Build check plz

AceRimmer · 23 Feb 2006 at 07:41

Anychance someone could have a look over this for me and see if ive made any errors. Cheers

Thermaltake VA3000SWA Tsunami Dream SuperMidi Aluminium Tower - Silver (CA-011-TT)

Hiper HPU-4B580 Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Blue (CA-006-HP)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4200BVBOX) (CP-126-AM)

Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi X16 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-118-AS)

Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD)

Gainward BLISS GeForce 6800 GS "Goes Like Hell" 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-027-GW)

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series EL-DDR CAS2 (OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K) (MY-057-OC)

NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-028-NE)

Mitsumi FA 404M 7in1 USB 2.0 Floppy & Media Drive - Silver (HD-000-MI)

Anyone see any problems ?, also will the cpu heatsink and fan supplied be okay or is it worth me getting a new one straight away ?

volt9291 · 23 Feb 2006 at 08:09

Welcom to the forum

Yeah all looks ok. The stock cpu heatsink and fan will be fine unless you plan to overclock it loads? but even a small overclock on stock fan/heatsinks will be ok.

AceRimmer · 23 Feb 2006 at 08:11

was thinking of trying overclocking in the future, but wanna get it working first as this will be me first Pc build from scratch

amx · 23 Feb 2006 at 08:11

The hiper PSU seems to get a lot of stick on this forum, so i would suggest changing it to the Tagen if you want modular, or the seasonic.

volt9291 · 23 Feb 2006 at 08:14

Yeah i havent overclocked my 4200 yet but i think they are good for 2.3/2.4 on stock fan/heatsink.

Some people on here will tell you to get the 3800, but as your not overclocking just yet stick with the 4200, like me

ACESHIGH · 23 Feb 2006 at 08:19

Looks fine but if you can spare the extra cash you would really be much, much better of with this graphics card ... especially considering the rest of the spec (if you game)... Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO) ... Much better card than the 6800GS. The X1800XT is the biggest bargain in top-end cards at the moment.

AceRimmer · 23 Feb 2006 at 09:05

Cheers will have alook at the other PSU's, not an ati man really had problems in the past

but thanks for the input

fenderbass86 · 23 Feb 2006 at 09:29

I wouldn't go with the Gainward 6800GS anyway, 512MB memory is wasted on that card.

AceRimmer · 23 Feb 2006 at 09:33

Is there a good Sli card in the same price range that anyone could recomend other than that one ?

AceRimmer · 23 Feb 2006 at 09:53

Okay been looking at the PSU's suggested, come up with this one

Tagan TG530-U15 530W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU (CA-008-TG)

ACESHIGH · 23 Feb 2006 at 09:55

How about ..
Gigabyte GeForce 6800 GS 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) & Quake 4 Bundle - Retail (GX-016-GI)

ACESHIGH · 23 Feb 2006 at 09:58

AceRimmer said:
Okay been looking at the PSU's suggested, come up with this one

Tagan TG530-U15 530W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU (CA-008-TG)

thats a good PSU.

AceRimmer · 23 Feb 2006 at 15:52

Okay maybe a bit of a noob question but i need to buy windows XP 64 to get the full potential of this processor right ?

ACESHIGH · 23 Feb 2006 at 15:54

No, it works perfectly well on the standard Windows XP (works on Windows XP 64 also though).

AceRimmer · 23 Feb 2006 at 15:57

i gotta buy a copy of XP anyway so i would be better get a 64 bit version ?

AceRimmer · 23 Feb 2006 at 16:34

I would like to thank everyone for all the help, now ordered !

fingers crossed it will all work