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Well, it started out as an upgrade idea.. but.. soon snowballed into a near-new PC.. was wondering on advice on it before I put in the order...
coming from a:
cpu: xp 2500+ Barton - stock cooling
mb: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe
ram: 2.5 GB Patriot PC3200
HDD: Maxtor 250GB 7200rpm
gfx: evga 6800GT AGP
case: Antec SOHO w/ 400w Antec PS
I just wanted a new chip for now (the opty 165) and obviously the mb had to change to socket 939... which had me really in a tough situation with the AGP 6800GT...
so... this is what ended up coming out of the small cpu update at monarch:
AMD Opteron 165 Dual-Core 1.8GHz 1MB (per core) 64/32-Bit (939) (OEM) $337.67
DFI Lan Party UT NForce4 Ultra-D Audio/GB-LAN/IEEE-1394/PCI-E/SATA3G/DDR/ATX 64 939 $119.99
EVGA GeForce 7900 GT CO 256MB DDR3/PCI-E/HDTV-Out/Dual-DVI (Retail Box) $328.69
Western Digital 150 GB 16 MB Cache SATA 10K Raptor (WD1500ADFD) 1 $283.76
OCZ PowerStream ATX 2.01/EPS SLI Ready w/Adjustable Power Rails & LED 520W PS $119.99
Antec Performance One P180 ATX Mid-Tower No PS $129.00
Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu Silent CPU Cooling Kit $35.00
Thermaltake Thunderblade A1926 Blue 120mm Case Fan $9.63
Thermaltake A1971 Multi-Color 80mm Case Fan w/Flashing LED $13.89
Total with shipping ~$1450
I know. it got bigger but.. graphics card I wanted something decent but hated to go with a 7900 GTX if Dx10 is not horribly far off, better a $330 temporary card..
The PowerSupply I didn't know if my old one would really handle the new situation too well, it was an Antec that's served me for 5 or more years, but tops out at 18 on the 12rail.
The case seemed to be well liked and I haven't been getting the best airflow out of my current one...
The Zalman 7000 because the opty 165 is OEM and I heard good stuff about Zal... I want to try to crank out a little OCing on the opty.. doubt I could get the 2.6 on this air but, something better than my xp 2500+ at least.
The RAM I will be taking 2 1GB Patriot PC3200 sticks out of my old rig and putting them into the new one.. I'd take more but not sure if throwing in an odd 512 chip in the third RAM slot would screw with dual chan...
But anyway.. am I making any mistakes here? Things I'm decided on are the Opty 165 and an nvidia GPU - also the 150 Raptor.. but everything else was kinda just thrown together... any advice on it? The case, the motherboard, the zalman cpu cooler, the power supply?
Any help would be appreciated, would like to upgrade really soon.
Thanks!
coming from a:
cpu: xp 2500+ Barton - stock cooling
mb: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe
ram: 2.5 GB Patriot PC3200
HDD: Maxtor 250GB 7200rpm
gfx: evga 6800GT AGP
case: Antec SOHO w/ 400w Antec PS
I just wanted a new chip for now (the opty 165) and obviously the mb had to change to socket 939... which had me really in a tough situation with the AGP 6800GT...
so... this is what ended up coming out of the small cpu update at monarch:
AMD Opteron 165 Dual-Core 1.8GHz 1MB (per core) 64/32-Bit (939) (OEM) $337.67
DFI Lan Party UT NForce4 Ultra-D Audio/GB-LAN/IEEE-1394/PCI-E/SATA3G/DDR/ATX 64 939 $119.99
EVGA GeForce 7900 GT CO 256MB DDR3/PCI-E/HDTV-Out/Dual-DVI (Retail Box) $328.69
Western Digital 150 GB 16 MB Cache SATA 10K Raptor (WD1500ADFD) 1 $283.76
OCZ PowerStream ATX 2.01/EPS SLI Ready w/Adjustable Power Rails & LED 520W PS $119.99
Antec Performance One P180 ATX Mid-Tower No PS $129.00
Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu Silent CPU Cooling Kit $35.00
Thermaltake Thunderblade A1926 Blue 120mm Case Fan $9.63
Thermaltake A1971 Multi-Color 80mm Case Fan w/Flashing LED $13.89
Total with shipping ~$1450
I know. it got bigger but.. graphics card I wanted something decent but hated to go with a 7900 GTX if Dx10 is not horribly far off, better a $330 temporary card..
The PowerSupply I didn't know if my old one would really handle the new situation too well, it was an Antec that's served me for 5 or more years, but tops out at 18 on the 12rail.
The case seemed to be well liked and I haven't been getting the best airflow out of my current one...
The Zalman 7000 because the opty 165 is OEM and I heard good stuff about Zal... I want to try to crank out a little OCing on the opty.. doubt I could get the 2.6 on this air but, something better than my xp 2500+ at least.
The RAM I will be taking 2 1GB Patriot PC3200 sticks out of my old rig and putting them into the new one.. I'd take more but not sure if throwing in an odd 512 chip in the third RAM slot would screw with dual chan...
But anyway.. am I making any mistakes here? Things I'm decided on are the Opty 165 and an nvidia GPU - also the 150 Raptor.. but everything else was kinda just thrown together... any advice on it? The case, the motherboard, the zalman cpu cooler, the power supply?
Any help would be appreciated, would like to upgrade really soon.
Thanks!