Putting a new comp together...

[pandora's box]

Case: LIAN-LI PC-7B PLUS BLACK ALUMINUM CASE W/ 120MM FANS IN FRONT AND BACK

CPU: ATHLON 64 X2 3800+ SOCKET 939

Motherboard: ASUS A8R-MVP Socket 939 ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 CrossFire ATX AMD CrossFire

Video: ATI Radeon X1800XT 512MB

RAM: 2 G.SKILL Extreme Series 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) 2-3-2-5

Anything you would change? All the missing components are coming from my current rig (see sig). I went with the crossfire motherboard because I like its feature set and I may just go crossfire down the road. I chose the Radeon X1800XT 512MB because I plan on keeping this system for a good while (around 2-3 years) and I believe the 512MB of ram will be beneficial down the road. My monitors max res is 1280x1024 (lcd) and I realize the x1800xt is going to be overkill NOW but I am thinking ahead (UT2007).

 

[LongShotHero]

Looks good except for overclocking you might wanna go with opteron 170 and G.Skill ddr500 but if you are not overclocking, then its fine

 

[pandora's box]

what about the opteron 165 dual core? its only clocked at 1.8ghz but it has 1mbx2 cache...

 

[discochan]

what about the opteron 165 dual core? its only clocked at 1.8ghz but it has 1mbx2 cache...

Both optys are great chips. The 165 is just a little slower and cheaper. Get the 165 if money is an issue, the 170 if you want a headstart on your OCing

EDIT: Actually get the 170 on sale at monarch right now

 

[Clockworks]

Looks good but I personally would go with the 7800gt or a 7800gtx 512mb if you want to go that high. Just saying that it isn't really worth it to go that high in terms of price as in a few months something better always comes along. The high-end > mid-range > low-end scale ALWAYS happens to vid cards very fast.

 

[pandora's box]

Looks good but I personally would go with the 7800gt or a 7800gtx 512mb if you want to go that high. Just saying that it isn't really worth it to go that high in terms of price as in a few months something better always comes along. The high-end > mid-range > low-end scale ALWAYS happens to vid cards very fast.

hmm. well like i said in the initial post my max res is 1280x1024 and the reason for getting the x1800xt is so i can just max out all settings and not even have to think about lag.