My First Build

Well after spending a long long time researching i have came up with a spec which i would like to get

Here it is

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice Core 64 bit 512k L2 Cache Retail inc.fan Skt 939 £151.92

Asus A8N-SLI nForce 4 SLI Skt939 PCI-E +3GB/sec SATA +SATA +Firewire +Gigabit LAN +8ch. audio +USB2 Dual Ch. DDR (up to DDR400) £86.30

Corsair® 512MB XMS 3200 DDR 400MHz with Heat Spreader (CMX512-3200C2) - just 1 becuase of funds so maybe later on i can get 1 more £43.48

128MB Gigabyte GV NX66T128VP - NV43 Ultra,1000/500Mhz,128MB DVI,TV Out-SLI,VIVO,PCI-E x16 - GeForce6600GT 128MB £115.41

160 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA lead free UDMA150 8MB Cache £52.58

Sony CRX 320E Black CDRW/DVD Combi Drive 52x32x52x16x OEM £23.44

ThermalTake Soprano VB1000BWS Black c/w 2x case fans +USB2 + +window £46.35

Enermax Noisetaker 370W EG375AX-VE(G) SFMA ATX2.0 PSU (CA-005-EN) £41.07

All that for £560.55 = $1009.55 (approx i think)

What you guys think ? Is it worth it that is the question And suggest any other improvements that i can make to this - I probably be playing high end games occasionally & do some Photoshopping

EDIT - Added UK prices

 

u should get a western digital hdd, they're better and cheaper

 

Are they ? hm..might research on that Maxtor & WD Thanks for comment might do that now

 

well the onlt thing is more ram but u said ur short on money, so yea its a very nice PC

 

Damn...... An upgrade like that in aus almost costs 2 grand

 

Ye i think this is not bad for £560 and as i live in Uk there arent many sites to go to

The memory is quite low but if i get 2 of them its like £70-80 but only one is like half the price so went for 1 - I can always but another stick in - I could get cheap ones but Im going for reliability.

Thanks guys any more comments

 

other than the low amount of ram it looks good

 

get an msi motherboard, the one you chose has lots of issues.

 

I currently have those specs but with a DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI board with 1024 OZC duel overclocked Memory.. comes to about 1300$

 

u need ram
lots of it
and if u really want to be sufficeint liquid cooling

 

What kinds of issues Ive seen some ratings on this as well - People liked it gave it 4.3/5

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/a8nsli/index.htm

I hardly see anything different from the ASUS Deluxe vesion and the normal version. I dont want to spend like £105 odd just on motherboard so went for the £86 one I havent seen anyone say they got issues but if you can provide me a link ill see

 

wow, really good

 

more ram for sure, trust me scrap up some more money and get some more ram it will be better in the long run

 

Ye I know i will be poor after i get them stuff ;(