Just a Second Opinion on this System

[Fireflame]

How do

Just checking that this sytem will be sound before I go and buy it

Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.20GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail
Abit KN9 Ultra nForce 570 Ultra (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 XT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM

Also will this be sound for Vista

Any suggestions as always is much appreicated

Cheers

 

[WJA96]

How do

Just checking that this sytem will be sound before I go and buy it

Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.20GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail
Abit KN9 Ultra nForce 570 Ultra (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 XT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM

Right - that system is £639.72 according to the OcUK shopping basket. And it's a pretty poor performer compared to the equivalent Intel system;

Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU
Intel Core 2 DUO E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 XT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM

Which comes in at £665.57. If you are limited to £640 then might I suggest you swap the GeIL RAM for OcUK Value RAM (£637.70) as you don't need the fancy overclocking RAM with this motherboard because it supports asynchronous RAM speeds.

Also will this be sound for Vista

Either system will be, but the Intel system will run substantially faster.


Oh - and I think a Don probably ought to move this to General Hardware as the Antec Sonata is hardly SFF, is it?