I've probably done wrong...

[phill9800]

but I'm going from this:

XP1600
1Gb Ram PC3200 Geil
Geforce 3 Ti 200
£20 motherboard (Asrock I think)
Maxtor 200Gb hard drives x3 (IDE and SATA)
Cheap case and PSU
Samsung 913N TFT screen

To this:

HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Samsung SM-920N 19" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black
Logitech Cordless Optical Desktop Rechargeable Black/Silver
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail Abit KN9 Ultra nForce 570 Ultra (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Pioneer DVR-111BK 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter

I'm hoping it will go well with my Coolermaster Stacker, the Liteon CD-RW and DVD-Rom, the Raptor 74Gb and another 200Gb Maxtor SATA drive... I know people where saying the Conroe, but I need brake disc's and pads for my car and they aint cheap!! I had to give in to something....

Comments welcome

 

[phill9800]

I take it, I've done bad??

 

[phill9800]

Oh right Thank god I did right rather than wrong!!

I just cant wait to get it working, booted up, benchmarks ran, smile on face still there when I'm playing San Andrea's with everything turned right up enjoying myself Oh and also having it pretty loud on the speakers too :lol:

 

[phill9800]

Oops... sorry, the PSU is a OC Z PowerStream 520W model...

I perhaps should have gone with the Conroe but the models I wanted push it way over my budget and I just couldnt afford it. I noticed the ram at the last minute and as I have no idea when it comes too DDR2, the review and the posts I read, I figured, dump the OC Z and just go for it! But I know whichever model I went for, I'd notice a great improvement so I'm happy either way to be honest

Wish me luck guys cos I have no idea how to put this together! I've only been putting together AMD XP machines, not 64 bit monstors!!

 

[phill9800]

Thanks mate, I need all the help I can get!! :lol:

Any tips or tweaks anyone might suggest to do? I'm not looking for overclocking... Well, maybe a little

 

[phill9800]

I was lucky I bought that until I went through a few bits in the memory part of this great forum

It does look like an awesome bit of hardware, I wonder how well the AM2's overclock?