Title says it all. I am needing your guys opinions on if all of this stuff is compatible. I am pretty sure it is but I am just want to make sure with you guys. Also If anybody can find a better graphics card and keep the cost under $1000 that would be great. Video Card: eVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814103174 139.99 Case: NZXT Nemesis Elite Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16811146030 109.99 Processor: Intel Pentium 4 531 Prescott 3.0GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80547PG3000EK - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819116238 88.49 Motherboard: Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 955X ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819116230 144.99 Ram: CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820145526 79.99 Power supply: SILVERSTONE ZEUS SST-ST65ZF ATX12V 650W Power Supply 90 - 264 V - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817163108 109.99 Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250620A 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822136014 174.99 CD/DVD Drive: LITE-ON Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 5X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache ATAPI/E-IDE DVD Burner W/ LightScribe - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16827136067 32.99 Grand total: 881.42
im guessing this is for gaming? if so i would go with a conroe or a AMD athlon not the Pentium D i dont have enough time to look for links atm but i might edit my post
x1300 is crap, especially at that price either get a radeon x850XT http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814102059 or a GeForce 7600GT both are neck and neck in performane and will provide much ebtter game play. Their Video RAM is also like 5 itmes as fast. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814130062 FYI new cards are out on nov 8th mass price cuts on everything CPU- Pentium Ds are crap. There is a reason why nintel stopped development on them. Athlon x2 or core 2 duo. both can easily eb taken to 2.6GHz and c2d is good for even more(mine is rock steady at 3.1 on a significant undervolt) motherboard, if you plan on getting a c2d liek the reson of the sane word, look into getting a gigabyte DS3 very good baord... PSU- not a bad unit, "best" choice thus far of what you made. consider this though http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=117785 http://www.atacom.com/program/print_html_n..._52&USER_ID=www puts just a little more amperage to the 12V rail(which is what powers your CPU RAM GFX cards and harddrives - the 5 and 3.3V raisl aren't used to much anymore) harddrive(s)- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148143 toss two fo those into RAID 0, as they are alone they outperform a cavier due to higher paltter density and RAID adds a good 20% more real world performance above that.
Yeah, go with AMD unless you're buying CONROE, especially for when K8L comes out. Also, I suggest a bit better ram, You get what you pay for. Try OCZ Special Ops edition for gaming.
Ok I edited the first post. It is amazing how cheaper stuff is better. Now is all of this stuff compatible and work together?
Yeah, go with AMD unless you're buying CONROE, especially for when K8L comes out. Also, I suggest a bit better ram, You get what you pay for. Try OCZ Special Ops edition for gaming. [snapback]3206499[/snapback][/b][/quote] pretty much all that matters on the RAM in terms fo what you're able to run it at would be the ICs.yes the OCZ special ops use the 'best' ICs right now, but tehre are a lot of other cheaper things which use moRe ro less the same ICs These should use Micron D9GCT ICs http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread...highlight=D9GCT http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820144165 also DO NOT GET A PENTIUM 4 THEY ARE L<ITTERALLY HALF A PENTIUM D. ATHLON X2 OR CORE 2 DUO. ATHLONS ARE 70% MROE PWOERFUL PER ghZ VS. THE PENTIUM 4/Ds AND THE CORE 2 UOS ARE ABOUT 90%
Id say go for the athlons either. X2 are getting cheap and i'd say corsair XMS for RAMs. I'd stick with Xelink's opinions, i agree with almost all of them, except for the RAM choice ^^
low binned micron is still micron. They can handle 2.2V no problem(and probably 2.4 BUT I personally wouldn't recomend 2.4 V as it isn't tested and that's kind fo pushing it, might kill off your RAM in a few months vs. YEARS later) yes I am a raging micron fanboy(though I bought RAM with elpida ICs as it was a good deal at the time) but when you can get DDR1000 reliably out of a 100$ kit well... i don't think anyone can be opposed. Sure it doesn't have pretty heatspreaders but as it is right now it's debateable as to whether or not heatspreaders actually drive temps up. and for the harddrive i said 2 and RAID them, though in full seriousness unless you browse some major porn one(probably the 320GB version) would be fine. and the reason why the better stuff is cheaper is because most of the peopel ehre are somewhat mroe knowlegeable than the average joe and don't get fooled by amrketting(not all of us though) http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingRe...N82E16819115005 can be put to 3.0GHz relatively reasily at which point it would be on par witha 5.5GHz Pentium D. or get an e6400 which si a bit easy to get higher.(not this process invaliates any warranties unless you lie.) also heatsink... forgot about that. stock heatsink is kinda noisy and doerns't cool that well. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16835185023 decent cooler for the cost
lga 775 and has the proper chipset... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813128012 if you want to make the CPU run at a really high clock speed get that I advise not raising the voltages on anything if possibly, including CPU and every part of the motherboard if you want to run everything at stock and want to save some $$$ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813131041 i ahve to go to work now so no more advice for another 8 hours
