How will this perform?

[Nubbins]

How do!

Managed to squeeze morre cash out of my bonus, so hows this looking?

HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-HT) £309.95
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-150-AM) £124.95
Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS) £69.95
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR) £14.95
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL) £54.95

£675 in total

Cheers

 

[semi-pro waster]

Very nice, if you could stretch the extra to 2gb Ram then I think you would really find it worthwhile but if not it will still be a good system and Ram is one of the easiest upgrades to perform later.

 

[trojan698]

nice spec, you should get a nice oc out of the 3700+ also.

 

[Nubbins]

I already have 2 x 512mb (same geil stuff) that I will use to make it up to 2gig...

One final question, is my Antec PSU 430W if I recall gonna be enough to power it?

 

[Street]

You'd probably be better off selling the 2 sticks you have and putting the money towards getting 2 1gig sticks. You'll find performance will be better

 

[ACESHIGH]

I already have 2 x 512mb (same geil stuff) that I will use to make it up to 2gig...

One final question, is my Antec PSU 430W if I recall gonna be enough to power it?

Looks like a great rig youre putting together.

The Antec 430W PSU is quality & should work fine.

 

[Nubbins]

You'd probably be better off selling the 2 sticks you have and putting the money towards getting 2 1gig sticks. You'll find performance will be better

What kind of performance decrease am i looking at here, cause I am on the limits of my budget (well im over it but what the hey) so I dont really want to fork out for 2 1gig sticks when i have 2 goog 512mb sticks here....

Obviously this is something I could do when I upgrade to X2 at a later date...