Building a new rig :)

[hijynx54]

Looking for some advice, decided it is time to build my own computer (never built before, but friend going to help me do it except he is out of the loop on hardware since joining military). After looking through countless companies with overpriced shit and seeing the dead end amount of options they have figured I would take a look at newegg. Glad I did to, cause I was about 5 seconds away from buying an ibuypower, dirt cheap, but some very mixed reports, I actually once drove to their place of business (about 30 min from my house) if you can call it that. It is a hole in the ground with 4 guys at crappy desks who look like helping you is going to kill them.

Anyways, been doing a lot of reading on your forums since a friend linked as a must for building a new comp, and here is what I came up with so far.

Lian Li PC-60BPlus Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail might go with the pc - 65b, I like the window on the side kinda. - $125.00/$129.00

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM $123.00

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $162.00

BFG Tech BFGR68256GTOCX Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - $358.00 Retail is the card, heard a couple people say its amazing and then a few people say it overheats pretty bad (why I figured a lian li with super fanage would be good) and can die out, any thoughts? Also keep in mind, I want to purchase another of the same card 6-12 months from now after a nice drop in price.

CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWINX2048-3200PRO - Retail $255.00 I know fairly nothing about ram other than corsair = the best. Any advice here is more than welcomed.

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester Integrated into Chip FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BIBOX - Retail $193.00 Have heard from a few people winchester is extremely good, could drop another 70 bucks and get the 3500 but it comes with only the processor and no cooling stuff etc. But will 3500 make that huge of a difference? Also heard this type is best for cooling and efficiency and the venice is kind of crappy.

Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550 EPS12V ATX12V 550W Power Supply - Retail $110.00 I really don't know how good of a powersupply this is especially considering the fact I will dual vid cards later on, maybe you guys have some better suggestions since when I read into them on newegg/here they talk about so many factors I get lost very fast. I just saw a few bigger name brand PC sites using this one so figured was worth a shot to look into. I tried to search SLI, but get a massive return with a lot of model number/other stuff as SLI in title but not in description, so unsure if that is what I want.

I also need to pickout a decent cd/dvd rw on newegg if anyone has any good suggestions. Cheap is good, but also good quality. Am far from a hardcore burner, just make CDs/DVDs here and there. Also do not need a monitor, still have my gateway 19in LCD.

Thanks in advance for the help, trying to stay under 1400-1500 dollars. I run my comps pretty hard, I do a lot of work with EQ (everquest), and run multiple instances of the game (up to as many 4 and 5 at a time), listen to music, watch movies etc at once. So need something that can burn through that stuff np. My current p4 2.4 1gig ti4200 gateway ain't cutting it no more

 

[hijynx54]

Oh yah, if possible, if/when you recommend something please link the exact item you mean off newegg/other site. Just easier for a n00b like me since I know that a 1 specific product could have 10 different models and would hate to pick the wrong one =p Thanks.

 

[Dillusion]

Looks cliche enough to be good!

 

[hijynx54]

Was hoping for more of a critique =p but thanks!

 

[maxxo]

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester Integrated into Chip FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BIBOX - Retail $193.00 Have heard from a few people winchester is extremely good, could drop another 70 bucks and get the 3500 but it comes with only the processor and no cooling stuff etc. But will 3500 make that huge of a difference? Also heard this type is best for cooling and efficiency and the venice is kind of crappy.

Actually the Venice core is the replacement for Winchester. They have an improved memory controller and added SSE3 support (which actually has little value). They also tend to overclock better, thus I would suggest getting one over a Winchester.

 

[hijynx54]

Really, and is it worth upgrading to 3500? And scratch the vid card, I saw that dell deal on the 7800gtx and jumped. 75 bucks more for a 7800gtx instead of a 6800GT.

What about the rest of the setup? And will that powersupply and such be enough to handle the 7800? Especially since in 6-12 months I plan on buying another 1 to dual (or whenever price drops significantly since I doubt one will be cheap enough to persuade me to buy a second one anytime soon).