Money Well Spent?

PiKe · 21 May 2006 at 13:42

Last night I ordered the following:

Item: Lian Li PC-7B PLUS Aluminium Black Mid Tower Case - No PSU

Item: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium skt939 nForce4 Gigabit Ethernet Firewire 8channel audio

Item: Corsair (TWINX2048-3200C2PT) 2GB (2 x 1GB Matched Pair) DDR PC3200 2x128Mx64 non-ECC 2x184 DIMM unbuffered 2-3-3-6 64Mx8 DRAMs Matched Pair Silver Heat Spreader Lifetime Warranty

Item: AMD Athlon 64 (ADA4200BVBOX) X2 4200+ socket 939 Dual Core 2.2ghz 512kb and 512kb Cache

Item: Pioneer DVR-111DBK 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer Internal IDE (Black) - OEM

Item: Club 3D 7900GTX 512MB GDDR3 DUAL DVI VIVO PCI-E

Item: Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE 250GB 7200RPM SATA2/300 16MB Cache - OEM

Which came to £920 with delivery, I know I had the option of a ATI x1900 but I didn't fancy the extra power/heat output.

Have I made any glaring mistakes? The 4200+ was only £30 more than the 3800+ so I thought why not...

PiKe · 21 May 2006 at 13:56

Didn't want to overclock, already have a Tagan I intend to use.

PiKe · 21 May 2006 at 14:12

At the end of the day it's £30 for 200mhz.

Plus if I do want to overclock in the future, I'm on a higher multi to start with so the motherboard is less likely to be a limiting factor.

PiKe · 21 May 2006 at 14:29

Minstadave said:
Yeah this is the reason you should have waited, you just bought whole setup based on a platform that is end of life pretty soon. Its a good system and will last you a good while, but you'll be left with no upgrade path on your RAM or CPU as AMD are killing off S939 and DDR.

As true as that may be, I tend to not upgrade very often, my current machine has lasted me 3 years, the graphics card dieing on me prompted last nights purchase.