Comments (Help) on my new PC plz?

[Porthos]

Hello all,

I wanna do an upgrade of my current Gaming-machine. I intend to get all the components from the same store. http://www.tones.be, the link to their price list is http://www.tones.be/prijslijst/prijslijst.pdf. I am gonna use some stuff from my current like hard drives, case, monitor, mouse, keyboard, cd-writer, dvd-rom.

My current system setup:

CPU AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3200+
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Video Card HERCULES 3D PROPHET 9800 XT Classic 256MB
Hard Drive 2x Raptor WDC WD36 0GD-00FNA0 SCSI Disk Device (36 GB, 10000 RPM, SATA)
Hard Drive Maxtor 6Y160P0 (160 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Monitor LG StudioWorks / HiSync 900B [19" CRT]
Mouse MX510 Optical Mouse
Memory 1Gig (2x512) Kingston DDR pc3200 (200Mhz) Unbuffered

This is what i want to get from that shop:

AMD 4400+ X2 DUAL-CORE PROCESSOR € 482,00
ASROCK 939SLI32 SATA2 SOCKET 939 € 82,60
OCZ 2048MB KIT (2X1024MB) 400MHZ DDR PLATINUM ENHANCED LATENCY XTC DUAL CHANNEL SERIES € 265,00
XFX 7900GT 256MB PCI-EXPRESS 7900 GT € 322,95
HIPER 580W RACING BLACK HPU-4K580 SUPERSILENT € 99,90

Totaal Amount € 1252,45

If u got any comments or suggestions, plz share them with me (i want to get as good a killwhore as Shy with my new machine)

Thanks in advance

[Hovis]

Depends on your criteria, are you looking at the budget or the E-Peen or overclocking or what?

FWIW here's my two cents.

You might want to save the money and get a 4200 X2 as your CPU. Very little difference between 4400 and 4200 and they both have power to spare for gaming.

The motherboard I'd be careful with. Asrock's are good but you are spoilt for choice these days. When I'm not in a hurry to get to work I'll post something more useful on the topic. :D

The RAM you're after there is pure E-Peen. Unless you are a hardcore overclocker, and I mean hardcore, because you can overclock almost anything at least a little way, you don't need expensive RAM. The difference between cheap RAM and expensive RAM in terms of their default performance is absolutely bugger all. Quantity beats quality every single time on RAM. The expensive stuff will overclock better, but even so a system overclock with the CPU you're looking at won't affect games because you're CPU can handle them easily on the stock speeds. I'd be looking at Crucial or Corsair budget stuff for RAM you could probably almost halve what you're paying.

XFX 7900GT is nice, but all 7900GTs are essentially identical, even the pre-overclocked ones, so provided you know how to overclock a graphics card (everybody should really it's the only overclock that really makes a difference) you can just get a generic el cheapo one and overclock it yourself. My advice on the 7900GTs is to get the cheapest one that you possibly can and slap an Arctic Cooler on it. You probably still finish up paying less for it than a top of the line brand one and it'll overclock further and make no noise.

Power supply sounds nice. To be honest they either work or they don't and the more you pay the more likely they are to work, that's about all there is to it. You don't need to pay a lot though.

Final word is if you play Planetside on an X2 rig it will go all weird on you. In fact quite a few games will. To fix this when it happens you have to alt-tab and switch the game 'affinity' to only one of the cores on your CPU.

[FuSs]

porthos you whore!
your current system is allready better than mine.
do you really think i give you any advice so you can poach even more of my precious kills???