Help with comp setup

skyman · Post by **skyman** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:35 pm

Is this a good setup and does anyone see any problems? This is a home computer that will be used for some gaming, I have an ASUS EAX850PRO/HTVD/256 Radeon X850PRO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card already

Here is what I'm looking at, all at newegg, help me if you can, tell me good or bad or if I'm missing anything, please

ASUS A8S-X Socket 939 SiS 756 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Model #:A8S-X

Western Digital Caviar WD1200BB 120GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive

CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWINX1024-3200C2PT

ENERMAX Whisper II EG565P-VE FMA(24P) ATX12V 535W Power Supply

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ ClawHammer 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3500ASBOX

Is there anything else I need? I have the case,fans and cd drives already.

Any help will be soooooo great!!!!!

Thanks
Ken

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:39 pm

I'd suggest an nForce4 chipset over the SiS, probably an ASUS A8N motherboard, and a dual core AMD processor.

skyman · Post by **skyman** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:21 pm

Ok, how about a
ASUS A8N-VM CSM Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard ?

Dual core? I'm new to AMD, is that 64 bit support or hypertransport or neither? I tried to find dual core AMD at newegg and had no luck, please explain? What chip would you suggest?

Thanks Again

Ken

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:34 pm

The board you posted has onboard video, you don't need that if you already have a PCI Express video card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131530

The AMD processors I was referring to are the X2 chips

Here's one

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103562

skyman · Post by **skyman** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:20 pm

Ok, how about this setup?

Western Digital Caviar WD1200BB 120GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive

ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard

ENERMAX Whisper II EG565P-VE FMA(24P) ATX12V 535W Power Supply

CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWINX1024-3200C2PT

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA3800BVBOX

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:40 pm

Looks good, I'd change the harddrive to a SATA, ditch the ATA100. Anyone else going to chime in on this?

skyman · Post by **skyman** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:45 pm

Thanks Scott, unless I hear differant, this will be my new setup. Ditching the ATA100, going SATA.

Yeah folks, lets hear some more opinions from all the experts here,lol

I need all the help I can get!!!!!!!

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:28 am

I agree with scott, change the WD hard drive to an sata version. Better interface adn using an sata power connector instead of the molex it'll use less power too.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:18 am

Come on dude, you wanna run with the big dawgs or stay on the porch...?

Buy these in pairs and mirror RAID, ...remember safety first!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822111151

I do luv my fast cats...

Maybe some of the others know better, however, my understanding is the WD Raptures are king of SATA... Although they are a bit more expensive than the Caviars...

As Scott said and I told you in the email, the ASUS with NVidia would be my choice... RAM, Corsair or Mushkin... The Enermax psu is good.

Set up looks good to me...

skyman · Post by **skyman** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:24 pm

Now Ken, you know I'm already the " Big Dog " in my area of expertise,lol
Come see me soon.

Skyman Ken