How'd I Do?

[Dirk Dastardly]

I just bought a new PC, I hope I made the right choices. I wanted a semi-future proof computer, with overall a great performance for the price. I am not one for full graphical capability (1600x1200 res, 4xAA, 16AF, etc), I like a nice 1024x768, medium-high settings, and a smooth FPS. I'm also planning on overclocking (just a 200MHz increase is what I have in mind). By the way, this is my first build. Do you guys have any suggestions on how I should go about installing things (not hardware, but what order for software, Windows updates, etc)? Any other information for a first timer would be appreciated as well!

 

Case - Lian Li PC-61 USB Black Computer Case

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16811112025

 

Power Supply - OCZ OCZ520ADJ 520W Power Supply

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817104152

 

Motherboard - DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR ATX AMD Motherboard

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813136151

 

Processor - AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819103535

 

Memory - OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Platinum System Memory

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820227210

 

Graphics Card - eVGA 128-P2-N368-TX Video Card (6600GT 128MB)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814130214

 

CD-ROM/DVD Burner - NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16827152047

 

Floppy Drive - NEC Black Internal Floppy Drive Model FD1231H-302

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16821152005

 

Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA NCQ 3.5" Serial ATA150 Hard Drive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148034

 

Modem - Encore ENF656-EHW-INPR Internal Fax Modem

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16825180001

 

Heatsink - THERMALRIGHT XP-90 Heatsink

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16835109119

 

Heatsink Fan - Panasonic Panaflo FBA09A12M1A 92mm Hydro Wave Case Cooling Fan

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16835180088

 

Thermal Compound - Arctic Silver Ceramique Thermal Compound

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16835100009

[Angry_Games]

instead of just providing links you should also provide a slight description so we dont have to click 19 links to find out what you buy

 

example:

 

DFI NF4 Ultra-D

3200+ Venice 939 cpu

OCZ PC4000 2x1024

HIS X800XL PCI-E

 

etc

[Dirk Dastardly]

Alright, I just edited my post with the names of the components.

[Minsc]

You might have trouble getting the 2gb to work... consider 1gb if you feel it'll be enough.

 

I only vaguely recall people having problems getting 2gb to be stable in dual channel mode. The OCZ stuff seems like the right choice though, so if it's possible, those will be the chips to use. But you might end up with 2GB with dual channel disabled.

[evogre3n]

If you can stress your budget, go for the 6800GT instead. Looks sweet

[Dirk Dastardly]

I just read in another thread of mine I may have hard time running Dual Channel since I just got 2x1024MB (2GB) of memory. The memory I am getting is HERE, and I will be using it in a LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR.

[CrucialLabs]

I have not had a problem running 2 1GB module in dual channel. You should be fine.

[Angry_Games]

you wont have any trouble getting 2GB to work on a Venice cpu.

 

Everything looks good...I agree with the poster above that if you can afford it, go for an X800 or a 6800GT...but if not, 6600GT's are not bad at all

[Guest gandalf]

For 20 extra bucks you could go for 2 80gb hitachi's in raid 0:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetai...ctCode=100590-2