Ordered My New Rig...Check It Out

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I plan to overclock the Opteron to at least 2.6Ghz to bring it to FX-57 speeds.....

AMD Opteron 144 Venus Core 1.8Ghz
Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu CPU Fan and Heatsink
ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
1GB Corsair Value Select DDR400
SAPPHIRE Radeon X1800XT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3808110AS 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Thermaltake Silent Purepower W0014RU ATX 480W Power Supply
Coolermaster Centurion 5 Midtower ATX Case


Your thoughts? :) System came to just under 800 bucks....
 
Well, one the FX-57 is actually 2.8Ghz, so you got quite a way to go (especially with only a 9x multiplier).

How high does the A8N-E go on HTT? You're gonna need to get to 311HTT to hit that target. If the A8N-E's usually hit that (owners can chime in), then you should be fine.
 
I'd swap out the TT psu for say.. the Sytrin Nextherm. It's about $70, and on newegg, under brand name Masscool
 
Bbq said:
I'd swap out the TT psu for say.. the Sytrin Nextherm. It's about $70, and on newegg, under brand name Masscool
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The PSU is fine. However, unless gaming is your only priority, you should look into upgrading to a dual core CPU.
 
Nice cheaper gaming machine. I would have gone for a different vendor for the PSU and a motherboard with passive northbridge cooling. I'd try to find a cooler that will vent that ATI card's air outta the case as they run seriously hot.
 
Why only 1 RAM stick? 939 is dual channel, like Intel, isn't it? then it would be better to have 2x512 than 1x1G?
 
Astra said:
Why only 1 RAM stick? 939 is dual channel, like Intel, isn't it? then it would be better to have 2x512 than 1x1G?
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he could add another one in a few months...i think he did the right thing :)
 
Well it idepends. If he is alright with idea to spend 80$ in a few months than it is OK, otherwise he is loosing a lot of performance. Most likely his mb will have 4 banks, so in 1 year time he may add 2x512 if initial 2x512 is not enought or even add 2x1G.
 
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