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mocs2782

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Hello. I'm a bit new here, and this is my first build. I've had help from friends with selecting components, however I don't whether this is a good system or not. What are your thoughts?
This computer will be general purpose and some gaming (likely BF2, COD2, maybe Oblivion, WoW).
Budget: <$2,000

ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester
Corsair XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM
Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB
Plextor 18X DVD±R DVD Burner
Cooler Master Praetorian PAC-T01-EK
Turbo-Cool® 510 Express / SLI Power Supply
eVGA Geforce 7600GT (Two in SLI)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
 
Get a 3800+ and overclock, the cores on the 3800+ and 4200+ are the same, paying extra money for a measly 200 MHz (which can easily be reached via overclocking) seems lame. In my opinion, if you're going to go above a 3800+, jump to the 4400+ (Toledo core) as the X2's overclock pretty well.

Are your XMS these? If you're going to spend that much, why not get these? They're cheaper and have overclocked well, consistently.

Of course this is assuming you want to overclock, if you don't then pick up value RAM instead, no need for the expensive stuff if you're not going to use what you pay for.

I wouldn't get two 7600GT's in SLI because of the lack of upgradeability. What are two 7600GT's equal to? A 7900[insert whatever ending here]? Not really a big thing, just a little minor preference thing.

 
Do you mean by one 7900 or two for SLI?

And my RAM is this.

Oh, and I have pretty much 0 experience with overclocking.
 
Well, it's not so much experience as patience and willingness to try it. None of us were born with the skills, I just read about it and tried it.

I mean one 7900.

and yeah..that RAM is even more expensive.

 
Why buy one video card for an SLI mobo?

Do you think I should attempt to OC, or wait until I have more experiance with computers?
 
Because you can get another one later. ;) It's all a matter of opinion really...you're putting two mid-end cards in SLI, which is kind of weird in my opinion because there's a card out that can match both of them. Doesn't mean it's wrong or right...it's your decision.

As for overclocking, depends on you. People can pick up systems and learn how to overclock them the same week. It's not as complicated or difficult as people make it to be, but it's not exactly the same as pushing a "turbo" button. So, go read up on it and see if you want to try it. If you want to try to go big, then you might want to check out the 939 Opterons (see AMD forum ;)).
 
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