Purchasing AMD Athlon 64 Setup

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s0ccermike4

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What do you all think?

AMD Athlon 64 Setup - Newegg Wishlist

Budget: ~$2000.00

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
CPU Cooling: Zalman CNPS7700-CU

Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe

System Memory: OCZ Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR400 Dual Channel Kit

Video Card: eVGA Geforce 7800GTX 256MB DDR3 PCI Express x16

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s

Optical Drive: NEC DVD Burner ND-3540A

Case: Antec Performance P180
Extra Cooling: Antec 80mm (Video Card Exhaust) and 120mm (Front Intake) Cooling Fans
PSU: Antec SmartPower 500W

Mouse: Logitech MX518
Mouse Pad: fUnc SU-BK-BK Surface 1030

Keyboard: Logitech Ultra X

Speakers: Logitech X-230 32 Watts 2.1

Display: Samsung 915N 19” 8ms LCD Monitor
 
Why so many cooling fans? You case has two already.

If possible, change the HDD brand. I recommend a Seagate.

$17 for a mouse pad??? Hmmm....
and mouse?.. there are cheaper ones. Save on those and go for these speakers. Your system is too good for cheap speakers in your list.

For DVD burner: you can buy this one which comes with software.
 
If your max budget is 2k, then go for the amd X2 3800, the a8n premium (to avoid the chipset fan problem), and assuming that youre going to play BF2 with the 2 gigs of ram, grab a sound card.

edit: Theres actually a combo deal for the x2 3800 & a8n premium
 
great video card - i'll vouch for the ko version. i got the premium for the reason mentioned above - no regrets.
 
Seagate and Western Digital are both the most reliable brands. As long as you stay away from Maxtor (Pre-DiamondMax10) and anything Hitatchi/IBM you'll do fine.
 
robberbaron said:
Seagate and Western Digital are both the most reliable brands. As long as you stay away from Maxtor (Pre-DiamondMax10) and anything Hitatchi/IBM you'll do fine.
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heh. i have maxtor drives from 6 years ago pulling strong (60gb), as well as more recent ones.. including a DM9 and a MLII drive. also have one of the slim 40gb drives in my my mom's computer. never given me any issues. i acually have a dead seagate and a dead WD on my kill wall, as well as a fujutsu drive. i have a Travelstar 7k60 in my laptop that has been great from day1. i have an 8gb IBM drive that is still going strong, as well as a 20GB Deathstar, though one of my 20gb Deathstars did die.

my friend has had more seagates die on him than anything else, and ive had more WD's die on me than anything else, with next up being IBM (12gb, which the postal service fucked up, and the 20gb deathstar). no hitachi drives i have purchased have given any problems (which includes a 160gb and 80gb sata drive).

on the flip side, no maxtor drive has ever died on me. i have 6 of them in service every day, and ive not even had a corrupt file.

in conclusion, whatever drive you get - YMMV. get whatever meets your requirements on warrantee(5 years on maxlineIII drives, as well as seagates), price, size, and speed.
 
Meh. Retail and tech shop experience teaches me that WD's are more reliable. Every harddrive failure I've seen was a Maxtor or IBM, and we sell only WD's (with the exception of Maxtor 30 gigs, but we've phased that out). I've yet to see someone RMA or MS a WD drive.
 
No sound card? I personally can't stand the fuzz that accompanies all onboard audio.
 
ditch that zalman...if ur gunna OC get something like the xp90 (hybrid)....and if u wanna cut down on some other stuff, grab an x2 3800....yes socket m2 is coming but will we be able to afford it right wen it comes out? isssa questions i dont have an answer to :D for hdd....i have a WD and damn its nice...ive had a maxtor and it was nice (but it was IDE when i didnt no anything about comps) and i recently put a seagate in my friends comp...ive heard alot of good things for seagate but i cant speak from personal experience (friends was just finished and xp installed today...)
 
omz said:
ditch that zalman...
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nothing wrong with your cooler. its bigger than mine. as far as hard drives and reliability...go with what you like. the type of spin motor, actuator arm, heads on the arm, media type, etc...these are all things that change from batch to batch that can effect reliability on all brands.
 
ThermalRIGHT (not thermalTAKE) XP 90 or XP 120 hsf

Id get Patriot pc 3200 XBL, its cheap, its TCCD, and its on Brainpower PCB.

It also does 300+ FSB easy.
 
i don't know why people are linking to 1 gig memory kits here. get the 2x1g kit.
 
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