Hi,
I am building a gaming system and thinking about using the following:
Asustek M2N32-SLI Deluxe (AM2 nForce 590)
Corsair Memory TWIN2X1024A-6400 2x512MB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 Socket AM2 2GHz 1MB 1000FSB
...and possibly with a Radeon X1900GT.
Any thoughts about whether this is a well matched system? I want to achieve reasonably high performance, but without paying for the latest and greatest. On the other hand, no point in having some good components in their with something else acting as a bottleneck.
I also read some comments about the M2N32 being very fussy with memory - is this still the case?
I was also thinking about a trio of SATA disks in a RAID-5 configuration - is it worth it to get the extra performance or should I just get one or two large disks?
Thanks in advance for comments!
I am building a gaming system and thinking about using the following:
Asustek M2N32-SLI Deluxe (AM2 nForce 590)
Corsair Memory TWIN2X1024A-6400 2x512MB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 Socket AM2 2GHz 1MB 1000FSB
...and possibly with a Radeon X1900GT.
Any thoughts about whether this is a well matched system? I want to achieve reasonably high performance, but without paying for the latest and greatest. On the other hand, no point in having some good components in their with something else acting as a bottleneck.
I also read some comments about the M2N32 being very fussy with memory - is this still the case?
I was also thinking about a trio of SATA disks in a RAID-5 configuration - is it worth it to get the extra performance or should I just get one or two large disks?
Thanks in advance for comments!