Building a Shuttle....what do you think?

[Jedi Rory]

Hey all...long time, no post. As of early this morning, my machine took a dive. I'm going to see this as an opportunity to build a new rig....these are the specs I'm thinking about.....please let me know what you think....(all parts from newegg)


Shuttle XPC Black Barebone System for Socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 CPU, Model SN95G5
Item# N82E16856101457
$302.00


Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD740GD, OEM Drive Only
Item# N82E16822144160
$179.00


Crucial 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 8T - OEM
$76.00 /stick @ 2 sticks - $152.00


AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2.2 GHz, 512KB L2 Cache 64-bit Socket 939 Processor - Retail
Item# N82E16819103498
$295.00


Product total: $928.00


I'll be putting my Radeon 9800 pro in it, along with my Audigy ZS.


I'm only slightly concerned about the RAM.....I thought about going with the Ballistix, but I'm not sure how worth it it's going to be.

Thoughts?

 

[Jedi Rory]

no help at all? Come on guys.....

 

[Megadeth_Guy01]

The ballistix would only be worthwhile if you were going to overclock wouldn't it?

 

[Erasmus354]

The ballistix would only be worthwhile if you were going to overclock wouldn't it?

Not necessarily, RAM running with tighter timings will have better performance, noticeably better? No, but then again most overclocking doesn't really give you any noticeably better performance, only noticeable by a little bit in benchmarks.

 

[Jedi Rory]

I don't really have any plans to OC anything....as cool/interesting as that is, I prefer to run things reasonably "stock".