us know how the Hitachi HD works out. I have an old IBM Deskstar that still runs fine, but I would probably buy a different drive.

Abit IS7 - 3.0C @ 3.6ghz - Mushkin PC4000 (2 X 512) - Sapphire 9800Pro - TT 420 watt Pure Power
Samsung 120gb ATA-100 - Maxtor 40gb ATA - 100
Sony DRU-510A - Yellowtail Merlot

 

[gwyn]

given the choice what HD would you get?

 

[Cybercraig]

I've been buying all Samsung for drives and monitors for the last year. No problems with anything.

Abit IS7 - 3.0C @ 3.6ghz - Mushkin PC4000 (2 X 512) - Sapphire 9800Pro - TT 420 watt Pure Power
Samsung 120gb ATA-100 - Maxtor 40gb ATA - 100
Sony DRU-510A - Yellowtail Merlot

 

[RichPLS]

I would look at Maxtor MaxLine III 16mb cache 3year warranty.

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[gwyn]

so you think the mobo, cpu, ram combination is ok?
i will have to think harder about the HD

 

[RichPLS]

Yes, that looks like a sweet system, should work like a charm...Wish I had one like it to build!!!
That RAM is kick ass! You are getting 2x512 for 1gig of dual channel right?

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[Crashman]

VIA chipset? You might as well buy an eMachine.

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[gwyn]

ok crashman what would you recommend

 

[RichPLS]

via killed his sister, an the hatred last forever

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[Black_Cat]

Via killed my sister too! Death to Via!

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[Crashman]

I've hear some video chip company out in silicon valley makes some nice chipsets...

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[RichPLS]

ATI?

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[Crashman]

Nah, I looked up that company, they're canadian. Must be a different company, because I'm pretty certain the one I'm thinking of is Californian.

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[gwyn]

so I take it you all would recommend nforce over via

 

[crazed_clown]

depends how much does it cost in total?
are you canadian?

 

[CaPtAiN_InSaNo]

It doesn't matter in this case, the Via chipset is just as fast and both the K8T800 Pro's and Nforce 3's have PCI/AGP locks. Just be more careful when getting via's, because there are boards out there that don't have working locks. Some games via wins some nvidia wins. I personally like Nforce better, but I own a Asus A8V with K8T800 Pro cause Asus doesn't make Nforce 3 baords(only Nforce 4 SLI, but i don't have PCI-E graphics card, mine's AGP) and i dont trust other mobo makers any more to go with a different baord maker. Not after this abit board on my P4, its ok, but has a bunch of flaws that shouldn't exist consider the price. Oh and just ignore the profi, its not updated yet.

P4 2.6c@3 / 1GB OCZ DDR533 / Abit IC7-Max3 /
BFG Geforce 6800 GT @ 410/1100 /
Baracuda 7200.7 120 GB SATA / Lian-Li PC-65 Case
/ SyncMaster 700nf Monitor / 3DMark03-12100

 

[pat]

I rather have an ECS that an Asus ...dont like Asus....but that's me. Other opinions may vary.

-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!