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Another Build Question

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Well it's been about 5 years since I've upgraded, and I've been considering doing this for some time, so I've set up a build for myself. Firstly, I'd like to mention that I want to keep this in the 800 dollar area. All together, I'm buying only 5 parts, and keeping my monitor, speakers, sound card, mouse/keyboard, hard drives, optical drives and all.

-$169.00 MSI "K8N Neo4 Platinum" NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 939 CPU -RETAIL
-$165.00 AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 512KB L2 Cache, Socket 939 64-bit Processor- Retail
-$138.00 Corsair Value Select (Dual Pack) 184 Pin 512MBx2 DDR PC-3200 - OEM
-$187.00 MSI nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Video Card, 128MB DDR3, 128-Bit, DVI/TV-Out, PCI-Express, Model "NX6600GT-TD128E" -RETAIL
-$99.00 ANTEC Life Style Series Black Case With 380W Power Supply, Model "SONATA"

Total: $758.00 + $25.32 shipping = $783.32 (before tax)

Now, I've set up this system so that it will be upgradable in the future if I should want to. I've gone with PCI-E and a socket 939 processor for that reason. I also plan to overclock this a bit, just so that's clear.

Now, first question, is there anything you would recommend I change here and still remain within my budget?

Second question, what additional cooling would you recommend I go with, or would you recommend a change in the case/power supply? Thanks for your time.
 
You could pretty much put your core components in a 'best you could get for $750' competition so you have no problems with what you've chosen.

Maybe you could add a CPU cooler to the list - the one you get with the retail CPU should be ok, but not for serious overclocking. As for the RAM - not something I know loads about, but maybe research it a bit to see if it will take any overclocking you might do to the CPU.
 
Frankly, I see no reason to go with the corsair value RAM. Your local PC stores all have generic ram that'll do the same or better. The big reason people suggest Corsair et al., in my limited experience, is because it comes with a longer warranty. If you go through a store that has a 1-year warranty on all it's parts (almost all the mom-and-pop shops, in my experience), you should have no problems, and you could even get lucky like me. I went out and bought generic PC2100 a number of years ago for my first build (XP1900+, DFI AD-73 PRO, etc), and I can get 2-2-2-5 280MHz DDR out of it no sweat. Samsung TCBO chips, dead cheap, no problems at all. Certainly won't do any worse then the corsair, which is speedbinned, so you _know_ it will overclock poorly.

Then again, I have less experience with overclocking then I do with other aspects of computer building, so I may be talking out of my ass. Just a friendly warning ;)

Other then that, looks good. Maybe have a look at the Antec 3000b- SilentPCReview likes it a bit better, it has slightly beter airflow, and you can mix and match power supplies. Have fun with this one in any case :)
 
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