Final list of components

[David Richards]

I've decided on the following components for my new build, if anyone can
spot any bad choices, please let me know. Although I'm slightly over
budget, so any changes will have to be to cheaper components.

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200 (Dual core seems to be the future)

Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium (Like the passive chiset cooling)

Case: Coolermaster Centurion 532 (Plenty of room, good airflow, can
have 2 120mm fans in a quiet push-pull configuration. And it looks cool!)

Power supply: Antec Trueblue 480W (good make, should have plenty of power)

Graphics: Pixelview 7800GT 256MB (cheapest 7800 card)

Memory: Crucial 2x1GB PC3200 (cheapest 2GB of RAM I could find, and
their website assures me its compatible with the motherboard)

Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar 250GB S300 16mb 7200rpm (seen some
good reviews of this drive, and I believe WD have a good reputation)

Add to this a Pioneer DVR-110DBK DVD writer, as well as cheap floppy
drive, modem, keyboard etc, and Windows XP SP2.

 

[David Fairbrother]

I've decided on the following components for my new build, if anyone can
spot any bad choices, please let me know. Although I'm slightly over
budget, so any changes will have to be to cheaper components.

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200 (Dual core seems to be the future)

Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium (Like the passive chiset cooling)

Case: Coolermaster Centurion 532 (Plenty of room, good airflow,
can have 2 120mm fans in a quiet push-pull configuration. And it looks
cool!)

Power supply: Antec Trueblue 480W (good make, should have plenty of
power)

Graphics: Pixelview 7800GT 256MB (cheapest 7800 card)

Memory: Crucial 2x1GB PC3200 (cheapest 2GB of RAM I could find,
and their website assures me its compatible with the motherboard)

Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar 250GB S300 16mb 7200rpm (seen some
good reviews of this drive, and I believe WD have a good reputation)

Add to this a Pioneer DVR-110DBK DVD writer, as well as cheap floppy
drive, modem, keyboard etc, and Windows XP SP2.

dont go cheap on the 7800gt card..i have one in this box from nvidia -
beautiful graphics.
your choices seem fine (Western Digital *is* a *very* good brand -
Maxtor, Seagate and WD are the best 3 - and most popular)

 

[nivekthemarvelous]

If you're trying to save, you could go with the A8N-SLI standard board.
Mine runs super cool - 28c idle, and 36-38c under gaming loads, and
it's not very noisy. I think the only other things you gain with the
deluxe and premium boards are 4 more sata headers, and another lan
port. You could throw the $$ you save there at a better brand graphics
card.